Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (23/2026): Vulkanic Mastodons
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Vulkan is coming to the FuriLabs FLX1 and the FLX1s+ is now shipping, Sailfish OS 5.2 may ship Mastodon integration out of the box, postmarketOS v26.06 test phase starts soon, C-PHY support for Qualcomm, a Ubuntu Touch Merge Request for initial Flatpak support, a report on Phosh's development in May development news, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Phosh.mobi Blog: Development News May 2026
- Neil Brown: Why are there no good tablets at the moment?
- foss2go.com: Vulkan runs on the FLX1 phone with Halium and Ubuntu Touch
- foss2go.com: How to Unlock LUKS with YubiKey on a Linux Tablet
- Drew DeVaults blog: The circus freaks of open source
Worth Watching
- Linux Stuff: Juno Tab 4 - LTE
- Linux Stuff: Juno Tab 4 - WiFi
- Continuum Gaming: SFOS Partnerspace & Quick Launch: The powerful hidden feature to pin apps (Continuum Gaming E524)
- Switch and Click: Android 17 sucks. So I put Linux on a phone.. I mean, searching for 'browser' in Open Store may have let to some results …
- thevoidkernel: Why Use Android When We Can run Pure Mainline Linux on Your Phone? (PostmarketOS Guide)
- The Linux Experiment: I'm replacing my iPhone with Ubuntu Touch!
Worth Noting
- Luigi311: "#vulkan coming to a #halium phone near you! Looks like the #FuriLabs and #UbuntuTouch folks have been hard at work getting vulkan to a usable state. This opens up all the #wayland vulkan applications that seem to have problems related to GLES. Should be enabled soon:tm: to the general audience, do note it only works with wayland and not x11.Here's a short video of the #FLX1 running vkcube and godot benchmarks all running in vulkan! https://photos.luigi311.com/share/OmPWfNh-OTYFDpQ2d-CGUZbLFn8ZR5-IOIUvkA2hpY9kCR6vs3BnH7p5Rq4z9UAK-SU#mobilelinux #linuxmobile"
- justsoup: "To the people who would like to contribute to postmarketOS but haven't, what is stopping you? Or, people who have contributed but stopped. (With the exception of just not having time or such)I'd love to hear some feedback on how our contribution process could be streamlined.#PostMarketOS #Linux"
- furilabs: "The FLX1s Plus is now in stock and shipping this week.If you've been waiting, now's the time. Orders placed today ship before the weekend! Grab one before stock runs out.https://furilabs.com/blog/flx1s-plus-is-now-in-stock/#FuriLabs #FLX1sPlus #FuriOS #LinuxPhone #linuxonmobile"
- Purism community: Tutorial: Export call & chat history as .csv
Events
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #252 Stronger Together
- GNOME Internationalization & Localization: Some news about the internationalization project
- Steven Deobald: Stay and fight.
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi Blog: Development News May 2026
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Fixing all the things
- KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 26.04.2
- anditosan: What Even is Ocean???
- Nate Graham: This month in KDE Linux: May 2026
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Make Sure You Don't Miss Your Low Battery Notifications While Gaming
Sailfish OS
- Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Community meeting on 18th June 2026
- abranson: The #sailfishos #mastodon account integration plugin is now merged to devel and will be included in SailfishOS 5.2, maybe even installed by default. Mastodon out of the box!
- ilpianista: Just sent a PR to #SailfishOS app Refuel about Italian fuel stations support in the app :🚀
- poetaster: Announcing version 1.0.7 of my German weather service app for #SailfishOs ... Features a new backend for rain radar views. Up on github, open repos and coming to harbour and chum.
- frankps: There is a great looking Haiku® theme pack for Sailfish OS. It really catches the spirit of BeOS icons as Bruce Browne once made them. #SailfishOS #HaikuOS #BeOShttps://openrepos.net/content/fravaccaro/haiku-theme-pack The Haiku® theme pack for Sailfish OS has been updated with a few new icons and yet another update is in the making!#SailfishOS #HaikuOS #BeOS
- aerique: Since most of you are using either iOS or an official Android you do not know what a pain in the ass it is to get a quick GPS fix on a phone that's not tied to Big Tech.This is one of those shadowy corners where they make using alternatives really inconvenient without many people knowing about it.So shout out to @beacondb which is now supported by #SailfishOS for improving this situation!https://codeberg.org/beacondb/beacondb#beacondb
- itsamecthulhu: Long time no see! Customization is back for #SailfishOS with Muoto. Grab it while it's hot! https://openrepos.net/content/fravaccaro/muoto-ui-themer#Jolla #JollaPhone #SailfishCommunity #LinuxPhone #LinuxMobile
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports Forums OS: 24.04-2.x how does it work at this point for you ?
- fredldotme: This was tested with QML Creator and a Lomiri Music App that has been snapped up in like 5 minutes, including compilation. This shows how easy it is to package something for both Ubuntu Touch as well as Ubuntu Desktop.
- fredldotme: More progress on Snaps for Ubuntu Touch:I've enabled snapd to support our Lomiri environment better, improved the lomiri-ui-toolkit-core24 Snap, and fixing some issues on Touch as well to integrate them. Lately we gained:- Background music and hardware-accelerated video playback using Media Hub- Support for mediascanner and thumbnailer-service- Splash images- Better support for Wayland, Mirclient, and X11- And of course the camera
- adamhavelka: its friday! lets just coffee sleep and dont repeat it! for few days…#ubports #ubuntutouch
- eurostack: I wish UBports got #EU funding and support to make #UbuntuTouch a truly viable #OS alternative in Europe.UBports | Ubuntu Touch: Private & Secure Mobile OS https://ubports.com/
- nima: Initial Flatpak support in Ubuntu Touch soon? :D https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/seeds/ubuntu-touch/-/merge_requests/151 #LinuxMobile #UbuntuTouch
- nima: Building a VPN Client App for Ubuntu Touch to be able to use OpenStore (It's blocked in Iran!)#linux #linuxmobile #ubuntutouch
Distributions
- postmarketOS: "🧪 The test phase for postmarketOS v26.06 starts next week (moved back by one week as preparing the repo and images need some more time).If you want to, you too can take part in the testing effort by simply adding yourself to the testing team wiki page and joining the testing chat!https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Testing_Teamhttps://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Matrix_and_IRC#postmarketos #linuxmobile"
- News for developers of postmarketOS: pmbootstrap: strict builds are now the default
- postmarketOS edge blog: Unable to select packages: gnome-settings-daemon-mobile
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: Duranium Plasma-Mobile Firefox No Mobile-Config available
- postmarketOS mobile-config-firefox tags: 5.3.0
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): New /etc/motd for new OS images.
- danctnix: Phosh 0.55.0 is now available in the testing repository. Please give it a test.
- alpinelinux: "It took some time and effort, but the Alpine Linux riscv64 3.24 builder finally managed to churn through all the packages.This means Alpine Linux 3.24 is imminent. Expect the first RC soon.#AlpineLinux"
- reproducible_builds: Check out some HUGE news in reproducible builds our latest report! https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2026-05/
Apps
- xenons: A small little Food Tracker for Linux Phones. https://github.com/6rube/nomnomus #Linux #Linuxphones #Linuxmobile
- bjawebos: 🎉 Filmbook 0.3.2 is out! 🎞️This update brings:✨ New translation: Chinese (zh_Hans) – thanks to Poesty Li!🌍 Improved translation: Spanish (es) – thanks to gallegonovato!Help make Filmbook even more accessible by contributing translations: https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/filmbook/#Filmbook #OpenSource #Translation #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #RustLang #GTK #Linux #libadwaita #gnome #linuxmobile #phosh
- valos: ":nyancat_rainbow: Komikku 50.5.0 is out! 🚀 https://flathub.org/apps/info.febvre.KomikkuThis update includes:- A minor redesign of the Info page- A new setting in Preferences that lets you apply a theme to progress barsEnjoy reading, and happy Pride Month!#gnome #gtk #libadwaita #flathub #comics #manga #pridemonth"
- krille: "#fluffychat will get a new app logo with the next release. The old logo was made by a designer from Brazil I lost contact to in 2018 and was licensed under CC. This new one is designed by myself so I can have full rights.The goal was also "small rebranding" to make FluffyChat look a little bit more mature, aiming for a more serious association without changing the name. While the name in the stores also will evolve to:"FluffyChat Matrix Messenger".Let me know what you think :-)#matrix"
- UndeadLeech: "Decided to add Kumo to the list of projects built with #Servo :https://servo.org/made-withLots of cool projects there. Once my touch support fixes are upstreamed, it might be a nice project to try and get some broken websites working in it.#catacomb"
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Quizbite
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Mimick
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Khushu
- @linmob@linuxmobile.social: New mobile-config-firefox release: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/tags/5.3.0
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: CyberTailor: /* Video players */ plasma-videoplayer unmaintained
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: CyberTailor: /* Communication */ move Delta Chat into an independent category
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: CyberTailor: /* Other protocols */ add DeltaTouch and Parla
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2] gpio: qcom_spmi_gpio: move PM8998 GPIO from legacy pmic driver
- phone-devel: [PATCH v7 0/8] media: camss: Add support for C-PHY configuration on Qualcomm platforms
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] dt-bindings: clock: qcom,rpmcc: add msm8960 compatible
- Phoronix: Qualcomm Gets The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 Laptop Working On Linux
Stack
- XMPP.org: The XMPP Newsletter May 2026
- Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions
- Phoronix: Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language
- Phoronix: GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus
- Phoronix: systemd 261-rc3 Released With Individual Binaries Now Embedding dlopen ELF Metadata Note
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-06-05
Thanks
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
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