Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (24/2024): postmarketOS 24.06 and other developments
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postmarketOS 24.06 released with support over 250 devices, news on pmbootstrap v3, first camera support on close-to-mainline on the Snapdragon 845-powered Xiaomi Poco F1, GNOME Mobile OSK working with Qt (and other non-GTK) apps, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Caleb Connnolly: pmbootstrap v3. Great work, great post!
- postmarketOS blog: v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices
- Furi Labs: DevConf Brno
- Liliputing: Google further blurs the lines between ChromeOS (Chromebooks will use the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks). This, IMHO, is sad news: Without ChromeOS, Rockchip RK3399 and Mediatek MT81** mainline support would not be what it is. OTOH, as Google keeps letting people down by graveyarding products, this just fits.
- Nathan Upchurch: Switching to GNU/Linux: Mentally
Worth Watching
- Bitter Epic Productions: Gnome Shell on my Pinephone Pro
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E421: CarBudget - Keep track of the costs of your car
- iLoveTech: Ubuntu Touch on Google Pixel 3a. Is it better than Android?
Worth Noting
- joelselvaraj: "Yay! Got the imx363 rear camera working in my Poco F1 (SDM845) running a near mainline kernel! 🎉 …"
- Thib: "I'm really not impressed to see some accounts with a large follower count rant against open source projects largely built by volunteers.…"
- Guido Günther: Our request for a #FossOnMobile devroom at #FrOSCon24 (17. / 18. of August) just got accepted 🚀 .If you want to give a talk, do a BoF, round table or similar please add it to https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/froscon24-mobile and we'll try to accommodate it in the schedule.#LinuxMobile. Woohoo!
- PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): Would I love it or hate it?
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Apple Just Recently Announced that iOS is getting RCS in the fall, what is the progress report on developing the feature for various Linux Phone Distros?
- @rmader: #firefox #webrtc using #pipewire and #libcamera (with softwareISP) on a #thinkpadx13s - it finally works \o/The required patches will also make things work for a bunch of #linuxmobile devices.
- @peja: Great news for Gnome-Mobile users on postmarketOS. Now you can trigger the keyboard with a double tap on the bottom bar. You can type in Qt or other apps that don't trigger the keyboard automatically. Thank you @verdre !#gnomemobile #postmarketos #mobilelinux
- Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: The #DevConf 🔮 conference starts this Thursday! I'll be at the Mobile Linux Stand. Come check out the 📱 Volla Phone with #UbuntuTouch, 📱 OnePlus 6 with #Phosh, 📱 #Pine64 PinePhone with #NemoMobile, and ⌚️ LG Watch (bass) with #AsteroidOS . There might be some surprises too! Stop by to chat about the future of mobile distros. Check out the schedule at devconf.cz! See you there!, Few pictures from #DevConf. FuriPhone FLX1, PineTime, PinePhone, Sharp Zaurus, Nokia N950, ...
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #152 Bottom Sheets
- Andy Holmes: GNOME 46 and Beyond
- Phoronix: GNOME Papers Document Viewer Making Progress As GTK4-Based Evince Fork
- Phoronix: Qt 6.8 Beta Released With Multi-View Rendering, Better GNOME Wayland Experience
Phosh
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2
- Nate Graham: New Human Interface Guidelines
- KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 24.05.1
- Kevin Ottens: Report From KDEPIM Spring Sprint 2024
- TSDgeos: KDE Gear 24.08 release schedule
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- TSDgeos: Help wanted! Port KDE Frameworks oss-fuzz builds to Qt6/KF6
Sxmo
Sailfish OS
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 259
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 258
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 257
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 256
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 255
Nemo Mobile
Distributions
- postmarketOS blog: v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: apk upgrade may fail when pulseaudio is installed
Apps
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Papers
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Showtime
- #LinuxMobile: There is now an option to enable OpenGL ES, previously only used for the Android version, when compiling Principia from source on Linux (USE_GLES).This should be useful for #linuxmobile. I do not have such a device and don't know if they actually support OpenGL too but it would be cool to see Principia running there.For such devices, the touchscreen controls are also possible to be enabled from the settings dialog, which should be fully functional on Linux since the last release. Have fun.
- nheko: v0.12.0
- Schmiddi on Mobile: "Railway 2.6.0 is now out on Flathub and the AUR!…"
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH] ARM: dts: qcom: msm8926-motorola-peregrine: Add accelerometer, magnetometer, regulator
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/3] Add sy7802 flash led driver
- Phoronix: "Rocket" Accelerator Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Rockchip NPU
- Phoronix: RKVDEC2 Driver Posted For Accelerated Video Decoding On Newer Rockchip SoCs
- Phoronix: The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support
- Phoronix: Linux 6.10-rc4 To Fix Display For The Ayaneo Kun Gaming Handheld
Stack
- Phoronix: Fwupd 1.9.21 Released With Synaptics Carrera & Wacom Movink Support
- Phoronix: Mesa 24.2 Adds Support For Fixed-Rate Compression Extensions For OpenGL & EGL
- Phoronix: X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit: Making It Less Difficult To Compile The X Server In 2024
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-06-14
- Matrix.org: Call for Proposals for the Matrix Conference
Thanks
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