Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (24/2025): Not just Q&A sessions
Table of Contents
Megapixels 2 Alpha 2 is out, another Ubuntu Touch Q&A, a long term Furilabs FLX 1 review, a way to use OpenGL ES 3.2 on the Librem 5 in Debian, PINE64's RISC-V PineTab to gain Mobian support, and more! Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Ludovic Hirlimann: Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project (2024) I still remember feeling 'this is getting ready to be daily driven' days before management ended it.
- Luigi311: Furilabs FLX1
- JustSoup321 Development Blog: solile Development: Week 2
- Logical Erzor: Upstream Pinephone Pro Patches!
- Purism: Hidden Operating Systems in Chips vs. Secure, Auditable OSes: A Cybersecurity Comparison. Oof.
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E473: SFOS Update 5.0.0.68 & VR Chat Assistent
- NextLVLProgramming: What Is Mer Project And Its Connection To MeeGo? - Next LVL Programming Looks like AI slop, but who does not like a history lessen?
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 167. Volla Community Days, a UBports installer update, a LibreWolf port to Ubuntu Touch, and more!
- pentekimi: PostmarketOS Android dual booting on Fairphone 5
- YouTux Channel: LINUX Mobile is DEAD (and it's never coming back). :-(
- Hello Volla: Volla Community Days 2025 Tag 1
Worth Noting
- martijnbraam: Pushed a freshly build flatpak now for Megapixels 2 alpha 2 with a few more fixes from the community :)
- OniroProject: "We’re thrilled to speak at Volla Community Days 2025, featuring a live Oniro demo on the Volla X23! 🎉🗓️ June 15 @ 11:20Big thanks to our Volla colleagues for hosting us! Let’s drive open-source mobile innovation forward together! 🚀#Oniro #OpenHarmony #VollaX23 #OpenSource"
- theDarky: Following my request one and a half months ago: https://mstdn.social/@theDarky/114415107294340361By adding the following line to my #Mobian configuration:/etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.listdeb http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental mainAnd by installing the experimental versions of the mesa Vulkan package:sudo apt -t experimental install mesa-vulkan-drivers1/2#Librem5 #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #Megapixels #Highscore "Megapixels 2.0, properly compiled, and Highscore work correctly by specifying the environment variable related to the MESA GL version as follows:MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.2#Librem5 #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #Megapixels #Highscore"
- erebion: "Keep asking Jolla for AppSupport on other distros, I know that has an effect on them internally.Maybe your wishes come true if you just ask.#LinuxOnMobile #Linmob #Mobian #postmarketos"
- rysiek: "As part of the investigation, I have looked closely at Telegram's protocol and analyzed packet captures provided by IStories.I have also done some packet captures of my own.I dive into the nitty-gritty technical details of what I found and how I found it on my blog:Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypothttps://rys.io/en/179.htmlYes, my packet captures and a small Python library I wrote in the process are all published along.#Telegram #InfoSec #Privacy #Surveillance #Russia"
Hardware (support) corner
- Purism community: Cost to Produce Librem 5 vs. Librem 5 Liberty
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: The PineTab-V Will Be Receiving Official Support for Mobian
- Liberux (Mastodon): 📢 New Liberux NEXX config from just €790!You asked for more flexibility — we listened.Thanks to the Nexx’s modular design, we’re launching a version with:📦 8 GB RAM · 128 GB eMMC · LTEFully customizable: upgrade to more RAM, storage or 5G — just pay the difference.And yes, the €890 version is still available.🛠️ Explore all options here:👉 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3#Liberux #LiberuxNEXX #NEXX #LinuxPhones
- r/linux: Crowdfunding campaign for Liberux NEXX . a smartphone with a open source operation system
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: We Have Been Promised a New Linux Smartphone Which is Not Based on Android
Events
More Software News
Distributions
- danctnix: If you're getting this message when upgrading the device:":: unable to satisfy dependency 'libgpgme.so=11-64' required by ostree (and also podman)"These packages (and flatpak) has been rebuilt and should be resolved now.#DanctNIX
- Nitrux: News: Farewell NX Desktop (and Plasma). Relevant for those remembering and waiting for Maui Shell.
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): #postmarketOS v25.06 is in the pipeline and you can help us out with two things:* Which wallpaper shall we choose? Can you help us once again dear Fediverse? * Test it on your favorite devices and report back if you run into any issues! See https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3754 and postmarketos-testing @ https://postmarketos.org/chat for details.Thanks to Dikasp for making these awesome wallpapers! Poll is in the comments.
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Apple iPhone X (Global) (apple-d22)
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Systemd/audio
- postmarketOS pmbootstrap tags: 3.5.0
- Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: rockchip: add dkms and gcc for installing PineTab2 Wi-Fi driver
- Mobian mobian-recipes Issues: mobian-amd64-p*-20250608 images fail to boot
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #204 Sending Packets
- Steven Deobald: 2025-06-14 Foundation Report
- Adrian Vovk: Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
- GNOME Foundation News: GNOME Has a New Infrastructure Partner: Welcome AWS!
- Jordan Petridis: An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal
- Phoronix: GNOME's Busy Week With Disabling X11 Session By Default, Greater systemd Dependence
Phosh
- Phosh (gotosocial): "Hello from gotosocial! #linuxmobile #phosh"
- #phosh: In case anyone's interested in the process (assuming #postmarketOS with #OpenRC and tinydm)
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Wayland PiP and accessibility!
- Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.15.0
- Volker Krause: Adding public transport data to Transitous
- Planet KDE: Clazy 1.15 Released – New Checks, Better Stability
- Planet KDE: Gesture customization mini-sprint
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.5 To Introduce Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 12th June 2025
- erebion: "Trying out Sailfish OS today. My first interaction was debugging the flashing script and then giving up and writing my own.Way too complex, variables are things like $1 and $2 and $3 for functions, it is very hard to completely understand.My own script is much simpler.#LinuxOnMobile"
- #sailfishOS: Today I updated my #SailfishOS phones to 5.0.0.68.
- #sailfishOS: Yay!My second attempt with #SailfishOS has been a little more successful on the VoLTE front.Repurposed Xperia 10 II now to get my licence swapped over
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: New UBports Installer Version
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Today is Ubuntu Touch Q&A Day
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: UBports Database Migration
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 167
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 167 call for questions
- fredldotme: My just-merged personal contribution to the probably most shipped software in volume: WebKit, specifically @WPEWebKithttps://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/36049I suppose it won't take long until WebKitGTK gains the same feature, meaning that most likely you'll be seeing GNOME Web adapt window chrome/header bar color based on the website's theme color preference.
Apps
- martijnbraam: Pushed a freshly build flatpak now for Megapixels 2 alpha 2 with a few more fixes from the community :)
- schmiddionmobile: "Version 2.5.0 of Pipeline was released. Pipeline now displays a random splash text when reloading the feed, informing the user for example about random facts about Pipeline or highlighting some features of Pipeline. "What a useless feature", you might say. I would pretty much agree, but it was fun to code, and maybe some of you will have fun reading the things I came up with.There were also other changes and bug fixes, for detals refer to the changelog: https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/pipeline/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md?ref_type=heads#250---2025-06-14."
- nekohayo: "Mad props to @camelCaseNick for successfully implementing the first phase of @philippsauberzweig's proposed solution for GNOME Calendar's general layouts and formfactors design overhaul (see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1332), a project that has been in the work for many months to solve https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1007 !https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/542 has landed in the main branch, you can now try it out in the nightly flatpak version.#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX #LinuxMobile"
- deltatouch: "Today at DIFF in Freiburg: DeltaTouch running on PostmarketOS on a Steam Deck (with a Win7 theme), owned by @ell1e :awesome:#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat #postmarketOS"
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v5 0/4] CAMSS support for MSM8939
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8976-longcheer-l9360: Add initial device tree
- phone-devel: [PATCH v4 4/4] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm632-fairphone-fp3: Enable display and GPU
- Phoronix: Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Proposed To Help Stabilize User-Space Interfaces
- Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Rejects The Idea Of Enabling DAMON By Default In The Linux Kernel
- Phoronix: Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression
Stack
- Phoronix: SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming
- Phoronix: Wayland Protocols 1.45 Brings Background Effects, Pointer Warp & Session Management
- Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.318 Released With A New Valve Extension
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-06-13
- Matrix.org: Introducing premium accounts to fund the matrix.org homeserver
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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