LINux on MOBile

Progress on NuttX on PinePhone, on FreeBSD on PinePhone Pro and a great episode of the postmarketOS podcast.

Commentary in italics.

First things first

• @linmob@fosstodon.org: We are rapidly approaching three years of Weekly Updates on #LinuxMobile! :tux: 📱🎉 Please help on with coming up a nice summary of all that time to celebrate! The pad for this is at https://pad.hacc.space/5g5RIS0qSh2hoPhMzCsL9w?both# Thank you, @Blort for the great idea!

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #101 Libadwaita Happenings
• mclasen: Evolving accessibility

Phosh

• Guido Günther: Simplifying audio device selection in #phosh (which also needs a tweak in #pipewire to get nice icons on #LinuxMobile too):, phosh MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1277pipewire MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/merge_requests/1646(sorry for the repost, had to convert video as it otherwise wouldn't be picked up correctly)

Plasma Ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: SDDM
• Volker Krause: Shared locations in NeoChat
• Nate Graham: On the road to Plasma 6
• KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 5.27.6, Bugfix Release for June
• Camilo: "now MauiKit3 (qt5) and MauiKit4 (qt6) can live together…" - Fosstodon

Nemo Mobile

• Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: You can watch my #DevConf #NemoMobile talk on YouTube. I apologize for the poor sound quality during the demo part. It was my fault.Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/tfBFaEXsRck?feature=share&t=13764 (starts at 3:49:24)The @devconf_cz is also continuing today. Check out the live streams at https://www.youtube.com/@DevConfs/streams.

Distributions

• Droidian Blog: State of Droidian - Week 25, 2023
• Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Phosh black screen after update
• Mobian: "Mobian now supports the #PineTab2…" - Fosstodon
• Mobian: "Please do not use the post-bookworm release installer images for SD -> SD installs for the moment.…" - Fosstodon

Apps

• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Reminders
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Teleprompter
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Footage
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Speech Note. Video below!
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Imaginer
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Junction I finally managed to add a few apps again. There's more to come.
• DrRac27: "I published a new version of m…" - Fosstodon

Kernel

• phone-devel: [PATCH v2 2/3] remoteproc: qcom: q6v5-mss: Add support for SDM630/636/660
• phone-devel: [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: remoteproc: qcom,msm8996-mss-pil: Add SDM660 compatible
• phone-devel: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm630: Add support for modem remoteproc
• phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Add support for Qualcomm's legacy IOMMU v2

Stack

• Phoronix: Mesa Turns To BLAKE3 For Faster Vulkan Shader Hashing
• Phoronix: FLAC 1.4.3 Released With More Optimizations, Drops PowerPC-Specific Code

Non-Linux

• NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: The First Year
• 'PinePhone Pro Boots On CURRENT' - FreeBSD current Mailing List

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-06-23
• Matrix.org: Beeper joins the Matrix.org Foundation About time!
• Matrix.org: Announcing the Matrix.org Foundation Membership program!

Worth Noting

• Robert Mader: "Another thing I forgot to ment…" - FLOSS.social
• Robert Mader: "Just came home and there are g…" - FLOSS.social
• Lemmy - linuxphones: Why are there no phones that support convergence/desktop mode?
• Lemmy - postmarketOS: Since postmarketOS v23.06, the GNOME Mobile shell has been available for all users. Try it out, and lets start a conversation on how we can make it better for everyone.
• @dos@librem.one: Apparently Flappy Bird is 10 years old this year. It reminded me of my crappy ncurses remake I did back in 2014. Now it reacts to mouse input and does haptic feedback when played on a phone 😂 https://gitlab.com/dosowisko.net/flasciibird #flappybird #mobile #games #librem5 #shotonlibrem5
• JF: "We've just released InfiniTime…" - Mastodon::codingfield

Worth Reading

• Carl Schwan: My generic Open Source Project FAQ
• FSF blog: Frans de Jonge tells us about KOReader in this AGPLv3 interview — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software. This is a bit older, but KOReader is really a great piece of software. I would hate my jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 4 without it!
• Drew DeVaults blog: Reforming the free software message

Worth Listening

• postmarketOS Podcast: #32 GNOME Mobile 2023 Hackfest Special, Great episode!
  • Lemmy - postmarketOS: #32 GNOME Mobile 2023 Hackfest Special

Worth Watching

• Julian: "I got @mobian running on my #P…" - Fosstodon
• M: Quick Droidian (Phosh/Sway) showcasing and experiments on the F(x)tec Pro1, a keyboard slider phone
• D.I.Y infinity: device ubuntu touch1. Nice build!
• Unboxing Tomorrow: Linux-Based Pinephone as a Desktop
• LinuxOwO: Google Pixel 3a postmarketOS Demo (Desktop KDE Plasma)
• fabrixxm: Confy 0.7.0-3064be4 quick tour
• mkiol: Speech Note - Offline Speech to Text and Text to Speech on Linux

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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