Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (25/2024): A Podcast about Phosh
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A new episode of my favorite podcast! Also, we have a UBports Q&A, a new release of Sailfish OS rolling out to users; Lindroid, a "reverse waydroid" to run Linux apps on rooted Android, and more! Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- fossphones.com: Linux Phone News - June 21, 2024
- LINux on MOBile: MFC15: Two Merge(d) requests and a Pull Request. mobile-config-firefox 4.3.2 has been released and is landing in distributions, yay!
- LINux on MOBile: MCF14: Almost 128
- quickfix.es: Better arguments make arguments better
Worth Listening
- postmarketOS podcast: #41 INTERVIEW: Guido Günther (of Phosh, Librem 5 Fame) Great episode! Do give it a listen!
Worth Watching
- kajuz6: The late review of the Jolla C and Sailfish OS 4.6 "Sauna"
- Bitter Epic Productions: Installing a new OS on your Pinephone Pro using macOS #pinephone #linux #macos #sdcard #guide
- UBports: UBports Q&A 143
- Anino Ni Kugi: The Dream of Convergence | Lomiri Need more to watch? You may want to checkout the stream dumps from "Volla Community Days":
Worth Noting
- Clayton: "@cas you did an incredible job…"
- Linux App Summit: "Have an exciting Linux app or insight? We want to hear from you! Submit your talk proposal for #LAS2024 today! …"
- Camilo: "hacking on maui shell - it is broken due to qwaylandcompositor 6.7.1 😓 sight …"
- caleb: "just merged #Linux next into @postmarketOS along with the new Trailblazer 🚀 device.…"
- Purism community: Is the hardware switch really just a software switch?
- Lemmy - linuxphones: PostmarketOS v24.06: The One With Over 250 Devices
- #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.
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: Something exciting from Xitter: #Lindroid, a new way to run Linux-y software on Android.Quote:"Kinda looks like a reverse waydroid, but you can have full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app"Read more about in this thread:https://nitter.poast.org/Khode_Erfan/status/1802331845633212554#mhttps://x.com/Khode_Erfan/status/1802331845633212554
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Lindroid
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #153 Proudly Colorful
- xjuan: New Cambalache development release 0.91.1!
- GNOME a11y: Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project
- Phoronix: GNOME Seeing Much Work On Their "Setup" OEM Style Installer, Key Rack & oo7
Phosh
- Phosh (Mastodon): In preparation for the next #phosh release we've released #feedbackd 0.4.0 🎉 :- Support
hw_patternon devices using qcom-lpg. This allows to keep LEDs on in suspend on these 📱- Support RGB color mixing for multicolor leds- Allow to use (camera) flash LEDs as notificaton LED- Immediately end "too noisy" feedbacks when switching profile levels- Internal cleanups and restructuring to cater for different LED types.https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd/-/releases/v0.4.0 This 🧵 has some demos: https://fosstodon.org/@phosh/112625626399977365👇 - Phosh (Mastodon): #gmobile 0.2.1 is out 🎉 adding hwdb (or should we call it buttondb 🙃) entries for the #PinePhone Pro, OnePlus 6/6T, Juno Tablets and #bluetooth devices using the AVRCP profile,(We made this 0.2.1 rather than 0.3.0 to indicate that it's fine to backport to stable releases).https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/gmobile/-/releases/v0.2.1#phosh #LinuxMobile
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Plasma 6.1 cleanups
- KDE Announcements: Plasma 6.1
- Volker Krause: KDE PIM Sprint June 2024
- Carl Schwan: KDE PIM Sprint 2024 edition
Sxmo
Sailfish OS
- [Release notes] Sauna 4.6.0.13 - Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum. Money quote: 2024-06-19: OS version 4.6.0.13 was released to all users as an over-the-air update. Installable images are available in the Jolla Shop 47.
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 266
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 265
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 264
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 263
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 262
- @nieldk: Ruby 3.0.0 ready for #SailfishOS https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/home:/nielnielsen/sailfishos_latest_latest/armv7hl/
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 143 Call for questions
Distributions
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Boot images may no longer fit on some devices — workaround available
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): pmbootstrap 3.0.0_alpha is now available in the master branch ! It has a bunch of new goodies like not enforcing checksums for local sources and considerably quicker install times for non-native architectures.For installation instructions check out https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Pmbootstrap#From_git and make sure to uninstall the distro or pip packages.Running "pmbootstrap -y zap -p" is highly recommended.https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/issues
Apps
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Alpaka. Thanks, cahfofpai!
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Games: Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. Thanks, nokse22!
- Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: Amazfish for flatpak was updated. New build have a lot small fixes. Now rebuilt with mapbox-gl. Keyboard is still not opened automatically, but can be opened manually.
- Tuba: "#Tuba v0.8.0 is now available,…"
- Hey, look! Our Flathub build is out now as well! https://flathub.org/apps/im.nheko.Nheko
- GNUnet Messenger API: June 2024
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce msm8916 based LG devices
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/3] Add Sony Xperia Z3 Compact smartphone
- Phoronix: Linux Can Have A "Black Screen Of Death" For Kernel Panics
- Phoronix: Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Will Hopefully Be Upstreamed Soon
Stack
- Phoronix: Rust Coreutils 0.0.27 Continues The Climb Of Better GNU Coreutils Interoperability
- Phoronix: Flathub Has Now Served More Than Two Billion Downloads For Flatpaks
- Phoronix: GCC 12.4 Compiler Released With 84+ Bugs Fixed
- Phoronix: Theseus Ship 6.1 Released For This KWinFT Evolution Now Based On KDE Plasma 6.1
- Phoronix: Blumenkrantz "Massively Improves" Mesa's glReadPixels Performance With 7 Lines Of Code
- Phoronix: Mesa Developers Aren't Convinced Over Dropping Old OpenGL Drivers Right Now
- Phoronix: Building Mesa On POWER Now Presents A Default Set Of OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-06-21
- Matrix.org: Matrix v1.11 release
Thanks
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