LINux on MOBile

Fairphone (6th gen) launches with same-day Linux support patches, Phosh forms an organisation, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, Sailfish Community News and more!

Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

• Phoronix: Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches
  • Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches
• Purism: Why Purism Manufactures Electronics in the USA
• Purism: CNN Report: Purism is the Only Known U.S. Phone Manufacturer

Worth Watching

• sajattack: Blackberry KEY2 LE PostmarketOS Keyboard Demo
• 路人甲: PostmarketOS Qemu
• CodeInc: PostmarketOS 25.06: Major KDE Plasma Mobile Upgrades + New Device Support
• CapBoyan RUS [Boyan Mobile]: Running Maemo OS on Android Devices [Reupload#2020]
• UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 168. New bootsplash animation, GUI for disk encryption, a banking app, and more!
• Bling Talk: How to Install ubuntu on any Smart phone – Ubuntu touch installation 2025 Tutorial
• CybeRonics: Turn Your Phone into Linux! | Ubuntu Touch Install 📱 FREE

Worth Noting

• Liberux: "🗓️ Just 7 Days Left to Make History with Liberux NEXX!🚀 The countdown speeds up: one week left to close this chapter.Infinite thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered, shared, and believed in this project.🌱 You are the seed of a new kind of technology: open, more fair, more ours.💥 If you’re not part of it yet, this is the perfect moment:👉 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3Every bit of support brings this collective dream closer to reality.❤️ Let’s go all in for these final 7 days!#Liberux"
• fakeshell: "I did a thing. while working on native NFC capabilities, i ended up writing a test program which reads all the info from EMV cards (such as Visa/Master/Amex) and dumps it to try and learn the payload.the info shown in the #GTK interface is fairly basic mostly as demo, but it dumps a lot more to the shell:https://github.com/FakeShell/nfc-testerit may be possible to use this for malicious purposes with the right skill set, so please use it responsibly =)#flx1 #furilabs #linuxmobile #mobilelinux"
• ariadne: "#wayback, a small project gluing together wayland components to turn Xwayland into a full X environment, is now published: https://github.com/kaniini/waybackthere's definitely a gazillion bugs, which will need work across the entire stack to solve.however, unlike Xlibre, this is a sustainable path that is intended to reduce the number of X components in distributions."
• austriancoder: I’ve made progress after fixing a compiler bug that prevented valid data from being written to the output register.dEQP-GLES3.functional.transform_feedback.*Test run totals:Passed: 1114/1320 (84.4%)Failed: 98/1320 (7.4%)Not supported: 108/1320 (8.2%)Warnings: 0/1320 (0.0%)Waived: 0/1320 (0.0%)
• devrtz: "📢 Cellbroadcastd 0.0.1 was released yesterday 📢#cbd provides the following:- persistent storage of received #CellBroadcast messages- notifications for user interfaces/DEs to handle- set channels to subscribe to (based on country)- CLI tool for inspection/debugging purposeshttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/devrtz/cellbroadcastd/-/releases/v0.0.1Many thanks to @NGIZero for funding, @agx for involving me and tons of review and @snwh for UI design!#LinuxMobile #Phosh #GNOME #NLnet" The history of received cell broadcast messages will land in phosh-mobile-settings in the 0.49 cycle:https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh-mobile-settings/-/merge_requests/215 And now we have Cellbroadcastd 0.0.2 as well, which fixes a build failure on arm64 and gets the symbol file in order (thanks @agx !)https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/devrtz/cellbroadcastd/-/releases/v0.0.2#CellBroadcast #LinuxMobile
• NGIZero: "We are happy to share that 62 projects will receive grants from the NGI Zero Commons Fund. We congratulate the selected projects and look forward to their contributions to increasing society's digital autonomy.Ranging from browser-based cellular networking to decentralised social media, and professional print, these projects are showing that a bright digital future is not only possible but already being built.Come over and meet the projects!https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html#FOSS #NGIZero #NGI"
• z3ntu: "I'm super happy to share, that the #Fairphone (Gen. 6) was just announced, and we've been able to already publish a lot of code for it!* #postmarketOS support is submitted* 59(!) patches were sent to bring up upstream #Linux on the SM7635 SoC and enable the device.* The stock Android source code is public on code.fairphone.comThis has been a lot of work over the last couple of months so it's awesome to finally be able to share it!". Amazing work, once again!
• Purism community: De-noising photo in the dark

Events

• jolla: "Calling all Jolla & Sailfish OS fans! We’re hosting a live-streamed Jolla Community Meeting from Tampere on 2nd of July 2025 18:00, and you’re invited. Join us to hear what’s new, meet the team, and take part in shaping what comes next.📍 Details & stream link here:https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-community-meeting-live-stream-2nd-july-from-tampere/23493See you there?#SailfishOS #Jolla #CommunityPowered"

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #206 Hot Days
• Ahmed Fatthi: GSoC 2025: June Progress Report
• Steven Deobald: 2025-06-27 Foundation Report
• Steven Deobald: Donate Less ... but more regularily.
• Jiri Eischmann: Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.5

Phosh

• ev: Hello 🌏 ! We're Phosh.mobi e.V. a small non profit organization supporting the :phosh: project in building a #LinuxMobile first user environment for everyone. You find us at https://ev.phosh.mobi #phosh #PhoshMobiEv
• janvlug: "You can now support #Phosh, the desktop for #MobileLinux with donations, because there is a formal organization:https://ev.phosh.mobi/#linux #phone #FOSS #opensource #DigitalSovereignty #BanBigTech"

Plasma Ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore
• KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.4.1, Bugfix Release for June
• Volker Krause: Indoor building mapping in OSM
• tsdgeos: KDE will drop Qt5 CI Support at the End of September 2025
• Nate Graham: A slight UX change in Plasma 6.4.1
• GSoC'25 Kwin Project Blog Post: Week 1-2
• Pablo Arino: Week 3 on Merkuro (GSoC 2025)
• Phoronix: KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps

Sxmo

• #sxmo: ...oh god what day is this? I know I didn't post yesterday...but it's been like a two day gap? That's pretty good indicator, right?day 7 i think?anyway, i'm going to be a bit lazier as the trip goes... but i'll try to keep relevant updates.The only real not worthy thing... as calls don't work (don't call it a #bug, call it a #feature), I did get suspend locked up because the phone swore it was in a non existing call. So I had to reboot.. only the second maybe third reboot of the trip. Otherwise... ish is fine. It's real hard not running #topgrade tho~Do I wish I had app equivalents to ride sharing and food ordering? Absolutely... but as someone that cannot dev.. I can only try to fund ish... So I refuse to complain about it. And to be honest I could try Android Translation Layer, but that feels like that's missing the point, and the web sites mostly work... #uber is a pita tho. #pixel3a #linuxphones #sxmo #postmarketos @linuxphones @linuxphones

Sailfish OS

• Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 25th June 2025 - Summer Break
• flypig's NewPipe log: Day 97
• flypig's NewPipe log: Day 96
• flypig's NewPipe log: Day 95
• flypig's NewPipe log: Day 94
• flypig's NewPipe log: Day 93
• flypig's NewPipe log: Day 92
• #sailfishOS: 📲 Linux phone Jolla C2: long-term Sailfish OS updates 100% free for all now ✅ Were You on the edge on freeing Your googleless smartphone reality? Were not a fan of Jolla's initial monthly / yearly (small) payment model? No more excuses!Reclaim Your phone. Break the shackles of Google - yet with ANDROID app COMPATIBILITY layer ✌️ 👉 https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-community-phone 👉 https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/long-term-sailfish-os-updates-free-of-charge-for-all-jolla-c2/23491#Jolla #SailfishOS #Sailfish #Linux #mobile #smartphone #PrivacyFromFinland @jolla #Suomi #Tampere

Ubuntu Touch

• Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 168 Saturday 28th June 19:00 UTC
• #UbuntuTouch: It's been a bit since I used Ubuntu Touch and I have a few questions to those who daily drive it: 1. Is there any decent XMPP app on there ? Used to be the few native apps would barely launch.2. How has snap support been ? Do the KeepassXC and Nextcloud snaps work well ?#ubports #ubuntutouch #snapstore #linuxmobile #xmpp
• #UbuntuTouch: lomiri fairphone 4 voicemail #ubuntutouch https://askubuntu.com/q/1551327/612

Distributions

• #phosh: I've updated my #postmarketOS devices to v25.06 already.If anyone's wondering how to migrate from OpenRC to Systemd from an existing installation, it can be done like this (here be dragons!):# echo "https://mirror.postmarketos.org/postmarketos/extra-repos/systemd/v25.06" | tee -a /etc/apk/repositories# apk update -Ua# apk add postmarketos-base-systemd# reboot nowI've tested this on installations using #Phosh and #Gnome desktop.The team doesn't support this migration officially, though. Common warnings apply; do your backups, etc.
• postmarketOS (Mastodon): Excited to announce that @Logical_Error is now a Trusted Contributor in postmarketOS! 🥳 He has been contributing to postmarketOS since 2018, mostly porting the MSM8960-based Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 (samsung-expressatt), first downstream and then mainline, mainlining various patches and testing releases. He plans to do more mainlining of that device, PinePhone Pro and Microsoft Surface RT.📜 TC page:https://postmarketos.org/trusted-contributors/#rudraksha-gupta-logicalerzor
• postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 (SM7635)
• postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: The Fairphone (Gen. 6) (fairphone-fp6)

Apps

• Phoronix: Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome
• afranke: "Hot! Hot! HOT! Talking about the #Fractal 12.beta release of course, not the weather! https://discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-12-beta-released/29551#GNOME #Matrix"
• postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Langfingaz: add link pmaport mobile-config-thunderbird
• lo: "A few days ago, I finished my Pipeline mockup for a new layout, touching up on the navigation, video player, subscriptions list and others.Check out the issue for more details and the full mockup with annotations:https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/pipeline/-/issues/232#gnome"

Kernel

• Phoronix: "Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver

Stack

• Luigi311: Huge performance buff incoming for panfrost devices thanks to some #mntreform users. They tested with rk3588 on the reform pocket and got 3x the overall motionmark score. For me I tested on the #pinetab2 and got an overall 2x and some of the individual tests had a massive improvement. They submitted the MR upstream to mesa so it should hopefully be merged in soon especially since its a small change.https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/35678#mobilelinux #mesa
• Phoronix: Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode
• Phoronix: Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17
• Phoronix: Rust 1.88 Released With Improvements For Naked Functions, Chaining Let Statements
• Phoronix: Mir 2.21 Released With Cursor Scaling & Mouse Keys Support

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-06-27
• Matrix.org: Matrix v1.15 release
• Matrix.org: Demystifying SBGs

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