LINux on MOBile

Also: A new Glodroid release, Kupfer progress, updates to the Gentoo overlay for PinePhone (Pro), and more!

Commentary in italics.

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #103 Flowing Information
• Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.29.0 Notch support, easier audio device selection, ... nice!

Plasma Ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Akademy approaches – Adventures in Linux and KDE ¹
• KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 23.04.3
• Volker Krause: May/June in KDE PIM
• Tobias Fella: libQuotient version 0.8 released
• Carl Schwan: Kirigami Addons 0.9.0

SailfishOS

• adampigg: Bringing up the camera on the #pinephonepro and #sailfishos
• adampigg: #KDE project Tokodon mastodon client running on #sailfishos

Ubuntu Touch

• Delta Chat: "Nice surprise! Thanks to @lk1…" - chaos.social

Capyloon

• Capyloon: "New feature: Private Browsing …" - Fosstodon

Distributions

• Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Phosh top bar is borked with notch phones and custom margins
• Kupfer: v0.2.0-rc3: fastboot flashing, Plasma Mobile, abootimg rename
• Gerben Jan Dijkman: "I've update the kernel to 6.4 …" - GJDWebserver Mastodon

GloDroid

• New Glodroid Release For Pinephone Pro

Apps

• Angelo Verlain: "some photos of Muzika running …" - mas.to
• Project Insanity: "Tried the new version of Gnome…" - chaos.social

Kernel

• phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/7] Add initial support for SM7125 and Xiaomi SM7125 platform

Stack

• Tow-Boot: 2022.07-006: The late upgrade. For other bootloader news, see below!
  • Lemmy - linuxphones: Tow-Boot release 2022.07-006: The late upgrade
  • Phoronix: Tow-Boot Downstream Of U-Boot Updated After Long Hiatus
• Phoronix: Imagination GPUs With PVR Vulkan + Zink Working Well For OpenGL 4.6
• Phoronix: F2FS Prepares Some Minor Improvements For Linux 6.5
• Phoronix: Mediatek Gains Stateless AV1/HEVC Codecs, Intel Atom ISP Driver Getting Fit

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-07-07. Some Nheko news in that one!

Worth Noting

• Lemmy - linuxphones: What do you all use? And can you use your phone as a daily driver?
• Lemmy - linuxphones: Nexus 5 ported to Mobian
• Devuan Image builder script for PPP and Librem5
• Robert Mader: "One of the issue preventing #L…" - FLOSS.social
• Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: Sdcard becomes read-only after waking up from suspend
• Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: Suspend Background Applications
• Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: Searching for the complete BM818 modem manual

Worth Reading

• megis PinePhone Development Log: Sneak peek of rk2aw – what's comming up soon While I get why tow-boot boots from eMMC by default, I like that Megi makes a different choice - it fits my "have a solid, set up system on eMMC; have fun on microSDXC approach way better - I often forgot to press volume down on every reboot while experimenting on the PinePhone Pro and ... it annoyed me. Update: Context by samueldr. Thanks for explaining! To be clear: I agree with the default, I am just unhappy with my ability to remember pressing a button while tinkering with things that require rebooting frequently (e.g., cameras on the PinePhone Pro).
• samueldr: 2023-06-announcement-tow-boot.md · GitHub Bus factors need to be lowered!
• David Revoy: Lenovo Yoga 370 on GNU/Linux: technical companion article
• The Evil Skeleton: Problems With Not Raising Awareness and Protecting Marginalized Groups in FOSS
• LINux on MOBile: Three Years of Weekly Updates on GNU-like Mobile Linux: Let's summarize and celebrate!

Worth Watching

• sadfwesv: rk2aw - RK3399/3566/3588 boot priority changing tool (microSD first)
• Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E371: Sailfish OS Shake Torch
• LinuxStuff: Droidian - Fingerprint authentication - Pixel 3a (Bonito) Cool!
• Mobile News & Reviews: Flashback: phones that weren’t, part 3: making a new smartphone OS is hard
• Baonks 81: i3wm + MATE 120dpi n7 2012 grouper kernel-6.1.0-postmarketos-grate on Ubuntu - Archlinus ARMv7
• Janus Cycle: Taming Nokia's Wildest Linux Smartphone. Missed this when it came out.

Thanks

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