Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (27/2024): Two Days Late
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This Weekly Update is running two days late. It offers a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, some blog posts by #LinuxMobile Hardware companies, a few videos, progress on camera work in Linux, apps, an important PSA for PinePhone users running postmarketOS and so on. Enjoy!
Please note: The next update will summarize everything from now (mid-Tuesday) to July 20th, 2024, as I am on vacation in the meantime. If you NEED a link list to go through every sunday, I'll surely run the pipeline again, to generate what is "the starting point" of each Weekly Update. As "less screen time" is a vacation goal, help with collecting the things that may be missed otherwise is duly appreciated!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
Device Manufacturer Propaganda Edition ;-)
- Purism: PureOS Optional Subscription Added to Advance Development. I like this.
- FuriLabs blog: FLX1 Production Line WIN! – Furi Labs: Planned Permanence
- FuriLabs blog: FLX1 Waterproof with Removable Battery – Furi Labs: Planned Permanence
- FuriLabs blog: Volla Community Day 2024 – Furi Labs: Planned Permanence
Worth Watching
- Bitter Epic Productions: Ubuntu Touch is a nice OS for your Linux Phone
- UBports: UBports Q&A 144 Progress on moving to 24.04, Alfred is working on a device import app, the WPE WebKit based browser needs help, new apps, and more!
- CyberPunkEdu: Switch Language Input OSK on GNOME Mobile 46 - postmarketOS
- Cak No: Samsung S9 experience Linux Droidian with External Display Support - UMPC Linux Arm
- Jolla: Capture the moment with Jolla C2's camera #jollaC2 #sailfishOS #privacyfromfinland #takecontrol
- Jolla: Jolla C2: landscape and portrait orientations #jollaC2 #sailfishOS #privacyfromfinland #takecontrol
- Tong Zou: Fxtec Pro1 X unboxing + overview (Ubuntu Touch) + comparison - I waited 3.5 years for this thing! One for QWERTY phone lovers!
Worth Noting
- Alexandre Franke: "Finally some good news this week! #Fractal 8.beta is here 🎉 …"
- Carl Schwan :kde:: "The command bar and shortcut editor of Merkuro and Marknote was up-streamed to Kirigami Addons.…"
- vacuumbeef: "I bought a very cool used e-ink reader, Tolino Shine 3…"
- Robert Mader: "I'm quite happy how upcoming performance improvements for #gnome Snapshot and #libcamera are shaping up.…"
- Richard Acayan: "@z3ntu added sensor support to #Fairphone 4 and 5 on #postmarketOS in an open MR, on track to beat the Xiaomi Mi 9T / Redmi K20 and Pixel 3a in packaging (even though sensors can work on both devices)…
- Purism community: Using an alternative WIFI card (LWB5+)
- @cas: getting HYPED for Berlin GUADEC (I hear it's grown beyond a "mini" event).Anticipating a lot of interesting talks and productive hacking :Dthere will also be a #LinuxMobile event of some kind, not sure on what scale yet, but hopefully worth showing up for.#GNOME #Berlin #postmarketOS. _That's July 19th-24th, 2024.
- @z3ntu: I will be going to #FrOSCon in Sankt Augustin, Germany next month and will be presenting "eSIM management on Qualcomm phones". There's also going to be plenty more amazing talks for sure, so come join if you can!All details: https://froscon.org/#FrOSCon2024 #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux. Do come, it's August 17th + 18th!
- c/postmarketOS: Switch interfaces without reinstall?
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #155 Overhauled Keyrings
Phosh
- Guido Günther: While @suraj_sloth is working on the #UnifiedPush connector side in #Chatty I got a chance to add the code for registering/unregistering #Matrix push gateways in #libcmatrix and Chatty (with this I can readily round trip messages up to the UP distributor):#phosh #LinuxMobile #adwaita #gtk
- Guido Günther: …and here are my #FreeSoftware bits for June:https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_June_2024.html#LinuxMobile #phosh #debian #gnome
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: autoscrolling
- KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 24.05.2
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.1.2, Bugfix Release for July
- KDE Mentorship: KDE participates in OSPP 2024
- Volker Krause: Venue maps in Kongress
- Carl Schwan: Keychain Development Update: Yubikey Support
- Carl Schwan: Initial work on Keychain
- Kontact blog: May and June in KDE PIM
- redstrate: My work in KDE for June 2024
Sailfish OS
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 282
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 281
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 280
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 279
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 278
- #sailfishOS: @flypig Luckily I scored a 100€ used Xperia 10iii on ebay and noticed a #SailfishOS license is now just 25€, so SailfishOS will stay my daily driver a bit longer 😉 #PostmarketOS has a really good out-of-the-box experience, though!
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 142
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: TELEports Update
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 144 Call for questions
Distributions
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Various audio breakages on the PinePhone. Make sure to read this if you daily drive postmarketOS on a PinePhone!
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): Calling designers.. Anyone up for helping us design a tablecloth for #Fossy2024 ?Please drop a comment!https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/artwork/-/issues/11
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): Hey folks, we're going to be at @allsystemsgo in Berlin later this year. @cas and @craftyguy will be talking about how #postmarketOS has evolved over the last few years, our experiences with #systemd, and our plans for an #immutable postmarketOS that doesn't restrict user freedom.If you're into low level Linux userspace and middleware definitely come along :D
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Draft: Update gnome shell mobile to latest version
Apps
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Fossdd: add passes to aports
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Fossdd: add chatterino
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Fossdd: add dialect to aports
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v6] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8939-longcheer-l9100: Add rear flash
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/2] More thermal configuration for Fairphone 4
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6350: Add missing qcom,non-secure-domain property
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6350: Add missing qcom,non-secure-domain property
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 6/8] interconnect: qcom: qcs404: Add regmaps and more bus descriptions
- Phoronix: Linux 6.10 Is Shaping Up Well Or It Might Just Be Due To 4th Of July Week
- Phoronix: Linux Seeing Improved Support For The Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS ARM Laptop After Five Years
- Phoronix: Linux 6.11 Likely To Land DM-Verity Multi-Buffer Hashing For Big Speed Boost
- Phoronix: Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness
Non-Linux
- genodians.org: A couple of new challenges
Stack
- Phoronix: FEX 2407 Emulator For x86_64 Binaries On ARM Now Handles AVX/AVX2
- Phoronix: LXD 6.1 Released With Automatic Core Pinning Load Balancing, Fixes Hosts With 64+ CPU Cores
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-07-05
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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