Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (28/2025): Automatically Focussed
Table of Contents
Libcamera auto-focus progress, Plasma Camera switching to a libcamera backend, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A and a Lomiri bounty program by OS SCi, a video on (mobile) NixOS and more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- qkall: Daily driving a Pixel 3a while on a three week holiday wrap-up
- OS SCi: Lomiri bounty program Nice to see this!
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 169. Make sure to watch this one, it's short and contains a tentative date for a Noble (24.04) release among other goodies!
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E477: SailConnect4
- MWLabs: Raspberry Pi alternative? 8-Core, 8GB RAM, OLED, Battery β Runs NixOS Under $100!
Worth Noting
- pi_crew: "Cool new feature with the #Waydroid update to #Android 13: Support to configure screen lock. This will bring support to a lot more Android apps on #postmarketOS which require screen lock as a security measure πJust tested it with the Interrail app, I'm now able to add my travel pass π₯³"
- austriancoder: "Sweet! Using some NIR shader magic, I can also sample 128-bit formats. Under the hood, I'm sampling two separate 64-bit values and combining them within the shader.#etnaviv #mesa #Librem5". Nice!
- xmpp: The #XMPP Newsletter for June 2025 is out! Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and updates on our #standards! https://xmpp.org/2025/07/the-xmpp-newsletter-june-2025/ Enjoy reading! π° β :xmpp:#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc#opensource #decentralization #federation
- danctnix: "Hey #PineTab2 users,We're working on a new Bluetooth driver for the BES2600.More information will come soon."
- kde: "KDE devs have been quietly working on Plasma Keyboard, a new on-screen keyboard for desktop and mobile part of the βWe Care About Your Inputβ KDE Goals initiative. Although not ready for texting yet, it has been making progress. Hopefully it'll be in a screen near you soon. Join the effort! https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-keyboard #kde #plasma #mobile #osk #accessibility #keyboard@kde@lemmy.kde.social"
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Fairphone 5 finally in Ubuntu Touch devices list
Camera corner
- Devin Lin: A libcamera port of Plasma Camera
- koitu: Plasma Camera Porting to libcamera
- NekoCWD: π π± Now there are AutoFocus trigger in PipeTaphttps://git.nekocwd.duckdns.org/NekoCWD/PipeTapDemo was #ShotOnOneplus 6 (oneplus-enchilada) running @postmarketOS
- NekoCWD: "π± π @libcamera side AutoFocusThanks to @pavel , people who made those changes https://gitlab.com/tui/libcamera/-/commits/l5 and others!Will publish my tree tomorrow"
Events
More Software News
Distributions
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: BlackBerry KEY2 LE (blackberry-luna)
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Booting without initramfs
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite (xiaomi-pyxis)
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: HTC One V (htc-primou)/Installation
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): The BES2600 Bluetooth driver just connected to a pair of earbuds. π What has been tested so far (and confirmed to be working):- Audio (a little laggy)- Keyboard (mouse should work too)- Phone- BLE GATT#pinetab2 #danctnix
- Phoronix: openSUSE Is Deciding Whether To End 32-bit ARM Support
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #208 Converting Colors
- Steven Deobald: 2025-07-12 Foundation Update
- Ignacy KuchciΕski: Digital Wellbeing Contract
- Phoronix: GNOME Builder & Digital Wellbeing Code Improved This Week
Phosh
- NekoCWD: "π Hehe, now we can make @phosh plugins in @vala_lang.Made plugin that replaces default phosh player to amberol'ish one"
- NekoCWD: Hay! I'm done with beautiful player for @phosh written in @vala_langMake your @postmarketOS #linuxonmobile experience more π± meow'ishhttps://gitlab.com/NekoCWD/phosh-media-player#ui #gtk
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.16.0
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.3.6, Bugfix Release for July
- Plasma Mobile: July Software Releases: Plasma Camera & Plasma Settings
- Devin Lin: A libcamera port of Plasma Camera
- koitu: Plasma Camera Porting to libcamera
- Carl Schwan: Kirigami Addons 1.9.0
- Planet KDE: Get Better QML Code Completions with CodeLlama 13B-QML and 7B-QML v3
- notmart: KWallet to SecretService, a client application: name wanted
- Phoronix: KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5
Sailfish OS
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 111
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 110
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 109
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 108
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 107
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 106
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 105
- #sailfishOS: @cybette I have the Balance. The #SailfishOS community funded it so that I could bring ZeppOS support to Amazfish, my watch companion app. The watch is great, I love its battery life, GPS, monitoring, and quirky motivational talks it gives me!
Ubuntu Touch
- OS SCi: Lomiri bounty program
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Ubuntu Touch Receives a Web App of Fluffy Chat!
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 169 call for questions
- UBports - Development - Issues: ADB + SSH refuse operation when Encryption is enabled on old devices
- #UbuntuTouch: Dual-booting @postmarketOS and #ubuntutouch on a #fairphone4 π @ubports #postmarketos #mobilelinux
Apps
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 3/4] regulator: qcom-rpmh: add support for pmr735b regulators
- Phoronix: Linux 6.15.6, 6.12.37 LTS & Other Stable Kernels Deliver TSA Mitigations
Stack
- whot: "Psst. you!Yes, you.libinput 1.29rc1 is out. Don't tell anyone.The list of (secret!) goodies is: better scroll wheel heuristics, new tablet eraser button configuration and an internal plugin pipeline (no public plugins yet though).https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/releases/1.28.901"
- Phoronix: GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes
- Phoronix: OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions
- Phoronix: Canonical Releases Multipass 1.16 As Now Fully Open-Source Project
- Ariadne's Space: Ariadne's SpaTwo weeks of wayback
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-07-11
Thanks
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