LINux on MOBile

While DebConf 22 and GUADEC are happening,¹ some more things happened, which is impressive considering the inactivity heat waves cause.

Commentary in italics.

Software progress

GNOME ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #53 GUADEC 2022.
• Philip Withnall: Mini-GUADEC 2022 in Berlin.

Plasma/Maui ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Tons of UI improvements and bugfixes.
• Suhaas’ Blog: GSoC Post 1: FlatpakKCM Update 1.
• Volker Krause: KDE Eco Sprint July 2022.
• Fernando Kinoshita: My week in KDE: slow but steady.
• Qt blog: Qt Creator 8 released.

Sailfish OS

• In case you're wondering about how open source Sailfish OS's VoLTE Support is, here's some info on that

Distributions

• postmarketOS:postmarketOS // v22.06 SP1: The One Where We Added The Pro & E7. PinePhone Pro support, yeah! (Status)

Acceleration

• Phoronix: Qualcomm Working On Vulkan Image Processing With New v1.3.222 Extensions.
• Phoronix: Adreno 619 Support Added To Mesa - Enables Fairphone 4 GPU Support.
• Phoronix: Linux's Hantro VPU Media Driver Looks To Be Promoted Out Of Staging. Nice!

Worth noting

• execrable on Purism forums: Genie-Assistant on L5. Genie is the software previously known as Almond.
• If "convergent presenting" is something you're interested in, you might appreciate this!
• If you're having problems with Phosh's readability while being outside in the sun, something nice might be coming to help you with that!

Worth reading

Developer Experiences

• Caleb Connolly: My workflow as an embedded Linux developer. Interesting read!

Device reviews

• tendays on Purism forums: [MyL5] YET Another Librem5 review.

Linux on Tablets

• Neil Brown: Samsung Galaxy Tab 9.7" and postmarketOS: initial impressions.
• Neil Brown: Samsung Galaxy Tab 9.7" and postmarketOS: building a custom image - Neil Brown. I agree: pmbootstrap is amazing!

Ethics and Interdiction

• Kyle Rankin for Purism: Purism’s Ethical Marketing Principles. Ethical refund policy when? It would really help with making r/Purism less of a r/purismhatefest…
• Kyle Rankin for Purism: Anti-Interdiction on The Librem 5 USA. HN Comment thread.

Not mobile specific, but _Interesting

• Et tu, Cthulhu: GNOME at 25: A Health Checkup. Great numbers!

Worth watching

DebConf

• Guido Günther: The current state of Debian on smartphones. Great talk!

Terminal goes GTK4

• baby WOGUE: Terminal port to GTK4 demo + QUESTION!! GNOME 43.

Ubuntu Touch

• TechSecurity: installing Ubuntu touch in redmi mi 4x.

Sailfish OS

• BohdanKoles: Sailfish OS – REAL review and usage experience. Detailed and well explained!
• Xpain: [RAW] Installing Sailfish OS On A Samsung Galaxy S4.. Shaky!

Something missing?

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PS: In case you are wondering about the title ...

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