Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (3/2023): Pinhole photography
Table of Contents
An unofficial PINE64 community update, a library to help Phosh deal with notches, bleak future for Cawbird and experiments with video recording on PinePhone.
Commentary in italics.
Software progress
GNOME ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #79 Research Results
- Allan Day: gnome-info-collect: What we learned
- Sonny: "Tangram 2.0 is out and available on #Flathub…"
Plasma ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever
- Volker Krause: KDE Frameworks has been branched 6!
- KDE Announcements: Plasma 5.27 Beta
Sailfish OS
- Adam Pigg: Nothing exciting, except the first photo taken on a @thepine64 #pinephone on #sailfishos using a GUI camera app, Camera app source code Based on libcamera, nice!
Capyloon
- Capyloon: Fri 20 January 2023 PinePhone Pro installer image... I hope I find the time to try this soon!
Distributions
- Phoronix: Debian 12 "Bookworm" Hits Its First Freeze. _The sad thing: As testing freezes, Mobian becomes quite boring. ;-)
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-01-20
- Matrix.org: Synapse 1.75 released
- nheko (Matrix): v0.11.1
Worth noting
- Guido Günther: "I've tagged an initial version 0.0.1 of gmobile, a small supporting library used by #phosh, #feedbackd and soon #phoc for notches/cutouts, timers and the like…"
- MobileLinux: @calebccff booting mainline on OnePlus 7 Pro
- Travelling to FOSDEM and have a PineTime?)
- PINE64 forums: How can I record video on a Pinephone?. Interesting thread, for more camera news check out the Sailfish OS section above.
- Cawbird on Twitter: "It's official. We're living on borrowed time. Twitter has updated its Developer Agreement to ban "creating a substitute to the Twitter Applications" (§ II.A.c) In preparation for when we're eventually unplugged: So long, and thanks for all the tweets! https://t.co/FHWTvs3YIQ""
- PINE64: "#PineTab2 software progress :)…"
Worth reading
- fossphones.com: Linux Phone News - January 17, 2023. Well done!
- mdk.fr: Black screen at boot on my PinePhone
- Nico Cartron: Trying to guess new Sailfish OS features through localisation
- Purism: What We All Want
Worth watching
- (RTP) Privacy Tech Tips: I2P On The Pinephone / Pinetab
- Linux Lounge: Pine64 January 2023 Update (Unofficial) - PineBuds FOSS Firmware, PineTab 2 Video Output & More Nice!
- qkall: Pinephone Pro Arch SXMO - Jan 2023
- Jozef Mlich: Notifications cleanup Nemo Mobile!
- Lup Yuen Lee: #LVGL on #PinePhone and #NuttX becomes more Touch-Friendly
- Lup Yuen Lee: #LVGL Music Player on #PinePhone on Apache #NuttX RTOS ... Sorry no audio yet
- Lup Yuen Lee: #LVGL on #PinePhone on Apache #NuttX RTOS ... Increased the Default Font Size from 14 to 20 🤔
- Lup Yuen Lee: #LVGL Benchmark on #PinePhone on Apache #NuttX RTOS
- Lumpology: Turning my Phone into a Linux PC (Ubuntu Touch). Impressive!
- Purism: What We All Want Oof.
Thanks
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