LINux on MOBile

Also: Megapixels sees a release and work on Librem 5 support, some Droidian showcases, and more!

Commentary in italics.

Hardware

• ClockworkPi uConsole is now shipping (modular portable computer & game console) - Liliputing

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #106 GUADEC 2023
• GNOME Shell & Mutter: GNOME Shell styling changes: A PSA for theme authors

Plasma Ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Sounds like Plasma 6
• Nate Graham: What we plan to remove in Plasma 6
• dot.kde.org: Akademy 2023 - How it Happened

Ubuntu Touch

• UBports News: Ubuntu Touch OTA-2 Focal Release
  • Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch OTA-2 Focal
  • Liliputing: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-2 brings support for more smartphones
• UBports News: Ubuntu Touch OTA-2 for FOCAL Call for Testing
  • Ubuntu Touch Forums News: 20.04 OTA-2 Call for Testing
• Unofficial Ubuntu Touch for PinePhone (Pro): v0.8.1. Make sure to read the release notes!
• Codemaster Freders (@fredldotme): "After hacking on a *bunch* of things I finally got Wireless Display working on the JingPad, and I even made the Lomiri desktop multi-monitor capable specifically for tablets. Did someone just say "iPad killer for work tasks"?"

Nemo Mobile

• Nemo Mobile UX team: Nemomobile in July 2023. Great round-up!
• neochapay (@neochapay): "Hello first start #nemomobile on #Qt6 We have done a great job of porting MER middleware to Qt6. On next week we start create weekly builds images of nemo with Qt6 for #pine64 #pinephone"

Distributions

• Droidian Linux: "Droidian Linux with Phosh running on Pixel 3A showcasing working DT2W (Double Tap to Wake) and Fingerprint sensor!". Impressive!
• Droidian Linux: "Samsung S9 just received full disk encryption…"
• Droidian Linux: "Mainline phones might not have proper battery management but #Droidian does!…". Is it really necessary to say bad things about each other in such a tiny niche?

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-07-28
• Matrix.org: Postponing the Libera.Chat deportalling

Kernel

• phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/9] Initial Marvell PXA1908 support

Worth Noting

• Martijn Braam: "GPU accelerated preview on the #librem5 with #megapixels :D…". This week also saw the release of megapixels 1.7.0, but that contains other cool features, not this yet.
• 𖤐 MadameMalady 𖤐: "A new update to My Waydroid Manager…"
• justsoup: "As promised, here is a photo of the TCL A3 (bangkok_tf) booting postmarketOS. 🎉 …"
• Wayland.social: "Welcome to Wayland.social: the successor to X.com…"
• Lemmy - linuxphones: Anyone using Lemmy on a GNU/Linux phone?
• r/MobileLinux: Donation with best bang for the buck
• PinePhone (Reddit): Install 9999 packages on postmarketOS
• PinePhone (Reddit): Modem firmware 0.7.4 and Gnome Firmware?
• PINE64official (Reddit): Pinetab-V arrived today.
• Lemmy - postmarketOS: Support for RISC-V PineTab 2?
• Sebastian Krzyszkowiak: "This month 15 years have passed since I've received my Openmoko Neo FreeRunner, which started my personal adventure with mobile GNU/Linux 😊 …"

Worth Reading

• inki: so, i wanted to write that i guess today we are l… -. About the Droid 4 running Maemo Leste.
• pesader: 1st Contribution Hackathon, by LKCAMP
• hughsie: Introducing Passim
• Tobias Bernard: Rethinking Window Management
  • Phoronix: GNOME Developers Working To Rethink Their Window Management Approach
• Laoblog: Pinephone short review: Manjaro beta 34
• Carl Schwan: Mastodon and Matrix link in your AppStream file
• Drew DeVault: Alpine Linux does not make the news
• Neil Brown: Snikket, a self-contained XMPP distribution
• Purism: Purism’s Guide to Security- Internet & Tech Decentralization

Worth Watching

• RTP Tech Tips: Pinetab2 Ubuntu Touch Can Install Linux Apps
• Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E375: Sailfish OS app – Situations
• Lup Yuen Lee: What’s inside a Smartphone? Exploring the internals with Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System
• Louis Rossmann: Purism ghosts Librem 5 customer, lies about refund policy - AVOID! I really hope Purism stop this behaviour.
  • Purism (Reddit): Well, Purism seems to have some explaining to do
• Baonks 81: Dualboot Android and postmarketOS community pre-built image on Micro SDcard
• Jhony Kernel: Install maemo leste chimaera di Nokia N900

Thanks

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