Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (30/2025): Video Time
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Not much to read, so let's have some videos, e.g. from DebConf 25. Also, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, NewPipe for SailfishOS progress, and other fun improvements! Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E479: SFOS App "Stopmotion"
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 170. Nice and short!
- GT 220: Fairphone 5 dual boot Android 14 + PostmarketOS - Standalone switching OS
- HaPlay Computer: Slackware Taste With PostmarketOS v25.06 Headless Build | HaPlay GO Zero 3
DebConf25 highlights
- Arnaud Ferraris: Twisting Debian for running on Mobile Devices - DebConf25 HQ recording AV1 recording
- Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras: Debian on mobile devices BoF - DebConf25 AV1 recording LQ recording
- Mike Gabriel: Lomiri in Debian - Convergence for all Device Form Factors - DebConf25 AV1 recording LQ recording
- Christopher Obbard: Supporting WoA (Windows-on-Arm) Laptops in Debian - DebConf25 AV1 recording LQ recording
GUADEC 2025 highlights
... next week, hopefully. There's a lack of obvious "relevant for mobile" talks ;-)
Worth Noting
- pi_crew: Finally managed to forward GPS position into #WayDroid and can now use @CoMaps on #postmarketOS ☺️Thanks to the script geobridge by @papiris
- dos: "choo choo 🚄 #shotonlibrem5". Impressive video (for a Librem 5 at least)!
- ebassi: Congrats to @alice for winning the GNOME Pants! Absolutely well deserved for her work on the platform and libadwaita#gnome #guadec2025
- craftyguy: "Had some fun today getting systemd-sysupdate wired up for updating A/B slots in an immutable #postmarketOS install 🥳I tried to capture a demo of it working, with
mkosi vmto boot the image:https://asciinema.org/a/vWVuZQQVC9kXGkxGpGCn8rNwpThe updates are currently local, the final design will have updates fetched over https and verified.PS: This is my first asciinema thing and I'm not sure if I'm holding it correctly... so if anyone has tips on how to make this suck less in the future... 😉" - purism: PureOS Crimson Milestone Nears CompletionThe PureOS team has made major progress toward delivering ready-to-flash Crimson images for the Librem 5.May’s work focused on resolving core bootstrapping issues that prevented automatic image builds—particularly for arm64 builds from amd64 hosts.Learn more at Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-may-2025/
- openstreetmap: OpenStreetMap.org now has a vector tiles layer. 😍read more: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/07/22/vector-tiles-are-deployed-on-openstreetmap-org/#OpenStreetMap #OSM #maps #gischat
Conferences
- devrtz: 📢 Calling for submissions to the FOSS on Mobile devroom at #FrOSCon 2025 in slightly under a month! 📢You can find the description and instructions below in english and german.Looking forward to seeing you!#LinuxMobile #FrOSCon2025 "…We are open the whole 2 days (except when @cas and @z3ntu are giving their talks in the #mobile track.Note, that we have not yet published a schedule, so expect updates as we receive and confirm submissions to our CfP.". Still pondering whether I should submit a talk, but ... no good idea yet.
- FrOSCon: Digital Independence? @z3ntu talks about it at FrOSCon 2025.https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2025/talk/1fa03f1e-5287-4903-9b86-5420b852c2b8/#froscon2025 #opensource #digitalindependence
- z3ntu: Anybody want some stickers?#postmarketOS #FrOSCon
- craftyguy: "@anjan and I will be running a #postmarketOS table in a few days at #fossy2025 in Portland, OR.Come on by if you wanna chat about running real Linux on phones, any of the stuff we're working on these days, or just wanna say hi 😁#FOSSY #pdx"
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #209 GUADEC 2025
- Hari Rana: GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days
- Philip Withnall: A brief parental controls update
- Sjoerd Stendahl: A Brief History of Graphs; My Journey Into Application Development
- Christian Hergert: The Foundry of Builder
Phosh
- phosh: Thanks to @arunmani the app chooser #portal is now adaptive too (and in #rustlang):#phosh #LinuxMobile
- phosh: Thanks to the work of @gauthamx one can now configure the shortcuts bar of #stevia's terminal layout in mobile settings:#phosh #LinuxMobile
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Printer Ink Level Monitoring
- Akademy: Akademy 2026 Call for Hosts
- zamundaaa: Display Next Hackfest 2025
Sxmo
Sailfish OS
- piggz: First boot of #SailfishOS on the @furilabs FLX1
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 119
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 118
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 117
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 116
- flypig's NewPipe log: Day 115
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Lomiri in Debian
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 170 Saturday 26th July 19:00 UTC
- fredldotme: Here we have the Lomiri UI Toolkit Gallery running in a Snap. Special feat: It's built on Qt6.Great job to the team and if this goes on, we should soon be able to see first apps being ported to Qt6. If you want to see more
Distributions
- postmarketOS: "Excited to announce @sajattack is our newest Trusted Contributor!He is running postmarketOS on as many devices as he can, making new ports (e.g. for the BlackBerry KEY2 / KEY2 LE (!!), in the picture) and improving existing ports (e.g. LG G7) in the process. Furthermore he is active on Matrix, asking questions and helping out others.📜 TC page:https://postmarketos.org/trusted-contributors/#paul-sajna-sajattack"
- postmarketOS: "We are ready to merge /usr in postmarketOS! It is done for new installations with pmbootstrap master automatically now, and it will be done automatically for existing edge installations in one month.If you know what you are doing and have an existing edge install, you can already do the /usr merge for your edge install and help us find edge cases (pun intended) where it potentially doesn't work as expected:https://postmarketos.org/edge/2025/07/27/usr-merge-testing/Thanks to @pabloyoyoista, @craftyguy, @ariadne, @justsoup, @fossdd, @weirdtreething, @Operachi and everyone else who has contributed to making this possible!"
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Call for testing: merged /usr migration
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Anbernic RG35XX SP (anbernic-rg35xx-sp)
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: How to run AppImage on PMOS?
- Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: build: Couple crypt_root option to crypt_password (and README updates)
- Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: Draft: devices: librem5: bootloader stop installing u-boot
Apps
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Tempo
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Constrict
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Pingveno
- pavel: What are the best games for #mobilelinux?
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH] soc: qcom: ubwc: Add missing UBWC config for SM7225
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/3] Enable USB audio offloading on Fairphone 4 smartphone
Stack
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-07-25
- Matrix.org: How we discovered, and recovered from, Postgres corruption on the matrix.org homeserver
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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