LINux on MOBile

Blog posts about the progress of Nemo Mobile and Manjaro ARM and this and that. ;-)

Commentary in italics.

Software progress

GNOME ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #55 Wallpapers & Screenshots. Nice progress!
• Rust in Peace: Aarch64 for GNOME Nightly apps. Easier app testing, yay!
• Federico's Blog: Paying technical debt in our accessibility infrastructure - Transcript from my GUADEC talk.
• Philip Withnall: Mini-GUADEC 2022 Berlin: retrospective.

Releases

• Phoc 0.21 has been released.

Plasma/Maui ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Easier Samba sharing setup.
• KDE Community: KDE Plasma 5.25.4, Bugfix Release for August.

Nemo Mobile

• Nemo Mobile: Nemomobile in July 2022. Nice progress!

Distributions

• Manjaro Blog: July 2022 in Manjaro ARM. Nice update, Dan!

Worth noting

• Chris Vogel: "I just made two exciting discoveries using my #Li…" - Librem Social
• /u/QushAes: Am I the only one disappointed by the software situation of the Pinephone after almost 2 years of it being out? : PinePhoneOfficial. I am so tired of reading complainy posts, but there are some good replies in that thread.
• amosbatto on Purism forums: Will Linux phones get decent processors in the future?.
• They want your Vote for an official case for the L5 - Librem / Phones (Librem 5) - Purism community.

Worth reading

Automated testing

• Martijn Braam: Automated Phone Testing pt.1. Scale!

PinePhone Keyboard Findings

• megi's PinePhone Development Log: Pinephone keyboard bugs and new findings.

Maemo Leste

• Camden Bruce: Maemo Leste might be right for your PinePhone. Nice post about a great project!

First steps

• Buck Ryan: Getting started with the PinePhone Pro.

Quicker delivery

• Purism: Librem 5 USA At Shipping Parity: New Orders Ship Within 10 Business Days.

Worth listening

• postmarketOS podcast: #21 INTERVIEW: Sebastian Krzyszkowiak (of Phosh, Librem 5 Fame). I bet this one is a great one!
• GLN025 - Android Launcher, Faster Faster Faster, Linux Smartphones, Kopano. You'll need to understand German to enjoy listening to this.

Worth watching

Maemo Leste

• Camden Bruce: Maemo Leste demo on the PinePhone.

Installing postmarketOS

• Vu Android: [Galaxy A72] Install postmarketOS via TWRP | Boot linux on Galaxy A72 | Without losing your data.

Tablets

• Explaining Computers: Linux for an x86 Tablet.

Conference Talks about Ubuntu Touch

• MCH2022: 2022 - UBports: Imagine a phone that does everything you expect and nothing you don't..

Something missing?

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