Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (31/2023): Phosh 0.30.0 bringing newer wlroots, rk2aw for better booting, and Plasma Desktop on the PineTab-V
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Also: New Droidian Features, pmbootstrap 2.0, another "man in armchair with cat"-video -> some more controversy, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Hardware (Non-Linux)
- Paxo - Systèmes électroniques open-source et intelligents. Laurent: DIY phone made by a teenager. The phone OS is called PAXOS_8 and seems to have been made from scratch. The 3D models, motherboard schema, and OS are open-source.
Hardware enablement
- Justin: "My KDE Plasma Image for the #PineTab V…". _Wow, that was quick!
- nia (3 letter agency): "got mainline Linux booting on a OnePlus 9 Pro…"
- justsoup: "Since my last update post on the TCL A3 I have made some good progress.…"
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/8] Initial Marvell PXA1908 support
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/2] Add WCN3988 Bluetooth support for Fairphone 4
Software
Distributions
- Droidian Linux: "New #Droidian feature🎉 Timer support added to Camera…"
- Droidian Linux: "Some progress on #Waydroid settings…"
- postmarketOS: "pmbootstrap 2.0.0 is here"
- Phoronix: Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #107 Reduced Overheads
- Allan Day: What to do with the GNOME wiki?
- Cassidy James: Stars & Thumbs
- Cassidy James :eos: :gnome:: "A challenge proposed by @jjard…" - Blaede Family
- Robert Mader: "So we'll have a neat little camera indicator in #gnome45. …"
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.30.0
- Guido Günther: #FroSCon starts tomorrow and we're having a short #phosh get together in the 📱 devroom (C117) at 16:30. Everyone interested is invited to share some #MobileLinux stories, attach names to faces and 🍾 the 0.30.0 release.https://programm.froscon.org/2023/events/2990.html
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: August Plasma 6 progress update
- Volker Krause: June/July in KDE Itinerary
- David Edmundson: New ideas using Wayland Input Methods
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 5.27.7, Bugfix Release for August
- redstrate: My work in KDE for July 2023
- Carl Schwan: Debugging the keyboard navigation in your QML application
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-08-04
Stack
Worth Noting
-loader.cpp: Fix plugin suffix for Qt6 by Herrie82 · Pull Request #1 · jmlich/sensorfw · GitHub Great cross-project collaboration!
- Etam: "After almost 2 years of daily driving my #Librem 5 …". Sad. This must be fixable, right?
- hamblingreen: "i've continued the #frameufferphone…"
- devrtz: "Is your phone also running #archlinux…" LOL, brilliant!
- r/MobileLinux: GPS navigation for Mobile Linux?
- PinePhone (Reddit): PinePhone on a power source with USB dock.
- r/PINE64official: How does mobile Linux differ from desktop Linux?
- Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: Louiss Rossman on Purism
- @dos@librem.one: After finally attempting to rescue my long broken #Librem5 devkit, I ended up with it booting into this Feb 2020 image. It already somewhat resembles the current thing, but gosh, we sure have made a lot of progress since then! 😁Excuse the white balance being all over the place, this was not shotonlibrem5 ;)#phosh #phoc #gnome #mobile #gnu #linux #mobilelinux #purism #linuxsmartphones #linuxmobile
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Is it possible to run Android Auto using Waydroid?
Worth Reading
- Nicholas Roth: The Pulseaudio-Pipewire Frankeinstein that Enables Good-Enough Sound and Camera (PinePhone Pro). Missed this when it came out, great read and quite helpful!
- LaoBlog: Pinephone review: Rhino Linux beta su LaoBlog
- megis PinePhone Development Log: Update on the Pinephone Pro U-Boot build
- megis PinePhone Development Log: My new U-Boot builds
- megis PinePhone Development Log: rk2aw released along with new U-Boot builds
- Hackaday: DisplayPort: Taming The Altmode
Shameless self-promotion
- LINMOB.net: Hello, FrOSCon 2023!. BTW, maybe if someone takes notes tomorrow anyway, can I have a glimpse? Rest assured, nothing will be published without consent.
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: New Apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q2/2023: 15 New Apps, Packaging Info and Tooling Improvements. Too many "New" in this title, I know!
Worth Listening
- postmarketOS Podcast: #33 INTERVIEW: Anjan (of Sxmo Fame). Great episode, quite entertaining!
Worth Watching
- devrtz: The year of Linux On Desktop^WMobile
- ΞЖKↃ Tech Tips: displaylink test on oneplus 6t with postmarket os. This is really cool!
- Louis Rossmann: Purism wants me to DELETE my video exposing their refund scam & delay tactic - answer is NO!. Video content: "Person loosely connected with Purism writes weird email, Video title: [see above]... That said, do watch it. BTW: I love how some commenters keep claiming 'it all was a scam right from the beginning'. Just consider the investment in software alone (yes, Purism paid for getting Free Software written), then what a complicated, different design the Librem 5 is (this really is not 'Yet Another Mediatek Android With a Custom Logo printed on'.).... It would truly be the dumbest scam ever - for the scammer, not the scammee. See also
- r/Purism: Extremely damaging
- Solar Gaming: Pinephone pro windows questions and answers.
- Retera: Why I love my Librem5 from Purism
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E375: Sailfish OS app – Situations
- Caffeine: Sailfish OS on the Samsung Galaxy SII / i9100
- Brodie Robertson: GNU Sends Cease & Desist To Libreboot Developer. Not mobile specific, but kinda fun!
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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