Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (32/2023): Summer: FrOSCon slides and not much more

Also: A soon happening PINE64 community meetup, a new GloDroid release for the OG PinePhone, an upcoming talk on mobile NixOS and more!

This one is a day early once again. As an added bonus, the next one may be delayed to Monday - but that's not set in stone, yet.

Commentary in italics.

Software

Apps

LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Syncthing GTK

Kernel

phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/8] Initial Marvell PXA1908 support
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH] clk: qcom: gcc-sm6350: Fix gcc_sdcc2_apps_clk_src

Stack

Phoronix: AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-08-11

Worth Noting

Andrew Todd: "Emacs 29.1 can be built in the PGTK or "pure GTK" configuration -- which doesn't sound that interesting until you realize…" Wayland native!
Lup Yuen Lee 李立源: "A tribute to Bram Moolenaar, the maestro behind Vim…"
Wolfgang Maier: "if there is at least some interest in making TB more usable on #LinuxMobile, then a few not too complicated steps would be…"
[Jarno: "This is what Linux on mobile needs to solve. Especially the "if you're lucky" part.…]"(https://mastonederland.nl/@jarno/110842261244434652
@matthewcroughan: "Can your phone do this? #nixos #mobilenixos". Looking forward to a recoding of the Talk at CCCamp!
Alice: "libadwaita update, long Last …"
Martín Abente Lahaye: "There's still a lot of work to…" - Mastodon GTK4/libadwaita for Portfolio!
Drew Naylor: "Got tired of tiles not being moveable or even able to have four small ones next to each other in a square and I decided to start integrating TilesGrid.…" - Mastodon. Retiled is a nice project!
Chris: "I'm really excited for the next release of geoclue: I have worked with the devs to make it functional with #mobilelinux: …". Great work, Chris!
r/MobileLinux: Plasma Mobile alongside Android
PINE64official (Reddit): Pine64 NixOs
PINE64official (Reddit): Daily driver: Which PP should I get?
PINE64official (Reddit): External storage
Purism community: My quest to eliminate passwords
Purism community: Librem 5 application support
Purism community: Linux Mobile debugging for everyone
Lemmy - postmarketOS: [Issue] No space left after fresh install
Lemmy - linuxphones: An app that notifies about people birthdays
Lemmy - linuxphones: Finished Portland missions in GTA 3
Lemmy - linuxphones: What phone would you recommend that's well supported for battery life?
Phoronix: Intel DOWNFALL: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 With Big Performance Implications. Assuming you use desktop Linux, too, you should not miss this and the next one.
Phoronix: AMD "INCEPTION" CPU Vulnerability Disclosed

Worth Reading

lowendlibre: From Zero to Kernel
amosbbatto: Installing PureOS in the Purism Librem 5 and Mobian in the PinePhone
- Purism community: How to install PureOS on the Librem 5
Lecture: Logs and backtraces: How to provide meaningful problem reports | Sunday | Schedule FrOSCon 2023 The talk was not recorded, but make sure to read the slides.
Lecture: Supervising student projects in the FOSS Mobile space | Sunday | Schedule FrOSCon 2023. Dito!
Lightning talk: Lightning Talks II | Sunday | Schedule FrOSCon 2023 The slides to the FOSS on Feature Phones talk are in German, but should be easily translatable.
PINE64: Quick update: What’s going on? Meetup next weekend!
Terrence Eden: Should your phone be a webserver?
Tom Nardy for Hackaday: Review: Beepy, A Palm-sized Linux Hacking Playground. If it weren't for an incompetent logistics company, I could share some impressions of my own.
devrtz: "Last week parts of the #MobileLinux community got together at #FrOSCon and, dare I say, had a great time in our "FOSS on Mobile" devroom 🌈…". Nice round-up!

Worth Watching

mkiol: Speech Note 4.0 on Pine Phone
熊小白: JingPad Ubuntu Touch Linux Tablet 千元价格的Linux平板电脑
devrtz: 2023 - The year of Linux On Desktop^WMobile
- Purism community: FrOSCon 2023: The year of Linux On Desktop^WMobile
CyberPunkEdu: How to use Libertine / Desktop Apps on Ubuntu Touch - Pixel 3a - GIMP
mkiol: Speech Note 4.0 for Sailfish OS - Offline Machine Translator
mkiol: Papago 2.0 for Sailfish OS - Offline live speech translation
Prend Workbench: My Tiny Laptop Got New Postmarket OS Upgrade!. Nice micro-Laptop!
xxz saga: Ubuntu Touch xemu
Yura Beznos: Screen Recorder test on Sailfish OS / Intex Aquafish / Jolla C
FydeOS: Introducing FydeOS v17: "Nostalgic Reflections"

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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