Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (33/2024): Phosh 0.41.0 and Awesome Conferences
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What a week, fellow captains! We have a UBports Q&A, a Sailfish OS Roundup, a new Phosh release 0.41.0 and a conference that was a blast + more!
Commentary in italics - this one is shorter than I would have liked it to be due to a non-functional power outlet on the train ride home from FrOSCon!
Worth Reading
Worth Listening
- postmarketOS Podcast: #42 INTERVIEW: verdre (of GNOME Shell on Mobile Fame)
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 147
- AgileDevArt: Fastest Install of Alpine Linux with GNOME (PostmarketOS 2024)
- Poczciwy: Samsung s3 (GT-I9300) with PostmarketOS
- Daniel Kulesz: Making Open Source education an integral part of the curriculum in Computer Science programs - media.ccc.de
- Luca Weiss: eSIM management on Qualcomm phones - media.ccc.de
- Luca Weiss: FOSDEM 2024 - Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones
Worth Noting
- Purism community: Better script to log and analyse L5 heat and activity
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Ubuntu touch on the fairphone 4
- #LinuxMobile: Important for me: the front camera should already work and for the back one there are WIP patches that work, meaning this device will probably be the first Android device with both cameras being supported (and most other thing as well!).Sure, we're still very far away from what even a super outdated Android can offer. I for one am super eager and motivated to see if we can make #linuxmobile (upstream!) a somewhat reasonably alternative though - and make #postmarketos live up to its name :)
- #LinuxMobile: @jwildeboer I'm waiting for the first big vendor to announce official upstream #linuxmobile support - that would be news :)
- caleb 🌈: "Pixel 3 up and running (again …"
- #LinuxMobile: I have ported lk2nd to Fx0 so that I can get a better fastboot than the OEM one. #linuxmobile #postmarketOS #pmos_lg_madai
FrOSCon
- #MobileLinux: Caleb is speaking about UEFI boot on #snapdragon devices at #froscon #MobileLinux 🥳
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: I did a talk at #FrOSCon #LinuxMobile #devroom today, about those Weekly Updates I have been doing for a while.(There's no official recording, and I forgot to do audio recoding, so here are the slides https://linmob.net/media/20240817-four-years.pdf, and unfortunately just those)
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: #MobileLinux Devroom @ #FrOSCon: Just heard a talk about https://github.com/waitaha/waitaha a " Recovery environment for Android devices with a close-to-mainline kernel"
- Guido Günther: Evangelos talking in the FOSS on Mobile Devroom at #FrOSCon 2024 about debugging the #phosh / #gnome stack. #LinuxMobile #ShotOnLibrem5
- #phosh: There will be #phosh stickers and t-shirts at #FrOSCon. Join us in the mobile dev room (C117).. I attended FrOSCon and all I bought was an excellent T-Shirt! Also, briefly trying Phosh on my NixOS Asahi laptop made me realize I missed the bits for the graphics driver in my configuration.nix - good I triied that!
- #LinuxMobile: @devrtz Here's the #LinuxMobile dev room schedule for Saturday https://programm.froscon.org/2024/schedule/2.html#1 and Sunday: https://programm.froscon.org/2024/schedule/2.html#1 happening in Room C117 . There's also a talk about eSIM on the main track by @z3ntu in HS4 on Sunday.
- Guido Günther: "Yesterday I had the chance to give a short #phosh…"
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #161 End-to-End Tests
- GTK blog: The colors of GTK
- Phoronix: GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.41.0
- Guido Günther: I've tagged version 0.0.2 of #libcmatrix - a #matrix client library.This release focuses on making Matrix support in #chatty more robust, simplifying some APIs and improving the documentation (which is now automatically generated at https://agx.github.io/libcmatrix/)See https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmatrix/-/releases/v0.0.2 for the list of changes and contributors.
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: System Settings modernization and Wayland color management
- Plasma Mobile: Plasma Dialer 24.08 is out
- Volker Krause: Localizing spin box prefixes/suffixes
- KDAB: Mastering Cross-platform Desktop Apps
Sxmo
- #sxmo: @csessh Also nice about #calcurse is that you can output upcoming events in text format. I use this to output upcoming events on my #postmarketos #sxmo #linuxphone.
- #sxmo: #sxmo #pinephone #postmarketosI have successfully configured mms but for some reason am unable to open attachments. Selecting view attachments and then selecting an attachment just does nothing
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 15th August 2024 - Roundups
- adampigg: #SailfishOS on the @PINE64 #Pineohone and Pro now have the hot off the press Mesa 24.2.zypper refzypper dup
- adampigg: Good review of #sailfisos on the #pinephone:5 days on.didn't restart ofono. icon still greyed.as promised I kept an eye on USB disconnects.in the last 2 days I disabled wifi and noticed this:with wifi enabled wakups happen every minute or so and only this way, always and only on resume, there were occasionally USB disconnect events.with wifi off wakups happen every exact half an hour and no USB disconnect happened in 2 days.....
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 322
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 321
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 320
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 319
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 318
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 317
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 316
- #sailfishOS: I'm a bit annoyed with #SailfishOS right now. Can't use phone unless regular pulseaudio -k to restart audio, Camera often takes 10 (!) seconds to maybe save a picture. You take a video, then it's sometimes not saved (year-long existing bug), full reboot required to get any video playback working again (1fps no sound otherwise), permissons of android files TOTALLY broken, etc etc etc...Fresh flash of SFOS 4.6 on Sony Xperia 10iii, no fancy stuff (yes, everything worked on Android).
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Volla Phone Quintus
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 147 Call for Questions
- fredldotme: Put some thought into Valve Anti Cheat and having good professional eSports gaming levels of Linux support for more games.We should do it.
- #UbuntuTouch: How to purchase an "Ubuntu Touch" bootable On-the-Go flash for your phone? #liveusb #ubuntutouch #flash #phone #smartphonehttps://askubuntu.com/q/1523660/612
- Phoronix: Canonical Makes More Snap Improvements Ahead Of Ubuntu 24.10
Distributions
- FuriLabs: Update 13.0.2
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: #42 INTERVIEW: verdre (of GNOME Shell on Mobile Fame)
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: (Slightly off-topic) How to repair a device for pmOS
- postmarketOS Blog: Paying for development from the donations for the first time!
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Paying for development from the donations for the first time!
- postmarketOS Blog: Short financial update and lookahead
- Lemmy - linuxphones: postmarketOS: Short financial update and lookahead
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Short financial update and lookahead
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): Come visit us at the FOSS on Mobile stand at #froscon! We got stickers, phones with lots of distros and UIs to try out! #mobian #postmarketos #sailfishos #maemoleste #ubports
Apps
- Purism forums: List of Apps that fit and function well: Games … good point:
- Purism forums: List of Apps that fit and function well: PokeMMO, but with some adjustments to the default settings.
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Picker
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Unfettered Keyboard
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Keychain
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Fidei
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: EV
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Phosh OSK
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Echo
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Archives
Kernel
- Phoronix: New Linux Kernel Patches Better Prepare For sched_ext
- Phoronix: Preemption Support Being Tackled For Adreno 700 Series With Linux MSM DRM Driver
- Phoronix: Rockchip Driver Will Be Able To Drive 4K @ 60Hz HDMI Displays With Linux 6.12. This is relevant for RK3399 and RK3568 (and ... I guess, 3566, too.
Stack
- Phoronix: Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18
- Phoronix: Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache
- Phoronix: Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-08-16
- Matrix.org: Protecting the projects at the heart of the Matrix ecosystem
Thanks
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
Also, at this point, special thanks to everybody who sat through my rambly talks this weekend at FrOSCon... It was awesome to meet you all (again or for the first time)!
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