Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (34/2023): KDE Gear 23.08 and an update to Genode on PinePhone
Table of Contents
Aside from an update to KDE Apps, we have Documentattion for BananaUI, better Waydroid settings in Droidian, and more updates on bringing newer Gecko to Sailfish OS!
Commentary in italics.
Hardware
- Sipeed (@SipeedIO): "New Fashion Toy for #RISCV Developers, LicheeConsole4A: 7inch RISCV Portable Terminal! LM4A SOM(4xC910@1.85G, 16G+128G), 7inch 1280x800 with TP, 72-Keyboard & Redpoint, 2xUSB-A+USB-C+Wifi6+GbE! and, NGFF SSD! It is able to run 4K video and VSCode! Do you want a try? @ChrisBarnatt" | nitter This will be in store in September/October, according to a later tweet.
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #110 Nailing Down Perfomance Issues
- feborg.es: Call for Mentors and projects for Outreachy December ’23 – March ’24 cohort
- chergert: Visualizing Scheduler Details
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: tap-to-click by default
- KDE Announcements: KDE Gear ☀️ 23.08
- Volker Krause: Help with retiring Jenkins
- k3yss: GSoC'23 Final Blog Post | Summarising GSoC and future plans #6
- Haruna: Haruna 0.12.0
- redstrate: My work in KDE for August 2023
Maui Project
- @mauiproject@floss.social: A new Maui release is coming up soon, and with it, we take a step forward into the future of the project. Find out how in the upcoming blog post.
Sailfish OS
- adampigg: Just been told that "I Rock" because apparently #SailfishOS for the @PINE64 Pinephone is suitable for daily driving. Ill take that.
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 10
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 9
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 8
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 7
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 6
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Focal Fossa on RPi 3 and 4
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A Sat 2nd Sept at 19:00 UTC
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 123 call for questions
Distributions
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Phosh, GNOME Mobile: EoG replaced with Loupe
- Droidian Linux: "#Droidian 's #waydroid settings…"
- Droidian Linux: "GPS inside #Waydroid on #Droidian…"
Apps
Kernel
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Fix some issues in QCOM UFS bindings
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Add initial support for SM7125 and Xiaomi SM7125 platform
- phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Add initial support for SM7125 and Xiaomi SM7125 platform
- phone-devel: [PATCH v5 0/4] Add initial support for SM7125 and Xiaomi SM7125 platform
- Phoronix: Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes A Performance Regression - 34% Drop In A Micro-Benchmark
- Phoronix: Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade
- justsoup: "New mt6762 mainlining update! …"
Non-Linux
- Genode: Release notes for the Genode OS Framework 23.08. Better PinePhone support!
Stack
- Phoronix: libinput 1.24 Brings Changes For Apple Touchpads, Drawing Tablets
- Simon Ser: "Flatpak now supports the Wayla…"
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-08-25
- Matrix.org: Matrix v1.8 release
Worth Noting
- @linuxphoneapps: "Today, two Merge Requests (MRs) were created and merged. One informed us about a pretty cool project, that takes LinuxPhoneApps.org data and dispays it in a different way: https://dbeley.github.io/lpa-table/ If you have trouble with our search feature, this might be quite useful for you!" Check it out: https://dbeley.github.io/lpa-table/.
- Affe Null: "The #bananui toolkit for #FeaturePhones now has some documentation…"
- LaF0rge: "I just noticed that there is a…"
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: New toy: I now have a #Beepy, but something is wrong with the display:
- PinePhone (Reddit): Next Linux phone
- Phones (Librem 5),- Purism community: Librem 5 SparkLAN WiFi Modules For Sale in Europe
Worth Reading
- Adrien Plazas: One Device to Do it All
- OMG! Linux: Linux Mastodon App Tokodon Gets UI Refresh & New Features
Worth Watching
- FSiC2023: The road to fully open hardware mobile computing, Lukas Hartmann, MNT Research
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E379: Sailfish OS – Papago
- Linux Stuff: Ubuntu 23.04 - Juno Tab 2
- Linux Stuff: Manjaro Plasma Mobile - Juno Tab 2
- Beebom: This Phone Has a Different Story!
- Edison Matheus: Ubuntu touch oneplus 6t
- Tom's Hardware: The Pi Cast (8/22) Building a Tiny Cyberdeck with Mike Horne
Thanks
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
Something missing? Want to contribute?
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into the hedgedoc pad for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!