Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (37/2024): libadwaita 1.6 and doas instead of sudo
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This week, even nicer widgets for GNOME apps have been released, postmarketOS ruin you muscle memory switch to doas and release another excellent podcast episode, Ubuntu Touch has another Community Q&A, a new instance of Sailfish Community News, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Purism: A Secure Foundry for Government Mobile Computing Needs
- Purism: PureOS Crimson Development Report: August 2024
- FuriLabs: Update 13.0.3
- r/linux: Furilabs FLX1
Worth Listening
- postmarketOS Podcast: #43 FrOSCon 2024 Special
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: #43 FrOSCon 2024 Special
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 149
- sn0ren: Handheld Linux Cyberdeck / clockwork uConsole
- Husen Daudi: "Compare and contrast Android, iOS, and UBtouch, each with its unique features and benefits"
- TWiT Tech Podcast Network: One of the Best Linux Phones Yet?. A Peanut Gallery discussion about the FuriLabs FLX1.
Worth Noting
- jmlich: "I just found out that there will be a SailfishOS hackathon—#Sailathon24—at the Školící centrum Silicon Hill in Strahov, Prague, from September 27 to 30. Hopefully, I can join with #Amazfish, #PinePhone 📱, maybe #NemoMobile, or #AsteroidOS. Let me know if you plan to travel there.https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/september-27-30-sailathon-24-in-prague/19912"
- kde: "Plasma 6.2 Beta has been released... Beta testers assemble 🦸♀️!Please grab it, test it, submit bug reports. Final release will be on the 8th of October.https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.90/@kde@lemmy.kde.social"
- nlnet: "You can voice your opinion about the EU's Digital Europe program [1]. The @fsfe is calling upon everyone to fill out the official EU survey to stress the importance of Free Software.The 6 year €7,9 billion program is on its halfway mark and the EU is doing a survey [2] to learn what people think of the program. The aim of the program is to "bring digital technology to businesses, citizens and public administrations."FSFE argues that those digital technologies should adhere to the four freedoms. They wrote an how-to & example answers if you want inspiration https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240911-02.html So far there have been 97 responses, so even if we get 5 or 10 surveys in arguing for a Free/Libre/Open digital Europe, it'll be a nice percentage of the total.Note 1: this is an official EU survey and you'll need to login to their portal. The results will be published but you can opt to publish anonymously.Note 2. This program is not the Horizon program which funds the Next Generation Internet initiative. Horizon is the EU's R&D program, Digital Europe is entirely dedicated to funding digital technologies.[1] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/activities/digital-programme[2] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13880-Digital-Europe-programme-interim-evaluation/public-consultation_en #foss #digitalcommons"
- nullr0ute: With the Sept 9th release of linux-firmware we should have all the bits upstream for rtl8723cs wireless and bluetooth so they work out of the box with kernel v6.10+. This will allow the original #pine64 #pinephone #pinephone #pinetab to just work with WiFi/BT!
- praveen: "#debphoshfund priority features poll is closing in a week.You need to create an account and request to join this group to participate (it is a self hosted instance of loomio, which is #FreeSoftware under AGPLv3). This is part of an ongoing effort to prioritize missing features on #Debian on mobile devices like Purism Librem 5, Pine Phone, FLX1 or some android devices with Debian based ROMs.#mobian #debian #maps #osmhttps://codema.in/d/lvQjiUo6/ideal-maps-navigation-app-features"
- beacondb: "BeaconDB is now well over 5 million networks, at 5.5M!! The community has been collecting data at an incredible speed and is now submitting ~100k new networks per day. 😎 @pinguin has built a website you can use to see how BeaconDB has grown over the past few months. Check it out: https://beacondb.derpingu.in/"
- mntmn: Introducing MNT Reform Next https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2024-09-09-introducing-mnt-reform-next.html
- pan: "Oh wow, this is great https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer#linux #mobilelinux #postmarketos "
- Purism community: Correcting blurry Flatpak apps
- #LinuxMobile: My #OnePlus6t is slowly losing battery capacity that i do not get a workday of battery. Thinking of using it as my development device for #LinuxMobile. Which phone would have mainline support earlier?Thinking about #Fairphone 5, #SHIFT6mq. Any phone i am mising. Sadly camera is a must-have for me, so i guess i need to stay on Android for some time?#MobileLinux
- @luigi311: The downside of having a phone with good standby battery is it takes a while to collect information on how good it is without resorting to extrapolation.
More Software News
Kernel
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #165 Signing Documents
- alicem: Libadwaita 1.6 Very nice!
- Tamnjong Larry Tabeh: GNOME usability test for media applications
Phosh
- agx: Today was "Bundesweiter Warntag" in Germany so a good point in time to test #ModemManager's & #phosh's upcoming #cellbroadcast support 🚨 . The sounds emitted by #feedbackd are only stubs (and you don' t hear the haptic in the video but I promise it's there 😃).There's three messages because the CBMs are sent out on three different channels.Thanks @NGIZero for supporting my work on this! #LinuxMobile. Awesome!
- agx: Copy / paste can be fiddly on mobile. I opened an MR today to make the paste part a bit easier in phosh-osk-stub (another old branch finally cleaned up into a (hopefully) mergeable state):#phosh #gtk #LinuxMobile
- agx: And here's what we could do for copy. Put that into an extra MR for now so we can check whether it's predictive enough for the user what is being copied (while the paste bits from above can already land for 0.42).Note that this is orthogonal to what an app/UI toolkit offers for copy/paste (via context menus or drag handles) already.#phosh
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in Plasma: 6.2 beta release!
- Nate Graham: Akademy 2024: broadening, professionalizing, and being awesome
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.6.0
- KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 24.08.1
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.1.5, Bugfix Release for September
- MauiKit blog: Maui Release Briefing #6
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities
Akademy
- Akademy blog: Akademy 2024 - The Akademy of Many Changes
- Volker Krause: Akademy 2024
- Carl Schwan: Qt Contributor Summit and Akademy
- anditosan: After Akademy 2024
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 12th September 2024 - Flashing Line
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 339
- me: Just finished my order of the pre-ordered #Jolla C2 🎉 Will happily test out the 4G for the rest of you here in Finland ;)
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 148
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 149 Saturday 14th Sept 19:00 UTC
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Mimi Browser alpha release
- UBports - Development - Issues: Ship package to noble
- UBports - Development - Issues: In random situations, sync-monitor fails to sync silently
- fredldotme: An alpha-grade release of Mimi Browser, the WebKit-based browser for Ubuntu Touch, is now available on the Open Store!Expected not to be on feature parity with Morph for now but it'll get there.https://open-store.io/app/mimibrowser.fredldotme
Distributions
- postmarketOS: "The migration to our selfhosted gitlab instance will be delayed by a month:* The much better migration method from gitlab.com "direct transfer" is currently not available.* We are in contact with (very friendly!) gitlab.com support and they can hopefully enable it for us.* If it is still not enabled in a month, we will use the "export and import" method instead, which means comments/issues/MRs are not associated with original users anymore.More info: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos/-/issues/77"
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Flatpak broken with curl 8.10.0-r1
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: New postmarketOS installations now by default use doas instead of sudo
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: extra-repos/systemd/systemd-services: add kded
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Draft: Add systemd to pmOS edge
- Phoronix: Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs
- danctnix: eg25-manager 0.5.0 in testing repo. Please test it out and let us know if you have any issues. 🙂
Apps
- schmiddionmobile: "Pipeline version 2.0.0 is now out on Flathub and the AUR! This release is a rewrite of basically the entire application in order to be easier to maintain, allow for more features (both in the future and in this version) and improve the user experience a lot. In particular, this release adds the ability to search for videos and channels and contains a built-in video player (Clapper: https://github.com/Rafostar/clapper)."
- devrtz: "I released #GNOME #Calls 47.0 yesterday 🚀 \o/This is the first release running #gtk4 and #libadwaita Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed code, translations and bug reports!Find the release notes at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/releases/v47.0And of course, it has already been uploaded to :debian: 🎉#LinuxMobile #phosh #Debian #Mobian #Librem5"
- servo: "Do you know what it takes to turn a web engine into a browser?Learn how we’re becoming browser-ready, including support for multiple webviews and multiple windows, through the lens of Verso, a new experimental browser based on Servo!https://servo.org/blog/2024/09/11/building-browser/"
- piggz: "I recently started using #navidrome to manage my music, so naturally, I had to write my own #subsonic compatible client. Its using @kde Kirigami2 so will take a little effort to get running on #SailfishOS. https://github.com/piggz/supersonik"
- A translation layer that allows running Android apps on a Linux system
Stack
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-09-13
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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