Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (39/2023): New DanctNIX images and a Nemo Mobile roundup
Table of Contents
An elefant in the room, Fairphone 5 USB Display awesomeness on mainline, and an interesting video section.
Commentary in italics.
Hardware
The Raspberry Pi 5 was introduced this week, only including this here because I am pretty sure that eventually people will be building phone-ish DIY devices with it. It's said to eventually feature suspend, making the DIY RPi Phone thing more viable than ever.
- Liliputing: Raspberry Pi 5 offers 2X the performance, 2X the RAM, and a 1.7X price hike (starts at $60)
- Phoronix: Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O
- Phoronix: Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
Software
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] dts: qcom: enable flash LED on OnePlus 6 and PocoPhone F1
- phone-devel: [PATCH v5 0/2] leds: Add a driver for KTD202x
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/7] Input: synaptics-rmi4: add quirks for third party touchscreen controllers
Distributions
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: deviceinfo moved from /etc to /usr/share/deviceinfo
- Pine64-Arch: Arch Linux ARM - 2023-09-25
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #115 Modern Monitoring
- tchx84: Flatseal 2.1.0
- Marcus Lundblad: Maps and GNOME 45
- Tobias Bernard: GNOME 45 Release Party & Hackfest
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: time for the new features
- Volker Krause: August/September in KDE Itinerary
- redstrate: My work in KDE for September 2023
- Nate Graham: A bit on sponsorship and money
- Carl Schwan: Matrix Community Summit and KDE Promo Sprint in Berlin
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.0 Ends September With Many New Features & Enhancements
Sailfish OS
- adampigg: My #SailfishOS ports for the following devices are now updated to 4.5.0.24:Fxtec Pro1 and Pro1x, Volla, Volla X and Volla 22
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 46
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 45
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 44
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 43
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 42
Ubuntu Touch
- Unofficial Ubuntu Touch for PinePhone (Pro): v0.10
- UBports - Mastodon: The second video of the #UbuntuTouch #App #Development series is already live on our youtube page:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zLynpdxmn4
Nemo Mobile
- Jozef Mlich: Nemomobile in September 2023
Stack
- Phoronix: wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support
- Phoronix: VP8/VP9's libvpx 1.13.1 Released Due To A High Severity Vulnerability
- Phoronix: Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-09-29
Worth Noting
- Plasma Mobile :kde:: "In case anyone wants to help, here is a list of Plasma Mobile apps that still need to be port to Qt6:…"
- Luca Weiss: "A sign of DisplayPort over USB-C (external display) working with the #mainline kernel on the recently launched #Fairphone 5!…"
- patrixl: "hello little guy! Thanks for calmly posing and letting me move my #librem5 within just a few cm!…". Nice photo!
- GeopJr: "#Tuba v0.5.0 is now available,…"
- Oliver Smith: "No matter how good AI image ge…"
- Pascal Garber: "🚀 Check out PaperPlane, a slee…"
- Guido Günther: I had already disabled automatic HighContrast in #phosh but the last days were so ☀️ that I flipped it on again.Thankfully this doesn't need any
gsettings set sm.puri.phosh automatic-high-contrast trueanymore but can be done conveniently in the mobile-setting's sensor panel added by @devrtz in 0.29.0. - PINE64official (Reddit): Would these modifications make the PinePhone Pro more usable?
- Purism community: Is it planned the full transition to PipeWire (and dropping PulseAudio)? And when?
- Purism community: Toolbar less user friendly after latest FF update
- Purism community: New debian package prepuse
- Purism community: Would a USB NFC reader work with Waydroid on the L5?
- Lemmy - linuxphones: How to disable Pinephone notification LED on PostmarketOS?
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Dual booting Droidian and AOSP Vanilla ROM on spes
- Phoronix: Canonical's Snap Store Hit By Malicious Apps
Worth Reading
- axionfield: Automatically reboot after 3 bad auth, Gemini native.
- canute: Dual Boot Linux and Android on spes. spes means Redmi Note 11.
- bilelmoussaoui: The journey of an open source contributor
- anarc.at: How big is Debian?
- Purism: Librem 11 Memory Adventures
Worth Listening
- postmarketOS Podcast: #34 Events, Fairphone 5, FF UA, SDM845 CI & Camera, MSM8953, Initramfs. Great episode!
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 124
- Lup Yuen Lee: Apache NuttX RTOS for PINE64 PinePhone
- Lup Yuen Lee: PinePhone Touchscreen on NuttX: Handling MIPI DSI, Display Engine and I2C Touch Input
- Flax: Pinephone video recording Not too bad!
- SecTipsPro: From Pocket to Pentest: Installing Kali Linux on PinePhone Pro #kali #mobilesecurity #pinephone
- Anino ni Kugi: #NoTapJustSwipeChallenge | Ubuntu Touch
- Tong Zou: Intex Aquafish (Sailfish OS) unboxing + overview
- Tong Zou: Nokia N810 (Maemo), Nokia E7 (Symbian^3), Nokia N9 (MeeGo), Intex Aquafish (Sailfish) comparison
- Tong Zou: ZTE Open C (Firefox OS) vs Samsung Z1 (Tizen OS) comparison + overview
- Laurent Pinchart: Implementing ISP algorithms in libcamera, more info.
- Greg KH: Demystifying the Linux kernel security process, more info.
- Debconf23: The Year of Linux on Desktop^WMobile
- Collabora: Mobian: to stable... and beyond! | FOSDEM 2023. In case you missed it in February.
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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