Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (39/2026): Raider → Twix
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postmarketOS is now Nura, Sailfish OS gets RAW camera support and more, WebKitGTK improvements, and a lot more. Enjoy!
Collected on Sunday, September 27th 2026, 16:29 UTC and finished on the same day(ish). Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- postmarketOS Blog: Project rebrand: Nura
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, September 25, 2026 - RAWfish
- Drew DeVaults blog: Why is Hacker News like that?
- Neil Brown: On Free software project boards and governance
- bkovac: Converting a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
Worth Listening
Worth Watching
Note: This video section is based on select feeds and fediverse accounts and thus very likely incomplete. See the "Personal Note" in 25/2026 for reasons - please help out and add relevant videos you enjoy to the pad.
- Continuum Gaming: Sail Cycle – Health app for tracking menstrual cycles (Continuum Gaming E541)
- Knievelcat: How-To: Mainline Linux auf dein Handy porten in German
- PhoshMobi: Phosh's Screenshot Notification
Worth Noting
- Own Your Phone (European Citizens' Initiative): effort to facilitate extension of Right to Repair Directive also onto software. (If you would like to help spread, it is for example possible to translate - as it is call for action specifically for EU law, relevant languages are these - all languages matters, regardless of percentage). Contribution by an anonymous contributor.
- pi_crew: Just managed to do my first digital payment on a #postmarketOS Linux smartphone 🤩Thanks to @AlexLArmstrong on GitHub for providing hacks doing #Libcamera passthru to #Wayland. After that my @glsbank #WERO app was able to do the transaction!
- hugoposnic: BengalOS #linuxmobile distribution from @phosh now listed on https://linux-mobile.com/stack/ I've tried to start an honest list of current blockers in the #LinuxMobile ecosystem.Here's the initial page: https://linux-mobile.com/blockers/Do you see other things to list inside?Don't hesitate to contribute here: https://codeberg.org/hugoposnic/linux-mobile/src/branch/main/src/blockers.njk
- bradlinder: "The Steam Frame VR headset may be one of the most repairable on the market. The battery is held in place by adhesive, but it's fairly easy to remove. Lenses, displays, straps, and other hardware can also be removed. But the fan harder to clean than it could be. https://www.ifixit.com/News/119488/steam-frame-teardown-were-fans-except-of-the-fan #SteamFrame #iFixit"
- axx: Has anyone made a child friendly device using #postmarketos ? Ie: no login process, only shows a limited number of curated apps, ideally can only go from showing app menu to one of the apps and back.The #Phosh interface and experience looks more complicated than I was hoping for.
Hardware (enablement)
- mechasystems: The LTE upgrade add-ons are now available on the Mecha Hub!Everything we want you to know before you hit purchase:https://mecha.so/comet/lte-support The kit enables support for LTE and GNSS with components that integrate cellular antennas optimized and tuned for the Comet.
- pine64: "Whoever voted "super mario" is banned from any future polls /s. In all seriousness, the feedback has been great (thanks to all 209 of you so far), we are currently sorting through suggestions.In the meantime you can see this chart which shows the categories of suggested devices and how often they were suggested. Something that was noticed is that eink, LoRa communicators and smart home devices were some of the most common suggested devices. Out of the core suggestions, the MP3 is by far the most popular by a landslide. Community member Ralim has already been laying the groundwork for this device for a while. The current scope is for the device to be powered by the BL808 MCU with Bluetooth and WiFi for syncing and a clickpad wheel. Stay tuned for updates. If you haven't voted yet or have only just discovered this, you can vote using the link down below! We are doing a community hardware vote/suggestion poll. https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/HOh51fKfHU9EANigBtH2NnZ0LV-pjLD6qryCIx4QY8I/#pine64"
- David Heidelberg: "We had lovely hacking session and you can expect some USB-C dock-station support coming to mainline for Snapdragon 660 and 845 soon (maybe 670, if someone will do the testing).1. phase is dock-stations (no DisplayPort yet).The follow up will be providing supply to usb devices (unpowered USB hubs) and DisplayPort (only for devices with physically wired support).If you're interested in compiling and testing patches, let me know.@alexeymin @setotau@salivo"
- alexeymin: "That's USB role switching and power delivery working on sdm660-xiaomi-lavender using "passive" OTG adapter that has no own power supply. USB flash drives, USB keyboard and wireless mouse are working fine :wire:#Linuxmobile"
- Catcrafts: Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS: Phosh and fixes!
More Software News
Distributions
- postmarketOS Blog: Project rebrand: Nura. I am just glad it's not TetrOS or Evergreen/Evergiven or something like that ;-) Also, when I watched the reveal on the conference livestream, people seemed super excited.
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): The first day of the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference went really well! The talks were awesome, there were good discussions and the food was great.Let's get on with a great second day!Photos by Katja de Waart#postmarketOSandAlpineLinuxConference2026
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): Day 2 is starting!! #postmarketosandAlpineLinuxConference2026 Live stream: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/pmosc/5053-2
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): Can you daily-drive postmarketOS? by @allpurposemat"This talk will cover the positives and negatives of fully committing to running Linux in my pocket for the past year. Notably, I'll recount:following the development process of audio on the Fairphone 5, from a user's point of viewtraveling with pmOSnotes UI-hopping between GNOME, Phosh, and KDEvarious fun tidbits (and scares) throughoutI'll then finish by going over a couple small projects/fixes I dabbled in, showing how you can easily contribute anywhere in the ecosystem where you see an improvement.And, of course, most importantly... will I go back to Android? (no!!)"
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: Typing messages in Chat application broken
Apps
- chfkch: To all the folks, who have visited https://bitritter.dev so far:What do you miss at the moment?I know it is just an early stage, but i have seen many visitors leave right after the front page. That may of course be because of disabled JavaScript, but i guess that is only a fraction.Which parts can i improve in? Comment below.#BitRitter #LinuxMobile #BitWarden
- maryjane: Testing out #gnomemaps 51 new download maps for offline usage feature on #mobian with #phosh on a #oneplus6. Workflow is different from what I am used to from say: comaps. You select an area instead of tiles of a reagion. But that is not bad. Will checkout in the next few days how it behaves. But it looks cool#gnome
- r/MobileLinux: Postcast: A Postmarket OS Podcast App
- anderslund: "My beloved #OP6T broke today - I was charging it, and when I reached for it - dead. As in dead. It has had some ugly sounds from the inside, like something spinning, so I am not very suprised, but too bad anyways! So I look for a replacement, in DK. OP6/OP6T/Fairphone 4/5/Pixel3. Cheap.Anyone interested in having it? It may be the battery, loose connections inside, anything.Meanwhile, dosmer is coming along nicely, almost all the UI functions works by now, still qml only.#postmarketos #linuxonmobile #plasma_mobile"
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #267 A New Era
- Carlos Garcia Campos: Skia compositor for WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK- Jordan Petridis: The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want
- Juan Pablo Ugarte: Casilda 1.6 Released!
- Diego Escalante Urrelo: LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs
- Jordan Petridis: Introducing Toolpak
- Phoronix: Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop
Phosh
- Phosh (gotosocial): Details matter: Spark made the notification that is shown after taking a screenshot actually useful. You can either open the ...
- datenburg: Von Freitag, dem 09.10.2026 bis zum Sonntag, den 11.10.2026, findet das dritte Mal das #Phosh #Hackspace Meetup bei uns in der Datenburg statt.Wir laden alle Phosh-Userinnen, -Entwicklerinnen und alle Menschen mit Interesse an Mainline #Linux Smartphones herzlich ein, vorbeizukommen und teilzunehmen!Wir freuen uns sehr, dass viele Leute der @phosh Community dafür wieder zu uns nach Bonn kommen werden.Mehr Infos dazu auf unserer Veranstaltungsseite: https://datenburg.org/veranstaltungen/2026-10-09-phosh-meetup/
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Akademy Special
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Release
- anditosan: Akademy 2026 – A Recap
- lprod: KDE Akademy 2026
- Nate Graham: KDE and AI, and you, and me
- dvratil: Akademy 2026
- tsdgeos: Help testing future Okular (if you use PDF files with embedded Audio or Video)
- Nate Graham: How I write documentation
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes
Sxmo
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, September 25, 2026 - RAWfish
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Community fortnight tomorrow
- The Official Jolla Blog: Jolla Phone update - Where every order stands right now
- jasperamorgan: Building on Sailfish is proving to be fun. I’ve been able port an app with a Rust layer and another with service built using Kotlin Multiplatform. #sailfishos #linux #digitalsovereignty
- frankps: The native Delta Chat client for SailfishOS, Piirit 2.0.0, is out with a new major release. It comes with lots of new features, including experimental call support!https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/piirit-a-native-sailfish-os-client-for-delta-chat/33806/30?u=frankps#DeltaChat #SailfishOS
- frankps: First beta of Rockpool 2.0 brings native support for the new series of Pebble watches.Some tremendous work haa been put down by @abranson and @jplexerhttps://forum.sailfishos.org/t/rockpool-thread/25596/49?u=frankps#SailfishOS #Pebble #RePebble #Rockpool
- abranson: Release! A bit beta!https://openrepos.net/content/abranson/rockpool
- #sailfishOS: Oh, just when the coffee was replaced with a cold beer, a new Sailfish community newsletter was released.A few highlights: Info about upcoming SFOS 5.2.0.18, ESR 153 and tons of app updates from the community.What a great start on the weekend!#SailfishOS #SailfishCommunity @jollahttps://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-september-25-2026-rawfish/33984?u=frankps
- #sailfishOS: So #Waze is a pretty good navigation app, especially on #SailfishOS where Google Maps doesn't work (for now).But could you MAYBE NOT put a "yes / not now" dialog all over my screen WHILE NAVIGATING?!
- frankps: I must admit that I for the first time have started playing the camera on my Jolla Phone 2026. A new pro camera is being developed. Photos are taken faster, with far more details and with RAW support. That development is still in an early stage. And on GitHub one can see that @jolla has done work on the default camera app as well. Yay! #SailfishOS #Photography #CameraApps #Camera #Bengalcathttps://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-camera-too-many-details-are-lost/32717/102?u=frankps
- larrythecow: the problem with sailfishos is that like-okay look the operative system itself is actually really good and i love the gesture based stuff + how apps automatically look cohesive based on your theme,but why does 70% of available native apps have to be vibe coded slop?it's always like "oh hey this could be neat" looks inside Claude has done all the commits and the app breaks down and dies completely at will#sailfishos #mobilelinux #linuxmobile
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Q&A 198 and 199 Blogs available.
- UBports - Development - Merge Requests: debian: port droidian flatpak support to ubports libhybris
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Firefox on Wayland for Ubuntu Touch
- #UbuntuTouch: - News from #PowerAmpache -The big one: Power Ampache for #UbuntuTouch (@ubports) and #Linux desktop is in RC1 and releases soon! The phone app lands on the Open Store, the desktop app on the website and GitHub, both the same day. If you want to test it join us on Telegram and Matrix.The next Android update brings improvements and bug fixes, and I hope to finish the new activity timeline in time.After a two-week wait for Google's requirements, I'm resubmitting the Auto plugin this weekend.
- #UbuntuTouch: Integrated LSP support in Seabass3 for #ubuntutouch. Starting with TypeScript, with more languages coming soon. This is shaping up to be a solid release later this year.
Kernel
- Phoronix: Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC
- Phoronix: COSMIC Epoch 1.9 Brings New Image Viewer & On-Screen Keyboard
- Phoronix: Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build
- Phoronix: Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
- Phoronix: Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports
Stack
- Phoronix: Samba 4.25 Released With Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Released With Union Theming Engine Maturing
- Phoronix: Mir 2.30 Released Now With Rust Required, Mir Roadmap Published
- Phoronix: Fwupd 2.1.8 Released With New Hardware Support From ASUS, Lenovo & Others
- @dos@librem.one: WebKitGTK 2.54 has been finally released, and with it (among lots of other great things!) my patches adding support for fractional TouchPoint coordinates, PointerEvent capture/release through the DOM API, and fixing pinch-to-zoom handling and V4L2 video acceleration. It's been a while but it's out now:)https://webkitgtk.org/2026/09/16/webkitgtk-2.54-highlights.html#librem5 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #linuxphone #linuxphones #gnu #linux #epiphany #webkit #webkitgtk #wpewebkit #purism #gnome
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-09-25
Thanks
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