Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (40/2023): Phosh 0.32.0, Ubuntu Touch Q&A, Sailfish Community News and more!
Table of Contents
New releases and community interaction, the quarterly Update on progress at LinuxPhoneApps.org, and much more!
Commentary in italics.
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #116 Fragmented Files Warehouse is a nice new app! Note to self: I still need evaluate Decibels on mobile.
- chergert: VTE performance improvements
- Planet GNOME: Endless ♥ GNOME at GUADEC 2023
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.32.0
- Guido Günther: phosh 0.32.0 is out 🚀📱:More fixes in #phosh and #phoc ➕ allows to reorder lock screen plugins (thanks gauthamx@mastodon.world) ➕ improvements in phosh-osk-stub's virtual-keyboard mode in non US layouts (e.g. for electron apps) and initial #varnam support for Malayalam.Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.32.0/#librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #gtk #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux
- Phoronix: GNOME's VTE Seeing Improvements For Faster Terminal Performance
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: re-organized System Settings
- Volker Krause: OSM Hack Weekend September 2023
- Qt blog: Smooth Vector Graphics in Qt Quick
- Carl Schwan: Linux Days Voralberg
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 5 October, Camera2 progress. Great round-up!
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 52
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 51
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 50
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 49
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 48
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Win a Volla Phone 22 running Ubuntu Touch
- UBports - Mastodon: We are making our first Newcomers Introductory Meeting this Weds 4th Oct at 19:00 CET.If you want to help in anyway with this great project then this is the meeting for you.All details :https://pad.ubports.com/p/Newcomers_Welcoming_MeetingSee you there!#UbuntuTouch #UBports #UBportsNewcomers
- adampigg: Thanks to @jmlich , Amazfish now supports Ubuntu Touch, bringing the Pinetime and Amazfit devices to that platform.
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH 0/7] Add UFS support for SC7180/SM7125
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 04/14] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8916: Add common msm8916-modem-qdsp6.dtsi
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 03/14] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8939: Add QDSP6
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 02/14] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8916: Add QDSP6
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 01/14] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8939: Add BAM-DMUX WWAN
- Phoronix: New Patches Speed-Up Linux's Accounted Kernel Memory Allocations By ~30%
Distributions
- Nitrux: Nitrux Update Tool System 2.0: Reloaded
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: osk-sdl deprecated in favor of unl0kr
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Alsa 1.2.10 upgrade will likely cause audio issues
Apps
- Guido Günther: Had the need to charge an all electric Kia recently and guess what: both the charging stations app and the vendor's app are proprietary so how would I know when charging finished? Turns out people around #HomeAssistant figured out the vendor API so I could use that to have a small app to monitor the charging status on my #Librem5 running #phosh #gtk #gnome #MobileLinux #ev
- Project Insanity: "Checking out the latest development version of #Muzika by @vixalientoots , a GTK4 YouTubbe Music client, on my OnePlus6 #postmarketOS #Linux phone.…"
- Mobian (Mastodon): Trying a few flatpaks that are not current in Debian yet.Jogger for tracking running/cycling sessions,*KIternary for Rail tickets and all-around PKPASS file display (those Apple Wallet tickets), andWarp for file transfer.Despite some glitches they are quite nice. The ecosystem is moving fast and many applications work nicely on mobile screens. What is your favorite and important application?Great! And thanks to the countless parties involved.
Stack
- Phoronix: dav1d 1.3 Yields Lower Memory Use, More Arm NEON Optimizations
- Phoronix: Vulkan 1.3.267 Released With Nested Command Buffer Extension
- Phoronix: WayVNC 0.7 Released As VNC Server For Wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors
- Phoronix: Mesa 23.1.9 Released To End Out The Series
- Phoronix: Android 14 Open-Source Project Released
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-10-06
Stack
Worth Noting
- tpikonen: "Good news everyone! The gPodder media RSS reader / podcast client / podcatcher had a bugfix release (3.11.3) last week (subscriptions to youtube user ID URLs now work, yay!)…"
- Drew Naylor: "wf-shell 0.8.0 is out alongside #Wayfire 0.8.0, and it includes some changes by yours truly!…"
- Silmathoron: "For #Signal users on #Linux (and #MobileLinux), there is a poll on the community discourse to see how many people are using Signal on Desktop and where they are getting it from, if you want to chime in: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-on-desktop-survey/53978…"
- devrtz: "Shortish impressions from #linuxday…" - Fosstodon
- justsoup: "The first full compile of the Abyssal Linux rootfs is finally complete! …"
- PinePhone (Reddit): UtopiaOS for PainPhone
- PINE64official (Reddit): Pinetab2 wifi update Not news, just discussion.
- Purism community: Thunderbird Librem 5
- Purism community: Application to use touchscreen as input device when docked?
- Lemmy - linuxphones: State of Signal on Linux phones
Worth Reading
- Jozef Mlich: How Ubuntu Touch works
- LinuxPhoneApps.org New Apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q3/2023: 9 new apps, maintenance and more!
Worth Watching
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 125
- neochapay: NemoMobile UI tablet view Nice!
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E385: MeeCast Weather Forecast app
- NuttX Channel: Day1: 04 Apache NuttX RTOS for PINE64 PinePhone
- NuttX Channel: Day2: 01 PinePhone Touchscreen on NuttX Handling MIPI DSI Display Engine and I2C Touch Input
- Niccolò Ve: We have to SAVE LINUX from BAD LEGISLATION!
Thanks
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