Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (40/2024): Phosh 0.'Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything'.0
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postmarketOS reports progress and moves to self-hosted gitlab instance, another Ubuntu Touch Q&A, a plethora of blog posts worth reading, fwupd 2.0, KDE app progress, PINE64 is still alive, a quaterly update by LinuxPhoneApps.org, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Luigi311: Migrate to Mobile Linux Guide Note: This is for switching to Phosh / GNOME on Mobile.
- erebion: FAQ: Mobile Linux, What The…?. Nice post! Same opinion on push notifications here :-)
- NLnet: 49 Free and Open Source Projects Receive NGI0 Core Grants. Personal Highlights: Opensource VoLTE support for Qualcomm based phones, Enhancing Firefox for Linux on Mobile, Integration of Waydroid on mobile GNU/Linux and Verso!
- PINE64: September Update: Check Your Notes
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Pine64 - September Update: Check Your Notes
- howtogeek.com: Pine64’s Linux E-ink Tablet Is Coming Back
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: New Listings of Q3/2024: 539 Apps and better app discovery
- Purism: The Imperative of NIST-Approved Post-Quantum Resistant Algorithms for Securing Mobile Devices
- srini's blog: Librem 5, The phone all the GNU fans wanted
- Liliputing: Pilet 5 console is a Raspberry Pi-powered handheld PC with a QWERTY keyboard
Valve Corner
- GamingOnLinux: More info on the Valve (Steam) collab with Arch Linux and potential future hardware support
Worth Watching
- Linux Stuff: Juno Tab 3 - Intro (Mobian/Ubuntu)
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E437: Country Quiz & waiting for the Jolla C2
- EveryByteCounts: Best Performing Open Source Phone Desktop! PostMarketOS 24.06 with Sxmo (Sway)
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 150. _Excellent name butchering and hidden 24.04 channels"
- mutantCybernetics: Power consumption #mutantc #18650
- NoPlan: What happened to the PinePhone?
- TechyNoob: Sailfish OS: A Unique Alternative for OnePlus Users (Linux based OS)
Valve Corner
- Brodie Robertson: Valve Fixes Wayland Governance Overnight!
- Brodie Robertson: What The Arch Linux x Valve Collab Means For You!!
- A1RM4X: Why Valve is backing Arch Linux: explained by an Arch Linux dev
Worth Noting
- postmarketOS: 🚚 We will start the migration to our self-hosted GitLab instance in ~4h. See https://status.postmarketos.org for details and for the current status.
- @rmader: To follow up on a recent post of mine (https://mastodon.social/@rmader/113234428076202804): if you want to see working cameras on more devices using a #mobilelinux distro of you choice, consider helping with sensor driver upstreaming. Apparently it a bunch of cases this really isn't all to difficult and the main work you need to do is combine an existing driver with data from downstream kernels, test that it works - et voilà, a big part of the work is done!#postmarketos #mobian
- austriancoder: A feature that has been in development for some time is finally here—Multiple Render Targets. This paves the way for necessary emulation work for GL_RGBA32F to enable GLES 3.0 support.https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/26565#etnaviv #mesa This is about etnaviv, the Librem 5 GPU driver.
- LAS: #LAS2024 starts today! Make sure you've registered for the conference and check your email for more details and links to the live stream. Our conference opening will start at 9:50 AM local time (15:50 UTC).https://linuxappsummit.org/ #LinuxAppSummit #KDE #GNOME Video highlights hopefully in next weeks Weekly Update!
- mntmn: "hey i compiled @servo on the RK3588 MNT Reform (arm64) and it works! our website is usable, but missing the svg logo in the top bar :D"
- foss_public_alert_server: "Hey, we are #newhere. Do you want to receive official emergency alerts worldwide with just one app? The #FOSSPublicAlertServer allows apps to receive near real-time push notifications via #unifiedPush about emergency alerts from over 280 official CAP Alert Publisher. This project is a collaboration of @foss_warn and @kde. The server is still under development, but we are working on a first beta version in the near future. 🚀 Stay tuned...". Nice!
- hkrn: "MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone L: https://mikrophone.net /C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41731769posted on 2024.10.03 at 11:41:34 (c=0, p=5)"
- praveen: "In #debphoshfund project, next poll is picking an #xmpp app.https://codema.in/p/klGbQYVw/pick-one-xmpp-app-to-support We won't be able find a single protocol or app for instant messaging, so we will have to support many apps. #FreeSoftware #Debian #Mobian"
- @craftyguy: today at #boilingtheocean:@rmader testing #linuxmobile camera stuff on @z3ntu @newbyte pokes #librem5 in the background #postmarketos
- r/linux: We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
- haui: "#update to my current #dogfooding attempts with #postmarketos. the #oneplus6 has been promoted to #dailydriver and the #iphone has been retired and only serves as emergency backup without a sim card. Here are the highlights:- watch youtube, peertube, twitch, plex ✅- play minetest ✅- take and place calls ✅- listen to podcasts ✅- check bank account ✅For more details, check https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/User:Haui2#Dogfooding"
- seshpenguin: "The new ProLinux 2 website is now live! https://prolinux.io/ Along with it, the new ProLinux boot system has been introduced, with generic x86 and arm64 images UEFI images.Please go download and test them out! 😄 There's still lots of work to do, and help is very much appreciated. Compiling ProLinux locally is easy! It's basically just one command to kick off a build. Contributions to documentation are also needed!#linux #linuxmobile"
- qkall: "I wanted to make a video on this… I loathe editing. The best you get is a long-winded, off the cuff, disorganized rant about my feelings, opinions, and thoughts on the pinephone and the pinephone pro. So, I no longer have any pinephone. I recently sold my pinephone pro and keyboard with my batteries. (Continued in comments)@linmob #linux @linuxphones #pine64 #openmoko #rant #offthecuff #mutantc #sxmo #sway #swayisbae"
- AKernelPanic: "Friend of the community team and Ubuntu Touch wizard, Alfred, is in need of some financial support. If you have a few extra bucks lying around and want to help out a cool guy who is doing great work in the open source world, please consider throwing some his way:https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/113188341482592522#Ubuntu #support #donate"
- PINE64official (Reddit): New idea for a product - A configurable smartphone carrier board
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #168 Testing Portals
- tbernard: Boiling The Ocean Hackfest
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.42.0
- Phosh (Mastodon): feedbackd now supports the alert slider on OnePlus 6 / 6T and phrog is now the recommended greeter UI.6/6
- Phosh (Mastodon): phosh-osk-stub (and #phoc) got several fixes related to text completion / prediction so we enable it by default if the app requests it (e.g. chatty and GNOME TextEditor do). This will hopfully let more apps do that.The OSK also got a paste button.5/n
- Phosh (Mastodon): #squeekboard got more layouts , improved scaling and the height of the OSK can be adjusted via a setting4/n
- Phosh (Mastodon): Phosh's upcoming events plugin can now show an arbitrary number of days, the torch slider gets hidden when there's only one brightness level (as e.g. on the PinePhone). Unlocking can no longer accidentally swipe to the lockscreen plugins, notifications look a bit nicer and more.3/n
- Phosh (Mastodon): Mobile settings now remembers the last opened panel and allows to configure the OSK layout (if using phosh-osk-stub). This ensures you can only select layouts that are actually present.2/n
- Colors of Noise: Free Software Activities September 2024
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in Plasma: 6.2 is nigh
- Volker Krause: August/September in KDE Itinerary
- Carl Schwan: Open Source Conferences in September
- KDE Blogs: This Week in KDE Apps
- KDE Blogs: Use
ripgrep-all/ripgrepto improve search in Dolphin This is really cool!
Sxmo
- #sxmo: A new video on #PostMarketOS 24.06 with #SXMO #Sway #DesktopEnvironment #performance #benchmarked for the #TierList on https://everybytecounts.org. It appears to be the best performing #OpenSource #Linux Desktop Environment tested so far. <3 Curious who runs this full time. :)
- #sxmo: @crft I've been using #sxmo daily for three years now. Don't know if it's better than others, but it's the best experience I've ever had with a phone ...
Sailfish OS
- Jozef Mlich: Sailathon 2024 – Sailfish OS hackathon
- #sailfishOS: The #SailfishOS mastodon client, #tooter , just had a minor bug fix upgrade. Conversation threads finally show all images properly. Hopefully I can finally get to the real work! Should be available in chum and harbour tomorrow. Or github, https://github.com/poetaster/harbour-tooter 1.1.9 now.
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 150 Saturday 5th Oct 19:00 UTC
- #UbuntuTouch: I really like the #UbuntuTouch / #UBPorts project. It‘s got a really great community. But what can we do about some home dir encryption? Missing file #encryption really is a blocker for daily usage, would be just grossly negligent..
- AKernelPanic: "Friend of the community team and Ubuntu Touch wizard, Alfred, is in need of some financial support. If you have a few extra bucks lying around and want to help out a cool guy who is doing great work in the open source world, please consider throwing some his way:https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/113188341482592522#Ubuntu #support #donate"
Distributions
- postmarketOS: 🚚 We will start the migration to our self-hosted GitLab instance in ~4h. See https://status.postmarketos.org for details and for the current status.
- postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2024-09: systemd, PCB, talks, non-latin language fonts
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: postmarketOS in 2024-09: systemd, PCB, talks, non-latin language fonts
- Hans de Goede: IPU6 camera support in Fedora 41
- seshpenguin: "The new ProLinux 2 website is now live! https://prolinux.io/ Along with it, the new ProLinux boot system has been introduced, with generic x86 and arm64 images UEFI images.Please go download and test them out! 😄 There's still lots of work to do, and help is very much appreciated. Compiling ProLinux locally is easy! It's basically just one command to kick off a build. Contributions to documentation are also needed!#linux #linuxmobile"
Apps
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Netsleuth
- linuxphoneapps: "It took literally forever, but we've just landed a feature that should help with search.Check it out at https://linuxphoneapps.org/find/apps/orhttps://linuxphoneapps.org/find/games/#LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #MobileLinux"
- plasmamobile: "This Week in KDE Apps" Episode 4 is out and contains tons of changes relevant for mobile. With routing now available in Marble Mobile; the Weather app getting a new welcome screen; improvements to Itinerary extractors and more.https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/06/this-week-in-kde-apps/#kde #linuxApps #linuxMobile. So great to see Marble Maps going somewhere!
- eyekay: "Do you have any experience in Python and GTK4? Do you want to help maintain an app with literally tens of users? Do you hate every web browser to the point you want to avoid it altogether?Web Apps is the app for you (to help maintain)! I have marked a few issues as 'contribution welcome' here: https://codeberg.org/eyekay/webapps/issues?q=&type=all&state=open&labels=230053&milestone=0&assignee=0&poster=0&fuzzy=falseUniversity is starting to keep me busier than usual, but I don't want to let it create yet another abandonware strewn in the GNOME ecosystem.#gnome"
- @jmlich: Check out my development setup for #Amazfish! It works on three platforms: #SailfishOS, #UbuntuTouch, and #Flatpak (Kirigami). Sometimes, you need to fix issues three times.
- Lucas Fryzek: "I started building a weechat relay in gtk4 + libadwaita 😀 …"
- camelCaseNick: "I just read it one too many times that Linux on Mobile should focus on this app, and not that …No. You do not bootstrap an ecosystem like a minimal viable product. The former we need, not the latter.We DO need multiple apps per category—for navigation, and messaging. And there is room for multiple multimedia players.Each and every one can serve an ever so slightly different use-case. And THIS is what makes an ecosystem lively, and not „technically having everything“.Let's create it together!". 100%
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: qcm6490-fairphone-fp5: Add thermistor for UFS/RAM
- phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6350: Fix GPU frequencies missing on some speedbins
- phone-devel: [PATCH v13 00/12] Initial Marvell PXA1908 support
Stack
- fwupd: fwupd 2.0.0 and new tricks
- Servo blog: This month in Servo: Android nightlies, right-to-left, WebGPU, and more!
- Phoronix: Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland
- Phoronix: SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release
- Phoronix: Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes
- Phoronix: NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2024-10-04
Thanks
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