LINux on MOBile

Also: A blog post about the difficulties of supporting the original PinePhone as a distribution, BananUI and Lomiri packaging progress for postmarketOS, PipeWire 1.0 coming closer, and a guide to proper MetaInfo for mobile apps.

Commentary in italics.

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #117 Queued Fixes
• Ximion: How to indicate device compatibility for your app in MetaInfo data

Plasma Ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters
• Carl Schwan: Doxyqml 0.5.3 release
• Volker Krause: KNotifications on Android 13
• KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 23.08.2

Sailfish OS

• adampigg: Waydroid on the #PinephonePro on #sailfishos
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 59
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 58
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 57
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 56
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 55

Apps

• Purism forums: List of Apps that fit and function well: MUST HAVE APP: geeqie

Kernel

• phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] arm64: dts: qcom: longcheer l8910 and l9100: Enable RGB LED
• phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] Add driver for NXP PTN36502 Type-C redriver
• phone-devel: [PATCH] soc: qcom: pmic_glink_altmode: Print error when retimer setup fails
• phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Handle reversed SBU orientation for FSA4480
• phone-devel: [PATCH 2/4] arm64: dts: qcom: qcm6490-fairphone-fp5: Add PM7250B thermals

Stack

• Phoronix: Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5's GPU
• Phoronix: Mesa 23.3 Lands Support For Rusticl On Zink To Have OpenCL Atop Vulkan Drivers
• Phoronix: Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon
• Phoronix: PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-10-13

Worth Noting

-alaraajavamma: "Want to record videos with OG …" - Fosstodon, Alaraajavamma / Pinephone GUI for video recording · GitLab You can now record videos super easy with OG PP (lot of contributors because most of the scripts are borrowed but luigi311 and alaraajavamma glued them together - testers and help would be appreciated)

• Volker Krause: "Direct #OSM editing of the selected element in #KDE Itinerary's indoor map, offering iD, JOSM and Vespucci so far, depending on what's installed.…"
• Capyloon: "Right on the heels of Firefox Nightly, you can enable Global Privacy Protection in Capyloon! …"
• justsoup: "I finally got #Lomiri to compile…"
• justsoup: "To give you an idea of how confusing it is to package Lomiri, here is the state of the dependencies:…"
• LINux on MOBile: "I've been pondering to write a 'PinePhone Pro: Two Years In' post, but I don't really feel up for it.…"
• Schmiddi on Mobile: "A new release of Railway is here…"
• DrYak: "Testing a few photos on my #pine64 #pinephonepro running #sailfishos , using the application Shutter by @piggz …"
• Drew Naylor: "Just improved the All Apps lis…"
• Clayton: "#postmarketOS just gained support for a new feature phone UI, #bananui from @affe_null !…"
• PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): Should I Still Think Of This As An "Explorer" Edition?
• Purism community: When will firefox-esr be fixed? And when will Gnome browser work properly? If only newer flatpak to install Angelfish or newer GNOME Web would be a thing... ;-)

Worth Reading

• Purism: Android’s Monolithic and Bloated Upgrades vs Purism’s Rolling Upgrades
• The KosmosGhost: A Picture Book of some of the Apps on Mobile Linux
• LaoBlog: Pinephone review: Sailfish OS
• Mobian Blog: The Paperweight Dilemma
  • Mobian (Mastodon): To give you a sense of what we talk about: all patches in these folders are those we carry in Mobian. https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/devices/kernels/sunxi64-linux/-/tree/mobian-6.1/debian/patches
  • Lemmy - linuxphones: The Paperweight Dilemma // Mobian's Blog
• Jozef Mlich: PineTime experience
• Cassidy James: How and Why to Get Verified on Mastodon
• Ximion: How to indicate device compatibility for your app in MetaInfo data
• mjg59: Defending abuse does not defend free software

Worth Watching

• Free Software Foundation Europe: Flashing OnePlus 6T with postmarketOS
• Prend Workbench: Testing | PostmarketOS Mini Laptop Rebuild, Membangun Ulang dan Merubah Instalasi Baterai | PostmarketOS Mini Laptop, Mengerjakan Panel Layar | PostmarketOS Mini Laptop
• kajuz6: Debian sul telefono? Droidian su Google Pixel 3a!

Thanks

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