LINux on MOBile

Also: A Ubuntu Touch Q&A, new Manjaro builds for PinePhone (Pro), Lomiri running on Mir 2 on postmarketOS, a timeline for Plasma 6, rustup packagaed in Debian and more!

Commentary in italics.

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #118 Performant Terminals
• Planet GNOME: Linux Desktop Migration Tool This should also work on Phones, I'd guess.

Phosh

• Guido Günther: After lots of cleanup over the past #phoc releases I'm inclined to switch #phoc's main branch to track #wlroots git rather than the latest stable version as I can then catch up with new wlroots features faster. Stable releases would then be cut from a wlroots-0.xy branch tracking the stable wlroots version. Good idea? #phosh #bananui[ ] yes, wlroots git it is[ ] no, wlroots stable pls

Plasma Ecosystem

• KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 5.111.0
• Nate Graham: No TWiK this week
• TSDGeos: KDE February Mega Release schedule (the thing with Qt6 on it)
• anditosan: It’s Been a Minute… 👋

Sailfish OS

• Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 19th October, Community
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 66
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 65
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 64
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 63
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 62

Ubuntu Touch

• UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 124. After a drought of Q%A's, there are now so many, that the people transcribing and publishing audio only can't keep up - check out No 126 below.
• Unofficial Ubuntu Touch for PinePhone (Pro): upstream. Now using the official infrastructure to build images, which is a great achievement!
• Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Win a Volla Phone 22

Nemo Mobile

• neochapay: "USSD and Incoming call indication now works in Qt6 #nemomobile #glacierUX

Distributions

• MarkG: "I remember when Pine64 announced that the default operating system would be Manjaro Plasma for the Pinephone Pro (see link).…" Fortunately, it looks like there's still some activity:
• Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Beta 15 RC5
• Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 35

Apps

• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Metronomek
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Kalm

Kernel

• phone-devel: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: arm: qcom: Add Huawei Honor 5X / GR5 (2016)
• phone-devel: [PATCH] dt-bindings: arm: cpus: Add Qualcomm Kryo 465
• phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add driver for NXP PTN36502 Type-C redriver
• phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/3] Handle reversed SBU orientation for FSA4480
• megi's PinePhone Development Log: New GIT mirror Yay!

Stack

• Phoronix: Vulkan 1.3.269 Released With New Extension For Launching CUDA Kernels
• Phoronix: Mesa 23.3 Merges Initial Support For RDNA3 Refresh "GFX11.5" Graphics
• Phoronix: Linux's DRM GPUVM Code Relicensed From GPLv2-Only To GPLv2 Or MIT
• Phoronix: GCC 14 Feature Development Ends Next Month
• Phoronix: Multi-Grained Timestamps Revised Following Revert From Linux 6.6

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-10-20

Worth Noting

• Thorsten Leemhuis (1/4): "As #Linux #kernel community, process, and quality problems are discussed due to critical toots from @marcan a quick reminder:…"
• Josh Triplett: Some wonderful news: as of today, rustup is packaged in Debian, which makes it much easier to install. Rather than using curl and running a script that wants to ask interactive questions (or passing several command-line options), you can apt install rustup and rustup install stable and you're done.
• Amy 🇹🇭🏳️‍⚧️: "Fun fact: The XDG desktop portal for GNOME mobile is not adaptive, despite Nautilus being Adaptive (Nautilus is still not yet perfect on mobile but it's getting there)…"
• caleb: "just a random shoutout for https://flash.pmos.org which is still so damn cool... unless you hate webUSB, in which case dont click the link…"
• libcamera: "The camera team at @Raspberry_Pi talk about the internals of how image sensors work on their platform, and what's new in #Pi5. …"
• Марко Пејовић: "GNOME 45 Mobile. This menu shines on a smartphone.…"
• kelbot ◖⎚∠⎚◗: "I just want a more modern one of these that runs linux. Is that so much to ask? …" +1
• justsoup: "Lomiri on Mir2 runs on postmarketOS now! This is a milestone because it is the updating of the entire desktop to the newest version and also to use Wayland!…"
• redstrate: "I kind of went nuts with PlasmaTube (KDE's Invidious client) this afternoon!…"
• Luigi311: "Ive taken some pictures on all 3 native #linuxmobile devices in case anyone wants to see how they do in automatic point and shoot scenarios.…"
• Clayton: "It's 2023 and there's still no caldav/carddav provider support in #gnome online-accounts. 😭️…". While this does not affect me as a Nextcloud user, I really hope this makes it. So tired of seeing this come up again and again!
• Sonny: "We are hiring contractors to work on #GNOME and the #Linux Desktop …"
• joey castillo: "holy shit it's done. The Open Book submitted for the 2023 Hackaday Prize, with 45 minutes to spare. …"
• Jozef Mlich: "I've discovered how to handle phone calls 📞 via telepathy in #Amazfish! …"
• PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): Suggestion reverse order of instructions for Ubuntu Touch on Pine with tow-boot Very good points, but editing the wiki ("fixing it upstream") is more impactful.
• PINE64official (Reddit): So, how should I go around dual booting Glodroid (SD) and Postmarketos (eMMC) on a PinePhone Beta edition? I think tow-boot might help here, but I've not played much with it on the OG PinePhone - if you know it would help, please help that person out!_
• Purism community: [Cross-]Compiling for the Librem5?
• Purism community: L5 Items that still need to be polished mentioned in various other blogs Oct 2023

Worth Reading

• Volker Krause: OSM Hack Weekend September 2023
• Purism: DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit: Apple Sells Access to iOS End Users to Google!

Worth Watching

• Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E387: SpritRadar
• Ubuntu Touch: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 126 Florian and Alfred, together again! 20.04 OTA 3 is approaching, and many questions answered!
• cemaxecuter: WarDragon Sending SMS over LTE Test (b205mini, PinePhone, OnePlus 3)
• yomboprime: Pinephone Pro thermal fingerprint filmed with a Topdon TC-001
• Mark: building droidian for cactus
• Michael Tretter at XDC 2023: Wayland Shells for Embedded Systems, via Guido Günther
• RTP Tech Tips: Chatcontrol Lobbied Flawed Polls & Why Dino XMPP Messenger

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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