Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (43/2023): Nemo Mobile Progress and Genode Sculpt OS 23.10
Table of Contents
Two podcast episodes to listen to, an interesting hack on Droidian, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #119 Stylish Websites
- GNOME a11y: A new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops
- Jakub Steiner: Colorful HIG
Phosh
- Guido Günther: We hit bug number #1000 in #phosh: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/issues/1000(and it's surprisingly not phone related)
- Guido Günther: I ever so often close the 🎵- player and when grabbing the 📱 I'd have to unlock it to just start the 🎵 player and then 🔒 the 📱 right away again (as there's #mpris controls on the 🔒-screen then anyway). Hence I wrote a small #phosh plugin to add arbitrary "launchers" to the 🔒-screen via a desktop file.This is very simplistic atm (as we e.g. don't track app-state) but gets the job done initially.I only used it for that purpose but there's other potential use cases:
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: These past 2 weeks in KDE: Wayland color management, the desktop cube returns, and optional shadows in Spectacle
- Nate Graham: It’s time to port your widgets to Plasma 6
- KDE Announcement: KDE Plasma 5.27.9, Bugfix Release for October
- redstrate: My work in KDE for October 2023
- Planet KDE: Unfinished projects
Sailfish OS
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 73
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 72
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 71
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 70
- flypigs Gecko log: Day 69
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 125
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Q&A 125 Blog and Audio available now.
- Lothar: "DeltaTouch: New release v1.2.0, now in OpenStore…"
- Phoronix: Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" Opens For Development
Nemo Mobile
- Jozef Mlich: Nemomobile in October 2023
Apps
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Fretboard
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Pygenda
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Metronomek
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: "Televido (https://flathub.org/apps/de.k_bo.Televido), a new app to watch german TV, is just a few pixels too wide for #MobileLinux phones, it seems.…"
Non-Linux
- Genode: Sculpt OS release 23.10. Quote: "[...]PinePhone version received several usability improvements[...]"
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH] wifi: ath11k: Defer on rproc_get failure
- phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/4] Add samsung-matisselte and common matisse dtsi In case you are wondering: This is a tablet released in 2014.
- Phoronix: Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel
- Phoronix: Some Of The Features You Can Expect With Linux 6.7
- Phoronix: Linux Patches Speed-Up Kernel Crypto Functions With RISC-V Vector Extensions
Stack
- Phoronix: Mesa Turns To Hawkmoth For Improving Documentation
- Phoronix: Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026
- Phoronix: Mesa 24.0 Enters Feature Development For Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers
- Phoronix: Servo Web Engine Made Some Nice Progress In October
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-10-27
Worth Noting
- vacuumbeef: "I've been wanting to do something like this for years and now, with my #Droidian port, I finally can. Hacked up some additional buttons that overlay #Phosh, using #EWW and #Rofi…". This is great! If you are a Phosh user and only have time to click on link in this update, click this one!
- PocketVJ: "it looks like there is finally a solution to get real gps working on oneplus6. people report that android 9.0.8 has to be flashed on both slots before installing linux…"
- caleb: "would anyone be interested in remote access to any of the following devices for the purposes of #Linux mainline development and testing? …"
- Clayton: "Doing some #postmarketOS development on a laptop running #postmarketOS.…"
- Brad Linder: "LanguageBreak Jailbreak released for recent Kindle devices running software versions 5.16.2.1.1 or lower…". If you happen to have such a device, make sure to attempt this and give the excellent KOreader a try!
- justsoup: "…I wrote a small #Rustlang program to convert postmarketOS deviceinfo files to #Lomiri deviceinfo files. That way, scaling and convergence should work!…"
- Roland Lötscher: "@GTK I'm working on Xournal++…"
- Luca Weiss: "I'm attending #UbuntuSummit this year again, and I'll have a talk titled "Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones" there, talking about #Fairphone and other great topics!…"
- kebab: "Hey #MobileLinux community, #Postmarketos community, #PinePhone community, etc, I've found that pmOS doesn't seem to have an APKBUILD for signal-desktop, so I've gone ahead and tried to make one.…"
- Brage Fuglseth: "I'm working with @fkinoshita on improving the #OpenStreetMap editing experience in #GNOME Maps!…"
- Popolon: "The Great open source #OrganicMaps (using #OSM datas) just works fine on a #Pinephone Pro with #Manjaro #Phosh dev version.…"
- hoanga: "while toying with an #emacs install on the #beepy. i found labeling what the buttons above the keyboarûd made emacs much easier to navigate…"
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: Finally repaired my #PinePhoneKeyboard (months after receiving the new keyboard board) - the external battery charges again, yay!,
- PINE64official (Reddit): Is the PINETAB2 good for reading PDFs?
- PINE64official (Reddit): Pinephone 4G Reconnect not happening and need for a spare battery.
- Purism community: Librem 5 - Record a GPS track
- Purism community: Why I stopped using my Librem 5 after two weeks of hassle
Worth Reading
- Nate Graham: David Edmundson on Wayland and Quake for blind people
- Martijn Braam: Making an USB Ethernet adapter work [SR9700]
- Purism: The Real Speed of the Librem 5
- Purism community: New Post: The Real Speed of the Librem 5
Worth Listening
- postmarketOS Podcast: #35 INTERVIEW: a-wai, devrtz, kop316 (of Mobian Fame). Great episode!
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: #35 INTERVIEW: a-wai, devrtz, kop316 (of Mobian Fame)
- Linux Lads: Episode 112: Four Cs Thick, YouTube (Did not manage to listen to it yet, YMMV ;-)
Worth Watching
- Purism: The Real Speed of the Librem 5 If you're thinking, "This looks to good to be true": You're correct. Performance is fine, way better than the OG PinePhone, but it's does not match contemporary flagship devices - there software stacks are very bloated, but the very performant SoCs still outperform the Librem 5.
- neochapay: swipe back nemomobile
- Johan Vandegriff: streaming from my new Linux Phone! embrace the jank with me
- kajuz6: Ubuntu Touch on the Pixel 3A: a Quick demostration of the OS
- channel48: Upgrade Ubuntu touch 2 Android 14 ROM Derpfest 14 for Xiaomi Redmi Note 7
- Suraj Kumar Mahto at DebConf 23: Forming a SSH Cluster using old smartphones (Mobian and other OSes) - Sustainable Computing
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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