LINux on MOBile

Also: A bug in VVMd, text prediction for phosh-osk-stub, and Maemo Leste has phones for you!

Commentary in italics.

Hardware

• TuxPhones.com: Homebrew "rvPhone" aims to be the first RISC-V mobile experiment Interesting... a low-power, low-performance 32-bit RISC-V chip as main chip, plus a iMX8M as a secondary chip might be fun way to achieve battery life and ARM64 Linux when needed.

Software progress

GNOME ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #68 New Dialogs. "Money" seems interesting!
• Niko: Gnome Shell on Mobile with PostmarketOS + Oneplus 6

Plasma ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Big brain KRunner
• KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 22.08.3
• TSDGeos: KDE Gear 22.12 branches created
• Kevin Ottens: News from KDE PIM in September-October 2022
• Dragotin: Learnings from Building an AppImage

Sailfish OS

• Sailfish Community News, 3rd November, Panels and Presentations

Maemo Leste

Maemo Leste (@maemoleste): "What those create #maemo leste folks mean when they say they have hardware available for developers. These devices just in. Mostly Droid 4, with some Droid 2 and Atrix and Razr devices mixed in." Not having a device is apparently no longer an excuse to not contributing! ;-)

Distributions

• Adrian Campos Garrido (@hadrianweb): "Hi all, new improvements in @openSUSE for @thepine64 #Pinephone - Kernel 5.18 (better integration) - U-boot 2022.10 (faster boot time) - Desktop improvements for Phosh and Plasma Mobile https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:PinePhone

Stack

• Phoronix: Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Wires Up Mesa Shader Disk Cache Support
• Phoronix: Freedreno Gallium3D Now Allows OpenGL 4.5 For Adreno 600 Series GPUs

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2022-11-04

Worth noting

• krimskrams on Purism community: Do we have space for more librem 5 reports/reviews?. scrcpy is a great way to remotely run a few Android apps!
• "[Chris Talbot] released vvmd 0.12 https://gitlab.com/kop316/vvmd/-/tags/0.12 which contains the fix to this bug. is still required to update the settings if you are on T-mobile [USA] (mainly, disable then reenable VVM). It probably isn't a bad idea if you are using it period to do this when you use 0.12 just to be safe." Original toot
• Guido Günther: "I'm really good at making typos so I revisited the text-completion support in #phosh's osk-stub and added a completer based on the #presage library and trained it with a German text from @gutenberg_org and was surprised how well that works". Truly impressive!

Worth reading

• Michael Cantanzaro: Stop Using QtWebKit
• Javier Martinez Canillas: How to install Fedora on an HP X2 Chromebook
• dcz: Graphical debugging on the Librem 5 using QtCreator
• Purism: Cheers, to the Future of Libcamera

Worth watching

• Niko: Linux on smartphones in 2022 - Mobile Gnome Shell + postmarketOS on a OnePlus 6
• Continuum Gaming: Microsoft Continuum Gaming E337: Sailfish OS – A couple of additional games
• LiveG Technologies: LiveG Lookahead · Episode 2

Thanks

Huge thanks to Niko for contributing to this installment of the Weekly Update and also to Plata for a nifty set of Python scripts that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot.

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PS: In case you are wondering about the title ...

PPS: This one has (once again) less headlines - what do you think?