Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (44/2023): Phosh 0.33.0 and postmarketOS Lomiri progress
Table of Contents
Also: Roundups detailing what's new in the Sailfish OS Community News and KDE Pim, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #120 Updated Documentation
- Robert Mader: "For #LinuxMobile and Linux #em…"
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.33.0
- Guido Günther: phosh 0.33.0 is out 🚀📱: Allows to toggle password visibility on/off in all modal dialogs, new🔒-screen plugin to launch tasks, improved support for Indic languages ➕ UI and troubleshooting tab improvements in mobile settings.Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.33.0/#phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #gnomemobile
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Plasma 6 Alpha approaches
- broulik: On the Road to Plasma 6, Vol. 4
- Carl Schwan: KQuickImageEditor 0.3.0 and Kirigami Adddons 0.12 alpha
- Nate Graham: Plasma 6 fundraiser update
- Volker Krause: September and October in KDE PIM
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 2nd November, QMF
- adampigg: You can now flash #sailfishos to your @PINE64 #pinetab2 using this script. Say yes to all questions, and boot using the debug dongle https://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevil/flash-it/blob/master/flash-it.sh
- adampigg: First boot of #SailfishOS on the @PINE64 #Pinetab2
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Today is Q&A Day
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 127 is this Saturday 4th Nov at 19:00 UTC.
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 127 Sat 4th Nov 19:00 UTC
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 127 call for questions
- fredldotme: For those who want to use Git in a restricted setup, like an all-Snap desktop or on Ubuntu Touch with Snaps enabled, I've updated git-confined to the latest upstream release.Enjoy!https://snapcraft.io/git-confined
Distributions
- Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 35
- Phoronix: KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.7 Adds LoongArch, Up To 4096 x86 vCPUs
Apps
- Pygenda version 0.3.0. New features: access to multiple calendars, now supports Evolution Data Server as a backend. Note from the author, Matt Lewis: I'd be very happy if people could try Pygenda on phones with keyboards, such as PinePhone+keyboard (it's designed for handheld keyboard devices - I use it on a Planet Computers Gemini PDA).
- Project Insanity: "Great update for the GTK YouTube…"
- Sonny: "@turtle contributed adaptive/m…"
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v7 00/10] Initial Marvell PXA1908 support
- phone-devel: [PATCH v5 0/4] Add samsung-matisselte and common matisse dtsi
- Upstream Linux support now available for the the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform | Blog | Linaro. Linaro announce "Upstream Linux support now available for the the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform" (patches have been submitted).
- Linux_6.6 - Linux Kernel Newbies. Linux 6.6 was released. It includes support for Qualcomm SM4450 (Snapdragon 4 Gen 2) a new low-end mobile phone platform.
- Phoronix: Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms
- Phoronix: Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow
- Phoronix: Linux 6.7 Adds A Cross-Vendor Solution For Confidential Computing Attestation Reports
Stack
Non-Linux
- Norman Feske: What's new in Sculpt OS 23.10
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-11-03
Worth Noting
- justsoup: "Some screenshots of the progre…"
- justsoup: "Audio works in #Lomiri on #pos…"
- justsoup: "#GTK apps finally work correct…"
- justsoup: "The #Lomiri startup wizard now…"
- Miss Behave: "So, i finally tried out changing the screen.…"
- PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): LibreOffice on Pine Phone Beta ?
- PinePhoneOfficial (Reddit): Got MATE image built for PinePhone.
- Purism community: Mobian on Librem 5
Worth Reading
- Caleb Connnolly: All Control
- The Privacy Dad: Trying Out the PinePhone in 2023
- chrichri: Nitrokey 3 usb-c
- Drew DeVaults blog: On "real name" policies
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E389: Sailfish OS app Paketti
- YouTube: test stream
- YouTube: Ubuntu Touch on OnePlus 6 and 6T: Everything You Need to Know
- YouTube: Ubuntu Touch, Mobian, Manjaro Mobile, Descubra se o seu Smartphone é compatível com Linux Mobile
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 127. Live from Ubuntu Summit, it seems!
- YouTube: How To Install Ubuntu Touch On Your Phone in 1 Minute (English)
- YouTube: System Ubuntu Touch - Team Gohan
- YouTube: Running FOSS on a Thermal Camera (Sebastian Reichel, Collabora)
Thanks
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