Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (45/2023): Ubuntu Touch OTA 3 and AppStream 1.0
Table of Contents
Gaming hardware, GNOME being Public Interest Infrastructure, a talk about the Sustainability of Linux Mobile, a blog post about Megapixels and more!
Commentary in italics.
Hardware
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #121 Public Interest Infrastructure Glad GNOME is getting some German tax payer money, it's well deserved! Also, I really look forward to Fractal 5, and there's more exciting stuff in this one!
Phosh
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording – Adventures in Linux and KDE
- Nate Graham: November Plasma 6 update
- Volker Krause: Porting KDE Android apps to Qt6/KF6
- KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 23.08.3
- Jonathan Esk-Riddell: qqc2-breeze5-style 6 Alpha
- KDE Announcements: KDE's 6th Megarelease - Alpha
Sailfish OS
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 83. Great Progress!
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 82
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 81
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 80
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 79
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal Release
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Volla Phone 22 Raffle Winner
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Focal 20.04 OTA-3 Available Now
- fredldotme: Fresh from the lab: sudo-less installation of Snaps, plus those which include special user/group daemons.Required the polkit-agent treatment for Lomiri first and some light patching on the snapd side for allowing Cups and other privilege-dropping daemons.
Non-Linux
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/6] support oneplus-lemonade(p) devices. lemonade is OnePlus 9, lemonadep is OnePlus 9 Pro.
Stack
- Phoronix: Vulkan 1.3.270 Released With New Imagination Extension To Help OpenGL Emulation
- Phoronix: Mesa 23.3-rc3 Released As The Stable Version Nears
- Phoronix: Rust-Written GUI Toolkit Slint 1.3 Brings Initial Android Port, Native Styles On Windows
- Phoronix: FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-11-10
- Matrix.org: Call for Participation to the FOSDEM 2024 Matrix Devroom
- Matrix.org: The future of Synapse and Dendrite
Worth Noting
- vacuumbeef: "Update for my #Phosh overlay hacks, in the end I decided to go with gestures using lisgd gesture daemon from #SXMO…"
- Popolon: "#Osmin source code (available in AUR, for Arch Linux and Manjaro), is a #LinuxMobile #OpenStreetMap based #Cartography & #Routing software.…"
- minute: "i validated the quectel EM06 m…"
- redstrate: "Time for some reminiscing: It's been almost a full year since I started contributing to #KDE 's #Tokodon!…"
- Popolon: "#GTK4-demo “Transitions and Effects” on #PinePhonePro #LinuxMobile, still not all GLSL functions are implemented sadly.…"
- Jozef Mlich: "We have also Mobile Linux stand at #OpenAlt…". Nice!
- justsoup: "#Lomiri runs surprisingly well on Alpine Linux!…"
- Hector Martin: "So apparently WPA3 is just outright broken on Raspberry Pi: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/11/06/wpa3/ Good for me, means I can re-send our patch that rips out the (now confirmed useless and non-functional) Cypress WPA3 support and replaces it with the Broadcom WPA3 support that does actually work on Broadcom chips in Apple machines.…". Including this since Librem 5 (with SparkLAN card) and the PinePhone Pro also use Broadcom WiFi/BT chips.
- PINE64official (Reddit): vccq mod os support?
- Purism community: Reverse Tethering using nmcli
Events
- Mobian (Mastodon): @fosdem developer rooms have been announced!After a crammed half day of talks on #LinuxOnMobile last time, we are very happy that there will be a full Sunday dedicated to mobile topics around true Linux OSes at #fosdem2024.We will announce a Call for Participation as soon as it is published. We will coordinate with our Friends at @postmarketOS, #SailfishOS, etc to put together something interesting.https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-08-devrooms-announced/ I'll definitely attend, see you there! (Or before at 37C3).
Worth Reading
- Martijn Braam: Megapixels 2.0. TL;DR on the fediverse; personal note: Thank you, Martijn, for all your hard work!
- Akselmo: First week of fulltime KDE
- Tenstral: AppStream 1.0 released!. This is really exciting, at least for me, for one particular reason!
- Liliputing: Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 released with support for over two dozen devices (including the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro) - Liliputing. For more on this, check the Ubuntu Touch segment above!
Worth Watching
- Nicole Faerber at SFSCON: Can we sustain Software Freedom in the mobile world?, Talk page Thanks, Evangelos, for posting about this!
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 127
- Adam on Linux: Weird Pinephone issue
- Linux Stuff: Droidian - Pixel 3a XL (Bonito) - Camera and SIM Data Nice!
- Cloudy Coder: How To Install Ubuntu Touch On Your Phone in 1 Minute (English)
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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