Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (47/2022): Ubuntu Touch OTA 24, Maui and Nemo Mobile progress reports
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Also: biktorgj's PinePhone Modem Firmware gets even more features, SailfishOS gets support for the PinePhone keyboard, a new, but familiar Mastodon client and a lot more!
Commentary in italics.
Software progress
PinePhone Modem Firmware
- biktorgj Modem Firmware: 0.7.1 - Record this call
GNOME ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #71 Increased Circle
- Sébastien Wilmet: gedit crowdfunding
Plasma ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Humongous UI improvements
- MauiKit: Maui 2.2.1 Release
- jbb: Recent AudioTube improvements
- Qt blog: Qt Creator 9 released
- Nate Graham: A better fundraising platform
- Nate Graham: KDE is hiring a software engineer
Nemo Mobile
- Jozef Mlích: Nemomobile in November/2022
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 Release
- UBports News: From the UBports Newsletter Team
Sailfish OS
- Adam Pigg on Twitter: "Well, it look less than a day to get that working. #pinephone #sailfishos" This is about the PinePhone Keyboard accessory.
Sxmo
- Sxmo 1.12.0 released — sourcehut lists Missed this last week.
Distributions
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Mesa 22.2.4 update broke various apps on rk3399 devices
- Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 28
- Alpine Linux: Alpine 3.17.0 released. Looking forward to postmarketOS 22.12 :D
Stack
- Phoronix: Mesa 22.3-rc4 Brings Many Fixes, Official Release Now Expected Next Week
- Phoronix: SDL3 Begins Dumping A Lot Of Old Code: GLES1, OS/2, DirectFB, WinRT, NaCl & More
- Phoronix: Sway 1.8-rc1 Wayland Compositor Brings More Secure Screen Lockers, Improved Vulkan Code
- Phoronix: Wayland Protocol Finally Ready For Fractional Scaling
- Phoronix: Mesa's Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Lands New Occlusion Queries Implementation
- Phoronix: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Patches Already Surfacing For The Linux Kernel
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2022-11-25
Worth noting
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: "Testing Tooth (https://github.com/GeopJr/Tooth), continuation of the discontinued GTK mastodon client Tootle.". GeopJr wants to fix some things before distributing this wider, and I am positive that work on open issues is appreciated, if you want to and can help out!
- lapoor: "They ported PostmarketOS to the nokia 8110 4G... it looks so derpy running XFCE. I guess I found another project". Who does not love the Banana Phone with postmarketOS?
Worth reading
- adamd: My experience with Linux phones
- LINMOB.net: How about a more libre PinePhone with atk9k_htc?
- Purism: What We Are Thankful For Fluff.
- Purism: How Purism is Advancing Made in USA Electronics Double fluff.
- Neil Brown: The fediverse, harassment, and moderation
Worth watching
- Phalio: PinePhone + Keyboard with Charger/Dock in Phone
- Gardiner Bryant | TLG: You're not ready for these Linux-powered smartphones. Well done!
- g206: Sailfish X on Xperia 10 ii. Japanese.
- knot126: postmarketOS on Fire HD 8 2018
- ItzVlλdik: postmarketOS on Samsung Galaxy J3 | Edge, LXQt, Openbox
Thanks
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