Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (47/2023): SIP calling on Genode and a FOSDEM stand
Table of Contents
FOSDEM 2024 will feature a Mobile Linux stand, Fractal 5, a new episode of the postmarketOS podcast, and a lot more!
Commentary in italics.
Events
Hardware enablement (see also the kernel section below)
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #123 Infrastructure Work
- Tobias Bernard: Local-First Workshop (feat. p2panda)
- Jiri Eischmann: Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.3
- Phoronix: GNOME's €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption
Phosh
- Guido Günther: It's the small things. @rudraps@mastodon.social is working on a mobile-settings feature that requires touch drag and drop in a GtkFlowBox. That didn't work and as it turns out we need two small fixes in #phoc and a small fix in #gtk . With that we can also reorder OnScrenKeyboard shortcuts that way:#phosh
- Guido Günther: phoc bits: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc/-/merge_requests/506gtk: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6582mobile-settings: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-mobile-settings/-/merge_requests/82Rudra's work on managing favorites: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-mobile-settings/-/merge_requests/73
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: the Plasma 6 feature freeze approaches
- broulik: Freezing in Style
- Volker Krause: Packaging changes for KDE Android apps
- Qt blog: Qt Creator 12 released
- Phoronix: KDE Is Down To Just One Wayland Showstopper Bug Remaining
Sailfish OS
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 88
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 87
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 86
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 85
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 84
Ubuntu Touch
- Unofficial Ubuntu Touch for PinePhone (Pro): upstream
- fredldotme: Just made progress on two fronts:- Further libhybris driver enablement on Snaps- Yamagi Quake 2 Snap is now shipping a GLES3 rendererGet your pwns on with Snaps on Ubuntu Touch!
Distributions
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Draft: main/postmarketos-ui-xfce4: whiskermenu, tooltips, onboard mouse keys
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Draft: minetest: compile with touchscreen support
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: device-generic-x86_64: new aport. Nice! My x86_64 toaster is in dire need of new OS!
- Alpine Linux :alpine:: "All builders have completed building the packages for main and community for Alpine 3.19.…"
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): The old domain we used to host #ArchLinuxARM for #PinePhone / #PineTab2 has expired.Open /etc/pacman.conf in vim, nano or any text editor and change "p64.arikawa-hi.me" domain to "archmobile.mirror.danctnix.org"You can also use sed to do this in one line:sudo sed -i 's/p64.arikawa-hi.me/archmobile.mirror.danctnix.org/g' /etc/pacman.conf
Apps
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Decibels
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Resources
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Merkuro Contact
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: KOReader 450!
- Mobian (Mastodon): Has anyone run #fwallet on a #Linux_on_mobile? (Used for displaying pkpasses).Written in dart, it is designed for mobile screens) and also has a web-client. If you have, tell us about your experiences.https://gitlab.com/TheOneWithTheBraid/f_wallet
- Alexandre Franke: "After two and a half years of rewrite, #Fractal 5 is finally out! …" I think I have new favorite Matrix app now!
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/2] Small dtsi fixes for msm8953 SoC
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/3] Add support for HTC One Mini 2 smartphone
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64: dts: qcom: sm8250-xiaomi-elish: Fix typos
- Phoronix: The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers
- Phoronix: Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8
Non-Linux
- Josef Söntgen: A SIP client for Genode on the PinePhone. This is seriously cool! It reuses the Ubuntu Touch variant of Linphone, that has not made it to Focal yet (and that should really be ported to other Mobile Linux distributions IMHO. (GNOME Calls is great, but more options are better!)
Stack
- Phoronix: Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default
- Phoronix: Mesa 23.3-rc5 Released With The Latest Open-Source GPU Driver Fixes
- Simon Ser: "New wlroots release just dropped…"
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-11-24
Worth Noting
- TuxPhones: "I've been working on a new app to use your #Linux phones and tablets as secondary wireless "side displays" …". This is seriously cool!
- baarkerlounger: "3 Months since Jogger went up …"
- scientiac: "Customized my @droidian instal…"
- PocketVJ: "finally 🚀 a mobile friendly firefox-esr browser and swipe gestures to prev/next page in #sxmo #pmos …"
- Oliver Smith: "Made an initial merge request to get the wonderful improvements from @user0 into mobile-config-firefox …"
- kelbot ◖⎚∠⎚◗: "There are a couple projects demonstrating some nice looking capabilities of the Beepy and it's display. I just need somebody to build a PDA interface on top of one of these X-).…"
- kasesag: "OMG, I can access UART now on HiSilicon Kirin 659 device (Honor 9 Lite). I'm glad that It did actually output something. …"
- Thalass: "I got myself a little N900 a c…"
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Is it time to reopen the subreddit?
- r/MobileLinux: Would it be possible to bring native Linux distributions to Android phones, using whatever Linux kernel and binary blobs the OEM ROM ships?
- r/MobileLinux: Linux on a handhelds with buttons
- PINE64official (Reddit): Advanced Linux User Wanting to Buy a PPP, Anything I Should Know?
- Purism community: Importing contacts from Android - VCF works, very easy
- Purism community: Modem issue survey
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: Since https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/111437486318142093 is not entirely unpopular: . This update was authored on PPP, too.
Worth Reading
- Thomas Stringer: The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable
- jgrulich: PipeWire Camera Support in Firefox #2
- Purism: Digital Freedom: No Clicking on “I Agree” to Use Smartphones or PCs Supported by PureOS! Fluff!
- How to reduce power consumption with GNU/Linux?
Worth listening
- postmarketOS podcast: #36 INTERVIEW: Konrad Dybcio (of SoMainline Fame)
Worth Watching
- Ubuntu OnAir: Snapcrafting on a tablet: A little adventure Great talk by Alfred!
- Unboxing Tomorrow: Linux-Based Pinephone as a Desktop (Manjaro Arm)
- DebConf Videos: How many mobile Linux developers does it take to ....
- WAY OF CYGLU: UBUNTU TOUCH OS: keeps things simple. With easy controls you have everything at your fingertips
- My Snap Story: Exploring Alternative Mobile Operating Systems Beyond Android and Apple OS
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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