LINux on MOBile

Also: Sailfish OS progress on PINE64 devices, releases of mmsd-tng and vvmplayer, a talk about Maemo Leste and a lot more.

Commentary in italics.

Software progress

Hardare enablement

• megi's PinePhone Development Log: Pinephone kernel news and some bits about the keyboard, too. Lots of great improvements for PinePhone and PinePhone Pro.

GNOME ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #72 Automated Testing
• GNOME Shell & Mutter: Automated testing of GNOME Shell
• halting problem: On PyGObject

Plasma ecosystem

• Plasma Mobile: Plasma Mobile Gear ⚙ 22.11 is Out
• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: custom tiling
• dot.kde.org: KDE's End of Year Fundraiser is Live
  • Nate Graham: Help KDE hire more people!
• KDE Announcemnets: KDE Plasma 5.26.4, Bugfix Release for November
• Volker Krause: October/November in KDE Itinerary

Nemo Mobile

• Nemo Mobile UX team: Advent of code
• Nemo Mobile UX team: Nemomobile in November 2022
• neochapay on twitter: RT by @neochapay: The elves at the development station have been busy at work, thank you @neochapay @xmlich02 and others! https://nemomobile.net/pages/advent-of-code/
• neochapay on twitter: First MR with new UI of #nemomobile https://github.com/nemomobile-ux/glacier-home/pull/208

Ubuntu Touch

Sailfish OS

• Sailfish Community News, 1st December, Pine Logs

Sxmo

Distributions

• Phoronix: NixOS 22.11 Released With Better AArch64 Support, NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Driver Option
• Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Beta 13. Note: This does not contain the latest Plasma Mobile Gear improvements yet.
• Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Release 202211270709

Stack

• Phoronix: SDL Tries Again To Prefer Wayland Over X11

Non-Linux

• Phoronix: Genode OS 22.11 Released With Support For Intel Gen12 Graphics, More PinePhone Work

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2022-12-02
• Matrix.org: Funding Matrix via the Matrix.org Foundation

Worth noting

• Guido keeps working on his toy project phosh-osk-stub: Opportunistic completion and emoji are the highlights this week.
• If Visual Voicemail is your thing, you'll love the 2.0 release of vvmplayer that was tagged this week.
• kop316 also released mmsd-tng 2.0, for people that love or are forced to use MMS.
• Librem 5 call audio should now be improved.

Worth reading

• megi's PinePhone Development Log: Pinephone kernel news and some bits about the keyboard, too. Just in case you missed it above.
• Purism: Purism at “Le Capitole du Libre” in France
• Purism: Special Year End Promotion for Librem 5 USA
• Drew DeVaults blog: I shall toil at a reduced volume. Sad, but I get it.

Worth listening

• Late Night Linux – Episode 205. Nice segment on postmarketOS!
• Linux Action News: Linux Action News 269. Ubuntu Touch OTA 24 is the relevant bit in this one.

Worth watching

• PINE64: Quarterly Community Q&A [Live Stream]
• Billy Blackburn: Using a terminal to browse the web
• BeeBom: This Linux Tablet Destroys iPad? About the FydeTab Duo.
• V45370: An alternative to a Raspberry Pi 3 (Lenovo A6000 + PostmarketOS)
• AgarNoobYT: Installing Postmarketos on lt023g aka 'Samsung Galaxy tab 3 7.0" - Part 1
• Openfest Bulgaria: An in depth look at Maemo Leste Merlijn Wajer Nice talk!_
• Bryan Lunduke: A Smalltalk SmartPhone: The "SqueakPhone"
• Twinntech: Give the Pinephone 4 Xmas 2022 Grumpy old man is back, watching videos and commenting them!¹

Thanks

Huge thanks again to Plata for a nifty set of Python scripts that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot.

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