Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (48/2023): Jollaboys Ltd. and MauiKit 4
Table of Contents
Jolla no longer in Russian hands, another NemoMobile update, MauiKit 4 release briefing, a UBports Q&A, how to become a postmarketOS Trusted Contributor (and the week of v23.12 testing begins), Phoah Fashion, user0's Firefox customizations now on codeberg and check out Worth Reading.
Commentary in italics.
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #124 Fixes and Improvements
- bilelmoussaoui: Reducing Mutter dependencies
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi blog: Phosh Fashion
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: changing the wallpaper from within System Settings
- Volker Krause: October/November in KDE Itinerary
- KDE Annoucements: KDE's 6th Megarelease - Beta 1
- redstrate: My work in KDE for November 2023
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 1 Released With Frameworks & Gear Updated
Maui Project
- MauiKit blog: Maui Release Briefing # 4 Impressive!
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 30th November - Jolla reborn!
- Former_leadership_buys_Jolla_Business_Pressrelease_271123_.pdf
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 95
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 94
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 93
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 92
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 91
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: UBports Newsletter Nov 27th
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 129 Saturday 2nd Dec at 19:00 UTC _See the
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Install and Troubleshooting
- rubenlcarneiro on twitter: Lenovo M10 Hd 2nd Gen working just fine with wireless display and also with waydroid on #UbuntuTouch. @UBports @ubuntuportugal.
Nemo Mobile
- Nemo Mobile UX team: Nemomobile in November 2023
- Jozef Mlich: Nemomobile in November 2023
- neochapay on twitter: Qt6 branch of #nemomobile now merged into master
Distributions
- postmarketOS blog: How to become a Trusted Contributor
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: v23.12 Infrastructure, Test v23.12 on main and community (#2409). One week of testing!
Apps
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Saber: Handwritten Notes
- colin: "a #sxmo user put together this dmenu-driven Youtube client and it actually works stupidly well"
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/5] input/touchscreen: imagis: add support for IST3032C
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/3] Enable venus on Fairphone 5 / non-ChromeOS sc7280 venus support
Stack
- Phoronix: Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities
- Phoronix: Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions
- Phoronix: Servo Browser Engine Continues On Its Path To Be Embed-Friendly
- Phoronix: Mesa 23.3 Released With Initial NVK Vulkan Driver, AMD RDNA3 Refresh & Raspberry Pi 5
- Phoronix: Mesa 24.0 PVR Vulkan Driver Adds Support For New PowerVR Kernel Driver
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-12-01
- Matrix.org: Matrix v1.9 release
- Matrix.org: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat. _Looks like I'll need to set up "real IRC" again, sigh."
Worth Noting
- justsoup: "So, bad news. #Lomiri might ta…" - Mastodon 🐘
- user0: I have made a repo for my code on Codeberg: Mobile-Friendly-Firefox...". Awesome!
- Yann Büchau: ":nixos: #nix on #SailfishOS! 🥳…"
- Matv1: "This is really cool: This is really cool: @fredldotme just landed an initial release for #snap packages support in #ubuntutouch .…"
- Martijn Braam: "Pushed some documentation for libdng now :) …"
- David Llewellyn-Jones: "The #Linux on #Mobile stand will be at #FOSDEM once again this year!…"
- LiveG Technologies: "Soon after, we made our release of #LiveGOS V0.2.0 to several new devices, including the #PinePhone and #RaspberryPi 4. …"
- Purism community: Protonmail And Geary
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: LXQt Mobile UI
- r/MobileLinux: Building on my own: Can somebody help me in porting Fedora Phosh on Postmarket OS to replace Alpine on my Oneplus 6?
- PinePhone (Reddit): Has anyone made a RCS messaging client for Linux?
- PINE64official (Reddit): The disappearance of community updates is really damaging.
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: Here are three additional "Snows" shot closer (within less than 5 minutes) together time-wise on 1. the PinePhone with megapixels2. the PinePhone Pro with GNOME Camera (snapshot) and3. the Librem 5 with millipixels (see alt texts if you are not sure which device produced which jpg).I think I somehow like the OG PinePhone's interpretation best.
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: Got a #37C3 ticket, and applied for a #LinuxMobile assembly - nothing fancy, just a small place to hang-out 🙂
Worth Reading
- Scientiac: Scientiac
- etbe: PinePhone Status. This is about the PinePhone Pro, missed it when it came out.
- jistr.com: Fedora on PineTab2
- LINux on MOBile: Enter Beepy, Esc
- Purism community: Librem 5 Fatigue
- Purism: Purism Leads in USA-Made Phones
Worth Watching
- UBports: UBports Q&A 129
- Purism: Purism Leads in USA-Made Phones
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E393: Jolla Ltd. becomes Jollaboys Ltd and Seafarix Ltd.
- lencho hacks: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-3 codename should be: SPEED #ubuntutouch#Ubuntu#linuxphone #LinuxMobile
- GojoYT: trying to Patch kernel for samsung a20e for ubuntu touch gsi (again because i did screw up smth)
- kledgeb: 【第84話】2023年11月前半のLinuxニュース・LXQt 1.4のリリースやUbuntu Touch OTA-3のリリースなど
- Janus Cycle: Running on a 486 CPU : Nokia's 1998 Smartphone
- GNOME Asia Summit 2023 featured some #LinuxMobile-y lightning talks later today: Contributing to Phosh as a Startup: A case study of Making some Impact on the Open Source Community and Sustainable computing using mobile linux - they should be part of this YouTube Stream.
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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