Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (50/2023): Fund postmarketOS and look forward to Plasma Mobile 6!
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Community news for Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish OS, Plasma Mobile tuning things up to 6, and also we've been told that postmarketOS 23.12 will be released today - so, if you want to be ahead of this blog, check postmarketOS.org/blog!
Commentary in italics.
Software
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: dts: qcom: msm8926-motorola-peregrine: Add initial device tree
- phone-devel: [PATCH] dt-bindings: arm: qcom: Fix up htc-memul compatible
Distributions
- postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS needs your help!
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: postmarketOS needs your help!
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): We're happy to welcome Nikita Travkin (@travmurav) as a trusted contributor! Nikita has been working on #postmarketOS since 2019, helping to maintain our msm8916 devices and contributing to many different parts of the distro, recently he's been digging into unlocking the full potential of some Windows on ARM laptops (checkout this awesome write-up https://github.com/TravMurav/Qcom-Secure-Launch)
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: Add userspace OOM service by default
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: port/implement an update-alternatives feature in postmarketOS/Alpine
- postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Ondev2
Apps
- Purism forums: List of Apps that fit and function well: dconf Editor (flatpak)
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #126 New Apps
- Andy Holmes: GNOME Online Account and the STF
- Lukáš: Down and down, exploring the implementation of the accessibility subsystem
- chergert: Prompt
- Felipe Borges: It’s time to propose project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2024!
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: un-flashy important stability work
- Volker Krause: KDE Android apps porting update
- KDE Mentorship: Beginning of Season of KDE 2024!
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 5.113.0
- Devin Lin: Plasma Mobile: tuned up to 6!
- Phoronix: KDE Receives Many Bug Fixes Ahead Of Christmas
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway
Maui Project
- @mauiproject@floss.social: Index is a file manager with built-in terminal support, split views, tabs, file preview and much more. It is available for Android and Linux, on mobile devices and for desktop.#MauiKitFramework #mauikit
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 14th December, Nix
- adampigg: Playing around with face detection on the @PINE64 PinephonePro, with opencv and my @libcamera based app
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 109
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 108
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 107
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 106
- flypig's Gecko log: Day 105
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 130 call for questions
- fredldotme on twitter: 2pm, all work done, let'se goooooo!!
- Ubuntu Touch Newsletter: Newsletter Dec 15
Nemo Mobile
- Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: I have also submitted ⚡️ Lightning talk to #Fosdem2024 with the title "NemoMobile in 2024" 📱. Now, I am obligated to create some bootable images before the conference.
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-12-15
Stack
Worth Noting
- Schmiddi on Mobile: "A new update for Railway is now out…"
- Alice: "Kinda regret not doing a stream today too, made a lot of progress ^^"
- Krafter: "In a peculiar turn of events, Apple is going to implement RCS on their devices!! …". While I am not sure whether RCS is what it should be (E2EE ...), it definitely would be great to have it supported on #MobileLinux!
- Neil Armstrong: "A new milestone has been achieved, the @Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 now boots from linux-next defconfig with no additional changes!…"
- caleb: "omg, so yknow the GTK bug I've been complaining about where the fractional part of the pointer coordinates get lost?…"
- Delta Chat: "Today, we are unveiling chatmail services, making onboarding with #deltachat a breeze, with peace of mind. …"
- user0: # NEW:...
- Guido Günther: #git commit messages are not only a service to your fellow developers, they're also a service to your future self asking: "Why exactly did I change that back then?" (when the forge or gitlab instance with all the merge requests and discussions might be long gone).
- @linmob@fosstodon.org: I am delighted to share that my #FOSDEM talk "The Linux Phone App Ecosystem" was accepted. See you in Brussels!It's basically going to be about how to install FDroid on Waydroid, and ... just kidding! It will be about @linuxphoneapps and beyond 🙂 https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/talk/review/QUDUXYEPRKDELPQUX3R3BPWQ7BMV7E8N
- Purism community: Wires was not correctly attached to my SparkLan wifi card (no 2.4 Ghz network and only a few 5 Ghz)
- Purism community: BT/Wifi killswitch stopped working after update
- Purism community: Two Awesome Librem 5 Daily Driver Hacks I Learned Today
- Purism community: Switch off suspend when using the L5 as hotspot
Worth Reading
- Devin Lin: Plasma Mobile: tuned up to 6!
- postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS needs your help!
- Caleb Connolly: I'm still daily driving postmarketOS. Nice!
- Caleb Connolly: I'm daily driving postmarketOS
- Caleb Connolly: -DDEBUGging the kernel
- Martijn Braam: Looking closer at the syslog
- Purism: PureBoot Not Vulnerable to UEFI Exploits (Again)
- LINux on MOBile: 37C3 Unlocked: Linux on Mobile Assembly
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E395: SFOS App "Kleinanzeigen"
- colin: casting to my TV in the most linux-user way (bemenu + mpv + uosc + go2tv).
- qkall: Pinephone Pro Dec 2023
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch QA 130 A lot of good stuff!
- 6adp: Xiaomi Pad 6 (not PRO) Postmarket OS
- CWELL TECHNOLOGY: Linux Ubuntu Touch Smartphone from Cwelltech
- Tong Zou: LG Nexus 5 running Ubuntu Touch overview I am pretty sure this and the following are re-uploads.
- Tong Zou: Sony Xperia XA2 running Sailfish X overview
Thanks
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