LINux on MOBile

Ubuntu Touch 20.04 beta is the elephant in the room, but there's more!

Commentary in italics.

Hardware

• Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A is a modular RISC-V mini PC with up to 16GB RAM - Liliputing The noteworthy bit is the Lichee Phone 4A, obviously.

Software progress

GNOME ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #75 Redesigned Sound
• nibblestew: After exactly 10 years, Meson 1.0.0 is out
• Felipe Borges: Proposing internship project ideas

Plasma ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Holiday features
• TSDGeos: Donate to KDE with a 10% power up! (1-week-offer)
• KDAB: The Top 100 QML Resources by KDAB

Nemo Mobile

• Jozef Mlich: "I was playing with glacier-messages today. Now it is showing time of message"

Ubuntu Touch

• Merry Christmas from UBports | UBports Forum. 20.04 beta available in the RC channel! Yay!
  • Lemmy - linuxphones: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 Focal Fossa now has a beta Release Candidate update channel
  • Marius Gripsgard: "Ubuntu touch 20.04 beta/rc is out! Get it while it's fresh"

Sailfish OS

• Adam Pigg worked on the Sailfish OS on PinePhone documentation: Home · sailfish-on-dontbeevil/documentation Wiki · GitHub

Distributions

• Kupfer: v0.2.0-rc1: Versioned Kupferbootstrap docs
• Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Factory Image 202212201610
• Manjaro PinePhone Plasma Mobile: Beta 14

Stack

Non-Linux

• Lup Yuen Lee: NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Display Engine

Matrix

• Matrix.org: The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2022-12-23

Worth noting

• NeoChat: "Quotient 0.7 is out! Containing a few years of work, this releases makes it possible to use end-to end-encryption with NeoChat and bring other nice features and improvements with it."
• A few items on the PinePhone Pro:

  • Robert Mader: "Right now I'm taking a little …" - FLOSS.social Camera!

  • Robert Mader: "Short thread on news on Pinephone Pro Developments" - FLOSS.social Upstream work!

  • Javier Martinez C.: "#Fedora 37 booting a #Linux mainline #kernel plus the patch-set that adds display and touchscreen support for the #PinePhonePro." - Fosstodon

  • Gerben Jan Dijkman: "For all @gentoo users of the…" - GJDWebserver Mastodon

  • chfkch: "#NixOS on the @PINE64 #PinePhonePro" - ruhr.social

• Speaking of NixOS:
  • Project Insanity: "Not sure if this is going to work but we're trying to package #Lumiri (unity8) of #UbuntuTouch for #NixOS…" - chaos.social
• Finally: The end of JavaScript-rendered lists is nigh: LinuxPhoneApps.org: "Look at that: https://linuxpho…" - LinuxRocks.Online

Worth reading

• TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices: The PineTab2 is a new, faster Linux tablet - and it's not alone
• Purism: Purism and Linux 5.19 to 6.1
• Purism: Where is My Librem 5? Part 2
• Purism: Latest Improvements in Purism’s Privacy-first Cellular Plans
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Help us achieve self-maintaining App Listings by adding AppStream Metadata! Please!

Worth watching

• Sab GFX: PostmarketOS 22.12 Has Been Released - A Linux Distribution For Phones | Linux News with Sab GFX
• Jozef Mlich: Entering PIN with Nemomobile
• Sailfish official: Pixel 3a ubuntu touch install waydroid gapps
• CyberPunked: Waydroid helper app - install / uninstall on Ubuntu Touch - android apps
• Repair A2Z: POCO F1 Window+Linux Dual Boot | Poco F1 Window+Ubuntu Dual Boot | Poco F1 Window+Android Dual Boot
• ernmander: Mastodon Client on Ubuntu Touch
• Todd Weaver: An Interlude of Interfacing with Interledger. I did not have the time to look at this, but since I am so happy about all contributions, have fun - and thank you, anonymous contributor!_
• Linux Guides DE: Ubuntu Touch getestet - Für wen ist es geeignet? Was hat sich in den letzten Jahren getan? German.
• Twinntech: Pinephone the lie continues as the koolaid is drunk.. Don't engage! ¹

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