LINux on MOBile

A number of round-ups, but also some news.

Commentary in italics.

Hardware enablement

• Phoronix: PinePhone Pro Display Support Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel

Software progress

GNOME ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #76 Last Fragments of 2022 Mobile Money? Exciting!
• Marcus Lundblad: Maps wrap-up 2022
• Sophie Herold: That was 2022
• Guido Günther: "phosh 0.23.0 is out 🚀📱 : There's a new lockscreen plugin to show emergency information by @kop316 , Plugins can now have preferences, we switched documentation to gi-docgen and there's more.…"

Plasma ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: end-of-year goodies
• MauiKit blog: Maui Report 20

Nemo Mobile

• Nemo Mobile UX team: Nemomobile in December 2022
• Jozef Mlich: "I have tried to rebuild my own compose of #NemoMobile.…"

Ubuntu Touch

• Codemaster Freders: "I hope you're going to enjoy the browser experience with Ubuntu Touch 20.04. Camera patched back up as well as preliminary support for VP8 & VP9 HW video decoding. 😊" There's been an interesting newsletter, but it hasn't been posted to the blog yet. If you're not subscribed, you can obtain a copy of it here.

Sailfish OS

• Sailfish Community News, 29th December, Happy New Year!

Distributions

• Manjaro Blog: December 2022 in Manjaro ARM

Stack

• Phoronix: Mesa 22.3.2 Closes Out The Year With RADV RT Fixes, Raspberry Pi V3DV Fixes Too
• Phoronix: Mesa Open-Source 3D Drivers Experienced Record Growth In 2022

Linux

• Phoronix: New Patches Aim To Reduce Memory Use While Compiling The Linux Kernel
• Phoronix: Linux 6.1.2 Closed Out 2022 With Many Backported Fixes

Non-Linux

• Lee Lup Yuen: NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: LCD Panel
• Lee Lup Yuen: NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Framebuffer

Matrix

• Neko.dev: Matrix Community Year In Review 2022 - blog.neko.dev

Worth noting

• Lemmy - linuxphones: I've added a pr for Lemmur flatpak support
• Lemmy - linuxphones: Waydroid helper app - install / uninstall on Ubuntu Touch
• Adam Dawson: "Turns out the #Librem5 does have automatic camera controls. I just installed from source and its worth the trouble. Works great!". You can also just download debs Purism's CI/CD pipeline.
• LINux on MOBile: "Going retro: This is the Motorola A910, my first Linux phone that supported WiFi." Fun fact: With out that little device, this blog would have never been started!

Worth reading

• Rayyan Ansari: Mainlining Nexus 9: First Boot. Mainlining a device is so much work!
• chfkch: NixOS on the Pinephone Pro. Nice!
• Lee Lup Yuen: NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: What is it? In case you were wondering.
• Nate Graham: Highlights from 2022
• Guido Günther: Phosh 2022 in retrospect. Thanks for your work!
• LINux on MOBile: Looking back, looking forward (2022/2023)
• AksDev: How to use Matrix In case you want to start using Matrix or secure your digital life in 2023, this one and the one below should be helpful.
• gruenich: KDE policy made my digital life more secure
• Aaron's Blog: Mobile Linux (Phosh): The issues with Linux on Mobile devices¹
• Aaron's Blog: Mobile NixOS: Running NixOS on mobile devices like the PinePhone ¹

Worth watching

• TechHut: I used a Linux phone for 30 days
• Jozef Mlich: USB mode selection on Nemo
• 𝕷𝖊𝖌𝖔𝖘𝖎 𝕴𝖓𝖚𝖌𝖆𝖒𝖎 🐺: Remaster Maemo Leste Chimaera using Systemback.
• Sabellus: Entering Russian characters in maemo leste Nokia N900

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