Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (7/2023): New Hardware and new PinePhone Keyboard Firmware

Also: A fix for PinePhone Mesa troubles, a new Manjaro Phosh beta, a new postmarketOS splashscreen, a guide to developing mobile apps with a nested Phosh session, a new Tokodon release and an association Peter might join._

Commentary in italics.

Hardware

Liliputing: Auspicious Machine is a modular handheld Linux PC with a BlackBerry-style keyboard and gaming buttons
Liliputing: Volla Phone X23 is a rugged phone that runs Google-free Android or Ubuntu Touch - Liliputing

Software progress

Worth noting

Events and associations

Upcoming events: Linux App Summit, April 21st - 23rd, Brno, Czech Republic.
Sailfish OS News Network on Mastodon: "Members of the #SailfishOS community created the "Sailmate association". Sailmate is a non-profit association aiming to support and promote free and open source mobile operating system alternatives. Among others, the association aims to provide help (financially and technically) to projects related to #SailfishOS.
- Website: https://sailmates.net/
- Read more about it: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/join-th"

Software

An important fix for PinePhone/AllWinner A64 users has landed in mesa: lima: don't use resource_from_handle while creating scanout (e6f8d7ed) · Commits · Erico Nunes / mesa · GitLab.
postmarketOS: "A year in the making, today we merged our new boot #splashscreen! A fancy animation, some text allowing you to show off to your friends the #mainline kernel you run, it's all included!…"
Pine Guild: "Morph Browser (from @ubports Ubuntu Touch) in @mobian with #phosh? Yep. ...and it works quite snappy (even on @PINE64 PinePhone).…"
Thomas Perl: "Introducing the Maemulator, because I'm sure you missed playing that 2009 tech demo on your modern Linux-based machine…"
Sebastian Krzyszkowiak: "Audio over DisplayPort over USB-C, coming soon to a #Librem5 near you.…" - Librem Social
@linmob: "I took a few photos with Pinhole running on #Mobian on my #PinePhonePro today - great work everybody! …" I deployed the latest Mobian installer image today, and it includes this as a default camera app!

Worth reading

Hardware hands-on

IEEE Spectrum: Hardcore Hands-On: This Pocket PC Is Big on Open Source - IEEE Spectrum

Nested Phosh for fun and development

Phosh: Developing for Mobile Linux with Phosh - Part 0: Running nested. Really helpful! BTW: Make sure to check out that lovely new phosh.mobi site!

PinePhone experience

Valhalla's Things: My experience with a PinePhone

Flatpak

Linux Phone Guides: The Flatpak Controversy: Part 1 (Storage)
Linux Phone Guides: The Flatpak Controversy: Part 2 (Speed). Nice posts, I shared my thoughts on the fediverse.

Librem 5

Chris Vogel: Measuring power consumption on the Librem5. Helpful!
Purism: Announcing the Lapdock Kit. This is a good move, and Purism's addition make sense - these laptops seem to be designed for desk use only OOTB. That said, in most cases, a used laptop will be way more useful, and the only downside will be that it's yet another computer to manage.

Be nice, people!

Akselmo: FOSS communities: You don’t need to yell

Worth watching

Human Rights Tech (RTP): I2P Browser For Pinephone / Linux Devices (ready to try)
emde: Out-Of-Band with Pinephone
emde: Out-Of-Band Commuication with Pinephone

Thanks

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

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Hardware

Software progress

PinePhone Keyboard Firmware

GNOME ecosystem

Plasma ecosystem

Ubuntu Touch

Sailfish OS

Distributions

Linux

Non-Linux

Matrix