Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (8/2023): Snapdragon 845 improvements and usage reports
Table of Contents
Don't worry, there's more: Reports by NemoMobile and Maui, an easier way to playback DRM content on 64-bit ARM on Manjaro and Arch, plus the usual weekly guests.
Commentary in italics.
Software progress
GNOME ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #84 Polished Circle
- r/MobileLinux: [Mock-up] Bottom Sheet Dialogs by Tobias Bernard
Plasma ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: even better multi-monitor
- MauiKit.org: Maui Report 21
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 5.27.1, Bugfix Release for February
Sailfish OS
Nemo Mobile
- Nemo Mobile UX team: Nemomobile in February 2023
- neochapay on twitter: New images of #nemomobile #glacierUX https://img.nemomobile.net/2023.05/ for #pinephone #pinephonepro @thepine64 Rework initialization fixed messages and keyboard! Welcome to testing ^_^ And welcome to channel https://t.me/NemoMobile
Linux
Non-Linux
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-02-24
- nheko (Matrix): v0.11.3, nheko (Matrix): v0.11.2
Worth noting
- caleb: "type-c data and power role switching sorta almost kinda working on SDM845 #LinuxMobile. this is the fabled "OTG" support (please stop calling it that). Still a lot of work to do, but i thought I'd give y'all a glimpse ;p…" - Fosstodon
- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak: "Just flashed my phone with an OS image that was created on the same phone a few minutes earlier 😜 It works! #librem5" - Librem Social
- Cédric Bellegarde: "Just sent my MR for dozing support…" - FLOSS.social
- Manjaro ARM: "Thanks to @mogwai (and the @Raspberry_Pi), there is now a nice Widevine solution for aarch64/arm64. In #ManjaroARM and #ArchLinuxARM you can now install glibc-widevine and widevine-aarch64 from the #AUR to get access to DRM content on Chromium and Firefox.…" - Fosstodon. Digital Restrictions Management, everybody!
- Clayton: "Some people make shiny new changes to #postmarketOS, like @calebccff awesome pbsplash. I, on the other hand, like spending time that @igalia pays me to work on #postmarketOS by making super unglamorous changes like rewriting our tool for generating and configuring initramfs images...…" - Free Radical
Worth reading
- David Field: Postmarketos on a Oneplus6 is a glimpse of how the future might look – Tech Blog. Report about how the OnePlus 6 works with Plasma Mobile.
- Liliputing: Now you can run some Windows apps on Ubuntu Touch phones (emphasis on some)
- Jakub Steiner: Flathub Brand Refresh
- PineGuild: Manjaro with Phosh Beta29 (PinePhone / PinePhonePro)
- LinuxPhoneApps: New apps of LinuxPhoneApps.org, Q4/2022 Finally!
Worth watching
- CyberPunked: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 - Google Pixel 3a - Waydroid (2023-02-22)
- CyberPunked: Ubuntu Touch Wireless External Display - Google Pixel 3a
- Purism: Introducing the Lapdock Kit
- Timur Moziev: postmarketOS on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (GT-N8000) Test Run
- DHOCNET: Introducing PLUX-XR2 - Cheap Pocket Linux Powered by postmarketOS | Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime
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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