LINux on MOBile

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (16/2025): Counting Easter Eggs

2025-04-21T17:25:42+00:00

FuriOS update 13.0.9 adds Pipewire camera support (and other things), GNOME Clocks gains boottime alarms that work while suspended, Nemo Mobile demonstrates device locking on video, Sailfish OS Community News and a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, and way, way more. Enjoy!

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Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

Community News: Sailfish Community News, 17th April 2025 - Easter
FuriLabs: Update 13.0.9 -
- goatwildernesscollective: "Solid furios 13.0.9 upgrade!…"
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Purism: PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 -
- Sunshine: PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 https://lemmy.ca/post/42357405
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PINE64: April Update: Risc It For A Biscuit No phone news, but still a good read. -
- PINE64official (Reddit): April 2025 Community Update
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Ergaster: Social media affect me more than I thought
Drew DeVaults blog: Resistance from the tech sector

Worth Watching

UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 163. Home folder encryption, new Apps and other good stuff!
neochapay: Device locking on nemomobile
Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E465: SFOS – Update 5.0.0.67 for all supported devices
Living In Harmony: 2026 global ready to go! OpenHarmony + Oniro rewrite operating system landscape of smart devices?
Sohag H4ckZ: DanctNIX Arch Linux ARM First Boot on PinePhone Pro | Pure Linux on Mobile!
NekoCWD: Cat printing time lapse 🐱Shot on close to mainline linux @postmarketOS Using OnePlus 6 camera and notebook GPU for video encoding Non-compresed 1.4hrs video: https://youtu.be/AFlWGR7XvR8 #ShotOnMainline #ShotOnOnePlus #mobilelinux #linuxonmobile

Worth Noting

Events

More Software News

Ubuntu Touch

Distributions

Apps

linuxphoneapps: "If you have a #PinePhone or another #LinuxMobile device where Firefox feels a bit sluggish, Kumo may be worth a look: https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/org.catacombing.kumo/These days installing has become a lot easier, as Kumo is now available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/org.catacombing.kumo"
camiloh: Pix is coming with a new image editor for the upcoming release. #mauikit and more@mauiproject
afranke: "Really Cool? Reasonably Complete? Rose Colored? Release Candidate, of course!#Fractal 11.rc is out.https://discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-11-rc-released/28427"
Pascal Graber: "Tried out Highscore (formerly GNOME Games) on my OnePlus 6T via the Flatpak developer builds under GNOME Mobile — and wow, it runs beautifully on a touch-based mobile form factor! 💜🎮…"
profdiggity: Hell Yeah we've got @privacysafe apps running on the #PinePhone #smartphone Thanks @mikalai for the photos. We'll get more website-ready ones up soon but I had to share with our #social community!!!!!!111 🥳 Stay Tuned https://privacysafe.app
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Interstellar. One for the Lemmy, Mbin etc. enthusiasts.
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: BMI Calculator
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Learn 6502 Assembly
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: GaticTacToe
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Delineate
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Hex Colordle
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: PedantiK
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Reddy
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: SemantiK
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Crosswords
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Mahjongg
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Main Menu
Planet KDE: Haruna 1.4

Kernel

phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add interconnect nodes and paths for MSM8953 SoC
phone-devel: [PATCH] ARM: dts: qcom: msm8974-samsung-hlte: Add touchkey support
phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Add devicetree aliases for mmc on multiple MSM8974 devices
phone-devel: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for Sony Xperia Z Ultra (togari)
phone-devel: [PATCH] ASoC: wm8998: Add Kconfig prompt
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fairphone 5 DisplayPort over USB-C support

Stack

Phoronix: Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols
Phoronix: Linux 6.13 Series Ends With The Linux 6.13.12 Release
Phoronix: GCC 15.1 Compiler Release Candidate For Testing, GCC 15.1.0 Potentially Next Week
Phoronix: GCC 15 Compiler Branched Ahead Of GCC 15.1 Stable Release

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-04-18
Matrix.org: Introducing Policy Servers

Thanks

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (15/2025): Boot your phone from USB

2025-04-13T21:31:28+00:00

This past week:

USB boot capability demonstrated for multiple Linux phones,
a loaded postmarketOS monthly update,
Furilabs FLX1 gains PipeWire camera support ... and way, way more!

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Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

tbernard: GNOME STF 2024 Project Report
postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2025-03: OP6 & MSM89x7 Camera, Generic SM7150, COSMIC, Musl Collation + I18n -
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: postmarketOS in 2025-03: OP6 & MSM89x7 Camera, Generic SM7150, COSMIC, Musl Collation + I18n
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Liliputing: Phosh 0.46.0 brings customization, UI improvements to the mobile Linux user interface
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Q1/2025 Progress: Over 20 apps added and many improvements -
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Q1/2025 Progress: Over 20 apps added and many improvements
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Purism: Made in America: Purism’s Liberty Phone and the Vision of Security, Privacy, and Independence
404 Media: How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured -
- How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured | Hacker News
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Worth Watching

Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E464: SFOS – App Fahrplan: Not only for German train rides
neochapay: NemoMobile first start on OrangePI 3b v2.1
Pai (The Dev): I speed run port PostmarketOS to galaxy J7 2016 (Kinda?)(19:01Min)
Sad panic: Droidian (Mobian / Debian for Android) - Samsung Galaxy M21 (2025-04-08)
Jitube: Tester PostMarketOs sur Nokia N900
Linux Nation: FuriPhone FLX1 Linux Smartphone nach 6 Monaten (Langzeit-Review). German; unfortunately the automatically generated (and then translated) subtitles are quite inaccurate. Definitely worth watching though if you can understand German.

Worth Noting

Events

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #195 Typed Weather
tbernard: GNOME STF 2024 Project Report
Planet GNOME: Foundry.DocumentationManager
Phoronix: GNOME Now Has A Second Core App Written In TypeScript

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore
Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps
KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.13.0
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol

Sailfish OS

#sailfishOS: How does using the #Jolla #JollaC2 (@jolla) with #SailfishOS for about a week as a daily driver now (with my old #iPhone at home as a backup)?
flypig's NewPipe log: Day 35
flypig's NewPipe log: Day 34
flypig's NewPipe log: Day 33
flypig's NewPipe log: Day 32
flypig's NewPipe log: Day 31
flypig's NewPipe log: Day 30
flypig's NewPipe log: Day 29

Ubuntu Touch

jmlich: I am playing with #UbuntuTouch user metrics and #Amazfish ...I hope I don't burn my lunch ;-D https://github.com/piggz/harbour-amazfish/pull/488
UBports - Development - Issues: Fix test failure on armhf + Qt 6
UBports - Development - Issues: New Wallpapers (New Kaleidoscope and Ubuntu Ocean)

Distributions

postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2025-03: OP6 & MSM89x7 Camera, Generic SM7150, COSMIC, Musl Collation + I18n -
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: postmarketOS in 2025-03: OP6 & MSM89x7 Camera, Generic SM7150, COSMIC, Musl Collation + I18n
- Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: postmarketOS: OP6 & MSM89x7 Camera, Generic SM7150, COSMIC, Musl Collation + I18n
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Breaking updates in pmOS edge: GTK4 apps from Flatpak/Flathub fail to start with the new GTK4 rendering backend It's not just edge, my lenovo-21bx on 24.12 is affected, too. -
- craftyguy: "@postmarketOS I found that disabling dmabuf gets gtk4 working again with the default vulkan renderer (using turnip, the adreno vk driver)This is not an issue in the older Mesa 24.3.x in Alpine Linux when gtk4 apps run outside flatpak. Flatpaks are using Mesa 25.0.x.I'm not sure if this is a regression in Mesa, in flatpak, and/or in gtk4. Vulkan tools seem to indicate that vk with dmabuf is functional in flatpaks...Help debugging this further is appreciated!#gtk #flatpak #mesa3d #vulkan".
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pabloyoyoista: "After many months, we finally have an upstreamable path for merging /usr in postmarketOS and hence Alpine! Still lots of work to be done, I just ruined one of my test installations LOL. But it's so cool to see it become real: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6389 #postmarketos #alpinelinux #linuxmobile"
Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: Fix APT configuration for new sources format
Phoronix: Fedora 42 Will Be Released Next Tuesday

Apps

Kernel

phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: Remove unnecessary MM_[UD]L audio routes
phone-devel: [PATCH v5 0/7] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - add quirks for third party touchscreen controllers
phone-devel: [PATCH v15 0/4] Initial Marvell PXA1908 support
Phoronix: A Fresh Take On Virtual Swap Space Being Pursued For The Linux Kernel
Phoronix: Qualcomm USB Audio Offloading Poised For Linux 6.16 After Going Through 38 Revisions
Phoronix: Linux 6.15 Lands Patches To Further Clean Up Its Spectre RSB Mitigations
Phoronix: Graphics/Display Driver Changes Begin Queuing For Linux 6.16 This Summer

Stack

Phoronix: SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support
Phoronix: Gallium Nine Has Been Deprecated, Planned For Removal In Mesa 25.2

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-04-11
Matrix.org: Matrix.org is now running MAS!

Thanks

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

Something missing? Want to contribute?

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens

2025-04-06T21:35:02+00:00

Highlights of the past week:

mobile-config-firefox gets user-agent spoofing in version 4.6.0 to enhance site compatibility,
Ubuntu Touch makes progress on eSIM and VoLTE support + Snap integration in 24.04,
Another collection of Sailfish OS Community News,
Hardware: Liberux Nexx PCBs arrive and OnePlus 6 gets unexpected JTAG access
Phosh 0.46.0 released with lockscreen wallpapers and a lot more!

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Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

Phosh.mobi: Phosh 0.46.0
Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 3rd April 2025 - Harbour
LINux on MOBile: MCF18: Dodging a bullet
Purism: The Signal Noise: A Wake-Up Call for Secure Communications

Worth Watching

UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q& 162. New apps, VoLTE, eSIM, Qt6 Morph browser progress, ...
Cuspitech: I installed Ubuntu Touch on my phone! Does it work as an alternative to Android?
M: "Size comparison: F(x)tec Pro1 (Droidian) vs Linglong Lunar 2-in-1 keyboard (Ryzen 8840U, 32GB, 1TB)"
Linux Galaxy!: "Portland Linux/Unix Group General Monthly Meeting: PostmarketOS with Clayton Craft April 3, 2025"
foss-backstage: Tobias Bernard – GNOME Design: A Report From the Trenches #FOSSDesign

Worth Noting

Events

akademy: "#Akademy2025 is happening in Berlin, Germany, and online from Saturday the 6th to Thursday the 11th of September.Mark your calendars!More details: https://akademy.kde.org/2025/#KDE #FOSS #techevent #fossevent #linux @akademy@lemmy.kde.social"

More Software News

mobile-config-firefox

postmarketOS mobile-config-firefox tags: 4.6.0 -
- ollieparanoid: ":firefox: less than 10 days after the last release --- happy to announce that mobile-config-firefox 4.6.0 is out:* Adjustments for the latest FF 137 (thanks @linmob!)* Per-site user-agent spoofing (makes e.g. youtube use its proper mobile site, thanks @dannycolin and people working on furios-firefox-tweaks! also: sad that this is needed 😵‍💫)* Using defaultPref() instead of pref() where possible, allowing users to override them via about:config (thanks @dannycolin!)https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/tags/4.6.0"
- LINux on MOBile: MCF18: Dodging a bullet
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Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #194 Nineteen Years Old
Phoronix: Resources 1.8 Released As A Great System Resource Monitor For GNOME

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

Distributions

postmarketOS Blog: In search for a better keyboard -
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: In search for a better keyboard
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postmarketOS Blog: Matrix/IRC bridge is now self-hosted -
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Matrix/IRC bridge is now self-hosted
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Lemmy - postmarketOS: RISC-V Support
Lemmy - postmarketOS: Setting spanish keyboard layout on PostmarketOS with Sway

Apps

jmlich: "Amazfish 2.6.0 has been released! #UbuntuTouch #Flatpak (and hopefully soon in the #SailfishOS Chum repo)Among other updates, there is a documentation page that tries to answer the question of what actually works—please help fill in the gaps!https://amazfish.github.io/Changes in 2.6.0:- Kospet DK08, improved Bangle.js- Auto-profile switching- Reworked pairing/unpairing/reconnect timer- UI Performance- build with cmake- many translations"
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Extension Manager
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Extensions
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Libellus
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Camp Counselor
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: File Roller

Kernel

phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8953: Add uart_5
phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for AW8898 Amplifier
phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: Stop setting dmic01 pinctrl for va-macro
phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/7] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - add quirks for third party touchscreen controllers
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fairphone 5 DisplayPort over USB-C support
Phoronix: Linux 6.15's New "hugetlb_alloc_threads" Option Can Help Speed-Up Boot Times

Stack

libcamera: libcamera v0.5.0
Phoronix: FEX 2504 Ships More Optimizations For Running x86_64 Linux Binaries On ARM64
Phoronix: Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI
Phoronix: Rust Is Looking For Your Feedback To Help Guide Its Future
Phoronix: Coreboot 25.03 Released With Support For 22 More Motherboards
Phoronix: Wine 10.5 Brings Vulkan H.264 Video Decoding, Mono 10.0 & Bluetooth Pairing
Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.312 Brings Two New Extensions From NVIDIA & Qualcomm

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-04-04
Matrix.org: Matrix.org will migrate to MAS on Apr 7th 2025

Thanks

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

Something missing? Want to contribute?

MCF18: Dodging a bullet

2025-04-06T13:36:14+00:00

Since the previous post in this series, mobile-config-firefox has seen not one, but two releases:

In part, this due to me not noticing prior to the first release that the breakage I had observed with Firefox Nightly would come and hit with the Firefox 137 release.

Avoiding a broken experience with Firefox 137

Here's what I wrote:

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Unfortunately, since playing with Firefox Nightly (using the Debian package in a distrobox), I know that this fix won't last until 140 (the [next ESR](- https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr)), so a follow-up MR will have to happen.
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At that point I had not realized, that having a Debian distrobox with Mozilla's repo also made installing the beta possible, and I think I had also not realized, that trying the beta is way more interesting than Nightly, as what's in beta, will make it to the very next release.

I was a bit shocked when I realized that after running make && make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/firefox-beta install in my Debian distrobox, beta looked just as broken as nightly had in my brief stint with nightly.

The entire userChrome was at the top of the window, tab-width was very where small, applying "mcf.addressbarontop" and similar had no effect - what had happened?

Well, two things:

The first was easy to figure out, some random web search landed me on this reddit thread. I just had to go through the busywork and adjust all media queries with -moz-bool-pref and add the new way with -moz-pref right below, and these would work again.

That worked nicely. After this first change, tab-width was still broken. I connected my Laptops Firefox Nightly (Nightly, as I had that installed on the laptop) with the one on the phone, picked a tab as element to inspect and looked what was going on. I was prepared that this could be annoying and take a bit, but fortunately I quickly noticed that there was a (new to me) variable called --tab-min-width-pref. I added a --tab-min-width-pref line after every --tab-min-width line, deployed the hastlily changed configuration, and, luckily: Problem solved.

Minutes later, the MR was filed. Fortunately, two more merge requests could be landed with 4.6.0, so it was not just a "Peter ~~missed~~ ignored this important upcoming breakage" release.

A follow-up to the URL bar fix

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This is not the fix I want, but it's the one I could deliver now. See the linked MR above for why I am not super happy with this.
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Previous to submitting Fixing urlbar popout on current Firefox (!75) I had played with a solution I liked better on current, but that could not be submitted at the time, as it broke ESR - the URL bar would move to the right when activated.

Just today I found a way to fix this: Gating the customizations so they won't be applied on ESR 128 (and, actually, until 132 - but we fortunately don't need to care about no longer supported interim releases). It still needs more testing - help welcome!

How to help test this?

You need to have git and `make installed.

First clone my fork and checkout the branch feature/wider-url-bar:

git clone https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/1peter10/mobile-config-firefox.git
-git checkout feature/wider-url-bar
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Then build it:

make
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And install it:

sudo make install
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for current Firefox.

To test with ESR, Beta, Nightly or Librewolf respectively run:

sudo make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/firefox-esr install 
-sudo make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/firefox-beta install 
-sudo make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/firefox-nightly install
-sudo make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/librewolf install
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Note that all these install methods only work for native distribution packages, not flatpak/snap etc.

The commit is also merged into my 'next' branch, so if you like breakage, try that one out ;-)

Other things to tackle

Here's a brief list of things that I want to look into before Firefox 140 is out:

check for (and remove) leftovers from the pre ESR 128 days,
land non-glitchy popups (needs a fix for installing extensions and potentially other broken popups I have not come across yet),
hide "Browser Layout - Show sidebar" option (or make the sidebar work somewhat on mobile,
make extension popups scrollable again (e.g. for uBlock Origin),
change media queries (meaning, upstream Emma's media query tweaks) so that landscape usage feels more similar (meaning: URL bar stays on the bottom unless mcf.addressbarontop is set to true) - see #37).
adding an option to hide container indicators (see !66
improve the README: better display of mcf.* options, link related projects/forks, help installing the config.

Want to get involved?

If you are interested in making Firefox work better on #LinuxMobile devices, make sure to take a look at the open issues!

If you need help getting in touch, feel free to reach out - via the issue tracker, so that we can improve the README, or just to me via email. It may take me a bit to get back to you, but I will definitely try to do so ASAP.

Thank you for reading this!

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (13/2025): Crossing Platforms, Breaking Barriers

2025-03-30T22:00:35+00:00

This past week in #LinuxMobile:

FuriOS now runs Ubuntu Touch apps,
Phosh 0.46 release candidates tagged (final release expected March 31st),
Megapixels 2.0 progress,
postmarketOS announces 2025 priorities: reliability, audio, cameras,

... and more, including a mobile-config-firefox release!

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Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

postmarketOS blog: postmarketOS // 2025 Priorities: Reliability, Audio, Cameras and More
Martijn Braam: Megapixels 2.0: Small fixes and GTK breakage
CNX-Software: Linux 6.14 release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architecture
Android Authority: Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why. _Gut feeling: "Insert name of web application used to manage the localisation of GNOME here". ;-) _

Worth Listening

Linux After Dark – Episode 92. Nice episode! -
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Linux After Dark - Episode 92 looks at postmarketos
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Worth Watching

Nicco Loves Linux: Is Android your next Linux Desktop?, (PeerTube)
Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E462: SFOS – Battery health, Charging helper apps
Cards By The Hill: KALI NETHUNTER PRO FULLY LOADED ON PINE PHONE 64!
Microlabs: Run Alpine Linux in Nokia N900
Никита Армагеддонов: nexus 5 Ubuntu touch #nexus #ubuntu #ubuntutouch

Worth Noting

Events

FuriOS running Ubuntu Touch apps

fakeshell: "in an attempt to achieve the highest app compatibility known to man, i ended up writing a daemon that allows to install, configure and run #UbuntuTouch applications on our beloved #flx1 and it actually turned out pretty nice.this is yet another service/client setup where now the store server is refactored to work alongside android-store (used to install android apps) to lower memory usage and the client is a #GNOME software plugin #ubports #furilabs #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile #furiphoneflx1". I've been hoping for something like this for years, (see here for evidence). Awesome work!

Hardware

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #193 Image Loading
GNOME Foundation: GUADEC 2025 Registrations are Open!
Curiosity-driven development: GNOME Calculator updates
GTK: "GTK 4.18.3 is now available; this is a bug fix release of the stable branch of GTK, including fixes for Vulkan, accessibility, introspection annotations, HiDPI GL rendering on Windows, and macOS event handling.You can read all the changes here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/a4033016969298dfedb5b96ae6fde41c332e3675The main branch is now open for the next development cycle.#gtk #gtk4"

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: zero VHI bugs and much more
Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps
KDE Mentorship: The Open Source Promotion Program
Volker Krause: February/March in KDE Itinerary
Nate Graham: 2025 15-Minute Bug Initiative update
KDE Eco: KdeGuiTest (KdeEcoTest) in SoK25: Debugging, Building an Interactive User Interface, and More

Sailfish OS

#sailfishOS: There is an update for Sailfish OS to version 5.0.0.62. my xperia 10III showed me the update option so i think updating is ok. the update went smoothly, no problems right afterwards. let's hope this lack of problems persists ...#^https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/release-notes-tampella-5-0-0-62/22378#smartphone #handy #SailfishOS #android #FreeOfGoogle #jolla
flypig's NewPipe Diary: Day 20
flypig's NewPipe Diary: Day 19
flypig's NewPipe Diary: Day 18
flypig's NewPipe Diary: Day 17
flypig's NewPipe Diary: Day 16
flypig's NewPipe Diary: Day 15
flypig's NewPipe Diary: Day 14

Ubuntu Touch

#UbuntuTouch: Xiaomi Note 9 Pro (miatoll) is another linux phone with working VoLTE, that was a really missing feature for me, now I can finally call while using internet, either on mobile itself or using hotspot :)#ubuntutouch #linuxmobile

Distributions

Phoronix: Debian 13 "Trixie" Freeze Process Begins. This is definitely going to affect Mobian, Droidian and co.
postmarketOS blog: postmarketOS // 2025 Priorities: Reliability, Audio, Cameras and More
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Alpine repositories are broken due to the ICU upgrade. Be aware. You have never heard of icu, but ... so much depends on it!
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: GNOME Mobile 48
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: device-apple-tonga: GPU fixed by adding proper mesa and gallium packages (mesa-asahi)
postmarketOS: "Update regarding the Matrix / OFTC IRC bridge for postmarketOS channels (+ related like Sxmo): We will keep a bridge around. We have set up a selfhosted bridge and are waiting on OFTC to increase our connection limit before we can start using it, which will probably happen any day now."

Chimera Mobile

adrianyyy: it's coming together
adrianyyy: "on that note, here's some more Chimera Mobile progress"

Apps

CalcProgrammer1: "I submitted a merge request to #AlpineLinux aports to get #TouchpadEmulator added."
YaLTeR: "Published Video Trimmer and Identity v25.03.…"
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Cashbox
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Ignition
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: SaveDesktop
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Hunt
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Bustle
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: D-Spy
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Frigoligo
postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Fossdd: /* IRC */ goguma aport
Martijn Braam: Megapixels 2.0: Small fixes and GTK breakage

mobile-config-firefox

postmarketOS mobile-config-firefox tags: 4.5.0 -
- ollieparanoid: ":firefoxnew: mobile-config-firefox 4.5.0 is out. This release mostly contains fixes and adjustments for FF >= 133.Thanks to everybody who contributed, especially @linmob and @dannycolin!https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/tags/4.5.0See also https://linmob.net/mcf17-getting-back-into-userchrome/ with some development background from @linmob."
- linmob: "@pocketvj It's not really different. It's mostly fixes to make stuff work with current Firefox 136. Before this release, you would get "Failed to read the configuration file. Please contact your system administrator." with Firefox 136. Aside from that, it's minor cosmetic things, see screenshots. @ollieparanoid @dannycolin"
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Kernel

CNX-Software: Linux 6.14 release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architecture
phone-devel: [PATCH v3] rpmsg: qcom_smd: Improve error handling for qcom_smd_parse_edge
phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add video clock controller for SM6350
Phoronix: Linux 6.15 Landing Backlight Driver For Various Apple iPhones & iPads
Phoronix: Linux 6.15 SoC/DT Additions: Arm Morello, Versal NET, Apple T2, MNT Reform 2 & More
Phoronix: EXT4 Better Hardened Against Maliciously-Fuzzed File-Systems

Stack

Phoronix: Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management
Phoronix: Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations
Phoronix: Xiph.Org's Theora libtheora 1.2 Officially Released: 16 Years After v1.0

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-03-28
Matrix.org: Matrix v1.14 release

Thanks

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (12/2025): GNOME 48 and other goodies

2025-03-23T17:32:08+00:00

Another week, another roundup: GNOME goes 48, more on the Mecha Comet improvements/delay, some Firefox things, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, SailfishOS Community News, UT and SFOS coming to the FuriLabs FLX1, an update on postmarketOS finances and more!

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Commentary in italics.

Worth Reading

Gabriel Simmer: Recyling a OnePlus 6T into a Kubernetes Node
Liliputing: Mecha Comet modular Linux handheld gets pre-launch upgrade, coming to Kickstarter in Q4, 2025. Later, but better!
Android Authority: Google says its new Linux Terminal feature isn't a replacement for Android's desktop mode
OMG! Ubuntu: Firefox is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps
LINux on MOBile: MCF17: Getting back into userChrome
Marius Welt: Pinephone: Megapixels starten auf Fedora 42. German post. An alternate solution (with hardware acceleration) would be using this flatpak, which just uses older GTK (GNOME 46 runtime, sadly (soon?) EOL).
nlnet: 56 Projects Receive Grants for Improving Core Technological Building Blocks
Drew DeVaults blog: Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

Worth Watching

UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 161
Anino Ni Kugi: Work and Play in Ubuntu Touch | Lomiri Plus (Air Mouse)
Ram Ram Android: Ubuntu Touch
Efstathios Iosifidis: Ubuntu Touch for Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 | Ubuntu Touch Review (GR)
CapBoyan RUS [Boyan Mobile]: NFS Undercover на Nokia N900. webOS-версия
veggero: The Next-Gen Browsers: Comparing Performance, Budget, and Development Pace
veggero: Open Source Infrastructure has an AI problem
David Heidelberg at InstallFest: Linux na telefonu v roce 2025. Czech, with automatically generated english subtitles. The title translates to "Linux on Mobile in 2025" (Source).
Jozef Mlich at InstallFest: Poslední míle mezi uživateli a linuxovými telefony. Czech, with automatically generated english subtitles. The title translates to "Last Mile Between Users and Mobile Linux" (Source).

Worth Noting

Events

craftyguy: Are there any folks out there who want to help organize a Mobile track with me at #FOSSY this year? 😁#fossy2025 #linuxmobile

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #192 Forty-eight! -
- GNOME Release Notes
- GNOME Developer Release Notes
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Michael Catanzaro: GNOME 48 Core Apps Update
GNOME Foundation: Introducing GNOME 48
monster: Cleaner Code With GObject
feborg.es: Flock to Fedora is coming to Prague!
GNOME Foundation: Linux App Summit 2025 – Registrations are now open!
monster: Introducing Adwaita Fonts

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: 6.4 Improvements
Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps
Bhushan Shah: Professional update and Plasma Mobile NGI0 Core grant
Phoronix: KDE Continues Prepping More Features For Plasma 6.4

Sxmo

#sxmo: We now have a short "getting started" page featuring nice gesture videos made by magdesign. These demo gestures to newcomers so they can quickly and visually grasp how Sxmo works and get going with it. It came to our attention at FOSDEM that this was something that people struggled with when they start out:https://sxmo.org/docs/gettingstarted/

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

Distributions

q66: we got a gui going with @adrianyyy in chimera somehow on xiaomi mi 9t / sm7150somehow using gdm makes the screen die so this is manually launched from a tty session :) need to debug thatand half the firmware loading is broken :)we got phosh and gnome shell :3chimera mobile soon~
@linmob@fosstodon.org: Look at that: If you dislike systemd and like debian packages, but want Phosh instead of hildon (on Maemo Leste), Movuan has you covered: https://gitlab.com/l2385/movuan/movuan-recipes Basically, that's a #devuan for your #PinePhone
postmarketOS Blog: Financial update: first year and first budget -
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: Financial update: first year and first budget
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postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Huawei Y3 II 4G (huawei-lua-l21)
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Newmobi Technology
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Fbkeyboard
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Working with Downstream DTBs
Mobian mobian-recipes Issues: phrog not coming up on the screen

Apps

Kernel

phone-devel: [PATCH v2] power: supply: bq27xxx: do not report incorrect zero values
phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Add video clock controller for SM6350
phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6350: add APR and some audio-related services
phone-devel: [PATCH] ath10k: snoc: fix unbalanced IRQ enable in crash recovery
Phoronix: Linux 6.15 Plans To Drop Support For A Useless CRC-32 Checksum In The Kernel Image
Phoronix: Google Developing "Live Update Orchestrator" As New Means Of Live Linux Kernel Updates
Phoronix: Code Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15 For Enabling Block Sizes Greater Than Page Size
Phoronix: Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop
Phoronix: Arm Bringing Up Support For Newer Mali GPUs With The Open-Source Panthor Driver
Phoronix: Qualcomm Iris Video Decode Driver & DesignWare HDMI Input Support Ready For Linux 6.15

Stack

Phoronix: FreeDesktop.org GitLab Transitions To New Server Infrastructure
Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.311 Released With New Extension For BFloat16

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-03-21

Thanks

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

Something missing? Want to contribute?

If you can imagine to put this collection together (it's mostly deleting irrelevant stuff, after scripts have collected it), please get in touch! I (Peter) am struggling with stress-related health issues currently, and it would really put me at ease to have someone to just do this from time to time!

MCF17: Getting back into userChrome

2025-03-23T14:27:17+00:00

Before I started contributing to mobile-config-firefox, I always believed that, aside from bigger, code-named UI redesigns, Firefox's UI code would not change much at all.

These days I know better. Due to these changes, mobile-config-firefox does currently not work all that well with (current) Firefox 136, and I am reviving this little series, to keep me motivated, to hopefully attract contributors and to document the process.¹

A late discovery

But let's start with something completely different. When playing with a FuriLabs FLX1 at FOSDEM, I noticed that they ship a very nicely customized Firefox. The code can be found at

FuriLabs/furios-firefox-tweaks

They have done a really great job. Aside from incorporating the Firefox GNOME Theme, they have (through lots of hard work) managed to made popups not glitchy.

I recommend you giving it a try. It's currently optimized for Firefox 135 and generally targeting current. This means, working with Firefox 136, you will have to apply the fix suggested in ESMification of mobile-config-firefox (#100) to src/mobile-config-autoconfig.js. Also, if you are on postmarketOS/Alpine, you will need to install coreutils in order to install the configuration successfully.

But 136 is not all gloom and doom - popups can now be scrolled without using the scrollbar. So if you have tons of tabs open (or tons of extensions installed), your experience with 136 is substantially better - thanks Mozilla!

What I am trying to tackle

In the past weeks, I have been working on the following things:

Fixing tab-width on FF 133+

With this pending Merge Request tabmenu.css: rework tab width for FF 133+ (!74). The element with the id #tabmenu was removed with Firefox 133, hence this change was necessary. At first I went for a different solution which can be found in my experiment/tab-width-and-firefox-view branch.

Unfortunately, since playing with Firefox Nightly (using the Debian package in a distrobox), I know that this fix won't last until 140 (the next ESR), so a follow-up MR will have to happen.

Also support for different values of browser.uidensity ~~should be~~has been added on March 24~~, but is not part of the current MR yet~~.

The disappearing URL bar issue

Another gift Mozilla gave us is a disappearing URL bar. I have managed to come up with a pending Merge Request: Fixing urlbar popout on current Firefox (!75)

This is not the fix I want, but it's the one I could deliver now. See the linked MR above for why I am not super happy with this.

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Of course, I aim to cherry-pick commits to bring the better popup handling from furios-firefox-tweaks to mobile-config-firefox. This is a major change, that will touch many userChrome customizations. -You can see my progress on this in my feature/better-popups-from-furios branch, which is still a work-in-progress.

The main issue (among others), is the current state significantly worsens the behavior of some "popupnotifcations". It basically, as is makes installing extensions impossible. FuriLabs are fixing these with JavaScript, I am still hopeful to find a CSS-based solution.

That said, as is, it already fixes a few issues, which may seem unrelated:

The stuff I've decided not to introduce

experiment/findbar: It keeps the feature set, but makes the find bar (you know, Ctrl + f) eat less precious screen space. Unfortunately, it also impacts translations and may be harder to understand, which is why I have decided to not look into this further.
experiment/tab-width-and-firefox-view: This is an alternate fix for the tab-width issue, that does things differently. It colors the tab-bar to indicate private mode (via two different variables), adds an option to use Firefox View and introduces a userContent modification to make about:firefoxview work. Here, I just don't want to introduce the maintenance burden.

(I was going to put a "to do list/stuff I am thinking about"-section into this post, but it is already too long. Maybe the next post will have room for this.)

Want to get involved?

If you are interested in making Firefox work better on #LinuxMobile devices, make sure to take a look at the open issues!

Thank you for reading this!

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I have also decided to stop contributing once Firefox ESR 140 is out (and works well with m-c-f – it's better to stop before it's not fun anymore, and I feel that I may be reaching that point sooner than I was hoping for.

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (11/2025): libadwaita 1.7 and news from Sxmo

2025-03-16T22:50:22+00:00

This past week in #LinuxMobile:

Purism share Librem 5 Crimson progress,
libadwaita 1.7 brings new widget and makes creating convergent GNOME apps possible without having a device at hand,
Sxmo introduce an intuitive getting-started guide with gesture videos,
Sailfish OS community ports now available for 10 different devices (and a NewPipe port),
Lomiri on Mir 2.20 getting closer,
postmarketOS adds the COSMIC desktop environment to edge repositories.

Plus: numerous app updates, kernel developments, and community contributions across the ecosystem! Enjoy!

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Commentary in italics; and please check the last paragraph of this post.

Worth Reading

FuriLabs: Spy-Free FuriOS
Purism: PureOS Crimson Development Report: February 2025
Ars Technica: RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats. With this, RCS will be a feature that people may actually miss when they don't have it. ... Now, how do we get proper RCS support for #LinuxMobile, be it ModemManager or Ofono based?

German PinePhone Corner

Marius Welt: Pinephone: OOTB Full-HD Videoplayback
Marius Welt: Pinephone – 4 Jahre später. Things are so good these days (even on Fedora). It's really sad that current GTK4 no longer offers GPU acceleration on GLES 2 hardware.

Worth Watching

Sunshine: Testing PostMarketOS On MS Surface GO 2
Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E460: Kilometer & AppSupport for 10 IV / V
Anino Ni Kugi: Ubuntu Touch Exclusive Games (?)
Random Informative Videos: Unlocking Ubuntu Touch & A explanation !
Ivo Xavier: Updating Fairphone4 with UbuntuTouch OTA-8 from UBports
Bits & Bytes with Eliza: The Rise and Fall of Maemo: A Story of Innovation and Incompetence

Worth Noting

Event corner

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: File Transfer Progress Graphs -
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.4 Adding Support For P010 Formatted Videos, KWin Improving Pixel Perfection
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Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps
KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.12.0
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.3.3, Bugfix Release for March
Planet KDE: kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland split
Nate Graham: Personal and professional updates — announcing Techpaladin Software
anditosan: Plasma Design System – March 2025 Update

Sxmo

Sailfish OS

flypigs' NewPipe corner

Ubuntu Touch

fredldotme: "After a bit of fixing in Mir, QtMir & Lomiri I am happy to report better stability of the desktop with Mir 2.20.It's far from finished but needless to say it's nice that using Firefox doesn't crash the desktop anymore.Also some screenshots of the workspace management."
UBports - Development - Issues: Expose more features through Wayland or other Linux-standard ways
UBports - Development - Issues: screenshot from readme in mobile
#UbuntuTouch: @sesivany I am currently for a year running on 40€ used Xiaomi Note 9 Pro from bazos.cz, flashed with #ubuntutouch :D

Distributions

Apps

servo: "This month in Servo…🔍🌡️
, , 📐🕳️ full layout support for 🕸️🪟 new delegate and rendering API🌐⌨️ pre-edit text for IME📂📄 directory listingshttps://servo.org/blog/2025/03/10/this-month-in-servo/"
Lemmy - linuxphones: What are people usong as thei music player app nowadays?
Purism forums: List of Apps that fit and function well: Demo of streamtuner2.
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: LPTK
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Geobug
postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Eloitor: /* Images */ Add curtail

Kernel

phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes/improvements for SM6350 UFS
phone-devel: [PATCH] remoteproc: qcom: pas: add minidump_id to SC7280 WPSS
phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: sm8650: Fix domain-idle-state for CPU2
phone-devel: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: input: touchscreen: edt-ft5x06: Document FT8716 support
Phoronix: Linux Kernel's Rust Support Being Expanded To HID Drivers
Phoronix: Arm Changing Linux Default To Costly "KPTI" Mitigation For Some Newer CPUs
Phoronix: Huawei Matebook E Go Laptops To Be Better Supported With Linux 6.15
Phoronix: Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 "Genio 350" Support In Linux 6.15
Phoronix: Arm Shows Off Great Performance Results For PGO & BOLT With LLVM/Clang
Phoronix: Glibc's Hyperbolic Functions Score Nice Speed-Ups With FMA Optimizations
phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/6] Initial support of MSM8937 and Xiaomi Redmi 3S

Stack

Phoronix: Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL
Phoronix: Debian 12.10 Released With More Bugs Fixed & Security Updates
Phoronix: digiKam 8.6 Released With Working To Better Its AI Integration
Phoronix: Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface
Phoronix: Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS
Phoronix: IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers
Phoronix: Shotcut 25.03 Beta Released For Advancing This Free Software Video Editor

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-03-14
FuriLabs: Docker on your FLX1

Thanks

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (09, 10/2025): Too much to put in a title

2025-03-09T23:11:08+00:00

Two weeks full of exciting progress in the mobile Linux ecosystem!

The FLX1 phone gets display-out capability with full GNOME shell support, promising a superior desktop experience when connected to external displays,
more examples of Camera support on the OnePlus 6(T),
Ubuntu Touch celebrates its OTA-8 Focal release with much-needed WPA3 support,
Sailfish OS 5.0 Tampella officially launches alongside the Jolla C2 MWC debut (+ more Community News),
postmarketOS share the progress they've made in February,
the Mecha Comet goes +1 (and thus better, but later),
and way, way more! Enjoy!

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Commentary in italics. Find Week 9 below.

Worth Reading

Sam Thursfield: Media playback tablet running GNOME and postmarketOS
Ploum: 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)
fossphones.com: Linux Phone News - March 4, 2025
UBports News: Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Focal Release. WPA3 alone makes this one important! -
- 0to5Linux: Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users
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postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name Foreshadowing. My highlight are the devices moved to Community and the pmbootstrap improvmeents! -
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: postmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name Foreshadowing
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FuriLabs: Docker on your FLX1
FuriLabs: Batch #2 Update

Worth Watching

UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 160
FuriLabs: FuriPhone FLX1 Docker Tutorial
Mecha: Mecha Comet Announcements - Mar 8, 2025 -
- David Hamner: Linux Phone Upgrade | Comet +1
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David Hamner: Maemo Leste SystemV Hackjob #music Just some AI generated song-thing.
PC-FREEDOM＠なんちゃってエンジニアリング: 今日は Ubuntu Touch とカスタム ROM の話をしよう。
Lup Yuen Lee: #SDWire MicroSD Multiplexer + #PinePhone ... On #Pine64 Avaota-A1 SBC and Apache #NuttX RTOS
Jozef Mlich: nemomobile - glacier-settings + lipstick
MN Entertainment: Furilabs Review | Is Furilabs.com a Scam or Legit Website?

Worth Noting

FLX1 corner

Camera corner

adrianyyy: Welcome to Mobile Linux in 2025! Generic device packages and U-Boot :), "Shot on OnePlus 6T running SXMO, now with camera support . #postmarketos #linuxphone #oneplus #linux". This is so impressive. Also, manual focus control sounds worse than it is; the slider implementation is really good. All you need is enough light, and you will have nice photos. So many thanks to everyone involved!
CalcProgrammer1: Got the camera actuator on my #OnePlus 6T to focus with the help of @NekoCWD and poking i2c registers with i2cset. It looks like the actuator on my camera needs an enable register set.This is at focus 1700:#postmarketOS
pocketvj: @CalcProgrammer1 you can create fast #gmic pipeline to do this corrections for you....i am experimenting with stable-diffusion.cpp to enhance the image quality, but after 30min waiting (#pocof1), the quality stays the same while the content changes 😂#linuxmobile

Events

cccac: Our Mainlining-Workshop last month was very well received - so well that we decided to host a monthly Mainlining-Evening on the first Tuesday of every month for seeking assistance and hacking together.More info: https://ccc.ac/post/2025-03-09-mainlining-evenings

Watch stuff

bailuk: I've released 'script-shell'. It's an app for @AsteroidOS that lets you select and run custom scripts from the display of your watch. https://github.com/bailuk/script-shell

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #190 Cross Platform
ADETOYE ANOINTING: More Than Code: Outreachy Gnome Experience
Phoronix: GTK On Android & macOS Seeing Improvements
Phoronix: GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: A Very Fixy Week
KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 24.12.3
Volker Krause: KDE Android News (March 2025)
Planet KDE: KDE Gear 25.04 branches created
Planet KDE: Controls for OpenType
Planet KDE: cursor-shape-v1 support landed in GTK3
Planet KDE: 3D Rendering Solutions in Qt – an Overview
Phoronix: KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs"

Sxmo

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

Distributions

Mobian

Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: rockchip: add dkms and gcc for installing PineTab2 Wi-Fi driver
Mobian mobian-recipes Issues: phrog not coming up on the screen

postmarketOS

postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name Foreshadowing -
- Lemmy - postmarketOS: postmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name Foreshadowing
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postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Add a generic qcom-sm7150 device package
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Generic SM7150 (qcom-sm7150)
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Mediaberry
mistersixt: "In case you are running #postmarketos with #phosh : with the latest packages (pmo 24.12.) the GUI was no longer starting up on my librem5, ending up with the login prompt on the console. The reason is that "phoc" does not know the parameter -v , and removing that entry in /usr/bin/phosh-session brings back the GUI upon a reboot:exec $SYSTEMD_CAT "${COMPOSITOR}" -v -S -C "${PHOC_INI}" -E "bash -lc 'exec ${GNOME_SESSION} --disable-acceleration-check --session=phosh'""

Apps

LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Clapgrep
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Quick Web Apps
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Countdown
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: CoBang
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Tally -
- vtrlx: Tally has been updated to allow the app to properly display on mobile devices. Big thanks to @1peter10 for contributing the code for this change—I just made a few extra tweaks from there.Get it on Linux from Flathub at https://flathub.org/apps/ca.vlacroix.Tally/
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LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Spotube
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Tagger
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Sly -
- pocketvj: "@NekoCWD i just found a promising, quick and easy #linuxmobile friendly photo editor:flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/167819/page.kramo.Sly.flatpakref"
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camiloh: Pix upcoming version is coming with image text identification to copy the text contained in images quickly.@mauiproject @Nitrux_NX#mauikit

Kernel

Non-Linux

lupyuen: #PinePhone connected to #SDWire MicroSD Multiplexer ... Moment of truth 😬Article: https://lupyuen.org/articles/testbot2.html#real-hardware-arm-and-esp32 Maybe interesting for others looking into automated testing, too!

Stack

Phoronix: PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features
Phoronix: Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs
Phoronix: Mesa Lands A Shader Statistics Framework For More Unification Across Drivers
Phoronix: Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year
Phoronix: Blender's Vulkan Renderer Is Making Great Progress To Production Readiness This Year
Phoronix: FEX 2503 Brings Fixes & Multi-Block By Default For x86_64 Linux Binaries On ARM64

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-03-07

Week 9

Late due to

@linmob@fosstodon.org: Due to personal health issues (nothing too critical, don't worry), Peter won't be able to publish a "Weekly #MobileLinux Update" post this weekend. The current plan is to have a combined post about two weeks on the 8th of March.Sorry about that! If you're impatient you can always use the pipeline (by re-running this https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io/-/jobs/2738005 job tomorrow 🙂 If someone wants to step up, merging a MR or applying a patch/uploading a file is something I feel able to 🙂 I can't rule out that this will not happen again. If you're up to be a "Weekly Update Stand-In", please get in touch - best by email!

Worth Reading

FuriLabs: Community Contributions – FastFLX1
FuriLabs: iPhone Gives Up Your Data
Velvet Reindeer: Papr

Worth Watching

Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E458: SFOS-Update 5.0.0.61/62 for all supported smartphones (stable release)
レトロモバイルチャンネル2: 【CyberDeck】Let's make a small computer
OS-SCi: ubports and Ubuntu Touch
DHOCNET Store: Cara Install VSCode Pada HaPlay GO Zero 1 | PostmarketOS v24.06 Linux | Visual Studio Code
David Hamner: Are Linux Phones Ready in 2025?
Bird Zhang: Running Openpilot on SailfishOS #sailfish #openpilot
Don White: Robert Braxman - Ubports
mic li: postmarketos ttyescape show
Öcülü kuş kebabı: Weird postmarketOS issue
𝙰𝙻𝙲𝙷𝙴𝙼𝙸𝚂𝚃: Cyberdeck Game Devlog 1 - Getting started
OS-SCi: Crowd Bounty The launch of a honest bug bounty system.
Radio and Electronics Engineering: 3D Printed Cyberdeck Laptop using @benmakeseverythingbuild and @FrameworkComputer parts
Benny Malik: Tema Ubuntu Touch full Transparan For Xiaomi Redmi Ubah Tampilan Xiaomi Jadi Ubuntu
Приключения Электроника: Экспресс распаковка: Jolla C2 на Sailfish OS - долгожданная альтернатива!
Jozef Mlich: nemomobile - glacier-settings + lipstick

Worth Noting

pocketvj: new to #sxmo #postmarketos #linuxmobile? thanks to #friction2d i made gifs on how to use gestures 🤩 (let me know if you are motivated to create a greeter...)
r/MobileLinux: Are Linux Phones Ready in 2025?
Purism community: Charging with iPhone charger
r/linux: Would you recommend the Finnish Jolla Linux phone?

More Software News

Gnome Ecosystem

This Week in GNOME: #189 Global Shortcuts
Aryan Kaushik: GNOME in GSoC 2025
hansdegoede: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 camera support and other IPU6 camera work
who-t: libinput and 3-finger dragging
who-t: GNOME 48 and a changed tap-and-drag drag lock behaviour
Phoronix: GNOME's Mutter Now Supports The Wayland Cursor Shape Protocol

Phosh

Plasma Ecosystem

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Great Stuff for 6.4 -
- Phoronix: KDE Developers Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.4
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Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.3.2, Bugfix Release for February
KDE e.V. News: KDE e.V. is looking for a Plasma software engineer
Qt blog: Qt Creator 16 RC released

Sxmo

Sailfish OS

Ubuntu Touch

Ubuntu Touch Forums News: OTA8 Release Delay
UBports - Development - Issues: screenshot from readme in mobile

Nemo Mobile

Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: I have applied to #installfest with the talk "Last Mile from Mobile Linux to the User." The talk will be in Czech, and I’m available only on Sunday. Give me a vote if you’d like to see it! I plan to complement @okias's talk on Mobile Linux.https://pretalx.installfest.cz/installfest-2025/p/voting/signup/

Distributions

Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: rockchip: add dkms and gcc for installing PineTab2 Wi-Fi driver
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: main/postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile: switch to Dolphin from Index
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Office hours
Lemmy - postmarketOS: How are mimetypes defined?
postmarketOS pmbootstrap tags: 3.3.1
postmarketOS pmbootstrap tags: 3.3.0

Apps

@pocketvj@fosstodon.org: @linmob finally we have a beautiful modern #gemini browser with certs support on #linuxmobile 🎉#alhena https://metaloupe.com/alhena/alhena.html launching it is still a bit a pain since we have to run it with agem java and alpine is missing jpackage to create a bin 🤷but its way nicer to use than ncgopher (the others are missing certs support)...

Kernel

phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for IPA v4.7
phone-devel: [PATCH 0/3] Fairphone 5 DisplayPort over USB-C support
Phoronix: ARM Linux Kernel May Shift To Generic Entry Code: Less Assembly But Lower Performance

Stack

Phoronix: Linux 6.14-rc5 Released: "Nothing Strange Stands Out"
Phoronix: TurnkeyML 6.0 Released With OpenAI-Compatible Server, Other Changes
Phoronix: SDL 3.2.6 Released With HiDPI Icons & Color Management On Wayland
Phoronix: GCC 15.1 Compiler Nears Release As Bugs Whittled Away
Phoronix: Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful
Phoronix: FreeDesktop.org Devises New Hosting Plan For GitLab Infrastructure
Phoronix: NetworkManager 1.52 Brings IPVLAN Interface Support, Ethtool FEC Mode

Matrix

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-02-28

Thanks

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

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (08/2025): Cameras and Project Updates

2025-02-23T22:08:51+00:00

Mobian gives an update on present and future changes, an interesting Ubuntu Touch Q&A, another collection of Sailfish Community News, some Flathub news and more! Enjoy!

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