If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual applications, libraries and subsystems as well as broader topics like e.g. "messaging".
@Tutanota great stuff, but I'd like to see also some real Android alternatives listed, I mean there are also mobile operating systems that are not based on Android. See #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux @linmob #mobian #postmarketOS #pureos #phosh #UbuntuTouch @phosh and so on.
Are you already collecting wireless information like wifi points and GSM antennas for #beaconDB?
Building a #bigtech independent database with such information is important for #DigitalSovereignty.
The #MobileLinux eco system already uses beaconDB for determining the position of devices when there is no #GPS.
Learn here how you can contribute to this #crowdsourced project:
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (20/2025): A Linux Phone From Africa and #Phosh 0.47.0
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (19/2025): Waking it up to wake you up
@triskelion @purism I appreciate what GrapheneOS and other projects are doing. I wish gOS good luck in:
- getting early access to future #AOSP sources as development is no longer public.
- fixing the myriad of #Google shenanigans with the OS and Chromium.
- getting mental health help for the main developer - he deserves all the help he can get.
Unlike gOS, #Linuxphone development is not riding on decades of Google funded development of the OS. Progress is therefore slower but it is improving gradually.
Besides #PureOS, there is also #Mobian and #postmarketOS - I especially look forward to the latter's future #ImmutableOS version which would have security benefits as well.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (18/2025): Mobile Overlord adds Desktop Mode
> more importantly, postmarketOS is a way of reducing eWaste
I firmly disagree about the relative importance of things here.
In my opinion, the more important issue is reducing our dependence on Google.
The most important thing that makes postmarketOS great is that it allows people to be more independent from Google. Google's dominance in the world (in which Android plays a big part) is a bigger threat to humanity than eWaste.
So fediverse, I'm battling through the break-in of a new #PinePhone right now, and figured y'all would have opinions or good advice on what OS to use. I'm partial to Arch from desktop use, but the Arch ARM stuff doesn't look like it's currently vigorously maintained? Already the pre-installed Manjaro with Plasma was incredibly buggy, but then again, it was very out-of-date. A system upgrade broke boot though, so now I'm looking at new images to start from.
Boosts appreciated.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (17/2025): LAS and funding news
The first prototype board for the Liberux NEXX has been produced, and the team is testing, debugging, and preparing to validate RAM, storage, cameras and display and other hardware for this Linux-based phone with an RK3588S processor. https://liberux.net/our-first-dev-board-has-arrived/ #LiberuxNEXX #Liberux #LinuxSmartphones #MobileLinux
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (16/2025): Counting Easter Eggs
The above linked article explains the current status of the #PureOS development. It starts with the foundation and infrastructure. It describes how packages are synchronized from #Debian, how some packages are improved (for #MobileLinux), and it describes newly identified issues.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens
Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,
After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.
We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )
Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.
The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.
[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]
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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (12/2025): GNOME 48 and other goodies
Gnome 48 also brings so many improvements to Gnome Mobile.
Scrolling is just as smooth as it's on Android.
OSK and Touch text selection are better now.
And the cameras have started working on #Oneplus6
Overall, it's getting to where it is starting to feel like a real alternative 
️.
My dream of crawling away from the clutches of Big-Tech gets closer.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (11/2025): #Libadwaita 1.7 and news from #Sxmo
If you would like to support the development of #PureOS #Crimson you can do a totally optional monthly #donation via a PureOS subscription in the #Purism shop.
The three monthly subscription tiers are:
PureOS Subscription Expert
$19.99 / month
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/pureos-subscription-expert/
PureOS Subscription Premium
$9.99 / month
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/pureos-subscription-premium/
PureOS Subscription Standard
$5.99 / month
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/pureos-subscription-standard/
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