Finally got round to writing my blog post about daily driving #PostmarketOS on a OnePlus 6 https://clubb.cymru/2025/07/05/ditching-android/
#MobileLinux or is it #LinuxMobile
Thanks so much to everybody who has made this possible!
Finally got round to writing my blog post about daily driving #PostmarketOS on a OnePlus 6 https://clubb.cymru/2025/07/05/ditching-android/
#MobileLinux or is it #LinuxMobile
Thanks so much to everybody who has made this possible!
Shot on #postmarketOS <3
Let's be honest: They are kinda shitty, but I dig the mood.
Thanks to everyone who made the OnePlus 6 camera driver happen.
I'm going on a 4 day vacation to the north sea tomorrow and I think I'm taking the @postmarketOS phone.
The 25.06 release is the one where finally everything clicks into place for me. It's super stable. I can even take pictures! Not the prettiest, but good enough to capture memories.
We did a small #embedded #Linux hackfest in #Prague Karlín! We moved forward with upstreaming #Pixel3 , we tested #Pixel3XL ability to boot and started working towards OLED enablement, we discussed #Camera (both #libcamera and #libobscura ) on #LinuxMobile phones #postmarketOS with @pavel
When going to higher display resolutions in #phosh #stevia's can become a bit small to type with (as our
s usually don't adjust to display size). I've thus cooked up an MR that allows to keep the physical size of the OSK constant (in portrait mode for now).
On top of that one can add a "dead zone" at the bottom of the OSK which helps on taller devices like the #OP6 as the otherwise tends to tilt when typing on the bottom row.
For me this is a typing speed booster.
phosh 0.48.0 is out :
We have some new features, quality of life improvements, under the hood work and fixes, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.48.0/ for details or see
for a short
to everyone who contributed to this release.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (26/2025): Cell Broadcasting
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-26-2025/
#LinuxMobile #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #LiberuxNexx #FairPhone6 #FuriLabsFLX1 #LIbrem5 #PinePhone
I did a thing. while working on native NFC capabilities, i ended up writing a test program which reads all the info from EMV cards (such as Visa/Master/Amex) and dumps it to try and learn the payload.
the info shown in the #GTK interface is fairly basic mostly as demo, but it dumps a lot more to the shell:
https://github.com/FakeShell/nfc-tester
it may be possible to use this for malicious purposes with the right skill set, so please use it responsibly =)
This week's Linux and FOSS news:
LINUX NEWS
Fedora proposal was made to discontinue 32-bit support in a two-step process, starting from 44, but it was withdrawn:
https://ostechnix.com/fedora-32-bit-i686-support-withdrawal-postponed/
Fedora dropping 32-bit support would put Bazzite's future development at risk, due to breakages of essential Steam features:
https://news.itsfoss.com/fedora-could-kill-bazzite/
Fedora proposal was made to replace upstream X.Org server with XLibre, but the proposal was withdrawn:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-XLibre-Proposal
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-XLibre-Proposal-Withdraw
Hyprland plans to launch €5/month premium tier:
https://news.itsfoss.com/hyprland-premium/
Kubuntu 25.10 won't include Xorg session by default:
https://news.itsfoss.com/kubuntu-25-10-wayland-only/
Qt 6.10 will offer session-management-v1 protocol support for Wayland session restore/management, Plasma 6.5 will include clipboard sync support for the built-in RDP server, ability to copy QR code for clipboard items, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Session-Manage-Interial
KDE Plasma 6.4.1 released with an effect potentially triggering seizure disabled, text contrast and readability improvements, Discover improvements, bug fixes:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kde-plasma-6-4-1-update-disables-a-seizure-triggering-effect
KDE Plasma to get improved initial setup tool:
https://news.itsfoss.com/kde-new-initial-setup-tool/
postmarketOS 25.06 released with Alpine Linux 3.22 base, GNOME Mobile 48, Plasma Mobile 6.3.5, Phosh 0.47.0, and Sxmo 1.17.1, support for more devices, Systemd support, mobile-config-thunderbird:
https://9to5linux.com/postmarketos-25-06-linux-mobile-os-brings-support-for-new-devices-and-systemd
PipeWire 1.4.6 released with option to disable RAOP, improved ALSA plugin, bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-6-adds-new-option-to-disable-raop-improves-the-alsa-plugin
Wine 10.11 released with preparations for NTSYNC support to improve gaming performance, more support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL, bug fixes for several games:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.11-Released
(FOSS news in comments)
And now we have Cellbroadcastd 0.0.2 as well, which fixes a build failure on arm64 and gets the symbol file in order (thanks @agx !)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/devrtz/cellbroadcastd/-/releases/v0.0.2
Cellbroadcastd 0.0.1 was released yesterday
#cbd provides the following:
- persistent storage of received #CellBroadcast messages
- notifications for user interfaces/DEs to handle
- set channels to subscribe to (based on country)
- CLI tool for inspection/debugging purposes
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/devrtz/cellbroadcastd/-/releases/v0.0.1
Many thanks to @NGIZero for funding, @agx for involving me and tons of review and @snwh for UI design!
Hello ! We're Phosh.mobi e.V. a small non profit organization supporting the
project in building a #LinuxMobile first user environment for everyone. You find us at https://ev.phosh.mobi
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (25/2025): Packed with Goodies
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-25-2025/
This week really was something: #postmarketOS ship 25.06 (which, among other things, adds systemd) and work to reverse-engineer #VoLTE, #FuriOS 13.1.0 lands with Open-Store support (for #UbuntuTouch apps) and plenty of other improvements, #PlasmaMobile share detailed log of all the fixes and improvements they managed to land in the past year (and what's to come), Jolla announce free #SailfishOS updates for all #JollaC2 customers, I managed to interview #Liberux about their Nexx phone - but there's way more still, including a packed Apps section. Enjoy!
#FuriLabsFLX1 #PureOS #Librem5 #LiberuxNexx #PinePhone #Phosh #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile
postmarketOS v25.06 - "the one with systemd" is out now!
* Camera for OP6/6T and others
* #GNOME 48 + 48.mobile.0
* #PlasmaMobile 6.3.5
* #Phosh 0.47.0 with Stevia now installed by default
* #Sxmo 1.17.1 (again, but this time with a systemd preview too!)
* os-installer images
* mobile-config-thunderbird
Thanks to all the amazing people who contributed to this release!
Thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release as well as a lot of the systemd related work.
@furilabs have you considered moving away from Github (owned by Microsoft)?
For someone like me who is looking for independence from "Big Tech", seeing that you are on Github is a really bad sign, and it makes me reluctant to contribute.
Look at others, like Gnome, Purism, postmarketOS, Mobian, and so on, they all use something else. I think they know that Github is bad for them, both in practice and in principle.
Another day out with #phosh and the #OP6
- Woke up with #gnomeClocks
- Looked up the address of the via #Firefox and its mobile config
- picked my way via #puremap's offline map feature
- Send #SMS via #Chatty
- Replied a toot via #tuba
- Listened to via #gapless
- Looked up the appointment time on #phosh's lockscreen plugin backed by #eds
- Checked pulse via a simple pacer up using #phosh's lancher plugin for the short
No console needed.
Speaking of great things for Linux Mobile that @nlnet and @NGIZero are funding:
One of them is the OpenIMSD project, which has the goal of getting VoLTE on Qualcomm based phones working with postmarketOS, @mobian and all other Linux (Mobile) distributions.
As a precursor to that, we need to be able to create VoLTE-related QMI traces from Android phones. @lynxis figured out a good method and wrote a blog post about it:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/06/17/volte-project-qmi-sniffing-with-frida/
@postmarketOS @plasmamobile @NGIZero and of-course, this work will benefit @phosh or any other #LinuxMobile project using modem manager!