Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (39/2025): Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA 10 and a birthday #ubuntutouch #furilabs #linuxmobile #sailfishos #postmarketos #phosh #plasmamobile #pinephone #librem5 #linux

@sajattack had fun with an old Commodore floppy drive 💾 💾 "The old floppy drive is plugged into a Google Pixel 3 running Postmarket OS. Sure, you could do this on Android, but a fully open Linux system is obviously the hacker’s choice. As a bonus, it makes the whole endeavor almost trivial." […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (38/2025): GNOME 49 and a new phone from FuriLabs https://linmob.net/weekly-update-38-2025/ #linuxmobile #furios #furilabsflx1s #postmarketos #mobian #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #plasmamobile #phosh #datenspuren #akademy #linux

Hey, lately, I've been generally unmotivated to contribute to free and open-source projects because I can't sustain myself long-term. I can't find any local or online job that allows me to make a positive impact and not feel depressed. I am not receiving a sufficient number of donations — the […]

Awesome blog post from @LinaroLtd about how to send your first kernel patch! If you have worked on the kernel (e.g. for a postmarketOS device port) but never sent your patches upstream, then what are you waiting for? […]

I just tagged a new #mobileconfigfirefox https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/tags/4.6.1. If you long for major improvements, don't get your hopes up - this release ships what we've in master had since mid April, making the urlbar experience a tad less bad on ESR […]

There were successful tests of #cellbroadcast at Bundesweiter #warntag 2025 on @postmarketOS (https://fosstodon.org/@z3ntu/115184859174052676) (by @z3ntu) and on @mobian (https://ruhr.social/@agx/115184872311438441) (by @agx) on three different 📱models (with and without Qualcomm SoCs) with […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (37/2025): Alarm Week https://linmob.net/weekly-update-37-2025/ #linuxmobile #phosh #plasmamobile #fosspublicalerts #cellbroadcasting #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #jolla #sxmo #linux

Did you know that postmarketOS has a Code of Conduct Team? We have established it late last year without a big announcement, so it is about time that we make a separate blog post on this topic: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/09/07/coc-team-are-here/ Furthermore we have finally created a […]

🇬🇧Public pressure works: Belgium, Finland & Czechia will NOT approve the #ChatControl mass surveillance law in October. But other governments whose vote is crucial are still on the fence. Urge them to protect our digital privacy and encryption now […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Happy to announce that @adrianyyy is our latest Trusted Contributor! He has been active in the pmOS community for almost two years and is known for maintaining Qualcomm SM7150 devices, doing kernel development and U-Boot bringup, making more devices boot generic images and even Improving musl […]

Finally iOS 14 running on #postmarketos, emulated with QEMU 🥳

Thanks to the torch #gnome extension by @vixalientoots I'm finally able to use the flashlight on my #postmarketos OnePlus6 phone 🙏

Shot on #postmarketos #fairphone5 today

so there's the fedi bias in action ;p interesting results and responses! Fun to see the wide range of ways that folks find out about the project how do you think we could improve when it comes to outreach and attracting new people to the community? […]

Heads up for edge users: "Wireplumber 0.5.11 just got released and is available in edge. It includes new hooks that toggle the audio call profile automatically. This conflict with our usage of callaudiod. This has the effect that the overall audo in edge is expected to be unreliable. Please […]

Thats cool, someone managed to package Signal messenger #linux desktop client as an aarch64 #flatpak https://signalflatpak.github.io/signal Quite useable as a secondary client on #postmarketos phone :) #linuxmobile

Wanna keep up with all the new devices getting initial support in postmarketOS? Check out @pmOS_devices ! (not maintained by us but they do a great job)

Oir community have always tried to embrace the upstream-first approach to development, and one of the largest roadblocks in that respect is often the Linux Kernel itself. For better or worse it takes quite a lot of effort to get devicetree files and drivers upstreamed, but this is by far one of […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (35/2025): Plasma on odd screens and Camera fun on mainline https://linmob.net/weekly-update-35-2025/ #linuxmobile #ubuntutouch #plasmamobile #plasmabigscreen #postmarketos #mobian #librem5 #pinephone

. @fizzo has been getting his hands dirty validating the battery emulation in our upcoming device harness PCB. The next step is to write some proper firmware for the board to emulate the existing control mechanism of the Qualcomm debug board used by […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

BREAKING: postmarketOS finally enters the 2020's it's /usr merge time! Come check it out :3 https://postmarketos.org/edge/2025/07/27/usr-merge-testing/

postmarketOS will never ask for your ID to let users install your app!

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (34/2025): Reporting from Elsinore https://linmob.net/weekly-update-34-2025/ #linuxmobile #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #plasmamobile #phosh #sxmo #postmarketos #mobian #furios #droidian

Call for Testing: Phrog 🐸 will be the new #phosh login greeter in postmarketOS edge > We will switch to a new greeter, Phrog, for our Phosh-based installations. Currently we're using tinydm which is getting be started by the init system and launches Phosh. But if testing goes well, we'll switch […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (33/2025): RIP Pro, yay wireplumber! https://linmob.net/weekly-update-33-2025/ #linuxmobile #postmarketos #mobian #wireplumber #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #pinephonepro #pinephone #froscon #linux

Thanks to all the amazing people that have donated to postmarketOS, we were able to pay @flamingradian to make call audio more reliable in Linux Mobile: by replacing callaudiod with a wireplumber plugin! 🤙 Shout out to @mobian's @awai as well as pipewire folks for consulting on how to get this […]

And some more, shot on Librem 5 with Millipixels: #froscon #librem5 #fossonmobile

A wild #postmarketos appears among a sea of degoogled rom phones at the @cybercirujas event

There were then three 🌩️ -talks: - Christoph presented Discitat for tracking students scores (https://codeberg.org/Lerothas/Discitat). He's seeking help with making it mobile friendly and getting it onto #flathub. - Alex showed the status of VR-Headsets like the Lynxr1 ( […]

The first talk in this years #FossOnMobile devroom at @FrOSCon was by @1peter10 titled "Which Phone to get to run Mobile Linux on?" As you can see in the picture easy photo taking can be one of them. There was some lively discussion about options, Android […] [Original post on ruhr.social]

phosh 0.49.0 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-0.49.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵 🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release. #phosh #librem5 […]

If you want help collecting some Gaps in the Linux Phone App Ecosystem, please contribute to this pad: https://pad.hacc.space/XP5opplBQ3mWEpAcv47oSg# (It's part of this #froscon #fossonmobile Talk: https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2025/talk/0a60d401-814a-473d-af0c-5d6ac5913065/ (which won't […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (32/2025): Pipeline progress https://linmob.net/weekly-update-32-2025/ #linuxmobile #debian #postmarketos #mobian #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #sxmo #libcamera

Next Asahi Linux progress report is up. We're finally below 1000 downstream patches :) https://asahilinux.org/2025/08/progress-report-6-16/

Sicelo brought #phosh to the venerable #n900 using #wlroot's pixman renderer as backend. It's not snappy as the device is too underpowered for that but awesome that it works ! #linuxmobile #gtk

I have published the snippet of code that implements a GPU-based ISP with bunch of corrections and encodes video in real time on the Librem 5. Feel free to take parts of it and use in your apps and frameworks... or record your cats 😼 […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

Catching a real world and *unexpected* #cellbroadcast message revealed some minor bugs in #phosh and its mobile settings but those were easy to spotted and fixes will land for 0.49. Overall #modemmanager, #cbd, and #phosh picked the message up as expected (and the channel setting worked as well):

If you use #phosh without a session manager/greeter (like gdm, phrog,... - you are save on Mobian) that unlocks your keyring after login, be careful when using adding apps to your autostart (e.g., with https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/io.github.flattool.ignition/) that need an unlocked keyring to […]

We arrived at @cccac for the Linux mainline meetup 🐧 Found a good candidate for a beginner mainline port attempt: Samsung Galaxy A3 2017. The SOC Exynos 7870 Octa is already mainlined 🔍 Rooted the phone, dumped the device tree and converted it to a dts file #postmarketos #linuxmobile

Heads up for edge users: our package systemd-257.7-r6 in combination with systems that don't have the /usr merge yet, would get stuck at boot. This has been fixed with systemd-257.7-r7. See related edge posts: * https://postmarketos.org/edge/2025/08/06/systemd-edge-upgrades-resolution/ * […]

Attending/considering to attend #froscon this year? Like #linuxmobile / #mobilelinux (e.g., :phosh: :plasmamobile: :postmarketos: :sailfishos: :ubuntu: )? Have a story to share? -> https://cfp.froscon.org/en/mobile2025/cfp (If you have no idea what FrOSCon is: https://froscon.org/ may help 😇)

More bits of #phoc's upcoming workspace support falling into place. It can now show a small indicator in the top left corner when switching work spaces: #phosh #linuxmobile

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (31/2025): Merged Users https://linmob.net/weekly-update-31-2025/ #linuxmobile #sailifishos #jolla #ubuntutouch #postmarketos #danctnix #mobian #waydroid #linux

postmarketOS in 2025-07! :blobcatbox: * apk3 * /usr merge * immutable postmarketOS * Fairphone 6, iPhone X, Lynx R1 * New project for improving audio reliability * postmarketOS joined the GNOME Advisory Board * PCBs arrived * Events: FOSSY, DEF CON, FrOSCon * MSM8917 modem * Plasma Camera 2.0.0 […]

I took a step into hardware 'repair' by receiving my #iFixit kit in the mail today. I was able to get into the Lenovo Chromebook I picked up last week and disconnect the battery so I could (while running off USB power) replace the OS with @postmarketos.org. Full success!

New blog post: Q2/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, JSON API https://linuxphoneapps.org/blog/additions-of-q2-2025/

Going to visit the next monthly #linux mainlining meetup @ @cccac on August 5th 🚀 Of course bringing my basket of smartphones with me 😎 #linuxmobile #postmarketos

#askfedi (where our tax consultant followers at?) We are looking for a German tax consultant (Steuerberater) that is able to provide a one-off consultation related to how to invoice correctly and deal with taxes for some small amount of one-off money (<1000€) related to our legal status (fiscal […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (30/2025): Video Time https://linmob.net/weekly-update-30-2025/ #linuxmobile #postmarketos #mobian #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #phosh #librem5 #furilabsflx1 #pinephone