This is the also the first release serve from @ev infrastructure with a new, automated setup making things more reproducible and allowing to have things more easily managed by multiple people. 7/7

It happened! The first release of KRetro is here: https://blog.seshan.xyz/2025/10/05/introducing-kretro-a-libretro-game-emulator-from-kde-alpha-release/ #kde

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (40/2025): #ubuntutouch 24.04 1.0, #phosh 0.50.0 and more numbers https://linmob.net/weekly-update-40-2025/ #linuxmobile #linuxphoneapps #sailfishos #postmarketos #mobian #droidian #furios #furilabsflx1 #pinephone #pinephonepro #librem5

New blog post: Q3/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, again https://linuxphoneapps.org/blog/additions-of-q3-2025/

phosh 0.50.0 is out 🚀📱: We have some new features, quality of life improvements, (a bit more than usual) under the hood work and 🐛 fixes, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.50.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵 🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release […]

For many years, activists and the annoying free software people in your area have warned that the power of app stores enables turnkey censorship. And of course there have been many examples of this, especially with repressive non-US governments getting apps removed from app stores. This is why […]

yay, it's that time again, MNT September 2025 Update is out, written by @holo_memory. lots of fun stuff, check it out: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2025-09-30-september-update.html

Can't boost this: https://mastodon.social/@ubports/115295373029519929

[fedi meta, help] We're increasingly unable to boost posts from other instances (e.g., mastodon.social) which seriously impacts what is being done here. Any suggestions on what I could do to improve the standing of my tiny gotosocial instance?

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." […]

libxml2's sole maintainer Nick Wellnhofer steps down, meaning libxml2 is now no longer maintained. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/stepping-down-as-libxml2-maintainer/31398 It's hard to estimate just how many companies depend on this software and critical security updates to the library, so I'm […]

[fun] Fun at #linuxdayat #shotonlibrem5 Idea by @kuleszdl

Heading to #linuxdayat in Dornbirn! 🚂 See https://www.linuxday.at/ and https://ev.phosh.mobi/blog/linuxday-2025/ more specifically for why I am spontaneously attending

PSA: If you're using a OnePlus 6(T?) or Poco F1 with #postmarketOS edge, and audio still works for you, better don't upgrade for a bit: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3996 #pmOS #MobileLinux #OnePlus6 #XIAOMIPocoF1 cc @postmarketOS

To maybe make this a bit helpful: I can attest that https://github.com/offici5l/MiUnlockTool works for unlocking XIAOMI phones on Linux, even on ARM (provided you have fastboot installed from the distro in native aarch64) - did this on my #mntpocketreform. You'll need a Mi account, still, but […]

[shitpost] Android, or as I have grown to call it, "ugh what is this, let me unlock the boot loader and install something else"-OS. #android (Context: Got a new toy, a Poco X3 NFC)

New version of #Convo just dropped. Main highlight: end-to-end #encryption support with #OMEMO! 🔒✨ https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo/releases/tag/0.2.0 Coming up on the #BananaHackers store soon, which will incidentally also fix the currently broken […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

🎶🎸🎤🎵 #shotonlibrem5

i ordered the first MNT Quasar processor module PCBs and stencils today! some more technical details and KiCAD sources: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-qcs6490 very much looking forward to the bringup with @LinaroLtd! and many thanks to @nlnet for funding this project.

I've uploaded a version of xdg-desktop-portal-phosh with the #rust based portal enablied to #debian experimental. This finally gives @mobian users adaptive account and app chooser portals (contributed by @arunmani ). Thanks to @debian 's Rust maintainers all needed crates were already packaged […]

Live from #balccon2k25 we just opened the FOSDEM call for participation: https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-09-21-call-for-participation/ Get your devroom proposals started! #fosdem

We've release version 0.0.5 of our little file chooser widget `pfs` mostly to catch up with gtk-rs 0.10.0 and libadwaita-rs 0.8.0

Been working on two small improvements for #stevia (a user friendly on-screen keyboard for #Phosh): 1️⃣ Text auto complete automatically adds a space when inserting a word. We now remove that when the next word is a punctuation mark like a full stop (.) or comma […] [Original post on ruhr.social]

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? […]

the path to actual mobile Linux adoption is probably gonna be through extracting VoLTE radio stacks from existing android roms rather than reimplementing from scratch. carriers have made VoLTE so ridiculously proprietary that open source implementation is basically impossible at this point […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

Received the #cellbroadcast messages from Bundesweiter Warntag 2025 on both #oneplus6t and #librem5 on #phosh 0.49.

Today after some wrangling I got the community-developed Arch build for the @pine64 PineNote working. It was not easy for the likes of me, but with the help of other community members on @matrix I got it, and it is a huge improvement. Yes, I could have bought a just-works e-ink tablet, but this […]

If you use mobile apps, I strongly encourage you to figure out how to pay app developers who publish full source code, under free licenses. Especially those who go to the effort to make their apps work on the Mobile GNU OS, as well as the duopoly mobile OS (Android and iOS). So you can keep […]

Finally got to add support for getting emergency numbers from mobile-broadband-provider-info into #gnome #calls. I guess once that landed we can turn emergency calling on by default in #phosh .

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (36/2025): Past and Present https://linmob.net/weekly-update-36-2025/ #linuxmobile #phosh #lomiri #plasmamobile #sailfishos #ubuntutouch #mobian #postmarketos #emulation #openstore #akademy #linux

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

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 […]

We actually managed to break https://linuxphoneapps.org/find/apps/ with a larger unrelated change in the past few days. So if you've been missing it, don't worry - it's been fixed and works again.

This day in history...I mean present: first ever end-to-end encrypted message to be sent from a #dumbphone? https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo/commit/c95d048c9dafa51ceef5c5c07b241abe6290696b Using #Convo on #kaios, powered by #conversejs, #xmpp, #omemo, and #libsignal :xmpp:

How it works? It's a Plasma wallpaper plugin which is an extremely simple QtWayland compositor that only handles a single fullscreen window and draws it - so any Wayland window can be drawn as a background. This window can of course also belong to Xwayland […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

I had a random thought - "what would it take to support arbitrary old screensavers in Plasma 6 again?" 🤔 So here's xscreensaver safely rendered as a background for Plasma screen locker, working on both Wayland and X11 sessions. Turned out so much simpler […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

Shot on #postmarketos #fairphone5 today

Pixel 3a with Plasma Mobile ready for #akademy in Berlin (with @espidev#akademy) The Vodafone employee was only slightly confused setting up the SIM on Plasma Mobile and looked somewhat concerned when I rebooted the phone and the tty scrolled by 😄

Just boarded my train to #kde #akademy, see you there tomorrow and on sunday!

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 […]

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)

Taxpayer money should benefit society! 💪 Public administrations rely on software to serve society. When that software is funded with public money, it should be #freesoftware Public Money? Public Code! https://publiccode.eu/ #publiccode

PSA for #sxmo users: "Wireplumber 0.5.11 just get released. It includes new hooks that toggle the audio call profile automatically. This conflict with our usage of callaudiod. This means the audio over call is broken now on Edge with Pipewire. I recommend to not upgrade your system for some […]

@devrtz @NGIZero Thanks to the xdg-desktop-portal maintainers our #portal related MR got merged recently too (https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1738) so once that made it into a release we can start transitioning to notifications (instead of modal dialogs) for lower priority events.