Due to the recent controversy and resulting defederations with some instances, we decided to move the postmarketOS Mastodon account away from Fosstodon. Thank you for hosting us since 2018 and best wishes to @Gina and her new team! New account: https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS […]

With the alarm clock waking the phone from suspend we still need to make sure the alarm sound is audible. We thus need it to have a volume level separate from e.g. media, notifications, calls, etc. This is possible with #wireplumber's "role based policy". There's […] [Original post on ruhr.social]

Heads up on recent mesa upgrades in postmarketOS edge: * Due to changes in the drivers for the Mali GPUs in Mediatek SoCs like MT8183, the recent update to Mesa 25 causes graphical display issues on Mediatek SoCs. A workaround is in preparation […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (18/2025): Mobile Overlord adds Desktop Mode https://linmob.net/weekly-update-18-2025/ #linuxmobile #postmarketos #mobian #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #phosh #plasmamobile #furilabsflx1 #pinephone #librem5

A blog post about what I did at the Plasma sprint: https://espi.dev/posts/2025/05/plasma-sprint/

@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #replicantos, @torproject. Now […]

We are looking into moving our Mastodon account to another instance within the next week or so.

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (17/2025): LAS and funding news https://linmob.net/weekly-update-17-2025/ äLinuxMobile #liberuxnexx #mntreformtouch #nlnet #linuxappsummit #postmarketos #nemomobile #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #pinephone #librem5

Participating in the Hydra workshop at #flisol CABA from #postmarketos :blobcat3c:

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (16/2025): Counting Easter Eggs https://linmob.net/weekly-update-16-2025/ #linuxmobile #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #postmarketos #librem5 #pureos #furios #furilabsflx1 #pinephone

Not much news on other mobile platforms but I needed a reliable clock that wakes me up even when the 📱 is suspended so I added some boottime clock support to #gnomeClocks. This together with #feedbackd support can be found in […] [Original post on ruhr.social]

Putting together a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 based Plasma Mobile dev kit for @espidev ! (3D printed case and proper heat sink coming soon)

Back to #Wayland and input methods. What's your favorite input method? Cause for me it was the one on old #Nokia phones. I could type with my hands in my pockets! Handy in winter. https://codeberg.org/dcz/stiwri Tested with #cosmic and #GTK . This is just […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Are there any people using #linuxmobile (#mobian, #postmarketos, #ubports, maybe on #pinephone or #librem5) at #eh22 @linuxmobile ?

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (15/2025): Boot your phone from USB https://linmob.net/weekly-update-15-2025/ #postmarketos #furiphoneflx1 #ubuntutouch #nemomobile #sailfishos #phosh #plasmamobile #mobian #pinephone #librem5

Heads up: "On certain devices (Adreno-based GPUs, e.g. OnePlus 6) Flatpaks apps using GTK4 might fail to start with a currently unknown reason. As a temporary workaround, you can start flatpak apps with GSK_RENDERER=ngl as environment variable." pmaports issue […]

postmarketOS in 2025-03 :postmarketos: 📖 * GNOME (Mobile) 48 * 📷 Camera enablement for OnePlus 6, Motorola Moto E5 Plus, Motorola Moto G5s, Xiaomi Redmi (3S, 4 Standard, 4A) * Generic SM7150 packaging * @nlnet @NGIZero grant for Collation + i18n support in @musl libc got accepted! * COSMIC […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens https://linmob.net/weekly-update-14-2025/ #linuxmobile #phosh #sailfishos #ubuntutouch #Amazfish #furilabsflx1 #pinephone #gtk4 #mobileconfigfirefox #librem5

As part of or work on #cellbroadcast we've documented our current test setup: https://codeberg.org/Phosh/gsm-cell-testing using #osmocom for the mobile network parts and #ansible for deploying #modemmanager on the devices, performing the tests and checking the results. Thanks to @NGIZero for […]

New blog post: MCF18: Dodging a bullet https://linmob.net/mcf18-dodging-a-bullet/

@craftyguy talking about #postmarketos at the local Portland Linux Group here in #portland. #phones #foss #opensource

In our previous blog post 2025 Priorities: Reliability, Audio, Cameras and More, we asked "is there anything that you find terribly important that we have missed here?". And indeed, there was one thing that people would have liked us to focus more on, which is a better keyboard experience. This […]

happy trans day of visibility :3 #tdov #transvisibilityday

phosh 0.46.0 is out 🚀📱 : There's 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.46.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵 🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release. #phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #linuxmobile 1/N

🗨 As the Matrix.org bridge to the OFTC IRC network will likely stop working soon, we are now self-hosting our own bridge for postmarketOS related channels. The chats should continue to work the same as before, but let us know if you run into unexpected issues. If you are a well known community […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (13/2025): Crossing Platforms, Breaking Barriers https://linmob.net/weekly-update-13-2025/ #linuxmobile #phosh #sailfishos #ubuntu Touch #megapixels #furilabsflx1 #librem5 #pinephone #postmarketos

As our community grows, we are increasing the focus we put on planning and organizing the work we do. Therefore we have been thinking hard about priorities for this year. Read all about it on our blog: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/30/pmOS-year-priorities/

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (12/2025): GNOME 48 and other goodies https://linmob.net/weekly-update-12-2025/ #linuxmobile #postmarketos #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #firefox #gnome #pinephone #librem5 #ChimeraLinux #movuan

And.. arriving #clt2025 #shotononeplus6

We will be able to spend a significant chunk of money on building our upcoming hardware CI system (and related software components) for improving the reliability of postmarketOS. For everybody who is donating to postmarketOS: you are amazing, thank you very much for making this possible! ❤️ […]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (11/2025): #libadwaita 1.7 and news from #sxmo https://linmob.net/weekly-update-11-2025/ #linuxmobile #postmarketos #sailfishos #phosh #ubuntutouch #ubports #furilabsflx1 #librem5 #pinephone

Documentation is very important - one of the reasons that we are happy to announce that @undefined is our newest Trusted Contributor! They currently do the following in postmarketOS: * Working on the postmarketOS wiki; making sure the docs are up-to-date, useful and easy to understand * […]

xiaomi-davinci & xiaomi-surya now use u-boot and are merged into a generic qcom-sm7150 port: > […] U-Boot comes with an EFI implementation that lets us boot the Linux kernel with systemd-boot and have U-Boot pick the correct devicetree blob instead of appending it to the kernel. > This means […]

New blog post: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (09, 10/2025): Too much to put in a title https://linmob.net/weekly-update-09-10-2025/

Successfully tested receiving #cellbroadcast messages on the #pinephone as well: # _build/test/mmcbmmonitor [/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/CBM/0] new cbm: received 4371: Hallo, this is a CBS test message So hopefully all devices supporting `+CSCB` on an AT port should now be able to show […]

Blahajes in their natural environment, shot on a OnePlus 6T running PostmarketOS! #blahaj #ikea #shotononeplus6t #postmarketos

The @postmarketOS project is expanding its list of supported devices and seeking a new name: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=19955

woo... @postmarketOS is looking for a new name. if you have a branding mindset, and especially if you've built a loved brand before, considering submitting a suggestion: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/04/pmOS-update-2025-02/ branding an environment is hard. their big-hitter competition […]

postmarketOS in 2025-02 :postmarketos: 👀 * New name foreshadowing * Office hours * MSM89x7 audio, charging, flashlight and suspend! * Modern Xiaomis POCO X3 NFC and Mi 9T/Redmi K20 moved to community category * 6 new device ports * pmbootstrap cross-native2 for faster cross compiling * […]

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 […]

Ever since adding the `Haptic` API to #feedbackd for games I wanted to make the `VibraPattern` available to feedback themes as well as this allows for more nuanced feedback. This allows us to e.g. use more subtle feedback for OSK button presses than for 📢 of […] [Original post on ruhr.social]

Aaaaaaaand we have… mainline!! With downstream DTB and simplefb_earlycon, but now I can get to fiddling with DT knowing there are no other obstacles \o/ #mainlining #mt8183 #postmarketos

she had a pixel 3a, he had a oneplus 6, can i make it anymore obvious? 😏

While #phosh handles centered notches and rounded corners out of the box (as long as there's device info in gmobile) we didn't handle notches on the right or left display corners at all yet.. A merge request from Eugene Lepshy to add support for the […] [Original post on ruhr.social]

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (08/2025): Cameras and Project Updates https://linmob.net/weekly-update-08-2025/ #linuxmobile #mobian #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #postmarketos #libobscura #furilabsflx1 #pinephone #librem5

Weekly GNU-like #mobilelinux Update (07/2025): Reviews and Improvements https://linmob.net/weekly-update-07-2025/ #furilabsflx1 #pureos #pinephone #librem5 #linuxmobile #postmarketos #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #liberuxnexx

❤️ Thank you to the @postmarketOS community, the contributors to @gnome + #Posh ( @agx#posh), the Plasma mobile contributors from @kde and others in the community who make the programs mobile friendly, and many others who are working for many years now on #gnu #linux for mobile phones! I highly […]

I always wanted a simple way to put the phone to silent mode when e.g. placing it on the table next to the 🛏️ . Since Biemster got NFC to work on the Oneplus 6/6T (https://github.com/biemster/pmos-openbox-conky/blob/main/nxp_nci_i2c.py) we can leverage that […] [Original post on ruhr.social]

Impressive to see that #androidabstractionlayer now seems to support running #antennapod Android version on #linux :D #mobilelinux #postmarketos https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/-/merge_requests/141