LINux on MOBile

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (14/2026): NFC on mainline

2026-04-05T23:00:11+00:00

This past week: Phosh 0.54.0 released, mobile-config-firefox 5.2.0 adds vertical tabs support (may become default in future), postmarketOS Duranium gains system extensions support, Ubuntu Touch Q&A and good news regarding VoLTE on Pixel 3a Halium 12 port, and more! Enjoy!</p> </span>

Commentary in italics.</em></p>

Worth Reading</h3>

postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2026-03: conference announcement</a></li>
Phosh.mobi Blog: Development News March 2026</a></li>
David Heidelberg: Linux kernel contributions 6.7 → 7.0-rc6</a></li>
Martijn Braam: Upgrading the FOSS Camera</a></li>
Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 2nd April 2026 - Final payment</a></li> </ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Jubilee Calculator – App to calculate date differences in different units (Continuum Gaming E515)</a></li>
Continuum Gaming: Sailcards – Native Sailfish OS App for Reward cards (Continuum Gaming E514)</a></li>
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 187</a>. Good one!</em></li>
RootXploit: Arch Linux + Hyprland on OnePlus 6T | Kupfer Linux ARM Project #archlinux #linux #ricing #oneplus6t</a></li>
Matthias Wilkens: Fairphone 5 with Sailfish OS 5: Everyday testing & honest conclusion</a></li>
Ezequiel: Linux on mobile? Absolutely!</a></li>
The redstoneblock: The ultimate mobile Linux experience (Sailfish OS + LXC)</a></li>
Jelly Terra λ: Flash postmarketOS / Phosh the Alpine Linux on Redmi 2 wt88047 in 5 minutes</a></li>
SAMTIME: I Bought Another Linux Phone in 2026</a>

Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: I Bought Another Linux Phone in 2026</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

craftyguy: Coming soon to #postmarketOS Duranium...System extensions!</a></li>
bshah: @kde @plasmamobile at Open-source weekend in Gandhinagar at @fossunited boothcc: @mechasystems</a></li>
ybon: "Imagine a small open source phone running #linux, that fits in your pocket and you can control from your laptop when plugged in ? Like type an SMS with a real keyboard, receive notifications within your desktop UI…Experimenting with SMS, DBus forwarding, Gtk…Powered by @postmarketOS !#dumbphone #slowphone #mobilelinux"</a></li>
ollieparanoid: "mobile-config-firefox 5.2.0 is out!The most exciting change is support for vertical tabs by @linmob. Give it a try and let us know what you think, we might make this the default in the future!Release:https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/tags/5.2.0LINMOB.net post on vertical tabs:https://linmob.net/mcf19-going-vertical/New docs pages:https://docs.postmarketos.org/mobile-config-firefox/main/index.html#linuxmobile #firefox #postmarketos"</a></li> </ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #243 Delayed Trains</a></li>
GNOME Shell & Mutter: What is new in GNOME Kiosk 50</a></li> </ul>
Phosh</h4>

phosh: "phosh 0.54.0 is out 🚀📱:There's 🐛 fixes, improvements and some new features this time.Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.54.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release:#phosh #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #Librem5 #PinePhone"</a></li>
Phosh.mobi releases: Phosh 0.54.0</a></li>
Phosh.mobi Blog: Development News March 2026</a></li>
Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Phosh.mobi @ Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026</a></li>
#phosh: Audio calls are possible with #mobileLinuxI managed it with #firefox browser #proton meets #Fairphone5 #phosh edge #postmarketosI was using bluetooth headphones, but not sure if they necessary.</a></li> </ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: UI and Stability Improvements</a></li>
Volker Krause: FOSSGIS Conference 2026</a></li>
This month in KDE Linux: March 2026</a></li>
kwer.ca: Strand PWA Runtime (Part 2.5)</a></li>
wojtek: @kde @plasmamobile looks gorgeous 😍https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/31/making-plasma-setup-more-mobile-friendly-a-sok26-conclusion/#KDE #plasma #plasmamobile</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7</a></li> </ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 2nd April 2026 - Final payment</a></li>
ilpianista: Hey Sailors, I've mixed feelings about OpenRepos. What are yours?I believe the average user should not</em> use it, but I see why we need it.All my apps are published to OpenRepos, but I want to change this.Harbour is the first choice and then I publish to Chum to allow community ports to get them. My OpenRepos repo should list only those app that don't fit Chum.#SailfishOS</a></li>
abranson: "Vibe coding is making it possible for people with very little experience to build apps. QML on #sailfishos is simple enough to support that, but the cross-platform packaging side with the SDK is still pretty tricky.So I put this together:https://github.com/abranson/build-sailfishos-skillInstall into the Codex home of your IDE, and it will know how to build and package your apps using Coderus' brilliant dockerized SDK. Hopefully it lowers the barrier a bit and helps more people turn their ideas into real apps."</a></li>
#sailfishOS: Dee 0.0.2 released and submitted to Harbour as well 🤞 #SailfishOS</a></li>
#sailfishOS: Dodo’s Planner v0.1 — native Trello client for Sailfish OS: boards, lists, cards, basic editing. Early release in open repos: https://openrepos.net/content/kokorins/dodos-planner#SailfishOS #Trello #OpenRepos</a></li>
frankps: Welcome to the wonderful world of patches in SailfishOS!Patches are created by the community, and are small system enhancements or change of behavior.What is your favourite enhancements?https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/please-share-your-used-patches-i-have-also-reactivate-some-old-patches/21866?u=frankps#SailfishOS #SailfishCommunity #OpenSource #LinuxMobile @jolla</a></li>
Jolla: Brilliant news! We’ve set the course and left the dock, with the majority of Jolla Phone Batch #1 pre-orderers now paid and locked in for delivery starting July 8, 2026. Pre-order holders from Batch #2: your payment link is ready. Choose your colour, your preferred accessories and complete your order by April 30, to lock in your delivery.Check your email for your personal order link and please read the instructions carefully so you won’t forget to use your personal pre-order discount code.⚡Remember, Day1 spots are limited — hurry up and claim yours before they're gone!Happy sailing!#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered #European</a></li>
Jolla: Jolla Phone accessories are now available to order! 📦If you missed to order accessories once completing your Jolla Phone final payment, don't worry — you can always place an order and we can combine those to avoid duplicate shippings - or just get one spare while you're eagerly waiting your Jolla Phone to arrive ❤️ We get you covered in either case, no worry!#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered #European</a></li> </ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 187 call for questions</a></li>
fredldotme: "RE: https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/116302148279096575 Status update: We've had our first successful call over VoLTE tonight! It's still rough around the edges and not every constellation (inbound vs outbound, UI glitches) works as we want but it's a great start, further than the Halium 9 port ever came in terms of VoLTE support.If you like what you read here, please consider a donation (https://fredl.me) so that I can try finding a carrier which supports the P3a with VoLTE."</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: RE: https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/116330873167658656To those who haven't seen this before: this is what #ubports #UbuntuTouch (e.g. on a phone or tablet) looks like when you hook it up to a full-size screen. It switches into “windowed mode”. So cool.</a></li> </ul>
Distributions</h4>

postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2026-03: conference announcement</a></li>
postmarketOS pmbootstrap tags: 3.10.0</a></li>
postmarketOS mobile-config-firefox tags: 5.2.0</a></li>
Phoronix: Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It</a></li>
Lemmy - postmarketOS: #47 FOSDEM 2026 Special</a></li> </ul>
Apps</h4>

LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: KonbuCase</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Solitaire</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Hideout</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Blood Pressure</a></li>
linuxphoneapps: "Phew, finally another content update merged:https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/(MR: https://framagit.org/linuxphoneapps/linuxphoneapps.frama.io/-/merge_requests/188 )"</a></li>
okias: "Ever wanted to use your phone's NFC reader on Linux? Now you can — right from GNOME! I built a minimal NFC app using neard and D-Bus — no hacks, no proprietary drivers. Just run the daemon, tap a tag, and it works. 👉 https://gitlab.gnome.org/dh/gnfc/ 1/2 #nfc #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #Mobian #NixOS #postmarketOS"</a></li>
okias: "What works today: read & import vCards from NFC tags, and detect any tag read — great for verifying your hardware is actually enabled. It's early but real. Contributions and feedback very welcome — let's make Linux NFC happen! 🏷️ 2/2"</a></li>
sesivany: "I've called the new #MeshCore client Meshy and put it on Codeberg:https://codeberg.org/sesivany/meshyThere is still a lot to be done to get to the feature parity with the official app, but all the basics are there and it's already quite usable."</a></li>
sophie: "It's not only Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ but also World Backup Day! Therefore, Pika Backup 0.8 is available as of today. After two years of work, this release not only brings many small improvements, but also a rework of the code base that dates back to 2018. This will greatly help to keep Pika Backup stable and maintainable for another eight years.Learn more on https://apps.gnome.org/PikaBackup/ and help Pika Backup via a donation on https://opencollective.com/pika-backup or to me directly https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/projects/"</a></li>
pi_crew: Oh nice, the newest version of the GTK4 music client Gelly supports #Navidrome server. This will be great on #postmarketOS #mobileLinux</a></li>
reiver: I got a Linux phone a while ago — the FLX1s.I started writing apps for it recently — which are just a GNOME + Linux apps.I started working on a wallet app for GNOME Phosh.I am adding support for Taler.#GNOME #GNUTaler #FLX1 #FLX1s #FLX1Slim #FuriLabs #FuriPhone #LinuxPhone #Phosh #Taler</a></li>
reiver: An update on the wallet app I am creating for GNOME Phosh on Linux.I am continuing to add support for Taler.Here is what it currently looks like to add a Taler exchange.(A Taler exchange is where you would get Taler coins from.)(Some of the stuff in the screen will change. Such as the buttons at the bottom.)RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116333586637907550#GNOME #GNUTaler #FLX1 #FLX1s #FLX1Slim #FuriLabs #FuriPhone #LinuxPhone #Phosh #Taler</a></li>
reiver: So far I have written a (mobile optimized) file manager app.And, written a finger painting app for kids ages 3 to 5. (I have young children.)....There are other apps I plan to write, too.#GNOME #FLX1 #FLX1s #FLX1Slim #FuriLabs #FuriPhone #LinuxPhone #Phosh</a></li>
reiver: "I started working on my small-net browser / client again — named: SpaceMonkey.I got a Linux phone a while ago — the FLX1s.So, I made it so SpaceMonkey would work on my FLX1s Linux phone by turning it (SpaceMonkey) into a GNOME Phosh + Linux app.#GNOME #FLX1 #FLX1s #FLX1Slim #FuriLabs #FuriPhone #LinuxPhone #Phosh #SpaceMonkey"</a></li>
okias: "Apple Wallet passes on Linux — getting better.Mobile Linux support has been pretty weak. My favorite app [ https://github.com/pablo-s/passes ] had a few rough edges.New version (v0.11, released 2 days ago).🚀 České dráhy now show date & time.I contributed a few improvements today (3 PRs, ~5 hours):🐛 Proper date & time rendering🐛 QR code clearly visible on the button✅ Transport iconsLinux pass support is finally starting to feel usable #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #GNOME #CeskeDrahy"</a></li> </ul>
Kernel</h4>

phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: Add Motorola Edge 30 (dubai) DTS</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845-google-common: Enable NFC</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845-oneplus: Enable NFC</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845-shift-axolotl: Enable NFC</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] iio: adc: qcom-pm8xxx-xoadc: remove redundant error logging in pm8xxx_read_raw</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] dt-bindings: bluetooth: qcom,wcn6750-bt: Document WCN6755 Bluetooth</a></li>
David Heidelberg: Linux kernel contributions 6.7 → 7.0-rc6</a></li>
Phoronix: Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux Fixes Performance Bug Affecting Qualcomm Ath11k & Ath12k WiFi Drivers</a></li> </ul>
Stack</h4>

Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation</a></li>
lwn: Servo 0.0.6 released</a></li> </ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (13/2026): Spring Cleaning

2026-03-29T18:54:48+00:00

This past week: A PINE64 Community Update with (no actual?) news on a PinePhone 2, Phosh 0.54 release candidate tagged at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026, postmarketOS announces archival of unmaintained devices after v26.06, first batch of Jolla Phone preorders ready to be completed, and way more. Collected in a city known for a famous tragedy</a>. Enjoy!</p> </span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>
PINE64: FOSDEM 2026 Update</a>

PINE64official (Reddit): FOSDEM 2026 Blog Post</a></li>
PINE64: Introduction to the PineTime Pro</a>. Even Apple did not go so far to sell a 'Pro' watch.</em></li> </ul> </li>
Chris Down: Debunking zswap and zram myths</a></li>
LibreNews: The political use of operating systems</a></li> </ul>
Worth Listening</h3>

postmarketOS Podcast: #47 FOSDEM 2026 Special</a>. Nice one!</em></li> </ul> Worth Watching</h3>

Clava: "Install Linux di Xiaomi redmi note 4x(mido) , PostmarketOs, simple x mobile (sxmo)"</a></li>
Clava: "Sxmo simple x mobile (sxmo-de-sway), postmarketOS redmi note 4 x mido"</a></li>
Donny K.: Interview with Sami Pienimäki - CEO of Jolla at #mwc2026</a></li>
Jelly Terra λ: Flash postmarketOS / Phosh the Alpine Linux on Redmi 2 wt88047 in 5 minutes</a></li>
Continuum Gaming: Sailcards – Native Sailfish OS App for Reward cards (Continuum Gaming E514)</a></li>
Bard Of All Trades Podcast: REVIEW - Daily Driving a Pine Phone Pro at DefCon (Hilarity Ensues)</a></li>
InstallFest: TuxDoctor - Mobilní diagnostika pro Linux do kapsy (Petr Hodina)</a>. Czech.</em></li> </ul> Worth Noting</h3>

elly: "How it started: "I want to have a phone running Linux"How it's going (in 2026): "Got a pile of 5 phones and a clock on my desk. One of them runs Linux decently well, one runs Android because it has working (good) camera and third is used to have working calls. The alarm clock is bricked... again, and I will soon receive another two phones for mainline SoC bringups".I wonder where does it end... I need a stand for all those phones :neocat_shocked:"</a></li>
@dos@librem.one: The #Librem5 has properly detected chargers using BC1.2, Type-C and PD signaling for years now, but it struggled with sources that couldn't actually provide the advertised current (which could happen with buggy chargers/docks, broken or poorly made cables etc.). It would attempt to draw power, drop below voltage threshold, disconnect, and then do it all again once the voltage went back up to a good level in an endless loop. Good news: this behavior is about to be gone 😁 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile</a></li>
r/MobileLinux: Phone with hardware keyboard for mobile Linux</a></li> </ul>
Events</h4>

Modal: Mark your calendars 📆The third Reflection Developer Labs session will be on April 14, 15:00 UTC!This time we'll dive into an actual code example using the p2panda GObject bindings.Sign up here: https://pad.gnome.org/4uGYejbVSxO8LUPQRQZW-w#localfirst #p2panda #gtk #gnome #gobject #linux #ReflectionDeveloperLabs</a></li> </ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #242 Shuffling Cards</a></li>
Christian Schaller: Using AI to create some hardware tools and bring back the past</a></li>
GNOME Foundation News: Introducing the GNOME Fellowship program</a></li> </ul>
Phosh</h4>

phosh: Directly from #clt2026 comes our release candidate for #phosh 0.54 and related components: 🎉 📱 .The release is planned 2026-04-05: https://phosh.mobi/releases/calendar/ We've also tagged the companion releases for gmobile 0.7.0 and pfs 0.0.8.#LinuxMobile</a></li>
#phosh: @Ertain If you're looking for something close to mainilne with modern #phosh then there's https://senderolinux.com/product/oneplus-6t-postmarketos/ from @senderolinux and we're working on simplifying the setup on #postmarketos and other distros basically as we speak (hopefully with an initial version in 0.55).</a></li> </ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Easier Microphone Sensitivity Adjustment</a></li>
KDE e.V. News: Framework Becomes a KDE Patron</a></li>
Volker Krause: February/March in KDE Itinerary</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing</a></li>
Phoronix: Framework Computer Steps Up Their Support For KDE</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support</a></li> </ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Jolla Phone update - Final payment and towards mass production :rocket:</a></li>
Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Community meeting on 9th April 2026</a></li>
jolla: "It's time. The Jolla Phone pre-orders are now ready to complete and we've rolled out the Batch #1 emails to pre-orderers. Choose your colour, complete your order by April 30, and lock in your delivery.⚡ Day1 spots are limited — hurry up and claim yours before they're gone!📧 Important: your personal voucher code is in the email — please make sure to use it at checkout! ❤️#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered #European"</a></li>
frankps: A new version of #Immich app for #SailfishOS has just been released with lots of new functionality and improvements - go grab it!https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/immich-a-native-immich-application-for-sailfish-os/28066/12?u=frankps #Photograhphy #Immichapp #OpenSource #LinuxMobile</a></li>
abranson: "Updated my #sailfishos port of the #FOSSASIA Badge Magic app to support sending multiple badges. You can either let them play in a slideshow, or cycle through them with the second button on the badge. Rudimentary animation!https://openrepos.net/content/abranson/badge-magicIt's harbour compliant so hopefully it'll be in the Jolla store at some point.If you don't have one of their nifty badges, they usually sell them here, though it looks like there are SSL issues over there right now: https://fossasia.com/"</a></li>
poetaster: Announcing version 1.3.3. of #tooter your friendly neighbourhood #SailfishOs mastodon client. This version contains fixes for poll views (again) preview cards and updates Italian, Swedish and French translations. Slowly getting all the bugs out.Up on https://github.com/poetaster/harbour-tooter/releases/tag/1.3.3 coming to chum, openrepos and harbour .... ping @molan</a></li>
fitheach: "A new release of #SailfishOS has been made. Amongst other things, the release notes mention that Android App Support for the Sony Xperia 10 III has been updated to version 13. AAS not starting has been fixed, according to the release notes. I'm wondering if AAS crashing has also been fixed.This latest release of SailfishOS is 5.0.0.76. I'm going to install this version, and see how AAS behaves. 🤞"</a></li> </ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Installfest Czech Republic 28-29th March</a></li>
UBports Forums OS: lets talk about the phasing out of halium</a></li>
fredldotme: "Due to various barriers I've changed my mind and I'm in the process of porting the trusty Pixel 3a to Halium 12. Not only am I working towards a larger system partition size, I also will help folks with VoLTE enablement, which I can't test with my carrier.This is a little side gig but if you want to vote for higher priorization, I'll happily accept donations to let me know that you really</em> want this. Further links at https://fredl.me"</a></li>
fredldotme: "Why Halium 12? Android 12 was the last version supported by Google and shipped with a roaming enhancement specifically for VoLTE. I'm basically betting on better chances for VoLTE support. Also it allows for a dynamically resizeable system partition, exceeding the storage limits of the current Halium 9 port.Of course it will be a long road because so much has changed between H9 and H12, and there is a lot to forward-port in terms of features and improvements from H9."</a></li>
fredldotme: Btw, minus the SSH connection to my build server I'm doing this off my NexDocked Fairphone 5, including flashing and debugging the Pixel 3a.</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: lomiri-url-dispatcher-gui needs adjustments to work with Qt6 LUITK</a></li> </ul>
Distributions</h4>

News for developers of postmarketOS: Unmaintained devices to be archived after v26.06</a></li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Python 3.14 update breaking apk upgrade</a></li> </ul>
Apps</h4>

LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: DistroShelf</a></li>
valpackett: In preparation for daily driving #MobileLinux I've been thinking a lot about what must be done for reliable and power-efficient push notifications. Spoiler alert: while UnifiedPush may be a relevant service for some apps, it's not where platform dev focus should be.…</a></li>
fdlamotte: #linuxmobile + #meshcore get along well together, aiming for digital sovereignty Thanks @sesivany for permitting that</a></li>
kolunmi: "Thanks to @AlexanderVanhee , bazaar now has a website!!! Take a look at https://usebazaar.org/ 😎"</a></li>
fdlamotte: Cool @sesivany works great on my phone !#postmarketos and #meshcore rox ;)</a></li>
mlundblad: Started implementing support for public transit delays in Mapshttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/917https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/merge_requests/619#gnomemaps #transitous #mapstodon #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #realtimedata #motis #GtfsRT</a></li>
valpackett: "Halftone (the dithering app) makes mobile linux photos look so good. This is like the early days of mobile apps again, except built to last and without any ads#postmarketOS #shotonpmos"</a></li>
Phoronix: Gedit Aims For More Frequent Releases, Bans AI / LLM Contributions</a></li> </ul>
Kernel</h4>

Phoronix: Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH] backlight: ktd2801: enable BL_CORE_SUSPENDRESUME</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8953-flipkart-rimob: Enable display and GPU</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] dt-bindings: display: panel: Add Novatek NT35532 LCD DSI</a></li> </ul>
Stack</h4>

emersion: wlroots v0.20 has been released!https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.20.0</a></li>
Lennart Poettering: Mastodon Stories for systemd v260</a></li>
Phoronix: wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management</a></li> </ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-03-27</a></li>
Matrix.org: The first Public Annual Report is out!</a></li>
Matrix.org: Matrix v1.18 release</a></li>
Matrix.org: Solidarity Social operates a Bluesky PDS and uses Matrix for private DMs</a></li> </ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (12/2026): Immutable Ambitions

2026-03-22T20:16:49+00:00

This past week: postmarketOS introduces Duranium immutable variant, PureOS Crimson beta and Sailfish OS 5.0.0.77 early access released, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, Amazfish 2.9.0 and more! Enjoy!</p> </span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>
postmarketOS Blog: Introducing Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS</a>

Lemmy - postmarketOS: Introducing Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Introducing Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS</a></li> </ul> </li>
Jozef Mlich: Amazfish 2.9.0 was released</a></li>
Purism: PureOS Crimson Development Report: January and February 2026 – Beta Released</a></li> </ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: New Sailfish OS Update 5.0.0.76/77 live on camera! (Continuum Gaming E513)</a></li>
Adrian Ortega: Enabling GPS On OnePlus 6/6T Running PostmarketOS</a></li>
UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 186</a>. Work on 26.04 starting, and more!</em></li>
CodingBite: Linux Phones Can't Break Anymore — postmarketOS Duranium Explained</a></li> </ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

swick: "Instead of taking any part in the monthly wayland bashing bullshit, you could just read about how electron, one of the last X11 bastions, has adjusted to wayland. Super important work! https://www.electronjs.org/blog/tech-talk-wayland"</a></li>
Tuxdoctor: Sneak peek of the website for gathering the anonymous data from the mobile devices running LinuxComing soon to your pockets :)</a></li>
Logical_Error: "Pinephone Pro Linux mainlining thread Decided to make a thread on the work I'm doing on the Pinephone Pro and pin it to my profile. Here's the list of things I've done so far:- https://fosstodon.org/@Logical_Error/115523837605100152- https://fosstodon.org/@Logical_Error/115863006627226016 Mainlining Guide: https://forum.mainlining.org/t/upstream-pinephone-pro-patches/138Had to pause Pinephone Pro development because I got demotivated a bit, but hopefully I'll be able to continue in the near future. Stay tuned~"</a></li> </ul>
Events</h4>

ev: Vorbereitung für #clt2026 nächstes Wochenende 🤓. Kommt gerne an unserem Stand vorbei um #Linux basierte Telefone mit #Phosh auszuprobieren.@clt_news #LinuxMobile #phosh</a></li> </ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #241 Fifty!</a></li>
Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-03-20</a></li>
Jakub Steiner: GNOME 50 Wallpapers</a></li>
Jakub Steiner: Friday Sketches (part 2)</a></li>
Phoronix: Cambalache 1.0 Released After Five Years For Designing Modern GTK UIs</a></li> </ul>
Phosh</h4>

#phosh: Speech input is one of the missing features in #Phosh's stevia. I had looked at several possible solutions but didn't want to pull in a ton more dependencies into stevia itself. While looking for something completely different I stumbled onto #vosk-server which runs fully locally but can be talked to via websocket and so I could punch that into the prototype I had already alying around (video has audio):#LinuxMobile</a></li> </ul>
Catacomb</h4>

UndeadLeech: "Did you know that Catacomb's window manager has built-in curling?Just tile a window, switch to the overview, then try and land it in the target zone using touch velocity!#linuxmobile #catacomb"</a></li>
UndeadLeech: "Catacomb's 1.4.0 release is out, with some minor QoL improvements: - Double-tap on the gesture handle now turns the display off - Better iio-sensor-proxy support - Improved touch velocity with different output scales and input polling rateshttps://github.com/catacombing/catacomb/releases/tag/v1.4.0#linuxmobile #catacomb"</a></li> </ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Time Zone Offsets and Type-Ahead on the Desktop</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.6.3, Bugfix Release for March</a></li>
anditosan: FOSS BACKSTAGE DESIGN</a></li>
cordlandwehr: KJournald 26.04 Features</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.7's KWin Lands Support For 3D LUTs To Help With Modern GPUs</a></li>
Phoronix: SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default</a></li> </ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 19th March 2026 - Meetup in Lyon next Saturday</a></li>
Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: [Release notes] Tampella 5.0.0.77 - EAS - Early Access</a></li>
jolla: "The next batch of Jolla Phone is now available with the adjusted memory pricing.The previous limited batch went fast! The demand from this community has been genuinely humbling ❤️ At the same time, the smartphone market faces utmost challenges with the memory component prices rocketing sky high. The next batch of the Jolla Phone ships with 8 GB RAM / 128 GB storage. If you want more, add the Memory Upgrade to your cart: 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage for an additional 100€.Limited batch. 2 000 units. End of September 2026 delivery.99€ down payment to reserve your place.https://jolla.com/phone#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyFirst #European #CommunityPowered"</a></li>
adampigg: Finally fixed an annoying bug in #amazfish. Some users with a particular ZeppOS 1 watch were saying that 'the last activity' would keep syncing multiple times.Didnt happen for me with ZeppOS 4, seems that device sends a different 'no more data' message! #smartwatch #linux</a></li>
#sailfishOS: @nixCraft Time to wipe Android and install some mobile Linux distro.(Personally I run #SailfishOS)</a></li> </ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

UBports Forums OS: lets talk about pyqt6 in the lomri toolkit</a></li>
Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 186 call for questions</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Missing client side decorations support</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: Amazfish 2.9.0 is out! 🚀 Many changes packed in. Short version? Check the release notes. Long version? Read my blog. Highlights: ZeppOS support ⌚, Bangle.js sync 📊, Sport SummaryPage 🏃‍♂️, FitTrackee upload 🔗, PineTime updates 🌤️, and more! https://blog.mlich.cz/2026/03/amazfish-2-9-0-was-released/</a></li>
#UbuntuTouch: Since my phone is dead for a while now im back to #volla phone with #Ubuntutouch now.Looking forward to daily drive it for a few weeks.Setup with the #Ubports installer worked well enough.Seems like a lot has happened in the last few years regarding the base but #Lomiri is definetly still an aquired taste for me.Signal Desktop is working now though so thats a big upgrade.Happy to see my Apps WaydroidHelper and Gem still beeing maintained by vulenteers. #Linux #linux_on_mobile</a></li> </ul>
Distributions</h4>
postmarketOS</h5>

postmarketOS Blog: Introducing Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS</a>

Lemmy - postmarketOS: Introducing Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Introducing Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS</a></li> </ul> </li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: New postmarketOS installations now by default use sudo-rs instead of doas</a></li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: pmaports and pmbootstrap default branch changed</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports issues: xfce4, mate & lxqt after the removal of onboard from Alpine</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports issues: usb-moded-ng features and functionality</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Fix usb-moded UDC selection and wait for interface to be available before bringing connection up</a></li>
postmarketOS pmbootstrap issues: pmbootstrap install --sdcard appears to complete successfully but no changes to the medium</a></li> </ul>
Others</h5>

Purism: PureOS Crimson Development Report: January and February 2026 – Beta Released</a></li>
Emmanuele Bassi: Let’s talk about Moonforge</a></li> </ul>
Apps</h4>

Nitrux: Fiery, our web browser introduced in Nitrux 2.7.0, has been the default since Nitrux 3.9.1, and is getting a BIG upgrade. Architecture: Migrated the codebase to Qt6. Resolved Wayland and Hyprland rendering issues via GPU layer mutations and applied x86-64-v3 optimizations.Security: Eliminated SQL injection vulnerabilities, enforced strict private profile isolation, and integrated comprehensive ad and cookie consent blockers.🧵 [cont.]</a></li>
UndeadLeech: For Charon 1.6.0 I decided to steal a great feature from Organic Maps: You can now zoom in and out easier by double-tapping and moving the finger up and down.A full list of changes can be found in the release notes:https://github.com/catacombing/charon/releases/tag/v1.6.0#linuxmobile #catacomb #navigation</a></li>
jonathanknez: MP3 app specifically for Librem5 - available now</a></li>
alice: "ok, elastic is using gnome 50 platform now it also has a few new icons and i added dark screenshots. Looks like pretty much no gnome-adjacent store supports them yet, neither does flathub web ui. elementary AppCenter does tho(though it doesn't autoreload them)everyone else will just see 8 screenshots until stores start supporting this"</a></li>
Marknote 1.5.1</a></li>
Jozef Mlich: Amazfish 2.9.0 was released</a></li>
VolkerKrause: Another small preparation for traveling to Switzerland for #OpenTransport2026: #KDE Itinerary now warns when leaving the EU roaming regulation area if you happen to live inside that.</a></li> </ul>
Kernel</h4>

Phoronix: Linux Patches Updated To Steal Tasks For Improving CPU Utilization</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux 7.1 Adding DRM Dedicated CRTC Background Color Property</a></li>
phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/6] Enable new features for flipkart-rimob</a></li>
phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] iio: light: vcnl4000: add regulator support</a></li> </ul>
Stack</h4>

Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions</a></li>
Phoronix: SysV Init 3.16 Released With Cleanups, Improved systemd Unit To SysV Script Conversion</a></li>
Phoronix: Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented</a></li>
Phoronix: GNUnet 0.27 Released For Those With "Some Reasonable Pain Tolerance"</a></li> </ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-03-20</a></li> </ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (11/2026): Input, Budgets and Widgets

2026-03-15T20:01:02+00:00

This past week: postmarketOS publishes 2025 financial report and 2026 budget, GNOME 50 approaching with libadwaita 1.9 released with new sidebar widget for adaptive apps, Stevia speech input prototype via vosk-server - talk to Phosh, Plasma Keyboard improvements and way more. Enjoy!</p> </span>
Commentary in italics.</em></p>
Worth Reading</h3>
dcz: Wayland input method project post-mortem</a></li>
sunweaver: Debian Lomiri Tablets 2025-2027 - Project Report (Q4/2025)</a></li>
postmarketOS Blog: Financial update: 2025 financial report and new budget</a></li>
LINux on MOBile: MCF19: Going Vertical</a></li> </ul>
Worth Watching</h3>

Continuum Gaming: Code Breaker and Media coverage of the J2 (MWC 2026)! (Continuum Gaming E512)</a></li>
AP Archive: Finnish phone maker Jolla launches privacy-focused handset for Europeans</a></li>
VenhoAi: MWC 2026: Jolla Launches the European Phone | Behind the Scenes with Venho</a></li>
Nostalgitech: Sony Xperia 10 III with Sailfish OS 5.0 (Tampella)</a>. Another FOSDEM stand recording.</em></li>
Nostalgitech: Samsung A3 with Linux pmOS - 12 years old smartphone</a></li>
Oleksii: Power consumption/management video #PostmarketOS #Fairphone</a></li>
DHOCNET Workbench: PostmarketOS Flash via TWRP & Auto Pairing Bluetooth Keyboard Testing</a></li>
Pierre Parent: Presenting the application Maps Exporter for Ubuntu Touch (english version)</a></li> </ul>
Worth Noting</h3>

UndeadLeech: "A little preview of the multi-engine behavior in Kumo: To quickly try out a website in a different engine, you can just reload it in WebKit/Servo through the context menu. Kumo will remember which engine was last used for a domain and use that engine for all new tabs for that domain going forward. That way if you're interested in a new browser engine, you can transition one website at a time, rather than requiring a complete browser change.#linuxmobile #servo #catacomb"</a></li>
tbernard: The @solarcast podcast interview about @modal featuring yours truly is out!Thanks @zelf for the invite and for editing our sprawling conversation into something coherent 💚https://solarcast.cc/@solarcast/episodes/modal</a></li>
Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: which Linux Phone Distro should I use?</a></li>
Mobian: "If you are on forky and have an sdm845 phone (such as oneplus 6 or 6T), do NOT upgrade the kernel. There's a bug that will make it no longer boot (the kernel version affected is 6.12.76)."</a></li> </ul>
Events</h4>

Modal: Our second Reflection Developer Labs session is next Tuesday, March 17, at 15:00 UTC!If you're interested in adding local-first sync to your GTK app, this is for you :)Sign up here: https://pad.gnome.org/4uGYejbVSxO8LUPQRQZW-w#ReflectionDeveloperLabs #gnome #gtk #p2panda #localfirst</a></li>
ev: Gentle reminder: Our next #Phosh #community #gettogether is next Tuesday 19:00 CET https://ev.phosh.mobi/gettogether/ . Save the date!#LinuxMobile</a></li>
gnome: "🚨We are extending the #GUADEC 2026 Call for Participation deadline to March 27th .If you were still thinking about it, you now have a bit more time to share your ideas with the GNOME community.You can submit your proposal here: https://events.gnome.org/event/306/abstracts/#submit-abstract#GNOME #opensource"</a></li>
Modal: There's a schedule for #BoilingTheOcean 10 now 🥳 Join us on March 28 at Cultivation Space to discuss and hack on topics like mobile, local-first, GNOME app development, and more :)As usual, you can sign up and add your topic and talk ideas on the pad: https://pad.gnome.org/szr80MP4QKuT3tpNHUb1rg#berlin #localfirst #gnome #postmarketOS #linuxmobile #gtk #flatpak</a></li>
Björn: Nur noch 2,5 Wochen bis zu den Chemnitzer Linuxtagen. Der Phosh e.V. hat einen eigenen Stand und dort könnt ihr alles Rund um Linux auf mobilen Geräten erfahren. Wir haben einige Testgeräte dabei und freuen uns schon darauf mit Euch ins Gespräch zu kommen. https://ev.phosh.mobi/de/ #clt2026 #linux #chemnitz #phosh</a></li>
Phosh e.V.: Gentle reminder: If you intend to attend the Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026 in May, please apply! See https://ev.phosh.mobi/pcm/pcm-2026/ for details. We're also happy about donations to reach our funding goal for the event. #pcm2026 #phosh #LinuxMobile</a></li>
LAS: "It's time to register! Registrations for Linux App Summit 2026 are now open. LAS 2026 will take place from May 16–17 in Berlin, Germany.Register here: https://linuxappsummit.org/register/We're looking forward to seeing you there.#Linux #opensource #Apps #kde #gnome"</a></li> </ul>
More Software News</h3>
Gnome Ecosystem</h4>

This Week in GNOME: #240 Big Reworks</a></li>
Alice Mikhaylenko: Libadwaita 1.9</a>. Great improvements!</em></li>
Sebastian Wick: Redefining Content Updates in Wayland</a></li>
Lucas Baudin: Improving Signatures in Papers: Malika's Outreachy Internship</a></li>
GNOME: 🚨 #GNOME 50 will be released on March 18! 😍 Star or/and boost this post if you're excited! With 5 more days to go we just asked our developers to drop their final GNOME 50 release of their projects.#Linux #Opensource</a></li>
Phoronix: GNOME OS Switches To KMSCON Enabled By Default</a></li> </ul>
Phosh</h4>

agx: Speech input is one of the missing features in #Phosh's stevia. I had looked at several possible solutions but didn't want to pull in a ton more dependencies into stevia itself. While looking for something completely different I stumbled onto #vosk-server which runs fully locally but can be talked to via websocket and so I could punch that into the prototype I had already alying around (video has audio):#LinuxMobile</a>. Impressive!</em></li>
Phosh (gotosocial): Another #cellbroadcast test that went smoothly on #phosh (and the receive wasn't even aware that this one was scheduled🙃)</a></li> </ul>
Plasma Ecosystem</h4>

Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters</a></li>
Carl Schwan et al.: This Week in KDE Apps</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.24.0</a></li>
KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.5.6, Bugfix Release for March</a></li>
Nate Graham: This month in KDE Linux</a></li>
Merritt Codes: Plasma Keyboard: FLOSS/Fund, diacritics, and more</a></li>
qt.io: What's new in QML tooling in Qt 6.11, part 2: new qmllint warnings</a></li>
Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Fixing Direct Scan-Out When Using Fractional Scaling</a></li> </ul>
Sailfish OS</h4>

Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Community meeting on 26th March 2026</a></li>
Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: [Release notes] Tampella 5.0.0.76 - Early Access</a></li>
frankps: This is going great! The September batch on Jolla J2 Community Phone is already a 101% booked with preorders! https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sept-26 @jolla #SailfishOS #NextGenJollaPhone #LinuxMobile #Linux</a></li>
piggz: "I set up a liberapay account. If you appreciate my work on #SailfishOS ports for @volla or @pine64 devices, or like my applications then feel free to use it. :) https://liberapay.com/adampigg"</a></li>
nieldk: SailShark for #SailfishOS!A native Silica frontend for tshark — because why should desktop users have all the fun?✅ Live packet capture✅ Protocol colour coding✅ Choose your interface✅ Capture filters✅ Save to .pcapng✅ Hex + ASCII dump per packetStill rough around the edges but fully usable. Built with Qt/QML on top of Wireshark 3.6.24.Source dropping soon. Feedback welcome! 🐾#Wireshark #NetworkAnalysis #Linux #MobileLinux #OpenSource #Qt</a></li> </ul>
Ubuntu Touch</h4>

UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 185</a></li>
UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 184</a></li>
UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 183</a></li>
UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 182</a></li>
UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 181</a></li>
Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 185 Blog and Audio available now.</a></li>
UBports - Development - Issues: Page header incorrectly hides when switching between tabs and won't come back</a></li>
Phoronix: Ubuntu's AppArmor Hit By Several Security Issues - Can Yield Local Privilege Escalation</a></li> </ul>
Distributions</h4>
Mobian</h5>

Mobian: "If you are on forky and have an sdm845 phone (such as oneplus 6 or 6T), do NOT upgrade the kernel. There's a bug that will make it no longer boot (the kernel version affected is 6.12.76)."</a></li>
Mobian mobian-recipes Issues: firefox-esr-mobile-config removed fromm testing</a></li>
Phoronix: Debian 13.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes</a></li> </ul>
NixOS</h5>

raboof: "Having fun with NixOS on the PineTab2: u-boot video and USB keyboard now work, so I can select the NixOS generation to boot into without needing the serial console.https://github.com/nabam/nixos-rockchip/pull/77#NixOS #uboot #pine64 #pinetab2"</a></li> </ul>
postmarketOS</h5>

postmarketOS Blog: Financial update: 2025 financial report and new budget</a>

Lemmy - postmarketOS: Financial update: 2025 financial report and new budget</a></li>
Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Financial update: 2025 financial report and new budget</a></li> </ul> </li>
News for developers of postmarketOS: pmbootstrap: aportupgrade and lint subcommands removed</a></li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: pmaports and pmbootstrap default branch changed</a></li>
Breaking updates in pmOS edge: New postmarketOS installations for the PinePhone use the wrong UCM configs</a></li>
postmarketOS pmaports issues: ALSA looks for wrong device name when using U-Boot</a></li>
postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Rebase a close-to-mainline kernel</a></li>
Lemmy - postmarketOS: Just installed PostmarketOS</a></li> </ul>
Apps</h4>

schmiddionmobile: "In the last few weeks I have spent some time improving Flare, releasing versions 0.19.0 and 0.20.0 (as well as hotfix releases 0.18.5--0.18.8 and 0.19.1). The new versions for example add an indicator if a channel has new messages, and activating the channel now directly jumps to the latest unread message. It also improves on the UI of Flare, e.g. making reactions to look nicer. There have also been lots of other minor improvements and bug fixes, check out the changelog for more details."</a></li>
pi_crew: This is crazy 🤯 Told claude code to write me a #LinuxMobile #Rust GTK4 app for #Nextbike bike rental service (based upon nextcompanion fdroid app). Took about 15 minutes and it works on the first try 😮</a></li>
wrenix: @pi_crew @nielsdgi make the dev branch of #geary now testable on @postmarketOS (on #LinuxMobile ) and #Alpine with "mrtest add 98744 -a"</a></li>
mlundblad: "Rolled the releases for GNOME 50 today (a bit early, but I'll be busy all day tomorrow):Maps 50.0libshumate 1.6.0and also a (small) bugfix 49.5 on the (old) stable branch.Didn't yet do a write-up about the new stuff, guess that'll have to be done sometime soonish, too… 😎#gnome #gnomemaps #mapstodon #gnome50 #libshumate"</a></li>
VolkerKrause: In preparation for the #OpenTransport2026 conference #KDE's travel apps Itinerary and KTrip will support the Swiss OpenJourneyPlanner 2.0 and train formations APIs in the upcoming 26.04 release.</a></li>
UndeadLeech: "A little preview of the multi-engine behavior in Kumo: To quickly try out a website in a different engine, you can just reload it in WebKit/Servo through the context menu. Kumo will remember which engine was last used for a domain and use that engine for all new tabs for that domain going forward. That way if you're interested in a new browser engine, you can transition one website at a time, rather than requiring a complete browser change.#linuxmobile #servo #catacomb"</a></li>
deobald: "my monthly donation just went through to @kolunmi for their work on bazaar, the flatpak app store for linux: https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaarthere's no corporate sponsor or grants yet, so your monthly donation (i recommend github sponsors) makes a huge difference to the project."</a></li>
LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Telepipe</a></li>
Phoronix: Google To Finally Provide Chrome ARM64 Binaries For Linux</a></li> </ul>
mobile-config-firefox</h4>

LINux on MOBile: MCF19: Going Vertical</a></li>
@linmob@linuxmobile.social: Firefox 149 split tabs on mobile</a></li>
postmarketOS (Mastodon): The mobile-config-firefox documentation has been split up into multiple pages (from mostly a single README.md file), was updated, and is now available at https://docs.postmarketos.org/mobile-config-firefox/ for comfortable reading. For example… with Firefox on your Linux Mobile phone! 😉The ✏️ icon will get you directly to the markdown file in the git repository. Contributions welcome!#mobileconfigfirefox #linuxmobile #postmarketos</a></li> </ul>
Kernel</h4>

z3ntu: "Front camera enablement for Fairphone 5: sent upstream ✅ https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20260313-fp5-s5kjn1-v1-0-fa4f1c727318@fairphone.com/Vladimir Zapolskiy developed and submitted the actual S5KJN1 driver upstream (for a different device), so just some dts additions were left for me :)#LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #Fairphone"</a></li>
Phoronix: Google Now Using AutoFDO To Enhance Android's Linux Kernel Performance</a></li>
Phoronix: Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Advances Past RFC Stage</a></li> </ul>
Stack</h4>

Phoronix: Mesa's LLVMpipe Now Exposes Mesh Shader Support</a></li>
Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.346 Released With Notable VK_KHR_device_address_commands</a></li> </ul>
Matrix</h4>

Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-03-13</a></li>
Matrix.org: Announcing Our First Trademark Policy</a></li> </ul>
Thanks</h3>
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p>
Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3>
If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>

MCF19: Going Vertical

2026-03-14T15:57:53+00:00

The last post on the topic was published almost a year ago</a>, and mobile-config-firefox has seen some important changes since - the best way is to read through the tag list</a> and start at 5.0.0_rc1, as 4.6.1 landed the main topic of the previous post.</p> </span>
Merged improvements</h3>
I think aside from about:mobile and better popups the most important change is that we can now ship different CSS for ESR and release</a>, which really helps to address changes.</p>
Since the last release, 5.1.0, in December 2025, we've landed some more small fixes and improvements</a>, that will hopefully improve everybodies experience once released.</p>
Vertical tabs?</h3>
This post, following tradition, is about something different, something not yet merged though: Supporting the native vertical tabs feature on mobile (somewhat).</p>
Honestly, when I first tried the feature on mobile, I was underwhelmed. It did not work for me, which since I can't wrap my brain around vertical tabs on desktop either, is not too surprising. I was at some point closer to preparing an Merge Request (MR) hiding the option to turn on vertical tabs in Settings (about:preferences).</p>
But since Danny</a> kept insisting that the feature may be nice on mobile, and I figured I had to try, I've now submitted a MR that does not hide the feature, but instead attempts to make vertical tabs on mobile work:</p>

Somewhat support vertical tabs (!109) · Merge requests · postmarketOS / mobile-config-firefox</a> Update, March 15th, 2026: Ollie already merged this 🥳</em></li> </ul>
The MR has some more details, including screenshots - go check and try it out and report back if you see room for improvement.</p>
Addition, March 15th, 2026:</em> I've since added another MR, that improves the experience further:</p>
Vertical tabs: Improve private browsing UI, remove tab popover, declutter sidebar and disable ai chat (!110) · Merge requests · postmarketOS / mobile-config-firefox</a></li> </ul>
How to help test this?</summary>
You need to have git</code> and make</code> installed.</p>
First clone my fork and checkout the branch feature/somewhat-support-vertical-tabs</a>:</p>
git clone https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/1peter10/mobile-config-firefox.git git checkout feature/vertical-tabs-improvements </code></pre> Then install it:</p> sudo make install </code></pre> for Firefox release.</p> To test with ESR, Beta, Nightly or Librewolf respectively run:</p> sudo make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/firefox-esr install sudo make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/firefox-beta install sudo make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/firefox-nightly install sudo make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/librewolf install </code></pre> Note that all these install methods only work for native distribution packages, not flatpak/snap etc.; on Debian, the path may be /usr/share/...</code> instead of /usr/lib/...</code>.</p> </details> And that's it for today!</p> Want to get involved?</h3> If you are interested in making Firefox work better on #LinuxMobile devices, make sure to take a look at the open issues</a>!</p> If you need help getting started or run into problems, make sure to check the new docs</a>, or feel free to ask on Matrix or IRC</a>!</p> Thank you for reading this, please help with testing!</p>
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (10/2026): Slow Spring 2026-03-08T23:28:32+00:00 This past week: Jolla at Mobile World Congress, GTK 4.22 released with improved SVG support and reduced motion option, some Phosh and Ubuntu Touch news and more. Enjoy!</p> </span> Commentary in italics.</em></p> Worth Reading</h3> Liliputing: The new Jolla Phone with Sailfish OS is on track to start shipping in the first half of 2026</a></li> WIRED: The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone</a> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone</a></li> </ul> </li> foss2go.com: Motorola and GrapheneOS partnership announced</a></li> </ul> Worth Watching</h3> Continuum Gaming: Sailfish OS & Proton Mail – New native bridge app available! (Continuum Gaming E511)</a></li> Sucharek: How to install postmarketOS on Poco F3 (Linux on a Smartphone)</a></li> Actualia tech: "Fedora on smartphones, the Pocketblue community project!"</a></li> SAMTIME: I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026</a> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 - YouTube</a></li> </ul> </li> UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 185</a></li> RTP Tech Tips: Age Verification Required In Linux 2027</a></li> </ul> Worth Noting</h3> UndeadLeech: "Catacomb's latest 1.3.0 release fixes an interesting issue: Apparently on the PinePhone (Pro) when disabling eg25-manager</code>, libinput generates a bunch of XF86WakeUp</code> press/release events, ultimately ending up with the key permanently pressed. Since Catacomb supports multi-key bindings, it wouldn't trigger bindings anymore, since it only looked at the ones with XF86WakeUp</code> active.https://github.com/catacombing/catacomb/releases/tag/v1.3.0#linuxmobile #catacomb #pinephone"</a></li> UndeadLeech: "It seems like many things have improved in #servo since I've last checked it out. Performance isn't perfect, but it does still manage to reach 60-70 FPS while screen recording on a Fairphone 5 (~90 without).Plenty of work left to do before I can ship it as an alternative engine, but I think this time it might make it upstream rather than sitting in a branch for another year.#linuxmobile #catacomb"</a></li> allpurposemat: "My Fairphone 5 running #postmarketOS re-gained audio support today, with bonus working mic as well!!Seems like the ALSA configs use a device identifier that only matches if you don't use U-Boot, as it sets a different name, and thus ALSA doesn't find it. Temp solved via sudo ln -s /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/conf.d/qcm6490/{Fairphone\ 5.conf,fairphone-Fairphone5-.conf}</code>Many thanks to @bshah and @aelin for looking into it and spending time helping."</a></li> erebion: Monthly XMPP Newsletter from the @xmpp Foundationhttps://xmpp.org/2026/03/the-xmpp-newsletter-february-2026/Things that happened in February (awesome things)#XMPP #Messenger #DIDay #didit #LinuxOnMobile</a></li> gnulinux: "Alte Technik, neue Freude Oder wie es mir gelungen ist, einem alten Linux-Smartphone neues Leben einzuhauchen. #PinePhone #linuxmobile #catacomb #Alarm #Arch_Linux_ARM #Linux https://gnulinux.ch/alte-technik-neue-freude"</a></li> system76: "“In the case of Colorado’s and California’s bills, effectiveness is lost. In the case of New York’s bill, liberty is lost.”Carl Richell, System76 Founder and CEO, urges New York to reject S8102A OS-level age verification.Read his full statement: https://s76.co/m-S8102A"</a></li> modal: "If you missed yesterday's Reflection Developer Labs session but are curious how it went, you're in luck!The recording is available here now: https://bbb3.gnome.org/playback/presentation/2.3/cd84e4cf96be207333ac00baae24fd0630fa28ac-1772549208221"</a></li> robn: "Including community managers and technical writers is a MASSIVE step in the right direction.It may be hard as a programmer to get stable funding for open source work, but its even harder for not-programmer roles, and those are every bit as important for long term sustainability of our work.Pass this on to the community managers and technical writers in your life :)re https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/116165875657309832"</a></li> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: NLnet grant: Dual SIM for Mobile Linux</a></li> </ul> Events</h4> modal: "Spring is approaching, and so is the next #BoilingTheOcean 🌿When? Saturday, March 28Where? Cultivation Space (Berlin)It will be a single-day hacking event, focused on all the usual topics: mobile, local-first, platform, UX, and more. There will also be lightning talk slots in the evening.More details and link to signup pad to follow!#berlin #gnome #linuxmobile #postmarketOS #localfirst #gtk"</a> I won't be able to make it, sadly.</em></li> ev: "Gentle reminder: If you intend to attend the Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026 in May, please apply! See https://ev.phosh.mobi/pcm/pcm-2026/ for details.We're also happy about donations to reach our funding goal for the event.#pcm2026 #phosh #LinuxMobile"</a></li> LAS: "Our CfP is open, one of the things we've been focused on is gaming? Are you a #game dev? Always dreamed of writing a game on #Linux? Submit a talk around your experience around gaming in #Linux? Let us know what we need to address gaming on Linux. https://linuxappsummit.org/cfp"</a></li> katzenmann: Because @cccac is a bit far away from me but I still want to do some Linux Mobile hacking, and others may want to do the same, I started the Linux Mobile Hacking Evening in the @c3d2 in Dresden.The first one will be in 2 weeks on the 17th.https://c3d2.de/news/linux-phone-hacking-0326.html#linuxmobile #postmarketOS</a></li> </ul> More Software News</h3> Gnome Ecosystem</h4> This Week in GNOME: #239 Accessibility Contributions</a></li> Matthew Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs</a></li> Martín Abente Lahaye: [Call for Applicants] Flatseal at Igalia’s Coding Experience 2026</a></li> Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-03-06</a></li> Phoronix: GTK 4.22 Released With Improved SVG Support, Reduced Motion Option</a></li> Phoronix: GNOME 50 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes</a></li> </ul> Phosh</h4> Phosh.mobi Blog: Development News February 2026</a></li> Phosh (gotosocial): Looking forward to work with #modemmanager upstream on improving dual SIM support in our #LinuxMobile stack: https://nlnet.nl...</a></li> phosh: This will also help #LinuxMobile. There are rumors that this might get integrated into #stevia 🎹 (as you might have heard at our last community get together): https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116169411669556587 </a>. See also</a>.</em></li> phosh: "Tip: if your phone doesn't have a notification LED, it is broken or not yet supported by the kernel you can use the camera flash 📸 :Video on #peertube: https://peertube.debian.social/w/h6sSCuAZDfSQHuBJfaceCG Video on #youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6IbIR2jw6-4 #LinuxMobile #phosh #feedbackd"</a></li> opensourceopenmind: @joe9nf Yeah, but for nontechy folk who need a good OotB experience right now, even that's a great step up the #freedomladder, especially as the #phosh UI on it looks almost the same as on mainline projects using it. So when/if they decide to step up the ladder to a mainline project like #postmarketOS, #PureOS or #Mobian, the migration will be easier compared to migrating from iOS/Android because of same UI/DE, flatpaks, waydroid, etc. Personally, I'm using postmarketOS on a #Librem5 and almost everything important works, but I'm not sure I'd recommend to someone who is not already comfortable with #desktopLinux and a #FOSS-only ecosystem.</a></li> </ul> Plasma Ecosystem</h4> Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Polish and Stability</a></li> Carl Schwan et al.: This Month in KDE Apps</a></li> KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 25.12.3</a></li> KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.6.2, Bugfix Release for March</a></li> KDE e.V. News: Rocky Linux becomes KDE's newest Patron</a></li> tsdgeos: KDE Gear 26.04 branches created</a></li> akselmo: What even are Breeze, QtQuick, QtWidget, Union..?</a></li> </ul> Sailfish OS</h4> Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 5th March 2026 - MWC Barcelona 2026</a></li> Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Greetings from MWC Barcelona 26</a></li> MarkDW: have just fired up my new sailfish os phone and.... it's pretty cool :)First impressions:#jolla #sailfishos #ungoogled https://devenirgris.com/2026/03/07/chapter-10-picking-up-the-ungoogled-thread-again-with-sailfish-os/</a></li> leanderlindahl: @wavesblog our hope lies with European phone OS #SailfishOS, #postMarketOS and their peers combined with legislation requiring digital IDs and banking to have defined APIs so that we can build our own ecosystem. Relying on foreign data harvesters with an opaque agenda won't cut it.https://sailfishos.org/#DigitalSovereignty</a></li> frankps: A fantastic Immich client has been released in its first version for SailfishOS today! https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/immich-a-native-immich-application-for-sailfish-os/28066/2#SailfishOS #Immich #Privacy #OpenSource #LinuxMobile #Photography</a></li> kokorins: Working on my Mobile Speeder app. The Sailfish OS version is available on Harbor and OpenRepos. Planning to release an Android version soon, but I need at least 12 reviewers. If you’re interested, please send me a direct message. #sailfishos #android #speedreader</a></li> </ul> Ubuntu Touch</h4> Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 185 Call For Questions.</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: Install isn't compatible with non-Debian systems</a></li> Tekchip: I've seen next to no talk around this thing. It looks good on paper. Ubuntu Touch officially supported. https://braxtech.net/brax3 Anybody get one from the early run? How is it? #android #privacy #ubports #ubuntutouch</a></li> ancientsounds: @retrimental @Lioh Yes and no. #ubports #ubuntutouch is not the same as desktop #ubuntu: it's an immutable OS and the apps are tailored for small screen devices. You can</em> run arbitrary Linux programs, but only in the Libertine container, which is a bit of a fiddle but does work especially in full-screen mode. Beaming to a full-size screen has some lag though; a wired connection is better but only some devices support that. It's great to experiment with but not yet full convergence, and I wouldn't ditch the desktop/laptop yet!</a></li> </ul> Apps</h4> Mathias Bonn: Mahjongg: Second Year in Review</a></li> pi_crew: "Took the work of @nielsdg on #Gnome mail client #Geary GTK4 port, essential for usage on #LinuxMobile, and created a rebased pull request 🚀 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/merge_requests/892"</a></li> a23: "Today Planify reached 5,000 stars on GitHub ⭐When I started this project, I simply wanted to build a beautiful and powerful task manager for Linux. Seeing thousands of people interested in it, using it, and contributing ideas is incredibly motivating.Open source is amazing because it shows what can happen when people from all over the world support and improve a project together.Thank you to everyone who uses Planify, reports issues, contributes ideas, and supports the project."</a></li> jmlich: "I’ve been working on a new feature for #Amazfish. A new pull request adds support for uploading workouts to @FitTrackee, a FOSS alternative to Strava. The integration is simple for now — just basic uploads, no advanced features yet.I’m looking forward to your feedback!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwylMDM8J5g"</a></li> Carl Schwan et al.: This Month in KDE Apps</a></li> </ul> Distributions</h4> Modal: The first Reflection Developer Labs session is tomorrow</em> 🌈 If you have a GTK app idea (or existing app) that would benefit from local-first sync, this is for you! Join us at 15:00 UTC here: https://meet.gnome.org/rooms/evd-kyl-x5a-m9i/joinSign up here: https://pad.gnome.org/4uGYejbVSxO8LUPQRQZW-w?both#ReflectionDeveloperLabs #gnome #gtk #p2panda #localfirst</a></li> </ul> Kernel</h4> phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/3] Add wiko-chuppito devictree</a></li> phone-devel: Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: pinctrl: qcom: Add Milos LPI pinctrl</a></li> Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Slab Fix On The Way For A "Severe Performance Regression"</a></li> Phoronix: Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way</a></li> </ul> Stack</h4> Phoronix: New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft's .NET MAUI</a></li> Phoronix: Wine 11.4 Released With More Improvements</a></li> Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension</a></li> Phoronix: Wayland 1.25 RC1 Released With Improved Documentation, Minor Changes</a></li> Phoronix: Rust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows</a></li> </ul> Matrix</h4> Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-03-06</a></li> Matrix.org: Senior Developer Relationship Engineer</a></li> </ul> Thanks</h3> Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p> Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3> If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p> Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (09/2026): Sovereign Stacks 2026-03-01T22:30:13+00:00 This past week: Modal Collective publishes vision for "Sovereign Mobile Stack", postmarketOS February 2026 update introduces generic kernel packages (and other things), Phosh shows off Chinese Pinyin and Japanese Anthy input methods becoming part of the Stevia keyboard, Phosh.mobi e.V. celebrates first anniversary, 10000 Jolla Phones sold, and Catacomb UI updates. Enjoy!</p> </span> Commentary in italics.</em></p> Worth Reading</h3> Modal Collective: Towards a Sovereign Mobile Stack</a>. Great!</em></li> schmiddionmobile: Happy Birthday, Pipeline!</a></li> Liliputing: Fedora Pocketblue Remix is an atomic Linux distro for mobile devices (phones and tablets)</a></li> postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels</a> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> Worth Watching</h3> Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E510: Sailfish OS – How to use the GUI & LAST CHANCE for pre-order the J2!</a></li> Actualia tech: "Fedora on smartphones, the Pocketblue community project!"</a></li> CodeInc: Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.2 & OTA-12 Updates — What’s New and Why You Should Upgrade</a></li> Florian´s Chaos Club: "Finally, an update on the Jolla Phone 2 - the European Apple and Android killer?"</a></li> </ul> Worth Noting</h3> felicitas.pojtinger.com: "People need banking and payment apps to work on Linux mobile for it to work. Obviously to only real "fix" for this is a regulatory one that declares SafetyNet a monopolistic control mechanism, which it is."</a></li> ev: "Time flies 🚀: Exactly one year ago we had our association's founding meeting 🥳.Looking forward to the next year of developing and promoting #Phosh and the #LinuxMobile ecosystem, working towards user friendly #DigitalFreedom and #DigitalIndependence (nowadays often called #DigitalSovereignity) for the devices we carry in our pockets very day 📱.Our next booth will be at #CLT2026 in Chemnitz, meet us there."</a></li> furilabs: "Big news — the Convergence Hub (FLH1) is on its way to us for final testing and QA!Once we give it the green light, shipping begins immediately from our warehouse. We've been looking forward to this one - true convergence for your FLX1 and FLX1S.Stay tuned for the final approval update.Get yours: https://furilabs.com/shop/FLH1/#FuriLabs #FuriOS #LinuxPhone #Convergence #FLH1 #PrivacyFirst"</a></li> edri: "1/ Some of our German-speaking readers will know this… Today, like every first Sunday of the month, we celebrate Digital Independence Day! 🎉 EDRi supports this monthly celebration in the liberation of digital lives from #BigTech. We look forward to sharing practical tips & support people and communities who build apps & tools that respect people, #democracy, and the planet.Read more about #DiDay from EDRi member @CCC ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/didit-edri-members-spark-movement-for-alternatives-to-big-tech/"</a></li> jmlich: "Recently, I decided to spend the money you donated to buy a Bangle.js ⌚️.Since then, I’ve improved feature support in #Amazfish — it now synchronizes steps, activities, and alarms.I have to say that #BangleJS is an awesome, hackable smartwatch. It’s something I would definitely recommend to anyone who wants to write some code and learn something new."</a></li> pavel: "Autofocus with #libcamera is fun. You are attempting to tune AF to do something, and while doing that you realize that a) AE does not really work, and b) there's memory leak of GPU memory or something, so if you keep playing with focus for too long, system is hosed in a way application restart does not cure. #librem5 "</a></li> r/MobileLinux: Latest stable Linux kernel + Arch Linux + KDE</a></li> r/MobileLinux: Fedora and Arch on POCO F3</a></li> backtoanalog: This is my review of the FLX1 phone from @FuriLabs. I've been using this phone for about 3 years as a daily driver. I am very happy with it! My banking app works, which is great, Android apps work very well in general. Plenty of settings and updates are monthly. There are glitches: flickering of the screen that I can't stop unless I remove the battery, that happens when I press power button twice; and artifacts being left back when uninstalling Android apps.#FLX1 #FuriLabs #LinuxMobile</a></li> </ul> More Software News</h3> Gnome Ecosystem</h4> This Week in GNOME: #238 Navigating Months</a></li> Matthias Clasen: An update on SVG in GTK</a></li> pojntfx: #puregotk has moved to #Codeberg! I've just opened the first PR to it: https://codeberg.org/puregotk/puregotk/pulls/42Gosh it is nice to have a usable signal/noise ratio on a forge again ...</a></li> Phoronix: GNOME GitLab Redirecting Some Git Traffic To GitHub For Reducing Costs</a></li> Phoronix: Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality</a></li> </ul> Phosh</h4> Phosh.mobi Blog: Development News February 2026</a></li> phosh: We just landed initial support for Chinese (via #pinyin) and Japanese (via #anthy / romaji) in #Phosh's on screen keyboard #stevia using #uim 🥳As our current maintainers don't speak / write these languages we appreciate testing feedback and people joining development so we can improve things further in this important area.#LinuxMobile</a></li> Phosh (gotosocial): Didn't make it to #FOSDEM? @devrtz@fosstodon.org 's talk about #Phosh's recent developments is available online: https://vide...</a></li> ev: "Time flies 🚀: Exactly one year ago we had our association's founding meeting 🥳.Looking forward to the next year of developing and promoting #Phosh and the #LinuxMobile ecosystem, working towards user friendly #DigitalFreedom and #DigitalIndependence (nowadays often called #DigitalSovereignity) for the devices we carry in our pockets very day 📱.Our next booth will be at #CLT2026 in Chemnitz, meet us there."</a></li> </ul> Plasma Ecosystem</h4> Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Vietnamese lunar calendar and rounder highlights</a></li> KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.6.1, Bugfix Release for February</a></li> Volker Krause: OSM Hack Weekend February 2026</a></li> Akselmo: Breeze QtWidgets style changes to help us prepare for Union</a></li> Qt blog: New in Qt 6.11: QRangeModel updates and QRangeModelAdapter</a></li> tintotint: KDE Connect of the Future</a></li> #plasmamobile: I've never appreciated web apps more than when I have been tinkering with #plasmamobile on my OnePlus 6T, since most linux apps assume they are running on a desktop.</a></li> Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps Rounded Style UI Enhancement For QtWidgets-Based Apps</a></li> </ul> Sailfish OS</h4> Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Calling for Spain and JollaES - quick meetup in Barcelona?</a></li> Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Community meeting on 12th March 2026</a></li> jolla: "10,000 pre-orders. Goal reached. We set a goal together. You made it happen.What started as a community wish is now a production reality. The Jolla Phone is happening, shaped by the people who will use it.Thank you. This is what community-driven development looks like. ❤️Next stop: MWC Barcelona. Come find us.#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #European #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered"</a></li> frankps: Whisperfish for SailfishOS (native signal client) has been updated and one of the developers gives us a glimpse what might come in the next update - https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/whisperfish-the-unofficial-sailfishos-signal-client/3337/1595?u=frankpsA big thank You to @rubdos! #Whisperfish #SailfishOS</a></li> frankps: The finale batch of Jolla C2 devices has landed in Tampere and is ready to be shipped to customers: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/update-on-jolla-c2-q4-25-production-batch/25420/35?u=frankpsIf you want a #SailfishOS phone there is only a few preorders left for the upcoming community phone, J2: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder#LinuxMobile @jolla</a></li> #sailfishOS: Is this the new normal? Or was I put into some bucket of "special" users? #youtubealternatives #youtube I can't watch videos on YouTube. Tried four different ones. (I hardly ever visit YouTube unless I have to, but there were some videos about #SailfishOS I wanted to check out after several people mentioned that) #peertube</a></li> #sailfishOS: Two days left to pre-order one of the remaining #Jolla J2 phones. 574 units left.😐#SailfishOS</a></li> #sailfishOS: Three days to go, only 620 pre-orders left until we reach the 10,000 order mark. That would send a strong signal for independent software on phones. Get moving and place your orders!#sailfishos #jolla #did #dut #digitalindipendenceday</a></li> </ul> Ubuntu Touch</h4> UBports Forums OS: Microphone privacy concern</a></li> UBports Forums OS: unstable keyboard</a></li> #UbuntuTouch: Love that my Google Pixel 3a is still alive and running #UbuntuTouch long after Google gave up on it.</a></li> #UbuntuTouch: Outdoor-Smartphone Volla Phone Plinius https://linuxnews.de/outdoor-smartphone-volla-phone-plinius/ #volla #smartphone #vollaos #ubuntutouch #linuxnews</a></li> </ul> Distributions</h4> postmarketOS Blog: postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels</a> postmarketOS: We have updated our AI policy to explicitly forbid generative AI. This and more in our latest monthly blog post "postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels" https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/26/pmOS-update-2026-02/#linuxmobile #postmarketos</a></li> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels</a></li> </ul> </li> Breaking updates in pmOS edge: msm-modem package temporarily removed</a></li> postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: linux-postmarketos-qcom-laptop: backport DMA range fix for >32GB snapdragon x devices</a></li> postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: FuriLabs FuriPhone FLX1 (furilabs-krypton)</a></li> foss2go.com: Fedora Pocketblue: Immutable Fedora for Mobile Devices</a></li> </ul> Other UIs</h4> UndeadLeech: Just released a new version of Catacomb & Epitaph. Catacomb's main changes are the automatic calculation of a device's scale and the ability to define deadzones for devices with rounded corners and camera cutouts. Epitaph now allows full configuration of its modules based on device orientation, which should also help with devices that have cutouts. #linuxmobile #catacomb</a></li> </ul> Apps</h4> LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Recall</a></li> UndeadLeech: Groundbreaking changes in the latest release of Aevum (Catacomb's alarm app): There's now a stopwatch. #linuxmobile #catacomb</a></li> UndeadLeech: "Just added compass support to Charon, which was surprisingly easy thanks to iio-sensor-proxy. #linuxmobile #catacomb"</a></li> pastelsolitude: Oh, yeah, btw the bnuuy mobile Linux game source code is now on Codeberg 🎉.I have no idea what I'm doing.Also binaries exceed Codeberg's size limit so I will most likely have to find a different place for hosting releases. (I'm open for recommendations)https://codeberg.org/pastelsolitude/mobilelinuxgametest#mobilelinux #linux #godot #codeberg</a></li> hugoposnic: Coulr is now working well on #linuxmobile (before latest version, it had a fixed non-resizable window). Post written with Tuba in #postmarketos on my all new OP6t (and first linux phone) 😀️https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.huluti.Coulr</a></li> dillo: "Just fixed a big blocker for FLTK >= 1.4.Blurry fonts were caused by a half pixel misalignment bug in FLTK which broke the font hinting leading to poor readability. Should be fixed in next FLTK 1.4.5 release.I was not expecting to having to follow this whole font rendering pipeline rabbit hole. I'm surprised how little information there is on the Web about this topic, maybe I write more details later."</a></li> hugoposnic: Any idea how an app can be marked as "Desktop only" and be in the "Mobile" section of bazaar? Colorway is not the only app impacted#mobilelinux #flathub</a></li> Oleksii: Today is my first time when I've managed easily connect to the Wifi via qr code.https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.qrca is a great app.#linuxmobile</a></li> </ul> Kernel</h4> phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] media: qcom: camss: csiphy-3ph: Use odd bits for configuring C-PHY lanes</a></li> phone-devel: [PATCH v2 5/6] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6115: Add missing MDSS core reset</a></li> cnxsoft: "Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 H.264 and H.265 video decoders gain mainline Linux supportVDPU381 and VDPU383 video decoders are found in Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 SoCs and variants like the RK3588S and RK3576J. So far, we had to rely on the Rockchip BSP to support hardware video decoding, but Collabora has just announced upstream/mainline Linux support for H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) video decoding for RK3588 and RK3576 SoCs. Highlights of H.265/H.264 video decoder impl…https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/27/rockchip-rk3588-rk3576-h-264-and-h-265-video-decoders-mainline-linux/"</a></li> </ul> Non-Linux</h4> genode: "Today, we released #Genode 26.02, which most prominently replaces XML with the custom-designed HID configuration format. Also, we completed the first half of our project's migration from GitHub to Codeberg, updated DDE-Linux-based protocol stacks to version kernel 6.18, and further cultivated the genode-world repository as designated place for ported third-party software. Further, we added new input-processing capabilities and continued our improvements of the Goa SDK.https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/26.02"</a></li> </ul> Stack</h4> Phoronix: Mesa Developers Trying To Reach A Consensus On AI Policy</a></li> Phoronix: NXP Posts New Linux Accelerator Driver For Their Neutron NPU</a></li> Phoronix: Fwupd 2.0.20 Brings New Hardware Support</a></li> Phoronix: GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support</a></li> Phoronix: Servo Browser Engine Starts 2026 With Many Notable Improvements</a></li> </ul> Matrix</h4> Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-02-27</a></li> </ul> Thanks</h3> Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p> Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3> If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p> Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (08/2026): Touch Your Wrist 2026-02-22T19:59:02+00:00 This past week: AsteroidOS 2.0 release blog post released, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 released, Mecha Comet surpasses $1 million on Kickstarter, Jolla Phone 2026 reaches 9000+ pre-orders, and more! Enjoy!</p> </span> Commentary in italics.</em></p> Worth Reading</h3> yuka.dev: Reviving a Nexus 9 with mainline Linux</a></li> AsteroidOS: AsteroidOS 2.0 Released</a> Neil Brown: Updating my TicWatch to AsteroidOS 2.0</a></li> </ul> </li> Linuxiac: Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices</a> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices</a></li> </ul> </li> xda-developers: You can now download a Fedora Atomic OS for your Android device</a></li> </ul> Worth Watching</h3> Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E509: Jolla Phone – Specs, TOH & Timeline Update</a></li> Tomás: One decade with a Linux phone - Jolla Sailfish</a></li> Manuel Eberle: Sony Xperia 10 III VS Jolla C2 - Sailfish OS 5.0.0.73</a></li> Manuel Eberle: Xperia 10 iii vs Jolla C2 vs Fairphone 4 (Port)-- Sailfish OS 5.0.0.73</a></li> moWerk: AsteroidOS 2.0 - New features tour</a></li> UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 184</a>. With background music.</em></li> Mecha: Ask me anything about the Mecha Comet - 20 February</a></li> DistroTester: Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices</a></li> Tobias Bernard, Andreas Dzialocha: Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop with Modal, Reflection and p2panda</a></li> Martijn Braam: FOSS Pi-based Broadcast camera (pt. 2)</a></li> </ul> Worth Noting</h3> eibriel: Linux Handheld reached 1 million in backing on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer/description#Linux #LinuxHandheld #MechaComet #LinuxMobile #OpenHardware</a>. Impressive!</em></li> UndeadLeech: Finally managed to get the modem working on my Fairphone 5. It's officially a phone now. #linuxmobile #fairphone #alarm #catacomb</a>. If you're wondering "but didn't that work anyway?" - yes, it did, but not on Arch Linux ARM.</em></li> ppisa: @Pavel Machek has rebased his #libcamera AutoFocus experimental branch above mainline v0.7.0 tag during @okias organized 6th #MobileLinux Hackday yesterday (thanks to #SUSE for hosting), and I have built it on my #oneplus6 #Qualcomm #sdm845 phone running my build of 6.19.0-rc4-next-20260106-sdm845-gdc7b19cffd9e kernel and #mobian. Then I have tested it with Pavel’s mcam and, probably the first time ever, with Gnome/Phosh snapshot application with a complete pipewire-libcamera stack. The simple SW AF prototype has been enabled by the addition of - Af: line into /usr/share/libcamera/ipa/simple/uncalibrated.yam. …</a></li> julianwi: make WhatsApp voice calls functional by implementing AudioRecord class</a> - WhatsApp calls should now be possible through Android Translation Layer. Should be possible to test this soon through the ATL Flatpak repo</a></li> </ul> Events</h4> modal: "The #ReflectionDeveloperLabs sessions are starting soon! It's a series of online events for GTK app developers to learn more about local-first, and give us feedback on what they need to add local-first sync to their apps 🪴🔃First session: March 3, 15:00 CET, onlineWe'll give an introduction to the stack and present the WIP new p2panda node/client APIs and GObject bindings to get early feedback.You can sign up here: https://pad.gnome.org/4uGYejbVSxO8LUPQRQZW-w#localfirst #p2panda #gnome #gtk"</a></li> LAS: "We’re excited to announce that Linux App Summit 2026 will take place May 16–17 in Berlin, Germany. Join developers, designers, and open source contributors for two days focused on Linux apps.https://linuxappsummit.org/local/#Linux #opensource #Apps #KDE #GNOME #LinuxAppSummit #LAS2026"</a></li> </ul> More Software News</h3> Gnome Ecosystem</h4> This Week in GNOME: #237 Article Rendering</a></li> Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-02-19</a></li> Jonathan Blandford: Crosswords 0.3.17: Circle Bound</a></li> Adrian Vovk: GNOME OS Hackfest @ FOSDEM 2026</a>. x86 flatpaks on ARM with FEX is particularly interesting!</em></li> Federico Mena-Quintero: Librsvg got its first AI slop pull request</a></li> Phoronix: GNOME 50 Lands Updated Wayland Color Management v2 Support</a></li> </ul> Phosh</h4> Phosh Releases: Phosh 0.53.0</a></li> foss2go.com: Phosh 0.53.0: improved auto-brightness and app thumbnails</a></li> </ul> Plasma Ecosystem</h4> Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here!</a></li> KDE Announcements: Plasma 6.6</a></li> KDE e.V. News: KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles</a></li> shibe-bit: Guide: Building and Using the OMEMO Sync Client</a></li> Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps More Improvements While Plasma 6.6.1 Fixes Begin Accumulating</a></li> </ul> Sailfish OS</h4> Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, February 19th 2026 - Hackday</a></li> Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Jolla Phone update - lights on, technical bits and the schedule</a></li> #sailfishOS: 9,000 pre-orders. Time to celebrate. 🎉This is not just a number. It is 9,000 people who chose privacy, independence, and a different kind of phone. People who decided that their data is theirs. People who believe something better is possible.Secure your Jolla Phone at the special batch price before February ends. If you have been considering it, this is the moment.Let's make it together. ❤️https://jolla.com/phone#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #European #PrivacyFirst #Linux #CommunityPowered</a></li> #sailfishOS: W00t, The #Jolla Phone will actually ship with The Other Half!https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-lights-on-technical-bits-and-the-schedule/27821#TheOtherHalf #SailfishOS #LinuxOnMobile</a></li> #sailfishOS: @Antti98 Thanks. So there are some hacky proof of concept eSim solutions, and hope for official support one day.I'd seen the frequency list before (was probably in a press release), would need to cross check with Japan info.The Jello website says #SailfishOS is "now enhanced for AI-driven applications" - hopefully minor and not distracting!</a></li> </ul> Ubuntu Touch</h4> UBports News: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 release</a> Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.2 Fixes Boot Issues for Sony Xperia X, Improves VoLTE Support - 9to5Linux</a></li> </ul> </li> UBports Forums OS: Call for testing: calendar-app</a></li> Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 184 call for questions</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: MR !237 (Adjust logic for detecting tablet sizing) makes keyboard look too big for Volla Phone Quintus</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: Implement .qmltypes</code> for Qt 6 (Follow-up from "Build QML modules with qt_add_qml_module")</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: build test failures with gdk-pixbuf + glycin</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: [ubports/focal] Jenkinsfile: use arch-specific nodes for building images</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: [ubports/24.04-1.x] Jenkinsfile: use arch-specific nodes for building images</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Redesign workpspace implementation</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Implement separate default height for tall phones</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: src/LomiriToolkit: Fix ListItem's touch event handling</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Split off lomiri-keyboard-qml from lomiri-keyboard</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: plugins/WindowManager: Match Xwayland surfaces to their placeholders</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Increase timeout values to fix flaky tests</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: ignore Only/NotShowIn in desktop files</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Update ru plugin</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Personal/lduboeuf/update upstream</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: nmofono/wwan: enable mobile data with NetworkManager</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: src: platforms: Fix synchronization bug with Mir2 crashing Mir (run on</a></li> #UbuntuTouch: #Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 Roll Out With VoLTE and Xperia X Fixes https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-touch-24-04-1-2-and-20-04-ota-12-released/#UbuntuTouch</a></li> #UbuntuTouch: Day two on the #UBports #UbuntuTouch phone. The pro is that I spend less time scrolling, the con is that I spent more time doing trivial stuff. So that's in balance. My first impression: not ready for prime time yet. I can use it but it takes a lot of effort. All the basic stuff a phone should do can be done but all the things a regular smartphone can do, not so much.#Linux #SmartPhone</a></li> </ul> Distributions</h4> Mobian mobian-recipes Merge Requests: Draft: Remove phosh-session from plasma-mobile images, fix #56</a></li> Mobian mobian-recipes Issues: Now with recommends enabled, plasma-mobile images include Phosh as well</a></li> Breaking updates in pmOS edge: msm-modem package temporarily removed</a></li> postmarketOS (Mastodon): Happy to announce that @ayakael is now a trusted contributor in postmarketOS!He is getting postmarketOS comfortable on eink and cyberdeck devices, improving rockchip support, maintaining Alpine Linux packages and learning how to mainline linux patches. Regarding eink devices, he made a bunch of improvements to the e-ink powered pine64-pinenote and moved it from the testing category to community.📜 TC page:https://postmarketos.org/team/#antoine-martin-ayakael</a></li> postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Nexphone (nex-nexphone)</a></li> </ul> Apps</h4> kolunmi: Made a new screenshot carousel widget from scratch for Bazaar! I wanted the act of scrolling screenshots to be as fluid and responsive as possible. This was very fun to work on.Bazaar: https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaarSupport Me: https://ko-fi.com/kolunmi</a></li> newbyte: "#Megapixels 2.1.0 was just merged into #postmarketOS Edge, including a fix to make it work out-of-the-box again on the original #PinePhone! Performance is not as good as it used as it relies on software rendering but it can take photos at least, and it's markedly more usable than the main alternative Snapshot—which unfortunately runs at what seems to be less than 1 FPS on it."</a></li> chfkch: "Ok, so i didn't have much time the past year to work on BitRitter, but recently at least i got the initial code working for translations.I will try to set it up in the next weeks, so we can use the Weblate instance from @Codeberg .Another thing i was working on in the rare free time was editing entries and saving them to the vault. I got bitten by framework specific stuff, so that will not be solved soon.#BitRitter #RustLang #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #Weblate #CodeBerg"</a></li> cassidy: I finally did a little UI rewrite for Dippi 👀#GNOME #Adwaita #libadwaita #Linux #LinuxMobile #OpenSource</a></li> </ul> Kernel</h4> phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/3] Add wiko-chuppito devictree</a></li> phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/5] Battery temperature ADC plumbing on Qualcomm platforms</a></li> phone-devel: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6125: Add PRNG node</a></li> phone-devel: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Bitmask logic fix and firmware-name support for AW88261 amplifier driver</a></li> Phoronix: AppArmor Enhancements Merged For Linux 7.0</a></li> Phoronix: eCryptfs Sees Renewed Patch Activity With Linux 7.0</a></li> Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions</a></li> Phoronix: USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0</a></li> Phoronix: Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics</a></li> </ul> Stack</h4> Phoronix: Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected</a></li> </ul> Matrix</h4> Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-02-20</a></li> Matrix.org: Analysis of reported issues in vodozemac</a> amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/nj-regulation-e-bikes/)</li> </ul> Thanks</h3> Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p> Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3> If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p> Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion 2026-02-15T22:36:07+00:00 This past week: Phosh 0.53.0 released, postmarketOS publishes FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap, feedbackd moved to freedesktop.org infrastructure, Navit 0.5.7 offline navigation app released after 5 years, Linux 7.0 adds Qualcomm Milos (used in Fairphone 6) and Jolla Phone 2026 surpasses 8,700 pre-orders, and more. Enjoy!</p> </span> Commentary in italics.</em></p> Worth Reading</h3> postmarketOS Blog: FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon</a> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon</a></li> </ul> </li> Phosh.mobi e.V.: Phosh.mobi @ FOSDEM 2026</a></li> Martijn Braam: Building a FOSS live streaming camera</a></li> CNX Software: Linux 6.19 Release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures</a></li> </ul> Worth Watching</h3> Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E508: SFOS – AAS Installer Patcher</a></li> NDK: Experience Ubuntu Touch on Google Pixel 3a</a></li> amarullz: "Front Assembly, Display Glue - piBrick PocketCM5"</a>. Interesting project!</em></li> Elly: Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite booting mainline Linux</a></li> Smokin' Silicon: This $120 Phone DOESN'T run Android or iOS... 🤔</a>. Remastered variant of last weeks PinePhone Braveheart video.</em></li> Techspheres: Setting up Sailfish OS in Sony XA 2 - Jolla sailfish OS - Awesome experience</a></li> Phosh.mobi: Launch splash in Phosh's overview</a></li> </ul> Worth Noting</h3> DrewNaylor: "Finally started using the milestones for Retiled since I feel like it's getting to the point where I can plan out changes better than just having a to-do list issue. Need to start closing and fixing older issues, too.#Retiled"</a></li> phosh: #feedbackd (together with the device themes and #rust bindings) moved to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/feedbackd/ . Many thanks to the fdo maintainers for having us!#phosh #LinuxMobile</a></li> Purism community: Kernel 6.12 available for testing</a></li> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Which phone and OS should I pick?</a></li> </ul> Hardware (enablement)</h4> aelin: "After days debugging the stupidest mistake ever, we finally have penguins on sm7450 (fillmore) :akko_smile2:"</a></li> dubstar_04: Another interesting opensource phone project: https://github.com/V3lectronics/SPIRIT Its very cool to see these projects progress. #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile</a></li> dubstar_04: This is a super ambitious project to create open phone hardware: https://github.com/DansDesigns/OSM-Phone I would love to see this a success and support @mobian and @postmarketOS#MobileLinux #LinuxMobile</a></li> </ul> Events</h4> mobilni_linux_cs_sk: "#6 #MobileLinux Hackday je zde!v pátek 20. 2. 2026 od 10:00 do večera vSUSE Linux, s.r.o.Křižíkova 148/34Praha 8 - KarlínDoprava:- tram/metro KřižíkovaTémata:- od jádra (posílání patchů, b4, atd.)- až po user-space (balíčkování, Flatpak, drobné opravy aplikací aby pěkně běželi na telefonech)- Mobian- pohnout s OnePlus 6 / 6T, Xiaomi Poco F1 #sdm845- experimentování s #FairPhone 5Prosím potvrďte účast i když dorazíte později nebo budete muset odejít brzy.Budem se těšit!Telefon: +420608263376 (také Signal)"</a></li> gnome: "#GUADEC2026 CfP is open! 🎉🎉We are seeking talks on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:- Application development- Privacy and security- Community and team building- Design of user and developer experience- Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop- Newcomers initiatives- Project planning and governanceWe will be accepting both remote and in-person presentation submissions.#GNOME #GUADEC"</a></li> </ul> More Software News</h3> Gnome Ecosystem</h4> This Week in GNOME: #236 New Library</a></li> Asman Malika: Career Opportunities: What This Internship Is Teaching Me About the Future</a></li> Phoronix: GNOME OS To Use systemd-confext, RustConn Provides Modern GTK4 Connection Manager</a></li> Phoronix: GNOME 50 Beta Released With Stable VRR, GDM Improvements</a></li> </ul> Phosh</h4> Phosh releases: Phosh 0.53.0</a></li> Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Phosh.mobi @ FOSDEM 2026</a></li> phosh: "phosh 0.53.0 is out 🚀📱:There's plenty of 🐛 fixes, improvements and refinements of existing features this time.Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.53.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile"</a></li> </ul> Plasma Ecosystem</h4> Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6</a></li> KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.23.0</a></li> Planet KDE: QCoro 0.13.0 Release Announcement</a></li> Planet KDE: While you support others, who supports you?</a></li> Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.6 Sees Last Minute Fixes, Plasma 6.7 Aims For Painless Samba Shares</a></li> </ul> Sailfish OS</h4> Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Community meeting on 26th February 2026</a></li> #sailfishOS: 8700. Just two weeks left to 10k. ...possibly less.⌚ #SailfishOS #Jolla</a></li> #sailfishOS: Released v0.2 of my Twinkle Reader for #SailfishOS! Speed reading + built-in summarization.Now on OpenRepos: https://openrepos.net/content/kokorins/twinkle-reader#OpenRepos #Jolla #LinuxMobile</a></li> </ul> Ubuntu Touch</h4> UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for minor release: 24.04-1.2</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: examples/README.md: Markdownify file, fix some typos and capitalizations and...</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Port: buteo-syncfw-qml to Qt6</a></li> UBports - Development - Merge Requests: Draft: Port to CMake and Qt 6</a></li> #UbuntuTouch: It seems that #WayDroid 1.6.0+ forwards notifications to #Linux desktops. That's great and I'll test it: is it possible to exploit this not only for desktop os, but also for #UbuntuTouch? https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/waydroid-1-6-0-forward-notifications-to-desktop/</a></li> #UbuntuTouch: Playing with #UbuntuTouch: while having a native #Linux terminal is great, I noticed several relevant lacks. Apart many users with #GPS issues, a native mail client is missing: #Dekko2, the “most suggested” one, appears to be discontinued, while both it and the main OS (!!) do not support #OAuth2. So the best option is to stick with #webapps, or to use #Waydroid, an internal #Android emulator, with limits (such as the impossibility to share #notifications with the main os). What am I missing?</a></li> </ul> Distributions</h4> postmarketOS Blog: FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon</a></li> Breaking updates in pmOS edge: Boot failures on Android bootimg and EFI-only devices</a></li> postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: linux-postmarketos-qcom-sc7280: upgrade to 6.19.0</a></li> </ul> Apps</h4> adampigg: Added genre support so Supersonik, my @kde Kirigami #mobilelinux #subsonic client #sailfishos https://github.com/piggz/supersonik/</a></li> newbyte: Opened a merge request to get the Megapixels camera app working again via software rendering on devices that don't support the graphics APIs GTK 4 requires nowadays like the original PinePhone and Exynos 4xxx devices. Performance isn't amazing but it's definitely better than I would've expected. https://gitlab.com/megapixels-org/Megapixels/-/merge_requests/62</a></li> jkoan: After about 5 years we finally did it, the next version of #navit is released now! https://github.com/navit-gps/navit/releases/tag/v0.5.7 It brings loads of bug fixes and also some new features :)For everyone reading who doesn't know what Navit is, it's a fully offline #openstreetmap based #navigation software for many different systems. With #geoclue it also works well on #mobilelinux. But we also have an app for #android. The docs can be found here: https://navit.readthedocs.io/en/v0.5.7/ </a></li> Mat: "I finally got Linux support for the #Rockwork #Pebble client ready for merge, and now I find out #AlpineLinux is (justifiably) phasing out Qt5 packaging, so I can't actually use it. 🫠…"</a></li> </ul> Kernel</h4> CNX Software: Linux 6.19 Release - Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures</a></li> phone-devel: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: qcom: milos-fairphone-fp6: Add Hall Effect sensor</a></li> phone-devel: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: milos: Sort pinctrl subnodes by pins</a></li> phone-devel: [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6350: Add CAMSS node</a></li> kernellogger: "Some highlights from the SoC devicetree updates (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/6589b3d76db2d6adbf8f2084c303fb24252a0dc6) and SoC driver updates (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/bdbddf72a2ab1cfea699959795d70df3931eefe7) merged for #Linux 7.0 and submitted by @arnd :""[…] handful of new SoCs this time[…]* SpacemiT Key Stone K3 is an 8-core risc-v chip […]:* The Realtek Kent family of SoCs contains three chip models […]* The Qualcomm Milos family includes the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 (SM7635) mobile phone SoC […] used in the #Fairphone Gen 6* Qualcomm Kaanapali is a new SoC […]* NXP i.MX8QP and i.MX952 are both feature reduced versions of we already support […][…] a number of to firmware drivers, in particular the TEE subsystem[…]* sysfs support for tee firmware informationMost of the other changes are for random drivers/soc code. Among a number of cleanups and newly added hardware support, including:* Mediatek MT8196 DVFS power management and mailbox support […]""#LinuxKernel #Kernel"</a></li> Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Wires Up Arm's 64-byte Single-Copy Atomic Instructions LS64/LS64V</a></li> Phoronix: Linux 7.0 Lands 8D-8D-8D Octal DTR Support In SPI NAND For Better Performance</a></li> Phoronix: Sheaves Ready To Play A Bigger Role In Linux 7.0</a></li> </ul> Stack</h4> LWN: The future for Tyr</a></li> Phoronix: Libinput 1.31 Released With Configurable Timeouts, Fast 3-Finger Swipes</a></li> Phoronix: X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main"</a></li> </ul> Matrix</h4> Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-02-13</a></li> Matrix.org: Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification</a></li> </ul> Thanks</h3> Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p> Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3> If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p> Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (06/2026): Fairbruary Mainline Calling 2026-02-08T23:33:27+00:00 This past week: Sailfish OS 5.0.0.73 Tampella early access released (approaching Sailfish OS 5.1 branch with BeaconDB for faster location fixes planned for March), Jolla C2 out of stock, Nemo Mobile reaches major milestone booting Lipstick on openSUSE, postmarketOS adds Bhushan Shah as Trusted Contributor and shows progress on Fairphone 5 call audio, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 call for testing. Enjoy!</p> </span> Commentary in italics.</em></p> Worth Reading</h3> LibreNews: I'm A Proud Luddite. That's Why I Use Linux.</a></li> FuriLabs: FOSDEM 2026 Recap</a></li> Neil Brown: Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM</a>. Yes, FOSDEM can be overwhelming.</em></li> </ul> Worth Watching</h3> Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E507: Sailfish OS – Naval Battle Torpedo & the new EA update + AAS Bluetooth</a></li> UBports: Ubuntu Tuch Q&A 183</a>. Good one!</em></li> Anino Ni Kugi: I made my huge phone usable with one hand | Fairphone 4 Ubuntu Touch</a></li> orailnoor: "I Installed Native Linux on my Phone — KDE Plasma Mobile (Android Apps, Docker, VS Code)"</a></li> AD Tech: The Future of Open Source Smartphones 2026: Ubuntu Touch vs /e/OS vs postmarketOS Battle</a>. Slop warning</a> - sorry for letting this slip (… or slop?) through!</em></li> Smokin' Silicon: I bought a Phone that DOESN'T run Android or iOS... 🤔</a>. PinePhone Braveheart in 2026? What?</em></li> Jozef Mlich: Start of nemomobile lipstick on open suse</a></li> Jozef Mlich: Run nemo in virtual machine</a></li> DHOCNET Workbench: Failed to Get Shell Login | Messy Setup Script Implementation on PostmarketOS v25.12</a></li> </ul> FOSDEM 2026</h4> FOSDEM 2026 - NewPipe - Porting an Android app to Sailfish OS</a></li> FOSDEM 2026 - Phosh: What's new and where are we going?</a></li> FOSDEM 2026 - Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop with Modal, Reflection and p2panda</a></li> FOSDEM 2026 - libcamera software ISP status update</a></li> FOSDEM 2026 - No Line Like Mainline: Update On The Fully Mainline Software Stack For Rockchip SoCs</a></li> FOSDEM 2026 - Add Support for New Boards to Mainline Linux, U-Boot and Yocto</a></li> FOSDEM 2026 - Wayland input method wrap up</a></li> </ul> Worth Noting</h3> stsdc: It was fun porting motor driver to support latest #sm7150 kernel for Xiaomi Mi 9T#Phosh #postmarketos</a>. So cool!</em></li> postmarketOS (Mastodon): Recently huge progress was made and we got the first audio coming out of the Fairphone 5 speaker. But now, @bshah and @z3ntu even got call audio working!Coming soon to a Fairphone 5 near you!#fairphone #fairphone5 #postmarketOS</a></li> cas: "Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation. We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.…"</a></li> fizzo: @as400 @khalid @postmarketOS Pixel 3a has reliable phone calls on pmOS. I'm using it as daily driver with my main SIM on it. I carry a second commercial phone for the functionality that is not yet supported.</a></li> pabloyoyoista: "Even though things still need a lot of work, we keep making progress on the hardware-CI (https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/21/hw-ci-mvp/) for #postmarketOS During #FOSDEM I managed to reproduce @mupuf setup, and connect @cas original OP6 for testing! And today @fizzo got a OP6T connected too: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/jobs/1507082 !Exciting times ahead :D"</a></li> r/MobileLinux: Plasma Mobile 6 VPN quick setting</a></li> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Wait - when did Ubuntu Touch get VoLTE support???</a></li> Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: I'm now using my Pebble with my Linux phone</a></li> </ul> Events</h4> modal: "#BoilingTheOcean 9 is next weekend (Feb 13-15)! This time our main topic is identity in peer-to-peer systems. How can we prevent impersonation? What about large groups? What are defenses against physical attacks?On Friday night we'll have a talk and discussion on these questions at @offline. Over the weekend we're at Cultivation Space to work through some of these questions (and hack on our other usual topics like mobile, GNOME UX, and more!)Sign up here: https://pad.gnome.org/G2dIYp3-Tl2bVC7Ii1HaCA"</a>. I won't be able to make it, but don't let that discourage you!</em></li> </ul> More Software News</h3> Gnome Ecosystem</h4> This Week in GNOME: #235 Integrating Fonts</a></li> Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-02-06</a></li> Matthias Clasen: GTK hackfest, 2026 edition</a></li> Lucas Baudin: Being a Mentor for Outreachy</a></li> Christian Hergert: Mid-life transitions</a></li> Phoronix: GNOME's Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default</a></li> Phoronix: VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing</a></li> Phoronix: GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year</a></li> </ul> Phosh</h4> Phosh (gotosocial): Nice, hopefully some of these improvements make it back into calls/chatty/contacts https://fosstodon.org/@alaraajavamma/1159...</a></li> #phosh: So turns out the #gpi dmae driver/component works as intended but there will be timeouts if the I2C device doesn't respond.I fixed the regulator configurations around my touchscreen and now it gets detected and even works in #phosh </a></li> #phosh: If you're at #FOSDEM you have a couple of hours left to grab some stickers, play with phones, chat with us or grab one of two very exclusive #Phosh T-Shirts (sizes M & L)!#Phosh #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #ShotOnLibrem5</a></li> #phosh: Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phosh-GTK4-Progress #Phosh #Linux #Fosdem</a></li> </ul> Plasma Ecosystem</h4> Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: beefed-up Window List widget</a></li> KDE Announcements: KDE Gear 25.12.2</a></li> Volker Krause: FOSDEM 2026</a></li> jbb: Generating GTFS Feeds</a></li> anditosan: FOSDEM 2026</a></li> Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixing Significant Issues With Fingerprint Authentication</a></li> </ul> Sailfish OS</h4> Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, February 5th 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 debrief</a></li> Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: [Release notes] Tampella 5.0.0.73 - Early Access - Announcements</a></li> Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: Jolla C2 out-of-stock - Announcements</a></li> frankps: Yet another Sailfish Community Newsletter has just been released.Most exciting for me is that @jolla is very close to publish a Sailfish OS 5.0 update release, and that they approaching branching of the Sailfish OS 5.1. The 5.1 update is planned to be released somewhere around March. It will contain support for BeaconDB, which should help Location services to get a fix faster. Not much else is announced about this release yet...https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-february-5th-2026-fosdem-2026-debrief/27554#SailfishOS #SailfishCommunity</a></li> adampigg: Some pics from the #fosdem @jolla #sailfishos stand and meetup. Visible a @pine64 PPP and keyboard, a @volla tablet, and the J2 models</a></li> vattuvarg: Jut as I thought the pace of the pre-orders has picked up. 21 days left to get your mittens on a #SailfishOS phone by #jolla. At 8400 already and that means the opportunities are running out. ...slightly quicker day by day, it seems. At 10K pre-orders two things will happen: 1️⃣ A lucky person gets the very last enthusiast-priced J2 phone. 2️⃣ All J2 phones get pogo-pin-connectors (TOH) for further experiments. 🔘</a></li> aegg: Yet another reason why I love my #SailfishOS phone.I forgot my phone this morning, ohh well I can survive a day without.Except for the fact I need SMS 2fa to log into all work services.So.. it's a linux phone I have ssh access to it!I manage to vpn home, ssh into my phone and extract all sms messages.All of this took me 2-3 minutes.#linux #linuxphones</a></li> </ul> Ubuntu Touch</h4> Ubuntu Touch Forums: Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2</a></li> Ubuntu Touch Forums: Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-12</a></li> Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 183 call for questions</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: Dismissing Drawer by clicking outside while a fullscreen app is in the foreground, brings up the app behind</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: Caller ID is wrong</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: [24.04.2.x]: Some sensors are no longer working</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for minor release: 20.04 OTA-12</a></li> UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for minor release: 24.04-1.2</a></li> </ul> Nemo Mobile</h4> Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: Nemomobile is moving towards openSUSE! 🚀 We have a working QCOW image that boots into Lipstick and launches Glacier apps. It's basically just a "Hello World" for now — telephony and messaging won’t work yet, but it’s already fun as a music player.I believe it’s ready again as a development platform and will move forward quickly!Check it out yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VVKxKiP6WM Kudos to Michał Szczepaniak and Sergey Chupligin 🙌</a></li> </ul> Distributions</h4> postmarketOS (Mastodon): We are excited to announce that @bshah is now a trusted contributor in postmarketOS!He has recently returned to KDE Plasma Mobile upstream development as well, which he has been doing for several years beforehand. Furthermore he is helping with improving certain mainline devices, such as the Fairphone 5 where he recently collaborated with @z3ntu to get call audio from the speaker working for the first time!📜 TC page:https://postmarketos.org/team/#bhushan-shah-bshah📽️ FP5 live-action video:https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS/116007536246724076#plasmamobile #linuxmobile #postmarketos</a></li> postmarketOS (Mastodon): For hackathon movie night, we followed the theme of movies with UI names in them again. Previously: "For the Plasma" (2014) and "The Gnome-Mobile" (1967).This time:"COSMIC Journey" (1936 !!!)Reviews coming in below!</a></li> postmarketOS (Mastodon): Recently huge progress was made and we got the first audio coming out of the Fairphone 5 speaker. But now, @bshah and @z3ntu even got call audio working!Coming soon to a Fairphone 5 near you!#fairphone #fairphone5 #postmarketOS</a></li> postmarketOS (Mastodon): #postmarketOS hackathon 2026 is off to a flying start.</a></li> postmarketOS (Mastodon): We had a great FOSDEM yet again, thanks everybody for stopping by! It was fun hearing appreciation of our project by existing users, but also to explain our project to people that have never heard of us.We can't wait to be back next year!Our hackathon is starting now and we'll report about what happened there later this week.</a></li> postmarketOS (Mastodon): Day 2 of #FOSDEM2026 and we're back ready to show our project! If you still want a t-shirt come by quick as they're running out fast!</a></li> postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Radxa Dragon Q6A (radxa-dragon-q6a)</a></li> postmarketOS Wiki New Pages: Gigaset GS4 (gigaset-gs4)</a></li> </ul> Apps</h4> LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Lotti</a></li> LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Oboete</a></li> Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: Any Kiwix client?</a></li> Lemmy.ml - linuxphones: Too Good To Go: API client (Python)</a></li> bjawebos: "🎉 Filmbook 0.2.1 is here! 🎞️I’m excited to share the latest update of Filmbook, your open-source app for tracking analog film usage.…"</a></li> </ul> Kernel</h4> Phoronix: KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers</a></li> Phoronix: Linux 6.19 Sees Last Minute Scheduler Regression Fixes</a></li> Phoronix: New Linux Patches Allow Preserving Apple Mac Backlight Brightness Across Reboots</a></li> Phoronix: Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users</a></li> phone-devel: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: mfd: syscon: Add mt8516-syscfg</a></li> phone-devel: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8516: fix syscfg-pctl compatible</a></li> phone-devel: [PATCH 0/2] Fix syscfg-pctl compatible for MT8516</a></li> phone-devel: [PATCH] testing! arm64: dts: qcom: decrease WiFi antenna regulator minimum to 3.0V</a></li> Phoronix: ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel</a></li> </ul> Stack</h4> Phoronix: Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For The Old R600g</a></li> Phoronix: GNU Nettle 4.0 Released With SLH-DSA Support</a></li> </ul> Matrix</h4> Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-02-06</a></li> Matrix.org: FOSDEM 2026 Wrap Up</a></li> </ul> Thanks</h3> Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts</a> that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.</p> Something missing? Want to contribute?</h3> If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad</a> for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!</strong></p>