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postmarketOS

postmarketOS v24.12 is out now! ✨ :postmarketos:

"The One With Androids & Cameras, But It's Mainline Linux"

Read all about it on our blog:
postmarketos.org/blog/2024/12/

Big thanks to everybody who has been contributing to this release, without you this would not be possible! ❤️

We would also like to thank @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release. If you would like to get your project funded, consider applying for a grant!

#linux

postmarketOS v24.12 is out now! ✨ :postmarketos:

"The One With Androids & Cameras, But It's Mainline Linux"

Read all about it on our blog:
postmarketos.org/blog/2024/12/

Big thanks to everybody who has been contributing to this release, without you this would not be possible! ❤️

postmarketOS

mobile-config-firefox 4.4.0 is out! :firefoxnew:

* More space in the urlbar (no ➡️, trimHttps, etc.)
* More space for tabs
* Touch screen fixes
* Tab counter!
* xdg-desktop-portal file-picker
* Moving the navigation to the bottom / showing multiple tabs / tab counter is now optional via about:config options
* PPA is disabled

Big thanks to @linmob, @user0 from #FriendlyFox (counter is based on her amazing work!), @gnumdk from @droidian, @DrRac27, @sethi !

gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma

#linuxmobile

mobile-config-firefox 4.4.0 is out! :firefoxnew:

* More space in the urlbar (no ➡️, trimHttps, etc.)
* More space for tabs
* Touch screen fixes
* Tab counter!
* xdg-desktop-portal file-picker
* Moving the navigation to the bottom / showing multiple tabs / tab counter is now optional via about:config options
* PPA is disabled

OP6 lying on a postmarketOS t-shirt. The phone runs firefox with mobile-config-firefox showing the new features.
erebion

@postmarketOS @linmob @user0 @gnumdk @droidian @DrRac27 @sethi I was just wondering... and now this post appears... Can I use Firefox Sync to send a tab somehow with mobile-config-firefox? I haven't found that anywhere. Is there a way with the config installed?

I often send tabs around. :D

postmarketOS

postmarketOS in 2024-09 :postmarketos:

Highlights:
* systemd progress
* PCB for automated testing
* apk plugins updated for GNOME Software (GNOME 47) & upstreamed to Plasma Discover!
* work on adding Alpine/musl CI for the entire KDE software stack
* pmb v3 in use by pmaports CI + BPO
* usr-merge improvements
* non-latin language fonts
* process for applying kernel config changes for many of our kernels at once - and keeping them applied via CI checks

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/09/

postmarketOS in 2024-09 :postmarketos:

Highlights:
* systemd progress
* PCB for automated testing
* apk plugins updated for GNOME Software (GNOME 47) & upstreamed to Plasma Discover!
* work on adding Alpine/musl CI for the entire KDE software stack
* pmb v3 in use by pmaports CI + BPO
* usr-merge improvements
* non-latin language fonts
* process for applying kernel config changes for many of our kernels at once - and keeping them applied via CI checks

postmarketOS

📼 "systemd-ifying postmarketOS, our immutable future, and why Alpine is cooler than you thought"

Because people at @mediacccde are absolutely amazing, the talk is already up!

media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-

#systemd #allsystemsgo #linuxmobile

postmarketOS

postmarketOS in 2024-08 :postmarketos: --- the next installment of our monthly blog post is out!

Highlights:
* We will move to a self-hosted GitLab instance!
* Thinking about hosting SoC communities there, too
* Pixel 3a has been promoted to community, and it has somewhat working camera
* Firmware compression using zstd
* Proof of concept of VoLTE (4G calls) for SDM845
* PinePhone callaudiod drop-in replacement
* Proper PAM in SSH
* 7 new device ports
* So many events!

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/08/

postmarketOS in 2024-08 :postmarketos: --- the next installment of our monthly blog post is out!

Highlights:
* We will move to a self-hosted GitLab instance!
* Thinking about hosting SoC communities there, too
* Pixel 3a has been promoted to community, and it has somewhat working camera
* Firmware compression using zstd
* Proof of concept of VoLTE (4G calls) for SDM845
* PinePhone callaudiod drop-in replacement
* Proper PAM in SSH
* 7 new device ports
* So many events!

Patrick

@postmarketOS WOW, Camera working on Android devices is a huge step forward. GJ everyone!!!

postmarketOS

The optional systemd efforts for postmarketOS are coming along nicely :blobcat: here's a short update post:

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/07/

#systemd #linuxmobile

fossdd @ 38c3

@postmarketOS thats grand, thanks for the update and of course all the work

postmarketOS

postmarketOS in 2024-07 :postmarketos:

* New homepage design + content
* pmbootstrap feature freeze is over, lots of changes for v3
* New approval requirements for merging patches
* 8 new device ports
* Major initramfs improvements
* Sensor support for Xiaomi Poco F1, Fairphone 4, Fairphone 5
* Lenovo ThinkPad X13s is now in community
* Libcamera patches
* Several amlogic ports for TVs were integrated into a generic amlogic-tvbox port
* and a lot more!

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/07/

#linuxmobile

postmarketOS in 2024-07 :postmarketos:

* New homepage design + content
* pmbootstrap feature freeze is over, lots of changes for v3
* New approval requirements for merging patches
* 8 new device ports
* Major initramfs improvements
* Sensor support for Xiaomi Poco F1, Fairphone 4, Fairphone 5
* Lenovo ThinkPad X13s is now in community
* Libcamera patches
* Several amlogic ports for TVs were integrated into a generic amlogic-tvbox port
* and a lot more!

Matt Panhans

@postmarketOS This is great! Is maintaining and improving support for installs through the UBPorts Installer still on the roadmap?

Askier

@postmarketOS Many website could learn from this. Information is very easy to find and speed is blazing fast!

Project Insanity

@postmarketOS the website looks great 🚀 thanks for the update post!

postmarketOS

@EC_NGI and @nlnet make a dramatic impact to improve our sustainable, privacy and attention respecting #linuxmobile ecosystem. One of the very few answers we have to the duopoly of Android and iOS from Silicon Valley!

Because of that we are saddened about the @EUCommission not mentioning NGI programmes anymore in their draft of funding programmes for 2025. 😢

We signed the open letter, consider doing the same if your project received funding in the past.

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/07/

@EC_NGI and @nlnet make a dramatic impact to improve our sustainable, privacy and attention respecting #linuxmobile ecosystem. One of the very few answers we have to the duopoly of Android and iOS from Silicon Valley!

Because of that we are saddened about the @EUCommission not mentioning NGI programmes anymore in their draft of funding programmes for 2025. 😢

postmarketOS

:postmarketos: v24.06 "The One With Over 250 Devices" is out now!

* @alpinelinux 3.20
* @gnome 46
* @plasmamobile 6.0.5
* @phosh 0.39
* #Sxmo 1.16.3
* New ports in "community": Generic X86_64, ThinkPad X13s, Nexus 10, MS Surface RT
* Devices from "testing" category included for the first time!
* New keyboard mappings for chromebooks
* New UIs: cage, moonlight
* Logbookd
* Lots of kernel upgrades, improvements and bug fixes

Thanks to all who contributed! :blobcatheart:

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/06/

:postmarketos: v24.06 "The One With Over 250 Devices" is out now!

* @alpinelinux 3.20
* @gnome 46
* @plasmamobile 6.0.5
* @phosh 0.39
* #Sxmo 1.16.3
* New ports in "community": Generic X86_64, ThinkPad X13s, Nexus 10, MS Surface RT
* Devices from "testing" category included for the first time!
* New keyboard mappings for chromebooks
* New UIs: cage, moonlight
* Logbookd
* Lots of kernel upgrades, improvements and bug fixes

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@postmarketOS
finally i can enjoy my old inspiron 1564 alongside my poco f1 with #postmarketos :)))

thanks you guys for making this all possible :)

postmarketOS

New blog post about what we have done in 2024-05. This is absolutely amazing, thanks to everybody in this amazing community! :postmarketos:

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/05/

jane400

@postmarketOS I'm really excited to join the pmOS team! Hope we get systemd stable soon :BlobHajMlem:! Especially exicted to see run0 run under pmOS with v256 soon, as things like homed, DynamicUsers are still a long way to go.

postmarketOS

Folks owning a Nvidia Tegra 2/3/4 device, you might be interested in Svyatoslav Ryhel's work of replacing the proprietary bootloader ✨

> Svyatoslav ported most of these devices without owning one, just relying on testing from people. This means anyone having such a device can reach him and eventually will be able to replace the old proprietary vendor bootloader with U-Boot.

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/01/

Thanks to IonAgorria for the photo!

#nvidia #tegra #uboot #freesoftware #linux #bootloader

Folks owning a Nvidia Tegra 2/3/4 device, you might be interested in Svyatoslav Ryhel's work of replacing the proprietary bootloader ✨

> Svyatoslav ported most of these devices without owning one, just relying on testing from people. This means anyone having such a device can reach him and eventually will be able to replace the old proprietary vendor bootloader with U-Boot.

A photo of an ASUS Transformer Prime (asus-tf201) convertible (tablet with dock-keyboard attached) running postmarketOS with weston.
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@postmarketOS Makes me wish my tf700t wouldn't be so bricked to not be able to even enter fastboot anymore…
postmarketOS

Speaking of articles: Europe's biggest IT and tech magazine @ct_Magazin published 3 pages where @ktn gave Phosh, Gnome Mobile, Plasma Mobile, Sxmo and even i3wm on the N900 a try and interviewed @ollieparanoid for it.

"pmOS offers pure adventure, as in the early days of desktop Linux: command-line, DIY, self-built, customized installation images with partially obscure UIs. What you get in return: sustainability, freedom and unimaginable access to the OS and hardware." (roughly translated quote)

c't magazine 21/2023 with a German article about postmarketOS. A photo showing pmOS with Gnome Mobile. Title: "Linux fürs Handy", subtitle: "postmarketOS: Nachhaltiges Mobilbetriebssystem für Enthusiasten",  text (first paragraph): "Das Entwicklerteam hinter postmarketOS lässt sich von der Android und iOS-Dominanz nicht entmutigen und portiert emsig Treiber für Mobilgeräte auf den Standard-Linux-Kernel. Damit sollen Geräte, für die der Hersteller kein aktuelles Betriebssystem mehr liefert, einer sinnvollen Weiterverwendung zugeführt werden. Wir haben uns postmarketOS angesehen und mit dessen Erfinder gesprochen."  A sign in the middle of the article says "Frisch aus c't Nerdistan".
Reaeal

@postmarketOS @ct_Magazin @ktn @ollieparanoid Thank you for reminding me that "cell phone" in German is "Handy". I also wanna thank Stephen Fry for introducing me to this in the first place

postmarketOS

postmarketOS v23.06 is out, thanks to everybody who contributed! 🚀 :postmarketos:

* @alpinelinux 3.18
* First time including @gnome Shell on Mobile!
* Phosh 0.27
* @plasmamobile 5.27.5
* Sxmo 1.14.0
* Lots of improvements to GNOME Software
* USB tethering
* Translations & locale improvements
* Installer: minimum pass len changed from 8 to 6 characters
* @PINE64 Pinebook Pro: backlight control and audio works by default
* And lots more!

postmarketos.org/blog/2023/06/

#linuxmobile #gnomemobile

postmarketOS v23.06 is out, thanks to everybody who contributed! 🚀 :postmarketos:

* @alpinelinux 3.18
* First time including @gnome Shell on Mobile!
* Phosh 0.27
* @plasmamobile 5.27.5
* Sxmo 1.14.0
* Lots of improvements to GNOME Software
* USB tethering
* Translations & locale improvements
* Installer: minimum pass len changed from 8 to 6 characters
* @PINE64 Pinebook Pro: backlight control and audio works by default
* And lots more!

Niko

@postmarketOS @alpinelinux @gnome @plasmamobile @PINE64 Wow!! Gnome shell on mobile on the stable channel!! Gnome Software working with apks! Thanks so much for all the hard work everyone up and down the stack.

Wilson J. Holmes

@postmarketOS @alpinelinux @gnome @plasmamobile @PINE64 I picked a good time to try it out on my #pinebookpro! Excited to update and get some audio!

purple

@postmarketOS @alpinelinux @gnome @plasmamobile @PINE64

As a not-so-nerdy & non-dev user, you cannot imagine how much i'm looking forward to using Linux with #GNOME on mobile at some point!

postmarketOS

Imagine you could install any software on any device. The devices you own that don't receive updates anymore, or where you found out that the software is full of ads/tracking. You could replace it, maybe with a Linux distro like postmarketOS running mainline. These devices wouldn't need to be electronic waste. We signed @fsfe's #openletter to the EU to make this happen.

You can sign it, too!

fsfe.org/activities/upcyclinga

#Ecodesign #RightToRepair #EWWR #FreeSoftware #LinuxMobile #UpcyclingAndroid

Imagine you could install any software on any device. The devices you own that don't receive updates anymore, or where you found out that the software is full of ads/tracking. You could replace it, maybe with a Linux distro like postmarketOS running mainline. These devices wouldn't need to be electronic waste. We signed @fsfe's #openletter to the EU to make this happen.

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Peter König

@postmarketOS @fsfe

Imagine that this device is not only a smartphone, a TV, but also a washing machine, a fridge, a car, an autonomous driving truck, an autonomous flying cab, ...

Imagine there will be competition at the interface between hardware and software: No more walled gardens. No more "golden" cages: you sovereignly decide the operating system of your property: you decide who should have control over your property.

Fewer #bugs, less #fraud, no more #bugdoor s and no more #backdoos.

Bob Machintruc

@postmarketOS @fsfe FSFE: we're several people who want to sign but just like @tomterl when we click to confirm, we're getting the 'limit exceeded, 20 requests...' error, and then "Not Found No such pending confirmation ID".

Could you please fix this and inform us when it is done? I would like to share this more broadly, and it'd be better if people were not met with an error message. Thanks!

postmarketOS

🎙️ Just released episode 23 of the postmarketOS podcast:

* PowerVR SGX540
* Kupfer
* @ubports installer
* SoCs
* Conferences
* More on automated phone testing

cast.postmarketos.org/episode/

JoshuaDevOps

@postmarketOS @ubports is this the primary distro for pinephone now? I haven't really looked into it since they stopped doing community editions and released the pro model. But i still have one and would like to play around again.

postmarketOS

This time on the podcast, @dos from @purism talks about his Die Hard GNU/Linux User On Phones life. How he's developing lots of great things for Phoc/Phosh, the Librem 5 and how he implemented his personal dream of shrinking windows that he had since the Openmoko days.

cast.postmarketos.org/episode/

postmarketOS

🎙️pmOS podcast #19: excited about a whole bunch of Apple ports (some little known company who produces iPads etc.) and also:

* release upgrade feedback / apk fix
* himitsu-keyring
* qbootctl
* Phosh 0.20
* GNOME Shell on mobile
* Making biktorgj's custom @PINE64 PinePhone modem firmware more stable

cast.postmarketos.org/episode/

🎙️pmOS podcast #19: excited about a whole bunch of Apple ports (some little known company who produces iPads etc.) and also:

* release upgrade feedback / apk fix
* himitsu-keyring
* qbootctl
* Phosh 0.20
* GNOME Shell on mobile
* Making biktorgj's custom @PINE64 PinePhone modem firmware more stable

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