Guido Günther

New finance blog post is up, nerding out over the 2025 budget (plan vs. execution), and the budget for 2026.

The most exciting part is probably the q6voice rework and mainlining which will improve audio significantly for postmarketOS and other Linux Mobile distributions on a large number of QC […]

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 […]

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (10/2026): Slow Spring LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (10/2026): Slow Spring

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-10-2026/

#Phosh #SailfishOS #Jolla #UbuntuTouch #postmarketOS #Mobian #ArchLinuxARM #Catacomb #LinuxMobile #PinePhone #Librem5 #FuriLabsFLX1

Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026 ## Where and when The Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026 will take place from Friday _22.05.2026_ _18:00_ to Sunday _24.05.2026_ _17:00_ in the Linuxhotel, Essen, Germany. We’ll work two days together on a user friendly mobile phone ecosystem for everyone. ## Who should attend All Phosh contributors are invited, attendance is _not_ limited to Phosh.mobi e.V. members. It doesn’t matter if you’re contributing to a software component, contribute artwork, help users or package for a distribution. Our aim is to get everyone interested together so we can discuss future plans and work on concrete topics. We currently have room for up to 15 people. ## Location Essen is located in the Ruhrgebiet in Germany. The Linuxhotel is in Essen Horst. ### How to get there It is easy to reach by railway or car: * Location on Openstreetmap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/35932120 * Closest railway station is _Horst S-Bahnhof Essen (Ruhr)_ served by line _S3_ from Essen main station. Walking directions by foot from the train station to the hotel are here * Closest airports are Düsseldorf (DUS), Dortmund (DTM) and Cologne (CGN). See LinuxHotel Anreise for more details on how to get to the location. ### Getting around * Seminar room. This is where the event takes place during the day. * Sleeping * Breakfast * Parking if you arrive by car ## What to bring Mostly you, your ideas and the computing devices you need. The rooms are fully equipped so no need to bring towels or sleeping bags unless you don’t _want_ to sleep in a bed and prefer the conference room floor or a tent (which you’d also have to bring). ## Schedule ### Friday * from 18:00 Arrival, build agenda of topics to discuss / work on * 20:00: Dinner on site * 21:00: Hacking / discussions ### Saturday * 9:00 - 10:00: Breakfast * 10:00: Hacking / discussions * 13:00: Lunch on site * 14:00: Hacking / discussions * 18:00: Lightning talks * starting ~19:00 barbecue (weather permitting) * 21:00: Hacking / discussions ### Sunday * Leave sleeping rooms ’til 9:00 so they can be cleaned * 9:00: Breakfast * 10:00: Hacking / discussions * 13:00: Lunch * 14:00: Hacking / discussions * Departure ’til 17:00 ## Food and Accommodation Breakfast will be served at Linuxhotel. For lunch and dinner we’ll either order something or go out to a nearby restaurant / diner to leave the keyboard for a couple of hours. Weather permitting we can also have a barbecue. If you have any special food requirements please let us know with your application. Rooms are double rooms with separate beds and an additional sleeping couch. Depending on the number of participants they’ll be shared by two or three people. There’s pictures on their web page. ## Can I eat / sleep elsewhere Sure, you can organize accommodation and/or food on your own if you prefer. ## Costs Accommodation, attendance fee and food will be covered by Phosh.mobi e.V. If you want to help us with covering the costs consider making a donation. We have set a small budget for travel sponsorship. If you need travel support to attend, please let us know the amount with your application. ## How to register If you intend to attend, please send a mail to confis@phosh.mobi with the following details (skip things you don’t care/know yet): * Any roommate preference, rooms are double rooms with separate beds * Food preferences / restrictions * Date of arrival / departure * If you need travel sponsorship and if so a rough amount. We can then check the budget and get back to you. * In case you don’t want to be mentioned by name as attending * If already known: The things you plan to work on, things you want to plan / discuss at the meeting. * Pronouns Registration closes 2026-03-31. ## Confirmed attendees These people intend to participate: Name | From | To ---|---|--- Achill Gilgenast | Fri | Sun Benedikt Wildenhain | Sun | Sun Dana Gruschwitz | Fri | Sun David Heidelberg | Fri | Sun Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras | Fri | Sun Guido Günther | Fri | Sun Kevin Anton | Fri | Sun Nicole Faerber | Fri | Sun Prawn | Fri | Sun Romina Tidona | Fri | Sun TBC | Fri | Sun TBC | Fri | Sun TBC | Fri | Sun ## List of Supporters The following individuals supported the event with a donation: * Guido Günther * Manuel Traut * Ondrej Kolin * 5 donors that want to remain private Without their donations this wouldn’t be possible. Thank you! If you donated and your name doesn’t show up here (e.g. because you didn’t set the check mark in the form) but want to be listed, let us know and we’ll fix that. If you’re a company, want to sponsor the event and want to see your logo here, let let us know. ## Getting in touch Any questions? Join us on matrix. ## Health and Safety We welcome and encourage participation by everyone interested therefore all attendees are expected to adhere to the Code of conduct. In order to allow everyone to stay healthy please follow these simple rules: If you feel sick before the event, please don’t attend and inform the organizers. Should you feel sick during the event: * Request a COVID-19 self-test from the organizers * Avoid enclosed spaces with uninfected attendees * Wear a mask whenever around others Please help us keep the venue ventilated. It’s almost summer time so infection numbers should be low but let’s be on the safe side.

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

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@linmob Is it maybe useful in landscape?

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 📸 :

#peertube:https://peertube.debian.social/w/h6sSCuAZDfSQHuBJfaceCG

#youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6IbIR2jw6-4

#LinuxMobile #phosh #feedbackd

Screenshot of nmcli's dev wifi with bars for for network strength.

TIL: @NetworkManager 's `nmcli dev wifi` shows available networks nicely, is colored and even has a small graph:

#wifi #Linux

This will also help #LinuxMobile as well. There'are rumors that this might get integrated into #stevia:

https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116169411669556587

Development News February 2026 Here’s our second development progress update for 2026. This can still be a bit spotty, if you find something missing please provide a merge request. So what happened last month: The 0.53 release is a larger part but there’s also progress in syncthing integration, workspace support, first-boot and Asian language support in the on screen keyboard. Want to try this out already? See below. phosh Link to heading A shell for mobile devices

Our development summary for February is up: https://phosh.mobi/posts/development-news-2026-02/ .

#LinuxMobile #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 […]

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) […]

Didn't make it #FOSDEM? @devrtz 's talk about #Phosh's recent developments is available online: https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ub4132/XHPZND-phosh-2026.av1.webm

The talks was presented using a phone running #phosh (beamer connected via usb-c) and #pdfrc .

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 […]

Phosh.mobi @ FOSDEM 2026 As you may know from our announcement, Phosh.mobi members were present at FOSDEM 2026. We had a great time in Brussels and with things in the rear-view mirror, let’s share some of our experiences from the event. ## Devroom As is tradition by now, we helped organize and run the FOSS on Mobile devroom, which took place on Saturday. And we’re happy to say that it was a great success! So much so, that the devroom was always packed with a queue of people outside itching to get in. This year, we partnered up with the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) folks for a full day devroom and we split the programme in roughly three parts: * Topics interesting to AOSP * Topics interesting to Mainline Linux * Topics interesting to both All recordings have been made available now, so if you missed the live-stream or didn’t make it into the room, you can now rewatch them. Here are a number of recommendations: * Collabora Office Can Finally Run on Mobile Linux * Mainline kernel for Fairphones - 2026 update * Phosh: What’s new and where are we going? * Running mainline Linux on the Unisoc-based Jolla C2 * The Linux Phone App Ecosystem (2026) * UnifiedPush - Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source * postmarketOS: Reliability in 2026 Thanks to FOSDEM, our co-organizers and all the volunteers helping out to once more make this a memorable experience. ## Booth Apart from devroom, we were also invited to the Linux on Mobile booth where you could find us throughout the weekend. We shared the booth with Sailfish OS and AsteroidOS (thanks for having us!). Next to us you could find Furi Labs, postmarketOS, F-Droid and /e/OS and the Free Android World forming a formidable phone focussed community. Our booth was packed with people and it was a great pleasure to talk about Phosh and Mainline Linux with everyone who came by. People seemed genuinely impressed by the variety of phones that are able to run Mainline Linux these days. The most common question was for recommendation which phones work best _right now_ as well as which phones look promising in the future.

Some impressions from this years #FOSDEM : https://ev.phosh.mobi/de/blog/fosdem-2026/

#Phosh #LinuxMobile

A symbolic icon of a vibrating phone

#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

@badrihippo https://ruhr.social/@agx/115889352086879473

and https://ruhr.social/@agx/115938470723651607

Recently huge progress was made and we got the first audio coming out of the Fairphone 5 speaker, @bshah and @z3ntu even got call audio working!

Coming soon to a Fairphone 5 near you!

#fairphone #fairphone5 #postmarketOS

3 people in a hotel lobby with a Braille embosser on a table and a Braille version of a book they hold together.

OMG @braillerap just gifted us an English and a German #Braille version of "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards and Raspberry Ice Cream". 🤗

It is the first complete book printed this way with #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) and #Openhardware 🥰

We […]

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A screenshot from a tablet running Phosh. The on screen keyboard takes the whole width and scales takes a fixed physical size independent from the screen resolution.

A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The on screen keyboard is unfolded.

We've just merged some code to automatically scale up the on screen keyboard in landscape on larger screens like tablets also allowing it to use more horizontal space.

While at that we also added the necessary bits to scale up font and icons on the […]

[Original post on social.phosh.mobi]

Phosh's media widget with old livi showing only an URL and "unknown artist"

Phosh's media with with current livi showing a thumbnail, artist and title. Currently playing Bestie Boy's Sabotage.

One thing bothering us when playing videos with our little, mobile friendly video player #livi was that playing from video sites like #peeretube or #youtube showed very little information in #phosh's media player widget. This is now fixed on Livi's main […]

[Original post on social.phosh.mobi]

Great news from @lynxis in OpenIMSD:

"I've written a profile manager for the QCOM baseband which talks to the PDC service.

The PDC is the persistent device configuration. It controls similar settings as the carrier configuration on Android, such as the APN, SMSC, the IMS functionality, the 5G […]

So I finally understand why 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 doesn't work with the #Librem5's big cam.

Turns out it's not going to work - but I now at least understand why 😂

(this limits streaming at full res to about 16 FPS 10-bit and 20 FPS 8-bit instead of the sensor's 30 FPS, but you won't really be able […]

Going to #FOSDEM and interested in #Phosh? @devrtz will give a talk on Saturday 16:30 in the FOSS on Mobile devroom (UB4.132) and there'll be devices running Phosh in UD1 at the #linuxonmobile and @postmarketOS booths.

#linuxmobile

🥳 Earlier today we landed the bits in #phosh to show the splash screens of running apps in the overview. This also hopefully looks a bit more polished than the initial version. Likely not much news on other platforms but this was bugging us for some time 😅:

#LinuxMobile #gtk #linux #mobile

I've been using `C-c p a` in #emacs to switch between headers and C files since ages but only today figured that I can add:

```
(add-to-list 'projectile-other-file-alist '("c" "h" "ui" "blp"))
```

to my emacs config so I can also switch to the UI XML or blueprint files when developing #phosh […]

Open poll, please just reply (and mention your OS): What is your favorite #LinuxMobile app?

#SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #postmarketOS #Mobian #Droidian #danctnix #PlasmaMobile #GNOMEonMobile #Phosh #LinuxonMobile #MobileLinux

Just so I don't forget: if you want to backup #postgresql with #borgmatic the config to wrap commands for the `postgres` user on #Debian based distros are:
```
postgresql_databases:
- format: custom
name: all
pg_dump_command: runuser -u postgres - - pg_dump
pg_restore_command: runuser -u […]

Phosh 0.52.1 The Phosh 0.52.1 Release

For distros using recent #pipewire and #wireplumber: We've released #phosh 0.52.1 to fix a crash in gvc when switching to #bluetooth output: https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.52.1/

#LinuxMobile #linux #mobile

Thanks to @newbyte's efforts and @agx's reviewing, everything relevant from the "postmarketOS tweaks" app has been integrated into Phosh Mobile Settings so that we were able to sunset the legacy app in postmarketOS edge and have one less settings app in total! 🎉

As a bonus, Phosh Mobile […]

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (01/2026): Happy New Year! LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (01/2026): Happy New Year!

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-01-2026/

#LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #phosh #postmarketOS #FuriLabs #PinePhone #PlasmaMobile #GNOMEMaps #Kaidan #XMPP #NemoMobile #unifiedpush #Mobian #Droidian #pocketblue