postmarketOS

Does anyone have an actual use-case for the "pmbootstrap apkindex_parse" subcommand? Asking because it was apparently broken for over a year and no one seemed to complain 😅

#pmbootstrap #postmarketOS

I just opened a merge request to #postmarketOS #pmbootstrap making some changes to the UX of the install subcommand, in particular prompting you about install disk issues much earlier and also informing about that without the --password argument you'll be prompted to manually enter it later […]

Add mobile only preference toggle. by AlexanderVanhee · Pull Request #1187 · kolunmi/bazaar This toggle is only visible when at mobile resolutions (or when its already enabled) to reduce clutter in the preferences menu. The Flathub page looks quite bad as many categories aren't filled...

This is so cool: https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaar/pull/1187

Now we just need to make sure all the mobile-friendly apps have proper appstream metadata!

Looking forward to work with #modemmanager upstream on improving dual SIM support in our #LinuxMobile stack: https://nlnet.nl/project/Linux-MultiSIM/ .

Thanks a lot to @NGIZero for supporting this!

#phosh #gnome

It's not much but if everyone would chip-in it would go a long way for @postmarketOS #postmarketOS 💪

(Also, would be brilliant if the @EUCommission #EU decided to properly fund it to have proper alternative to even so more closed #android )

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 […]

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (09/2026): Sovereign Stacks 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 (09/2026): Sovereign Stacks

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-09-2026/

#Modal #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #ModalCollective #postmarketOS #Catacomb #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #PlasmaMobile #FuriLabs #FuriOS #Droidian #Mobian

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS/116138692568427331

This is a good policy. It's refreshing to see an open source project doing the right thing. A better world is possible.

postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

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" :zoop:

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/26/pmOS-update-2026-02/

#linuxmobile #postmarketos

If you're interested in beginner-friendly tasks for contributing to #postmarketOS in #Python #pmbootstrap has some clean-ups that need to be done—in particular, migrating the remaining commands from the legacy frontend.py to the new "commands" module.

See […]

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (08/2026): Touch Your Wrist 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 (08/2026): Touch Your Wrist

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-08-2026/

#LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #AsteroidOS #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #Mobian #postmarketOS #Mobian #FuriOS #Phosh

For this weekend of #postmarketOS #linuxmobile #mainlining I have put together what I had for the Moto G7 into a coherent pull request to @barni2000's msm8953 linux repo. No exciting pictures since nothing visually changed :) just that you will be able to install it too very soon!

#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 to be but it can take photos at least, and it's markedly more usable than the main […]

I personally believe the most logical, and long-term sustainable solution with the most control to the "Android becoming more closed" threat, is to fund and support @postmarketOS and alike initiatives.

a fully decentralised solution developed by the whole FOSS ecosystem together is infinitely […]

Of course the real question on everyone's mind is "does it run Xonotic?" and the answer is, quite well for a low end phone! For this —as opposed to handling GTK UI heh— the tier of the GPU matters more than the generation, fwiw.

#postmarketOS

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 […]

ASCII yellow boat logo interspersed with info lines (ufetch on a narrow screen)

Boot log with some glitches over it

Display with nothing really being displayed and faint ghost image of a boot log

Display with a Linux console (pmOS-rd unable to bind interface :D) and an on-screen touch keyboard

Let's gooo, got working DSI before going to sleep and officially declaring the weekend to be over :) :) :) so this is sm6115-motorola-guamp also known to normal people as the Moto G9 Play. Coming to actual upstream Linux (and U-Boot) soon!

Amazingly […]

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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion 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 (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-07-2026/

#Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #GNOMEonMobile #Librem5 #FLX1s #Jolla #PinePhone #postmarketOS #Mobian #Droidian #FuriOS #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile

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

Heads up for edge users: we briefly had a version of mkinitfs (2.8.0) in edge that didn't generate proper boot images for OP6/6T, FP5 and Pixel 3a, resulting in boot failures. This has been fixed in mkinitfs 2.9.0 and boot-deploy 0.23.0. (This is a good example why the hardware CI work is so […]

@osuosl is raising funds to cover critical extra expenses that incurred while moving and modernizing their data center.

They host and maintain not only our gitlab instance, but also a bunch of services for a long list of important free software projects, including @alpinelinux, @armbian […]

Another FOSDEM and hackathon are in the rear-view mirror, and it is hard to find words to describe how amazingly productive and fun the experience was! We met so many people at the postmarketOS stand, in the FOSS on Mobile devroom and at dinners in the evening. As always it is fun to put faces […]

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (06/2026): Fairbruary Mainline Calling 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 (06/2026): Fairbruary Mainline Calling

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-06-2026/

#Phosh #PlasmaMobile #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #NemoMobile #FairPhone5 #GNOMEMobile #FuriLabs #postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile

A screenshot showing PostmarketOS on a smartphone.

A screenshot showing PostmarketOS on a smartphone.

I am very proud to say that I managed to #degoogle, install and run @postmarketos.org on a Pixel 3a 👌 And it works with #Phosh interface! Sure, still quite rough around the edges and not ready as a daily driver, but still impressive having a fully fledged Linux system running on mobile! #LinuxMobile

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 […]

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

postmarketOS folks around the TV displaying the movie

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!

The postmarketos team eating homemade goulash, from left to right: craftyguy, kcxt, newbyte, puretryout, ollieparanoid, pabloyoyoista, z3ntu, fizzo, achill, aelin, bhushan, whynothugo

#postmarketOS hackathon 2026 is off to a flying start.

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (05/2026): Farewell, FOSDEM! 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 (05/2026): Farewell, FOSDEM!

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-05-2026/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #FOSSonMobile #MechaComet #FuriLabsFLX1s #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #Phosh #Mobian #postmarketOS #Linux