MCF19: Going Vertical 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.

New blog post: MCF19: Going Vertical https://linmob.net/mcf19-going-vertical/

Gentle reminder: Our next #Phosh #community #gettogether is next Tuesday 19:00 CET https://ev.phosh.mobi/gettogether/ . Save the date!

#LinuxMobile

Screenshot from a OnePlus6T running phosh. The phone screen shows an alert dialog in German.

Another #cellbroadcast test that went smoothly on #phosh (and the receive wasn't even aware that this one was scheduled🙃):

#LinuxMobile

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 […]

Gnome mobile app showing a minimal login screen where should type phone number and PIN to sign in

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 😮

#Wayland and #input methods?
Yeah, I think I paid back for what I messed up.

I wrote a description of every feature I could remember – implemented or not yet implemented – on my #blog .

With this, I'm moving on and shuffling away from the stage.

https://dorotac.eu/posts/im-finished

Thanks […]

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 ✏️ […]

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

blog.gi7b.org/2026/03/08/u... #UbuntuTouch #UBports #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #Ubuntu #Lomiri #LinuxSky #TechSky #DevSky #OpenSource #FOSS #Fairphone #NexDock #VollaPhone #Wayland #Vulkan

Took the work of @nielsdg on #Gnome mail client #Geary GTK4 port, essential for usage on #LinuxMobile, and created a rebased pull request 🚀 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/merge_requ...

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

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

mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116...

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

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

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

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) […]

Maybe its just anecdotal but it seems that in previous eras attempts at #opensource mobile, #linuxmobile etc were targeting low end devices, whereas now they seem to be targeting the latest "mainstream".

The most extreme low end effort was maybe the #firefoxos ZTE devices, cute little plasticky […]

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:

postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/26/pmOS-upd...

#linuxmobile #postmarketos

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 […]

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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

RE: https://mastodon.green/@vattuvarg/116114030843378264

Come on #LinuxMobile people, we're very close to the 10k mark for the new #SailfishOS #Jolla2 phone. Reaching that, @jolla will open source "The Other Half", the amazing changeable backplate with hardware accessories the #Jolla1 already […]

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!

A phone running Dippi, which is a display DPI/aspect ratio calculator. The screen shows the inputs for a 13.3" diagonal laptop display with a resolution of 1920×1080.

A phone showing the result for the display in the other image. It reads: “Potentially Problematic. Relatively high resolution, but not quite HiDPI. Text and UI may be too small by default, but forcing HiDPI would make them appear too large. The experience may be slightly improved by increasing the text size.” Below, it has the specs (16:9, 165 DPI, 1920×1080) and a prominent button to “share results.”

I finally did a little UI rewrite for Dippi 👀

#GNOME #Adwaita #libadwaita #Linux #LinuxMobile #OpenSource

Ubuntu Touch 24.04‑1.2 e 20.04 OTA‑12: arrivano i nuovi aggiornamenti Aggiornamenti Ubuntu Touch 24.04‑1.2 e 20.04 OTA‑12: miglioramenti alla stabilità, fix per VoLTE, correzioni al calendario e supporto ripristinato per Xperia X.

Aggiornamenti Ubuntu Touch 24.04‑1.2 e 20.04 OTA‑12: miglioramenti alla stabilità, fix per VoLTE, correzioni al calendario e supporto ripristinato per Xperia X. #UbuntuTouch #UBports #LinuxMobile #Linux

No new apps today, but some nice updates to existing apps:

https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/re.fossplant.songrec/ is now GTK4/libadwaita and works well on mobile - go shazam that song you don't recall artist and title of

https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/com.ranfdev.lobjur/ has been updated and […]

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 […]