Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (23/2025): #UbuntuTouch 20.04 OTA 9 and a crowdfunder

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-23-2025/

#LinuxMobile #LiberuxNexx #Liberux #postmarketOS #Debian #Mobian #SailfishOS #NemoMobile #PinePhone #Librem5

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (22/2025): Is it June already?

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-22-2025/

I just want to give a HUGE shout out to all the developers working on #phosh and #mobian because the latest experience is amazing. I know there is no first class citizen Linux Mobile device, but the software has improved leaps and bounds over the last few years. Bravo to everyone involved. I only wish I could do more to help.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (20/2025): A Linux Phone From Africa and #Phosh 0.47.0

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-20-2025/

We are constantly testing both KDE Plasma mobile and Phosh desktop environments on the Divine phone. We will provide dawnos images for both DEs. This is a photo of Plasma welcome screen running on Divine D.
Stay tuned.
#kde #plasmamobile #phosh #mobian #dawnos #linux #opensource #dawndrums #divine

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (19/2025): Waking it up to wake you up

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-19-2025/

What do people think about the new/upcoming #Pebble #smartwatch, now that Google dropped the OS as #freeSoftware on #MSGitHub?

Does it make any sense, if I don't have a #smartphone to connect to, only a PC? (I do own a #Mobian smartphone, but not Android/iOS.)

https://store.repebble.com/

I will upgrade my #CasioF91W to #SensorWatch Pro by @joeycastillo anyway, but the Pebble looks interesting, too, esp. the colourful one.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-watch-pro

What would you do?

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (18/2025): Mobile Overlord adds Desktop Mode

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-18-2025/

I figured out how to get #LibreWolf working with mobile-config-firefox on #Librem5 running #Mobian #Trixie.

Since the recent change in #Mozilla terms of service, I was trying to use non mozilla browsers and succeeded mostly. On my #Debian sid laptop I mainly use gnome web (which uses #webkit).
But on #FLX1 I still have to use #Firefox. #FreeSoftware

Deatails about the hurdles I faced and how to install it on your mobian trixie here
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104664

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Which of these smartphone OSes do you think is more secure currently? For whatever definition of "secure" feels right to you.

Some options have multiple variants, please vote based on the most secure variant you know of.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (15/2025): Boot your phone from USB

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-15-2025/

Wer denkt sich so einen Käse aus?
#Digitalisierung mit dem #Holzhammer, ohne Sinn und Verstand.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/ohne-smartphone-kein-ticket-berliner-studierende-verargert-uber-semesterticket-app-13474081.html

Vermutlich ist die App nicht mal #freieSoftware und läuft nicht auf alternativen Betriebssystemen wie #Mobian oder #PostmarketOS.

Da zahlt man 362.80 €/a, aber kann den Fahrschein nicht nutzen, wenn man kein Google Android oder Apple iOS haben will? Krass.

Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,

After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.

We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )

Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.

The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.

[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]

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This is some bs. If AOSP development is made less publicly accessible it does NOT " simplify things for developers" but rather it hinders it for de-googled privacy respecting ROMs and their device ports. The need for continued and ramped up efforts developing alternative mobile OS's, like Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, Droidian, Mobian, Postmarket, etc. is even more apparent with this move by Google.
#linuxmobile #degoogled #android #aosp #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #mobian

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases/