We usually learn a lot about this on conferences but let's try it here as well:
If you're daily driving #phosh we're keen to here on which phone (or other device)? Which distro do you use and which phosh version are you currently running?
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@meddalcom @carlmorris dwi'n symud o Android i #LinuxMobile. Mae'n digon bosib i cael e yng Nghymraeg ond dyw e ddim eto. Enghraifft https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Translating_postmarketOS
wiki.postmarketos.orgTranslating postmarketOS - postmarketOS Wiki
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (22/2025): Is it June already?
LINux on MOBileWeekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (21/2025): Librem 5 5G and other fun stuffHere's what happened from the 19th to 25th of May, 2025: A RaspBerry Pi CM5-based handheld, successful experiments with a 5G modem plugged into a Librem 5, phosh-osk-stub gets a sweet new name, and more! Enjoy!
Weekly GNU-like Mobile #LinuxUpdate (21/2025): Librem 5 5G and other fun stuff
LINux on MOBileWeekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (21/2025): Librem 5 5G and other fun stuffHere's what happened from the 19th to 25th of May, 2025: A RaspBerry Pi CM5-based handheld, successful experiments with a 5G modem plugged into a Librem 5, phosh-osk-stub gets a sweet new name, and more! Enjoy!
Another #Cellbroadcast bit coming to #phosh / #LinuxMobile. The results of the users choice are set in the modem via a small daemon based on information we're getting from mobile-broadband-provider-info. That way only the tiny UI bit is DE specific, the other bits can be reused on other platforms as is. @devrtz is working on adding persistent storage to keep a message history.
Thanks to @NGIZero for supporting this and @snwh for the UI design.
This week's Linux and FOSS news:
LINUX NEWS
Debian 13 is now in hard freeze, MIPS (MIPS64EL) architecture support dropped, RISC-V is promoted as a release architecture:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Hard-Freeze
Debian installer Trixie RC1 adds rescue support on Btrfs, Linux kernel 6.12, spice-vdagent is installed automatically on QEMU/KVM, Ext2 file system on PPC64EL architecture instead of Ext4, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Installer-Trixie-RC1
APT package manager 3.1 released with why/why-not commands, new solver default on Ubuntu, include/exclude options, HTTPS support for dselect, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-3.1-Released
KDE Plasma 6.4 will include time-of-day wallpapers, adaptive-sync disabled by default:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-TOD-Wallpapers
NixOS 25.05 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and 6.14, GNOME 48, initial COSMIC support, new `nixos-rebuild build-image` sub-command, nixos-rebuild-ng, rewritten nixos-option etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/nixos-25-05-released-with-linux-6-12-lts-and-6-14-kernels-gnome-48-and-more
Ubuntu 25.10 switches Chrony for Network Time Protocol (NTP) for better security:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Chrony
GNOME 50 dropping X11 support causes complications for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-dropping-x11-support-ubuntu-impact
Tails 6.15.1 released with fixes for critical Tor browser vulnerabilities:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/tails-6-15-1-emergency-update-fixes-critical-tor-browser-vulnerabilities/
Wine 10.8 released with TIFF support, progress on PDB backend, boosted performance:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/wine-10-8-released-boosted-performance-tiff-support-pdb-backend-progress/
New Linux phone upcoming by the Divine D. project:
https://liliputing.com/divine-d-project-is-developing-a-linux-phone-with-a-rk3588s-processor/
(Hopefully it will be a relatively cheap phone to replace the aging PinePhone)
Phosh 0.47.0 released with status page for feedback quick settings, mobile data quick settings disabled when SIM is locked, bug fixes:
https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0/
(FOSS news in comments)
www.phoronix.comDebian 13 "Trixie" Now In Hard Freeze: MIPS64EL Demoted, RISC-V 64-bit Promoted
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@MuhammadFreeSoftware @eliasr @Tutanota Please speak for yourself. Lots of us are daily driving #linuxmobile on our devices.
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@Tutanota great stuff, but I'd like to see also some real Android alternatives listed, I mean there are also mobile operating systems that are not based on Android. See #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux @linmob #mobian #postmarketOS #pureos #phosh #UbuntuTouch @phosh and so on.
#Newsflash is a great @gnome app that supports synchronization with #NextCloud #News. The new 4.0 Beta release now works much better on my @furilabs #FLX1 phone. Especially the web view is so much smoother.
Always nice to see Sailfish OS getting a shoutout from Research Engineering at the Turing in their FOSDEM 2025 recap. A small nod that means a lot in a sea of Android and iOS.
Full recap here. Great read with personal reflections and devroom gems:
https://medium.com/@turinghut23/highlights-and-reflections-from-fosdem-2025-987fabd26932
Medium · Highlights and reflections from FOSDEM 2025 - Research Engineering at the Turing - Medium
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (20/2025): A Linux Phone From Africa and #Phosh 0.47.0
LINux on MOBileWeekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (21/2025): Librem 5 5G and other fun stuffHere's what happened from the 19th to 25th of May, 2025: A RaspBerry Pi CM5-based handheld, successful experiments with a 5G modem plugged into a Librem 5, phosh-osk-stub gets a sweet new name, and more! Enjoy!
phosh 0.47.0 is out 
:
This release is a bit smaller than the previous two as we spent more time on other parts of the #LinuxMobile stack but there's still some 
fixes and improvements, check out the full release
notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0/ for details or see 
for a short 
to everyone who contributed to this release.
Phosh · Phosh 0.47.0The Phosh 0.47.0 Release
New blog post:
GTK 4.18, the PinePhone and Megapixels https://linmob.net/gtk-418-the-pinephone-and-megapixels/
LINux on MOBileWeekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (21/2025): Librem 5 5G and other fun stuffHere's what happened from the 19th to 25th of May, 2025: A RaspBerry Pi CM5-based handheld, successful experiments with a 5G modem plugged into a Librem 5, phosh-osk-stub gets a sweet new name, and more! Enjoy!
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (19/2025): Waking it up to wake you up
LINux on MOBileWeekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (21/2025): Librem 5 5G and other fun stuffHere's what happened from the 19th to 25th of May, 2025: A RaspBerry Pi CM5-based handheld, successful experiments with a 5G modem plugged into a Librem 5, phosh-osk-stub gets a sweet new name, and more! Enjoy!
Blog post: A short overview how text auto correction and completion via the on screen keyboard can be configured in #Phosh and what the different options do: https://phosh.mobi/posts/osk-completion/
Phosh · On Screen Keyboard Text Correction and Completionphosh-osk-stub is an alternative on screen keyboard (OSK) for Phosh featuring several methods of text auto correction and completion. In the following we look at the different options available and how to use and configure them:
For any form of completion to be available, the application that features the text input needs to support the text-input-unstable-v3 Wayland protocol. If that isn’t available phosh-osk-stub will enter a fall back mode where it acts more like a physical keyboard (via the virtual-keyboard Wayland protocol) and disable completion.
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So yesterday I saw a @postmarketOS toot about their web flasher for Android devices, and I thought - how hard would it be to make one for L5? Turns out - not hard at all. Here it is booting Jumpdrive.
Some caveats:
- requires permission setting on Linux 
I may work out-of-box on other platforms though
- it's sloooow, but there's hope: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1271
- asks 5 times to allow access to the device. Could go down to 3, but no less than that.
![Chromium window displaying an emscripten shell page and devtools console. In the console there's:
> navigator.usb.requestDevice({filters: []})
Promise (<pending>)
> Module.callMain(['-lsusb'])
uuu (Universal Update Utility) for nxp imx chips -- libuuu_1.5.201-11-gf2a4e3e24503
Connected Known USB Devices
Path Chip Pro Vid Pid BcdVersion Serial_no
=======================================
1:0 MX8MQ SDP: 0x1FC9 0x012B 0x0001 NXP FLASH
Overall, this presents the Librem 5 (and other things based on i.MX chips) flashing utility running in a browser and detecting a connected phone over WebUSB.](https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/020/123/258/original/101c06fab9223edf.png "Chromium window displaying an emscripten shell page and devtools console. In the console there's:
> navigator.usb.requestDevice({filters: []})
Promise (<pending>)
> Module.callMain(['-lsusb'])
uuu (Universal Update Utility) for nxp imx chips -- libuuu_1.5.201-11-gf2a4e3e24503
Connected Known USB Devices
Path Chip Pro Vid Pid BcdVersion Serial_no
=======================================
1:0 MX8MQ SDP: 0x1FC9 0x012B 0x0001 NXP FLASH
Overall, this presents the Librem 5 (and other things based on i.MX chips) flashing utility running in a browser and detecting a connected phone over WebUSB.")
Just used the Web flasher for the first time and it worked pretty much flawlessly! Using a #OnePlus6T :)
(Private Chromium/Brave session did not work though)
It's a very convenient way to update/flash your phone and I love that I can run #docker containers in #PostmarketOS now!
EDIT: Added screenshot
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (18/2025): Mobile Overlord adds Desktop Mode
LINux on MOBileWeekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (21/2025): Librem 5 5G and other fun stuffHere's what happened from the 19th to 25th of May, 2025: A RaspBerry Pi CM5-based handheld, successful experiments with a 5G modem plugged into a Librem 5, phosh-osk-stub gets a sweet new name, and more! Enjoy!