Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (23/2026): Vulkanic Mastodons

Vulkan is coming to the FuriLabs FLX1 and the FLX1s is now shipping, Sailfish OS 5.2 may ship Mastodon integration out of the box, postmarketOS v26.06 test phase starts soon, C-PHY support for...

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (19/2026): Voices and Splashes

This past week: postmarketOS is funding q6voiced and released a monthly report, Sailfish OS 5.1 hits developer early access, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out, and more!

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (15/2026): Cameras and External Screens

Camera enablement success Pixel 3 and SHIFT6mq (both sdm845-powered), FuriLabs demo their new dock that uses DisplayLink to drive external displays, news regarding the Dawndrums Divine D, help fund...

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (14/2026): NFC on mainline

This past week: Phosh 0.54.0 released, mobile-config-firefox 5.2.0 adds vertical tabs support (may become default in future), postmarketOS Duranium gains system extensions support, Ubuntu Touch Q&A...

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (11/2026): Input, Budgets and Widgets

This past week: postmarketOS publishes 2025 financial report and 2026 budget, GNOME 50 approaching with libadwaita 1.9 released with new sidebar widget for adaptive apps, Stevia speech input protot...

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (10/2026): Slow Spring

This past week: Jolla at Mobile World Congress, GTK 4.22 released with improved SVG support and reduced motion option, some Phosh and Ubuntu Touch news and more. Enjoy!

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

This past week: Modal Collective publishes vision for

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

This past week: AsteroidOS 2.0 release blog post released, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 released, Mecha Comet surpasses $1 million on Kickstarter, Jolla Phone 2026 reaches 9000 pre-orde...

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

This past week: Phosh 0.53.0 released, postmarketOS publishes FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap, feedbackd moved to freedesktop.org infrastructure, Navit 0.5.7 offline navigation app released after 5...

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

This past week: Sailfish OS 5.0.0.73 Tampella early access released (approaching Sailfish OS 5.1 branch with BeaconDB for faster location fixes planned for March), Jolla C2 out of stock, Nemo Mobile...

FOSDEM 2026 - Bringing OpenHarmony to Phones: Lessons from the Oniro Porting Effort

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

This past week: A lot of FOSDEM 2026 content, Kaidan 0.15.0 adds experimental audio/video calls (Jingle, Linux-only for now, NLnet-funded); libcamera 0.7.0 released; and Phosh Contributors Meeting...

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (04/2026): Hardware in the Loop

This past week: postmarketOS launches hardware testing automation MVP (OnePlus 6T now tested in CI on real hardware via custom PCB and CI-tron) and posts January 2026 update covering systemd musl...

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (03/2026): Release Plans and Foreshadowing

This past week: PureOS Crimson December development report teases release updater, PineTab2 camera support progressing (front and rear cameras working), PinePhone Pro PDAF pixel artifacts being...

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (01/2026): Happy New Year!

Phosh 0.52.0 released with two-finger swipe brightness control on lockscreen, Phosh e.V. publishes 2025 annual report, Jolla Phone surpasses 6,800 pre-orders, Nemo Mobile progresses toward openSUSE...

2025: Year in Review

It's 2026... but what do we make of 2025 now? Here's my haphazard, rushed attempt to try to sum 2025 up. Instead of going through month by month, I figured it would be better to go topic by topic.

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (51/2025): The Other Half reloaded

This past week: VoidPhone is a FuriPhone aimed at businesses (with MDM and such), postmarketOS publishes transparency report on contributor compensation from donations and now ships systemd built...

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (49/2025): Modal boats

This past week: Jolla Phone pre-orders open for €499 with MediaTek 5G, 12GB RAM, replaceable battery, and physical privacy switch—hitting the 2,000-unit goal in under a week, (some) audio finally...

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (48/2025): Rockchip-y Wallpapers

This past week: RK3588's phone news: Liberux NEXX secures new funding after failed crowdfunding, dawndrums wraps up a major Divine D development phase; Wayland Protocols 1.46 brings experimental text...