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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (46/2025): Plasma Mobile 6.5 and new Jolla hardware
This past week: Plasma Mobile 6.5 released with big updates, Updates on the progress of Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS and PureOS, Marathon OS debuts as a BlackBerry 10-inspired mobile Linux shell/distro, Valve's Steam Frame VR headset could boost mobile Linux through FEX and Waydroid, FOSDEM 2026 stands approved for postmarketOS and friends, and more. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (45/2025): Maemo Leste Daedalus and Sxmo 1.18
This past week: C-PHY camera support enables main cameras on OnePlus 6/6T with mainline Linux, openSUSE mobile images add full disk encryption for PinePhone, postmarketOS boots on BlackBerry KEY2 and SQFMI Beepy, Sxmo 1.18.0 released, a new Maemo Leste release based on Devuan Daedalus, and the FOSS on Mobile devroom returns to FOSDEM 2026. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (44/2025): Night Lights
This past week: Fairphone 3 camera enablement on postmarketOS, a new mainline driver enabling Night Light on 29 Qualcomm SoCs, Phosh closes its 1000th bug, FuriLabs release FuriOS 14.0.0 (based on forky), a new release of SailfishOS 5.0 (and SailfishOS for the Volla Tablet), and lots more software news. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (43/2025): Plasma 6.5 and more
This past week: KDE release Plasma 6.5, DeltaChat adds calling, camera support for all three cameras on the Fairphone 4 with postmarketOS, PureOS 11 becomes (alledgedly) daily driveable on the Librem 5, and Fairphone contributed more code to Linux 6.17 than Microsoft! Plus some reading material, a few videos to watch and more. Enjoy!
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GNU/Linux on Tolino Tab 8
Editors note: The following is a guest post by Benjamin, who wrote in because he found an old blog post of mine aboout tablets that mentioned the Tolino Tab 8 - an Intel Bay Trail-powered device I ultimately gave up on. He did not, and here's what he did.…
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (42/2025): Mobian Trixie
This past week: Mobian Trixie got released, a nice UBports Q&A and some Sailfish OS Community News. Also, it's now a lot more clear what the FSF librephone initiative is about (thankfully it is not another AOSP distribution), a PureOS Crimson progress report and more. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (41/2025): More than just Librephone
The Free Software Foundation announced a Librephone project (which remains guesswork, as their's no public recording), a project to build a smartphone based on RaspBerry Pi Compute Modules, postmarketOS report September accomplishments, and way, way more! Enjoy!