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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (15/2025): Boot your phone from USB
This past week:
- USB boot capability demonstrated for multiple Linux phones,
- a loaded postmarketOS monthly update,
- Furilabs FLX1 gains PipeWire camera support ... and way, way more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens
Highlights of the past week:
- mobile-config-firefox gets user-agent spoofing in version 4.6.0 to enhance site compatibility,
- Ubuntu Touch makes progress on eSIM and VoLTE support + Snap integration in 24.04,
- Another collection of Sailfish OS Community News,
- Hardware: Liberux Nexx PCBs arrive and OnePlus 6 gets unexpected JTAG access
- Phosh 0.46.0 released with lockscreen wallpapers and a lot more!
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MCF18: Dodging a bullet
Since the previous post in this series, mobile-config-firefox has seen not one, but two releases:
- Oliver Smith: "mobile-config-firefox 4.5.0 is out…"
- Oliver Smith: "less than 10 days after the last release --- happy to announce that mobile-config-firefox 4.6.0 is out:…"
In part, this due to me not noticing prior to the first release that the breakage I had observed with Firefox Nightly would come and hit with the Firefox 137 release.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (13/2025): Crossing Platforms, Breaking Barriers
This past week in #LinuxMobile:
- FuriOS now runs Ubuntu Touch apps,
- Phosh 0.46 release candidates tagged (final release expected March 31st),
- Megapixels 2.0 progress,
- postmarketOS announces 2025 priorities: reliability, audio, cameras,
... and more, including a mobile-config-firefox release!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (12/2025): GNOME 48 and other goodies
Another week, another roundup: GNOME goes 48, more on the Mecha Comet improvements/delay, some Firefox things, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, SailfishOS Community News, UT and SFOS coming to the FuriLabs FLX1, an update on postmarketOS finances and more!
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MCF17: Getting back into userChrome
Before I started contributing to mobile-config-firefox, I always believed that, aside from bigger, code-named UI redesigns, Firefox's UI code would not change much at all.
These days I know better. Due to these changes, mobile-config-firefox does currently not work all that well with (current) Firefox 136, and I am reviving this little series, to keep me motivated, to hopefully attract contributors and to document the process.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (11/2025): libadwaita 1.7 and news from Sxmo
This past week in #LinuxMobile:
- Purism share Librem 5 Crimson progress,
- libadwaita 1.7 brings new widget and makes creating convergent GNOME apps possible without having a device at hand,
- Sxmo introduce an intuitive getting-started guide with gesture videos,
- Sailfish OS community ports now available for 10 different devices (and a NewPipe port),
- Lomiri on Mir 2.20 getting closer,
- postmarketOS adds the COSMIC desktop environment to edge repositories.
Plus: numerous app updates, kernel developments, and community contributions across the ecosystem! Enjoy!