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Robert Mader<p>First try to create <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libcamera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libcamera</span></a> swISP tuning files for the OnePlus6 with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ideasonboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideasonboard</span></a> folks at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/embeddedworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>embeddedworld</span></a>. Unfortunately we hit an issue that we couldn't fix on-side - got a few todos to make sure things work out next time!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxmobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linuxmobile</span></a></p>
postmarketOS<p>To users of the postmarketOS Matrix and IRC channels:</p><p>Looks like Matrix is shutting down the IRC bridge to OFTC that we are currently using soon. We are considering whether to selfhost / possibly use an alternative public bridge instance / maaaybe it is not worth keeping a bridge around at all (meaning that we would move to matrix only) :blobthinkingeyes: </p><p>Is it important to you that we keep a Matrix &lt;&gt; IRC bridge around?</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a></p>
pabloyoyoista<p>Does anybody you know in the FOSS world is involved in some Foundation or Association for a project in Belgium or The Netherlands? I'd love to hear your experience! At <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>postmarketOS</span></a></span> we are looking into starting a legal entity, and we are still pondering pros and cons of different options (<a href="https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/postmarketos/-/issues/75#note_473084" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma</span><span class="invisible">rketOS/postmarketos/-/issues/75#note_473084</span></a>) We already got lots of feedback from German e.V. and a Spanish Foundation is likely a no-go.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askfedi</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a></p>
postmarketOS New Devices Bot<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> now boots on Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE Dual Sim!<br><a href="https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/tree/master/device/testing/device-microsoft-dempsey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma</span><span class="invisible">rketOS/pmaports/-/tree/master/device/testing/device-microsoft-dempsey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼<p>Big thank you to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://freeradical.zone/@craftyguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>craftyguy</span></a></span> of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>postmarketOS</span></a></span> - had a nice time talking about all things about app ecosystem, postmarketos, and building community. Grateful that he installed a new version of postmarketos and the camera works!!! (OnePlus 6t) that was exciting. Still trying to figure out why the sim card doesn't work, but it is because there is some kind of lock.<br>One of the nice benefits of living in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>portland</span></a>. :)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gnome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxapps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linuxapps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mobile</span></a></p>
LINux on MOBile<p>Weekly GNU-like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MobileLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MobileLinux</span></a> Update (09, 10/2025): Too much to put in a title </p><p><a href="https://linmob.net/weekly-update-09-10-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">linmob.net/weekly-update-09-10</span><span class="invisible">-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Phosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phosh</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Sxmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sxmo</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SailfishOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SailfishOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UbuntuTouch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UbuntuTouch</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FuriLabsFLX1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuriLabsFLX1</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MechaComet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MechaComet</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PinePhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinePhone</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Librem5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Librem5</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Mobian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mobian</span></a></p>
Lup Yuen Lee 李立源<p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> + GNOME on <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Xiaomi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xiaomi</span></a> Pad 5 Pro</p><p><a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/media-playback-tablet-running-gnome-and-postmarketos/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">samthursfield.wordpress.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/07/media-playback-tablet-running-gnome-and-postmarketos/</span></a></p>
Adrian$Hub<p>Shot on OnePlus 6T running SXMO, now with camera support . <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linuxphone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oneplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oneplus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
Adam Honse<p>Got the camera actuator on my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnePlus</span></a> 6T to focus with the help of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@NekoCWD" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NekoCWD</span></a></span> and poking i2c registers with i2cset. It looks like the actuator on my camera needs an enable register set.</p><p>This is at focus 1700:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a></p>
Delia<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://piaille.fr/@mart1oeil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mart1oeil</span></a></span> Pas un mot concernant <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iOS</span></a> et <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> dans l'article. Des alternatives <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> existent aussi pour <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/smartphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smartphone</span></a> :<br>- <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> / <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/UBports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UBports</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ubports" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ubports</span></a></span>) : <a href="https://ubports.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ubports.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>- <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Alpine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alpine</span></a> / <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>postmarketOS</span></a></span>) : <a href="https://postmarketos.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">postmarketos.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>- <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NixOS</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@nixos_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nixos_org</span></a></span>) : <a href="https://mobile-nixos.github.io" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mobile-nixos.github.io</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Sam Thursfield<p><strong>Media playback tablet running GNOME and&nbsp;postmarketOS</strong></p><p>A couple of years ago I set up a simple and independent <a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/quickball-media-server-v2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">media streaming server</a> for my <a href="https://bandcamp.com/ssssam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bandcamp music collection</a> using a Raspberry Pi 4, Fedora IoT and Jellyfin. It works nicely and I don’t have to play any cloud rent to Spotify to listen to music at home.</p><p>But it’s annoying having the music playback controls buried in my phone or laptop. How many times do you go to play a song and get distracted by a WhatsApp message instead?</p><p>So I started thinking about a tablet that would just control media playback. A tablet running a non-corporate operating system, because music is too important to allow Google to stick AI and adverts in the middle of it. Last month Pablo told me that postmarketOS had pretty decent support for <a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Mi_Pad_5_Pro_(xiaomi-elish)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a specific mainstream tablet</a> and so I couldn’t reset buying one second-hand and trying to set up GNOME there for media playback.</p><p>Read on and I will tell you how the setup procedure went, what is working nicely and what we could still improve.</p><p><strong>What is the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro tablet like?</strong></p><p>I’ve never owned a tablet so all I can tell you is this: it looks like a shiny black mirror. I couldn’t find the power button at first, but it turns out to be on the top. </p><p>The device specs claim that it has an analog headphone output, which is not true. It does come with a USB-C to headphone adapter in the box, though.</p><p>It comes with an antagonistic Android-based OS that seems to constantly prompt you to sign in to things and accept various terms and conditions. I guess they <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/19/with-friends-like-these" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">really want to get to know you</a>.</p><p>I paid 240€ for it second hand. The seller didn’t do a factory reset before posting it to me, but I’m a good citizen so I wiped it for them, before anyone could try to commit online fraud using their digital identity. </p><p><strong>How easy is it to install postmarketOS + GNOME on the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro?</strong></p><p>I work on systems software but I prefer to stay away from the hardware side of things. Give me a computer that at least can boot to a shell, please. I am not an expert in this stuff. So how did I do at installing a custom OS on an Android tablet?</p><p><strong>Figuring out the display model</strong></p><p>The hardest part of the process was actually the first step: getting root access on the device so that I could see what type of display panel it has.</p><p>Xiaomi tablets have some sort of “bootloader lock”, but thankfully this device was already unlocked. If you ever look at purchasing a Xiaomi device, be <strong>very</strong> wary that Xiaomi might have locked the bootloader such that you can’t run custom software on your device. Unlocking a locked bootloader seems to require their permission. This kind of thing is a big red flag when buying computers.</p><p>One popular tool to root an Android device is Team Win’s <a href="https://twrp.me/about/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TWRP</a>. However it didn’t have support for the Pad 5 Pro, so instead I used <a href="https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Magisck</a>.</p><p>I found rooting process with Magisck complicated. The only instructions I could find were in this video named “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHdD53ghM-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Xiaomi Pad 5 Rooting without the Use of TWRP | Magisk Manager</a>” from <em>Simply Tech-Key (Cris Apolinar)</em>. This gives you a two step process, which requires a PC with the Android debugging tools ‘adb’ and ‘fastboot’ installed and set up.</p><p><strong>Step 1: Download and patch the boot.img file</strong></p><p></p><ol><li>On the PC, download the boot.img file from the stock firmware. (See below).</li><li>Copy it onto the tablet.</li><li>On the tablet, download and install the Magisck Manager app from the <a href="https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Magisck Github Releases page</a>.</li><li>Open the Magisck app and select “Install” to patch the boot.img file.</li><li>Copy the patched boot.img off the tablet back to your PC and rename it to <code>patched_boot.img</code>.</li></ol><p>The <code>boot.img </code>linked from the video didn’t work for me. Instead I searched online for <em><span>“xiaomi pad 5 pro stock firmware rom”</span></em> and found one that worked that way.</p><p>It’s important to remember that downloading and running random binaries off the internet is <em>very</em> dangerous. It’s possible that someone pretends the file is one thing, when it’s actually malware that will help them steal your digital identity. The best defence is to factory reset the tablet before you start, so that there’s nothing on there to steal in the first place.</p><p><strong>Step 2: Boot the patched boot.img on the tablet</strong></p><ol><li>Ensure developer mode is enabled on the tablet: go to “About this Device” and tap the box that shows the OS version 7 times.</li><li>Ensure USB debugging is enabled: find the “Developer settings” dialog in the settings window and enable if needed.</li><li>On the PC, run <code>adb reboot fastboot</code> to reboot the tablet and reach the bootloader menu.</li><li>Run <code>fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img</code> to boot the patched boot image.</li></ol><p>At this point, if the <code>boot.img</code> file was good, you should see the device boot back to Android and it’ll now be “rooted”. So you can follow the instructions in the <a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Mi_Pad_5_Pro_(xiaomi-elish)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">postmarketOS wiki page</a> to figure out if your device has the <em>BOE</em> or the <em>CSOT</em> display. What a ride!</p><p><strong>Install postmarketOS</strong></p><p>If we can find a way to figure out the display without needing root access, it’ll make the process substantially easier, because the remaining steps worked like a charm.</p><p>Following the wiki page, you first install <a href="https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pmbootstrap</a> and run <code>pmbootstrap init</code> to configure the OS image. </p><a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><p><em>A note for Fedora Silverblue users: the bootstrap process doesn’t work inside a Toolbx container. At some point it tries to create <code>/dev</code> in the rootfs using <code>mknod</code> and fails. You’ll have to install pmbootstrap on the host and run it there.</em></p><p>Next you use <code>pmbootstrap flasher</code> to install the OS image to the correct partition.</p><p>I wanted to install to the <code>system_b</code> partition but I seemed to get an ‘out of disk space’ error. The partition is 3.14 GiB in size. So I flashed the OS to the <code>userdata</code> partition. </p><p>The build and flashing process worked really well and I was surprised to see the postmarketOS boot screen so quickly.</p> <a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-3.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <p><strong>How well does GNOME work as a tablet interface?</strong></p><p>The design side of GNOME have thought carefully about making GNOME work well on touch-screen devices. This doesn’t mean specifically optimising it for touch-screen use, it’s more about avoiding a hard requirement on you having a two-button mouse available.</p><p>To my knowledge, nobody is paying to optimise the “GNOME on tablets” experience right now. So it’s certainly lacking in polish. In case it wasn’t clear, <em>this one is</em> <em>for the real headz.</em></p><p>Login to the machine was tricky because there’s no on-screen keyboard on the GDM screen. You can work around that by SSH’ing to the machine directly and creating a GDM config file to automatically log in:</p><pre><code>$ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf # GDM configuration storage[daemon]AutomaticLogin=mediaAutomaticLoginEnable=True</code></pre><p>It wasn’t possible to push the “Skip” button in initial setup, for whatever reason. But I just rebooted the system to get round that.</p><a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-4.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><p>Enough things work that I can already use the tablet for my purposes of playing back music from Jellyfin, from Bandcamp and from elsewhere on the web.</p><p>The built-in speakers audio output doesn’t work, and connecting a USB-to-headphone adapter doesn’t work either. What does work is Bluetooth audio, so I can play music that way already.</p><p>I disabled the automatic screen lock, as this device is never leaving my house anyway. The screen seems to stay on and burn power quickly, which isn’t great. I set the screen blank interval to 1 minute, which should save power, but I haven’t found a nice way to “un-blank” the screen again. Touch events don’t seem to do anything. At present I work around by pressing the power button (which suspends the device and stops audio), then pressing it again to resume, at which point the display comes back.</p><p>Apart from this, everything works surprisingly great. Wi-fi and Bluetooth are reliable. The display sometimes glitches when resuming from suspend but mostly works fine. Multitouch gestures work perfectly — this is first time I’ve ever used GNOME with a touch screen and it’s clear that there’s a lot of polish. The system is fast. The Alpine + postmarketOS teams have done a great job packaging GNOME, which is commendable given that they had to literally <a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/03/05/adding-systemd/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">port systemd</a>.</p><p><strong>What’s next?</strong></p><p>I’d like to figure out how un-blank the screen without suspending and resuming the device. </p><p>It might be nice to fix audio output via the USB-C port. But more likely I might set up a DIY “smart speaker” network around the house, using single-board computers with decent DAC chips connected to real amplifiers. Then the tablet would become more of a remote control.</p><p>I already <a href="https://opencollective.com/postmarketos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">donate to postmarketOS on Opencollective.com</a>, and I might increase the amount as I am really impressed by how well all of this has come together.</p><p>Maenwhile I’m finally able to hang out with my cat listening to <a href="https://vladimirchicken.bandcamp.com/album/maharajah-single" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">my favourite Vladimir Chicken songs</a>.</p><p></p><a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-5.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/tag/gnome/" target="_blank">#gnome</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/tag/postmarketos/" target="_blank">#postmarketos</a></p>
Brad Linder<p>Mobile Linux distro postmarketOS won't be called postmarketOS for much longer - the team is looking for a new name that, among other things, reflects that it's not *only* for phones that no longer get official software updates. <a href="https://buff.ly/yIYTVNh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/yIYTVNh</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MobileLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MobileLinux</span></a></p>
mistersixt<p>In case you are running <a href="https://kanoa.de/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a> with <a href="https://kanoa.de/tags/phosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phosh</span></a> : with the latest packages (pmo 24.12.) the GUI was no longer starting up on my librem5, ending up with the login prompt on the console. The reason is that "phoc" does not know the parameter -v , and removing that entry in /usr/bin/phosh-session brings back the GUI upon a reboot:</p><p>exec $SYSTEMD_CAT "${COMPOSITOR}" -v -S -C "${PHOC_INI}" -E "bash -lc 'exec ${GNOME_SESSION} --disable-acceleration-check --session=phosh'"</p>
cas<p>absurd amount of work going on in <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> lately and every month it just seems to grow. Huge thanks to everyone who is helping make this project so awesome to be a part of, whether you're contributing, chatting on Matrix or just enjoying postmarketOS on your devices.</p><p><a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/04/pmOS-update-2025-02/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/</span><span class="invisible">04/pmOS-update-2025-02/</span></a></p>
f_ 🇵🇸<p>As of today <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a> on irc.oftc.net is the fifth biggest IRC channel on OFTC.</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/alpine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alpine</span></a>-linux is, as of today, *the* biggest OFTC channel, and behind <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/alpine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alpine</span></a>-linux is <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/oftc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oftc</span></a> itself.</p><p>Source: NetSplit.de: <a href="https://netsplit.de/channels/?net=OFTC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">netsplit.de/channels/?net=OFTC</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
wandy_dev<p>Is anyone else experiencing missing icons on postmarketos gnome mobile? Boosts appreciated!</p><p>EDIT: I was able to resolve this by switching my icon theme to hicolor, then back to adwaita via gnome tweaks.</p><p>Thanks everyone!</p><p><a href="https://theatl.social/tags/LinuxMobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMobile</span></a> <a href="https://theatl.social/tags/linuxonmobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linuxonmobile</span></a> <a href="https://theatl.social/tags/PostmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostmarketOS</span></a> <a href="https://theatl.social/tags/GnomeMobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GnomeMobile</span></a></p>
stovis<p>What if someone instead modified an existing Linux distribution to make it run on smartphones, and made sure that each phone only need one unique package so that the rest can be shared and upstreamed? This could extend the life of countless phones around the world. </p><p>And it is exactly what the folks at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PostmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostmarketOS</span></a> are doing!</p>
Clayton<p>I just sent patches to port <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/COSMIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COSMIC</span></a> to <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a>[1], so it'll soon[2] be possible to install this promising new DE on a few of the hundreds of ARM and x86 things that <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a> supports!</p><p>1) <a href="http://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/80719" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/</span><span class="invisible">aports/-/merge_requests/80719</span></a></p><p>2) <a href="https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6274" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma</span><span class="invisible">rketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6274</span></a></p>
Clayton<p><a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> now has "office hours"!</p><p><a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Office_hours" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Off</span><span class="invisible">ice_hours</span></a></p><p>Right now it's just me listed there, so if you'd rather talk to someone else then you'll have to wait for them to post hours 😉 </p><p>Thanks to the <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/llvm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llvm</span></a> folks for the great idea, and to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@adrianyyy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adrianyyy</span></a></span> for sharing it!</p>
PocketVJ aka magdesign<p>new to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/sxmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sxmo</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linuxmobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linuxmobile</span></a> ?</p><p>thanks to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/friction2d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>friction2d</span></a> i made gifs on how to use gestures 🤩<br>(let me know if you are motivated to create a greeter...)</p>