Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (16/2025): Counting Easter Eggs
Just a heads-up:
The Weekly #MobileLinux Update has been postponed to tomorrow.
Update 13.0.9 https://furilabs.com/update-13-0-9/
Includes support for two-way clipboard, new fingerprint, store and flashlight daemon, support for Pipewire camera and V4L2 camera fixes. Firefox fixes and many system and kernel improvements.
Just discovered a cool feature on my GNOME mobile phone—if you tap the clock/date in the top bar, it opens quick access to the calendar, weather, and world clocks (just like the desktop version!). Really handy! 
Back to #Wayland and input methods.
What's your favorite input method?
Cause for me it was the one on old #Nokia phones. I could type with my hands in my pockets! Handy in winter.
https://codeberg.org/dcz/stiwri
Tested with #cosmic and #GTK .
This is just the beginning. Actually useful stuff is coming in the future. #Mobile keyboards, #Chinese input is what it's for:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/396
This post is the beginning of a thread of previous monthly #PureOS development reports:
https://mastodon.social/@janvlug/114171705309966990
I enjoyed reading all of them. It is great that the development can be followed in such a transparant way.
The above linked article explains the current status of the #PureOS development. It starts with the foundation and infrastructure. It describes how packages are synchronized from #Debian, how some packages are improved (for #MobileLinux), and it describes newly identified issues.
@dos Thanks for this very nice list. I've been using the #Librem5 for nearly three years as my daily, primary phone.
It is great to see that there is still so much potential for improvements. I hope that over time they will be added.
Thank you, and all others contributing to the #MobileLinux ecosystem for your great work!
That's all I can think of on the spot. Of course there's still the camera and GPU stuff, but these would need their own dedicated threads 
Feel free to hit me up if you want to hack on some of these things, I could likely offer some help and guidance.
The Librem 5 (and mobile GNU/Linux in general) has matured a lot over the years, but there are still some areas where the software stack is behind the hardware capabilities. Some of them are often talked about, such as camera quality or GPU (GLES3/Vulkan/OpenCL), but there are also lesser known ones in need of some plumbing and middleware infrastructure. Maybe you'll find something interesting to hack on there?
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Today's GNOME patch has been sponsored by Hendrix Night: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/vocalis/-/merge_requests/233
Cat printing time lapse 
Shot on *close to* mainline linux @postmarketOS
Using OnePlus 6 camera and notebook GPU for video encoding
Non-compresed 1.4hrs video: https://youtu.be/AFlWGR7XvR8
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (15/2025): Boot your phone from USB
@zwarf @joshua @eliasr @batichi @linmob @phosh
I'm also using the #Librem5 as my daily, primary phone for nearly three years now. The software keeps improving. I really like to have full control over my phone. And that the software is designed to give the user freedom and power.
https://janvlug.org/blog/one-week-librem-5-field-trial-day-1/
is it too late to join the #pipewire party? i hope not, or else my #flx1 will be sad
all applications that use pipewire can finally utilize the camera (adding to our list of v4l, qtmultimedia and android apps)
one issue we are facing is that aperture is not very happy with the back cameras, so applications like #GNOME snapshot or authenticator will have the preview flipped. captured frames are surprisingly not flipped tho:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/snapshot/-/issues/261
Wow I've never seen this before! Usually the whole shell just freezes up or something unless I quickly SSH and kill or something. Definitely an improvement 
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Version 0.2 of my eSIM Manager app is out!
We've got significant UI improvements alongside many other additions such as an app icon, providing environment variables for lpac via the command line, error handling, eUICC 'notification' handling, viewing of eUICC chip info and appstream metainfo data!
Phosh 0.46.0 brings customization, UI improvements to the mobile Linux user interface
Phosh is a user interface designed for smartphones running Linux-based operating systems. First developed by Purism for the Librem 5 smartphone, it’s now available for a wide range of devices and works with most major Linux distributions.
While Phosh has long had many of the core features you’d expect from a smartphone user interface, it’s still a little rough around the edges compared with […]
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens
It's obvious that AOSP is on borrowed time. There's only so long before Google closes the source (eg Project Fuschia ) or limits enough it might as well be closed (ie makes it even more dependent on a million closed source Google apps).
Enjoy it while it lasts (which may not be long), but let's get going creating, using and supporting Linux phones so we have a decent option when open source Android fully dies!
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