News/interviews/anecdotes around postmarketOS, straight from the source.
#39 INTERVIEW: magdesign (of Cycling the World Fame)
This time postmarketOS user @magdesign shares his amazing and inspiring story of traveling around the world for the past 1.5 years... on bike! Featuring @magdesign, @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @craftyguy (in order of appearance). Marc and Fiona accept donations at brandisbrandisbrand.com. Referenced in this episode: User:Magdesign and Sxmo/Tips and Tricks: impressive wiki pages with lots of notes and tips! Fiona's photos at pixelfed PocketVJ: "@cas 😂 then i can bring all i own…" PocketVJ: "finally an offline translator for #linuxmobile…" PocketVJ: "Thanks to @frd @kdenlive matrix channel, i created a #linuxmobile friendly #kdenlive layout…" PocketVJ: "finally installed an offline chatbot on #linuxmobile…" GitLab blocked in Iran, but GitHub works?! #2619: VPN not routing through GSM #2620: Hotspot not available for modern Android devices micro text editor Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#38 FOSDEM 2024 Special
Compared to last year, we decided to do the recording inside the cafeteria instead of outside, and on Sunday instead of Saturday. Twice the amount of FOSDEM days to talk about, and with more people talking in the background. Enjoy! Featuring @z3ntu, @ollieparanoid, @pabloyoyoista, @craftyguy, @Newbyte, @dos, @PureTryOut, @linmob (in order of appearance), also @~r (sampled in the outro). Not included in the episode: a three day post-FOSDEM hackathon, read all about it on the blog! Video recordings of the talks: FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones (the Fairphone talk!) Related episodes: #28 FOSDEM 2023 special #14 FOSDEM 2022 special Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#37 Clayton goes full-time, v23.12, smart speakers, musl locales
Clayton totally surprises us for real, with his announcement of working full-time on postmarketOS from now on. Furthermore we are super hyped about the upcoming FOSDEM 2024 (as we release this episode, only a week away!) and talk among other topics about how you could become a Trusted Contributor. Featuring @craftyguy, @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @pabloyoyoista (in order of appearance). To support postmarketOS financially, especially now with Clayton working full-time: Check out the shiny new Open Collective page Read the announcement: postmarketOS needs your help! Referenced in this episode: Clayton: "Today I start my new job, … v23.12: The One We Asked The Community To Name FOSDEM 2024: FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom (full track listing is announced!) Stands, we'll be at Linux on Mobile How to become a Trusted Contributor Part 2 Amazon Echo Dot 2nd gen (thanks to Ben Westover!) iFixit guide Rooting the Amazon Echo Dot !4532: amazon-biscuit: new device !49: add_mtk_header: Replace hardcoded MediaTek header labels with deviceinfo variables pmbootstrap: parse.bootimg: Separate kernel and ramdisk MediaTek headers New maintainers for PINE64 devices (!4529, !4736) Thanks to Jan Jasper de Kroon for taking over PinePhone Pro! Thanks to Arnav Singh for taking over PinePhone! And not in the recorded episode since it just happened a week ago, but also huge thanks to Quade Curry for taking over the PineBook Pro! musl: setlocale() again mailing list thread mrtest: allow to select multiple packages and use ranges (thanks to Petr Hodina!) Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#36 INTERVIEW: Konrad Dybcio (of SoMainline Fame)
"Why am I running Linux on my desktop, but not on my phone?" is what Konrad asked himself at the beginning of this amazing story that ends up with him becoming a maintainer for Qualcomm support in Linux. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @konradybcio, @craftyguy, @calebccff (in order of appearance). Konrad accepts donations, preferrably in form of tea ☕. Referenced in this episode: SoMainline B4 ("before") - tool for dealing with kernel patches docs source linux-arm-msm mailing list Asahi Linux speakersafetyd #1922: Feature request: 'devbox setup' The issue Konrad created about having a minimal image for doing kernel development. Reply there if interested, contributions welcome! !4420: Add initial on-device CI support Caleb's new initramfs hook for running the postmarketOS initramfs in a testing environment (QEMU, CI, or manual testing). Linux on A7-A8X checkra1n Project Sandcastle Channels: IRC: #linux-msm on irc.oftc.net Matrix: #mainline:postmarketos.org Related episodes: #08 INTERVIEW: Caleb Connolly (of OnePlus 6 / SDM845 Mainlining Fame) Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#35 INTERVIEW: a-wai, devrtz, kop316 (of Mobian Fame)
In a somewhat chaotic and much longer recording session than what ended up in the final episode, we had a very good time talking to our friends from Mobian. As you can guess from the name, Mobian brings Mobile and Debian together, similar to what postmarketOS does on top of Alpine Linux. Featuring @kop316, @ollieparanoid, @devrtz, @calebccff, @PureTryOut, @a-wai (in order of appearance). Mobian accepts donations via Liberapay. Referenced in this episode: Mobian: A Debian derivative for mobile devices. DebianMaintainer - Debian Wiki DebianDeveloper - Debian Wiki FOSDEM 2024 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Related episodes: #11 INTERVIEW: kop316 (of mmsd-tng Fame) #28 FOSDEM 2023 special Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#34 Events, Fairphone 5, FF UA, SDM845 CI & Camera, MSM8953, Initramfs
Luca did it again! On the day the Fairphone 5 was released, he added it to postmarketOS. How exactly that is possible and a whole lot more about recent developments and Linux Mobile related events we followed in this episode. Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @z3ntu, @pabloyoyoista (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Free Silicon Conference 2023 Luca's talk: Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones (PeerTube, YouTube) Akademy 2023 GUADEC 2023 Keynote: Global collaborative communities to empower cutting-edge technologies Pablo's lightning talk: Booting GNOME in 150+ phones FrOSCon 2023 devrtz's talk: The year of Linux On Desktop^WMobile LINMOB.net blog post: Hello, FrOSCon 2023 Affe Null's slides: FOSS on Feature Phones Crossdirect + Rust improvements: cross/crossdirect: improve rust handling (!4234) cross/crossdirect: partially use sccache for rust (!4310) pmbootstrap: sccache for rust, refactor /mnt/pmb (patches/43386) Tow-Boot Open call for help and contributions 2022.07-006 released in 2023-07 Fairphone 5 fairphone-fp5: new device (!4359) Initial support for the Fairphone 5 smartphone (patches/44172) A sign of DisplayPort over USB-C (external display) working with the #mainline kernel … Fairphone 5 source code release mobile-config-firefox fix: add mobile to user-agent (!35) History of the browser user-agent string SDM845 Recent Qualcomm camera development on the mailing lists, likely applies to SDM845 if anyone wants to try it: (1), (2) Also new version of IMX519 sensor, the one in the SHIFT6mq and OnePlus 6: (3) mtkclient pmbootstrap: Add mtkclient as a flasher option (patches/42621) MSM8953 qcom-msm8953: move devices to community (!4381) Initramfs main/postmarketos-initramfs: simplify and improve the boot process (!4204) oneplus 6 userdata not expanded during install (#2235) Merch 3 new designs for our shirts site Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#33 INTERVIEW: Anjan (of Sxmo Fame)
This time we did a mix of an interview and an event report with Anjan from Sxmo who just was at FOSSY 2023 in Portland, OR, USA. Sxmo is a minimalist environment for Linux mobile devices, allowing you to run a tiling window manager on your smartphone. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @anjan (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Anjan's talk: Thoughts after daily driving postmarketOS for 3 years Video is not up yet, but Anjan said he'll post it on his Mastodon when it is Software Freedom Conservancy Contribute to Sxmo sxmo-utils: sxmo_modem.sh: retry if failed to delete sms WIP Sxmo lockscreen: peanutbutter Related episodes: Sxmo: Interviews with @proycon (E05) and Miles Alan (E15) SDM845: Interview with @calebccff (E08) / pretty much any episode with Caleb Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#32 GNOME Mobile 2023 Hackfest Special
Featuring @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @calebccff, @jsparber, @tbernard, @verdre, @z3ntu, @jane (in order of appearance). Upcoming events (close dates, there are many more): July 13-16 — Portland, OR: FOSSY 2023 @anjan from Sxmo will hold a talk: Thoughts after daily driving postmarketOS for 3 years July 15-21 — Thessaloniki, Greece: Akademy 2023 July 26-31 — Riga, Latvia: GUADEC 2023 Threadiverse: Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout How to find /c/postmarketOS on Lemmy and kbin https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration GNOME Hackfest: v23.06: From the GNOME Mobile 2023 Hackfest Berlin Mobile Hackfest (great blog post with a photo of recording this episode) postmarketOS on the LG G Watch R GNOME Shell running out of the box on postmarketOS 23.06 Video call on Librem 5 Stickers Behold the power of mainline Linux phones! Consider taking over some GNOME Mobile MRs Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#31 Testing Team, KDE6, SDM845 Sensors, ALIT, PineNote, L10N
You rotate your phone and the UI rotates as well. Sounds simple, right? In this episode Caleb explains us why implementing it for SDM845 requires far more complexity than one may think - among many other topics. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @PureTryOut, @calebccff, @pabloyoyoista (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Testing Call For Testers Testing Team KDE kde-srcbuild Akademy 2023 SDM845 Qualcomm Snapdragon Sensor Core support for SDM845 devices (pma!4050) Wakeups - if you would like to look into this: "joining matrix would be a a good place to start. That being said, it might be worth noting that folks should already have some familiarity with the kernel suspend/resume process and with WoWLAN/TCP/push notifications" Fedora Mobile Remix for OnePlus 6 Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2023 LINMOB.net - Having a stand at Linux-Infotag 2023 nice blog post with photos Handout Can My Phone Run Linux? TT173 Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2023 - TechnikTechnik Linux-Smartphones - FOCUS ON: Linux - Podcast PineNote Initial MR (pma!3778) Wiki page Localization Ping @pabloyoyoista if you would like to get involved Default file sorting (pma#1446) Translating postmarketOS pmos-base-ui-networkmanager: set up dnsmasq for filtering lookup (pma!3823) postmarketos-mkinitfs changes Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi, @ollieparanoid
#30 INTERVIEW: Natanael Copa (of Alpine Linux Fame)
Natanael Copa joins us to talk about Alpine's story. From being dead scared to fork the initial version off from Gentoo to Alpine becoming bigger than himself and making sure it stays around with a good bus factor. If you ever wondered how exactly apk is so incredibly fast, that is also covered - and what plans there are to make it even faster in the future. Also what would be necessary to get reproducible builds in Alpine and more. Enjoy! Featuring @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam, @pabloyoyoista, @ncopa (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Alpine Linux apk-tools v1 on sourceforge: "A shell based package manager for embedded *nix systems similar FreeBSD pkgtools." Reproducible Builds — a set of software development practices that create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code Cross compiling in pmbootstrap crossdirect (thanks to @zhuowei for contributing the initial version!) previously using distcc, inspired by alarm k0s | Kubernetes distribution for bare-metal, on-prem, edge, IoT Upcoming event on Saturday, April 29th: Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2023 Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi, @ollieparanoid
#29 GNOME Software + apk, get your patches merged, pbsplash
We are happy to announce that Pablo joined the Trusted Contributors! He has been a driving force in getting GNOME Software working properly on Alpine and postmarketOS, and since he is joining us today, guess what we talk about in this episode! Besides that we get into getting your patches merged and the new postmarketOS splash screen that just landed in edge. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @pabloyoyoista, @MartijnBraam, @calebccff (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: New trusted contributor: @pabloyoyoista Team members GNOME Software and apk Pablo just wrote a big blog post about the experience: GNOME Software and postmarketOS: a bumpy road gnome-software-plugin-apk apk-polkit-rs alpine-appstream-downloader pmbootstrap: install: make cached remote repositories available on first install pmbootstrap: install: run alpine-appstream-downloader if available Georges Stavracas: Profiling & optimizing GNOME Software Help wanted gnome-software-plugin-apk#69 about porting to GNOME 44 apk-polkit-rs#15 about downloading packages before running upgrades Other issues Get your patches merged COMMITSTYLE.md: Alpine, postmarketOS Alpine's .githooks pbsplash git repo demo video Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#28 FOSDEM 2023 Special
Between the Saturday closing of FOSDEM 2023 and going to a restaurant, we managed to squeeze around a table outside the cafeteria to record the very first ever in-person postmarketOS podcast episode! Fresh in the moment we share our experiences from the FOSS on mobile devroom, meeting great people at the Linux on Mobile stand (and everywhere else at FOSDEM/in Brussels) and random other cool things that were going down. Featuring @spaetz (sampled in the intro), @ollieparanoid, @linmob, @craftyguy, @MartijnBraam, @calebccff, @PureTryOut, @z3ntu (in order of appearance). Photos: @calebccff: "recorded the first in person @postmarketOS podcast episode LIVE from #FOSDEM !" @craftyguy: "#postmarketOS core team... Assemble!" @awai: "The beauty and diversity of the #LinuxOnMobile bazaar!" @z3ntu: "The Linux on Mobile stand at #FOSDEM is pretty packed!" @linmob: "#FOSDEM was really awesome, it only went by too quickly!…" @mntmn: "this was ~intense~! thanks to everyone who was interested in MNT Pocket Reform…" Video recordings of the talks: Where do we go from here? (Audio fixup) Matrix room: #fossmo-wg:matrix.org FOSS on mobile devices devroom (as of writing, most talks have already been uploaded) PinePhone and Lima / Mesa: We're aware that mesa!8198 is still causing problems for people on the PinePhone. Big thanks to @enues from mesa who was talking to us at the stand and is now looking into it! We also have issue pmaports!805 about screen freezes. If you are affected by this and would like to help out, firing up a profiler and making/contributing to detailed, useful bugreports upstream at mesa is appreciated. Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#27 Chromebooks, SDM845 Wakeup for Calls, Installing pmOS, dnsane
Chromebooks! We talked about them in the past, but this time we have our newest Trusted Contributor Anton aka @jenneron on to tell us more about the ~40 ports we now have in postmarketOS. Besides that we get excited about FOSDEM and talk about more cool things cool people did. Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @jenneron (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: New trusted contributor: @jenneron Team members Chromebooks Microsoft Surface RT FOSDEM '23 FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom Linux on Mobile stand SourceHut postmarketos#49: Considering move to SourceHut (2023-01-29 update in top post) Wiki: Patch review workflow on SourceHut explaining the b4 based workflow SDM845 Wakeup for Calls Caleb's post Hackerboards hackerboards.com Martijn's blog: Finding an SBC Rewritten wiki pages Installation pmbootstrap dnsane dnsane.git In the time between recording and releasing this episode, @fluvf pointed out in pmaports!3805 that dnsmasq could be used as well, and we'll probably do that to solve the problem. AppStream related pmaports!3757 [RFC] temp/alpine-appstream-downloader: new aport pmaports#1384: Software Apps (GNOME Software, Plasma Discover) issues and improvements PinePhone Modem SDK Release 0.7.2: Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#26 Mastodon, Mailbag, v22.12, RISCV, pmbootstrap CI
Like every other podcast in your feed we give our two cents on what's been happening in the Fediverse, like why it's really great to see so many free software related projects and people moving over from that bird site. And that one should seriously consider supporting the admins of the instance they are using with a monthly donation or something. Besides that, we share some news on soon-to-be-released v22.12 such as call audio support for OP6 and other cool stuff that has been happening. Featuring @MartijnBraam, @calebccff, @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Mastodon: Fosstodon: More Upgrades! Co-author of the ActivityPub spec explaining the ecosystem and its history in more detail in a great podcast episode: FOSS and Crafts 53: Fediverse reflections while the bird burns Poll: do you daily drive a postmarketOS phone? Late Night Linux 205 where Joe tried out pmOS on a Samsung Galaxy SIII Lemmy comment describing LXC/LXD based Panixticon virtualization project Megapixels 1.6.0 Waydroid: pmOS image deleted, requires user intervention Jami's amazing Volla Phone (original and 22) Mediatek mainlining pmOS wiki: PinePhone U-Boot Upgrade Editing by: @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi, @ollieparanoid
#25 INTERVIEW: Alyssa (of Spectrum Fame)
What happens if the author of an upcoming security focused desktop OS, who is at the same time also a postmarketOS user, comes on our podcast? A lot of interesting questions being asked and answered from both sides for sure! Featuring @ollieparanoid, @qyliss, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Spectrum — a step towards usable secure computing Using packages from NixOS Using virtio-fs Inspired by Qubes OS Participating in Spectrum Alyssa accepts donations pma#1596: concept for privilege separation in postmarketOS pmOS principles, user facing pma#1133: enable zram swap by default for some (or all?) devices How many users do we have? Martijn was curious as well VDO.ninja (source) Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi