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