News/interviews/anecdotes around postmarketOS, straight from the source.
#4 EG25-G, v21.03, Why Alpine, mobile-config-firefox
Dylan joins the team! And besides the usual bunch of news, we learn how Martijn's kitchen counter is involved with the upcoming homepage redesign. The questions section covers what's so great about Alpine, and what mobile-config-firefox is all about. Send in your questions with #postmarketOSpodcast on Mastodon! Featuring @craftyguy, @MartijnBraam, @PureTryOut, @z3ntu, @ollieparanoid, @dylanvanassche (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Dylan Van Assche regarding Sailfish: End of an era pine64-pinephone: eg25-g modem improvements (now merged!) v21.03 Release Rename release channels to the branch names, except for edge Release will be out on 31st of March, check postmarketos.org then for more information :) main/linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8974: upgrade to 5.11.10 feedbackd-device-themes Wiki: Applications by category Contributed by: @alpabrz, @Newbyte, @Railroadmanualjimmy, @ollieparanoid related discussion install-makedepends PowerVR SGX Acceleration Why Alpine Alpine Releases and their support timeframes Building a distro with musl libc: Why and how Alpine Linux did it (Video, FOSDEM 2017) Alpine's package manager doing well in Linux package managers are slow (2019) Allan McRae from Arch Linux pointed out that the benchmarks are not accurate though (didn't know that at time of recording), hopefully the author does them again at some point (looks like it form the notes on top of the blog post). From experience we know that Alpine's package manager is one of the fastest out there. For people curious about optimizing package manager speed, check out distri mobile-config-firefox Using Firefox Remote Debugger with mobile Linux distros, to edit Firefox UI CSS with the Element Inspector etc. Upstream discussion Editing by: @craftyguy, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#3 Librem 5, Mainlining, Feedbackd, Plasma 5.21
Lots of news to share, then answering a few #postmarketOSpodcast questions (keep them coming!). Featuring @craftyguy, @PureTryOut, @z3ntu, @MartijnBraam and @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: openrc-settingsd GPodder Matrix clients: Fractal Mirage NeoChat Chatty WIP matrix support: pmaports branch upstream issue mobile-config-firefox Bugfixes: GTK3 adaptive dialogs fix pine64-pinephone: move shelli alsa cfg to subpkg Librem 5 Jumpdrive support pmOS wiki page with updated install instructions Mainlining main/linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916: upgrade to 5.11_rc5 motorola-osprey: switch to mainline feedbackd: configure haptic feedback per device pine64-pinephone: eg25-g modem improvements (testers wanted) KDE Plasma 5.21 upgrade 5.20.90 in pmaports (beta testing in pmOS) 5.21 in aports apk support in discover Introduce support for "unmaintained" devices Improvements for Nexus 5 Device porting: Porting to a new device Matrix and IRC, porting and mainlining channels Mainlining: Supported SoCs Devices wiki page Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#2 Roadmap, daily driving and how to help
The second episode of our podcast featuring @craftyguy, @z3ntu, @PureTryOut, @MartijnBraam and @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance). This episode features a news update of the progress of some components of postmarketOS and we answer some of the #postmarketOSpodcast questions submitted after the release of the first episode. We also added a legacy mp3 rss-feed to the podcast for Apple devices. Referenced this episode: Translating postmarketOS wiki page MMS effort by kop316 Mobile optimisation for gpodder: #930, #938 and on the postmarketOS side: #872 and !1822 Releases wiki page for our roadmap (see the linked milestones for details) v20.05.1 merge request Contributing wiki page List of issues marked "easy" List of issues marked "help wanted" Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi
#1 History
Our first podcast episode featuring @craftyguy, @PureTryOut, @z3ntu, @MartijnBraam and @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance). We go into the project's history and share a couple of anecdotes from before postmarketOS was published until the creation of the PinePhone postmarketOS community edition in 2020. Consider giving us some feedback (and questions for future episodes!) with #postmarketOSpodcast on Mastodon. Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi