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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (51/2025): The Other Half reloaded
This past week: VoidPhone is a FuriPhone aimed at businesses (with MDM and such), postmarketOS publishes transparency report on contributor compensation from donations and now ships systemd built from unpatched upstream source code thanks to merged musl libc support, v25.12 testing phase begins, Nemo Mobile boots on openSUSE, Jolla's "The Other Half" extensible covers could add hardware capabilities like physical keyboards or extra battery, and Lomiri being shipped in yet another distro. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (50/2025): No December Lull
This past week: Divine D Rev 1.1 gains attention and other new devices, someone resurrects a Nokia N900 with supercapacitor "battery" and USB-C port, Jolla announces "The Other Half" extensible backcovers return at 10,000 pre-orders, mobile-config-firefox 5.0.0 launches with new about:mobile page, postmarketOS hardware CI and pre-release 25.12 call for testing, and more! Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (49/2025): Modal boats
This past week: Jolla Phone pre-orders open for €499 with MediaTek 5G, 12GB RAM, replaceable battery, and physical privacy switch—hitting the 2,000-unit goal in under a week, (some) audio finally works on Fairphone 5 with postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1 and 20.04 OTA-11 expand VoLTE to Fairphone 4 and remaining Volla Phone 22 variants, Divine D reveals Rev 1.1 hardware architecture, Phosh contributors meeting dates confirmed for May 2026, and Alpine Linux 3.23.0 arrives. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (48/2025): Rockchip-y Wallpapers
This past week: RK3588's phone news: Liberux NEXX secures new funding after failed crowdfunding, dawndrums wraps up a major Divine D development phase; Wayland Protocols 1.46 brings experimental text input improvements, Flathub explores sustainable app maintenance that respects developers rather than exploiting them, postmarketOS seeks wallpaper votes for v25.12, Ubuntu Touch Q&A 179 delivers, a Phosh meetup happening Thursday in Bonn, some FOSDEM foreshadowing, and more. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (47/2025): Duranium enters the chat
This past week: Waydroid 1.6.0 adds native Android notification forwarding to the host, FEX makes running x86 Steam games on ARM phones remarkably easy, the farphone project shows how to repurpose smartphones as tiny web servers, postmarketOS calls for immutable Duranium testers, Fairphone 4 camera produces "90s-style" photos with mainline kernel, Ubuntu Touch working on move to Qt6, and a new mainlining community launches on the threadiverse. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (46/2025): Plasma Mobile 6.5 and new Jolla hardware
This past week: Plasma Mobile 6.5 and Phosh 0.51.0 released with big updates, Updates on the progress of Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS and PureOS, Marathon OS debuts as a BlackBerry 10-inspired mobile Linux shell/distro, Valve's Steam Frame VR headset could boost mobile Linux through FEX and Waydroid, FOSDEM 2026 stands approved for postmarketOS and friends, and more. Enjoy!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (45/2025): Maemo Leste Daedalus and Sxmo 1.18
This past week: C-PHY camera support enables main cameras on OnePlus 6/6T with mainline Linux, openSUSE mobile images add full disk encryption for PinePhone, postmarketOS boots on BlackBerry KEY2 and SQFMI Beepy, Sxmo 1.18.0 released, a new Maemo Leste release based on Devuan Daedalus, and the FOSS on Mobile devroom returns to FOSDEM 2026. Enjoy!