RE: https://social.garudalinux.org/@RannyBergamotte/117044785725174031 we're really excited to be represented at defcon this year!

I guess I have a blog now. https://blog.drakulix.de/taming-the-steam-arm64-client-on-pmos/

postmarketOS edge now also hides non-adaptive apps in @phosh by default. We had an override for this for the past five years: "[...] at the time, many apps that were adaptive or otherwise worked mostly fine, wouldn't mark themselves as such. 5 years later, the mobile ecosystem has grown […]

Thrilled to announce that @elly is now a trusted contributor in postmarketOS! She is an active coreboot contributor, wrote some U-Boot patches, mainlines and maintains support for ChromeOS devices, is hacking on the Zinwa Q25 and Moto G72 and in general enjoys low-level development (firmware […]

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (31/2026): Reported Progress https://linmob.net/weekly-update-31-2026/ #Phosh #Sxmo #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #Librem5 #PureOS #Jolla2 #PlasmaMobile #GNOME #MechaComet #LinuxMobile

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (31/2026): Reported Progress

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Our development report for _July_ is up. 👀 Check out our our latest improvements, 🐛 fixes, and what else is 🍳: https://phosh.mobi/posts/development-news-2026-07/ Testing (and other) feedback appreciated. #LinuxMobile #Phosh #BengalOS #gtk #linux #mobile

Development News July 2026

Here’s our seventh development progress update for 2026: Phosh 0.56 is out, improvements in Phosh’s overview handling, BengalOS now boots on SDM670, some progress on Phosh’s GTK4 port and more. See below for details. Want to try any of the below out already? See call for testing. phosh Link to heading A shell for mobile devices launcher-entry: Don’t use g_return_if_fail as a conditional (MR) app-tracker: Unquote startup id (MR) check-ui: Fix syntax (MR) quick-settings: Make descriptions consistent (MR) animation: Drop G_GNUC_CONST from get_type() (MR) Release 0.56.0 Zoom screenshot to overview (MR) (niko) Add “developing Phosh in a container” to Getting Started (MR) (niko) Draft: Zoom to overview (compositor version; Phosh part) (MR) (niko) background: Make sure to use device pixels (MR) udev-manager: Account for enumerated LEDs (MR) (dh) cellbroadcast: Set important hint on events (MR) phoc Link to heading A Wayland compositor for mobile devices

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Last call for proposals for the the postmarketOS and @alpinelinux Conference! https://pretalx.postmarketos.org/postmarketos-conference-2026/cfp If you are just hearing about this, please read https://postmarketos.org/conference/. #PostMarketOS #AlpineLinux

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (30/2026): 24.04-1.4 and -2.0 https://linmob.net/weekly-update-30-2026/ #UbuntuTouch #Jolla #SailfishOS #postmarketOS #FairPhone6 #PinePhone #PinePhonePro #PlasmaMobile #Phosh #Sxmo #LinuxMobile

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (30/2026): 24.04-1.4 and -2.0

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Sam captured today;s #cellbroadcast test messages from #AusAlert in Australia on two devices running #phosh , one with @fedora , the other one with @postmarketOS 🥳 .

Looks like #postmarketOS edge on #Pixel3a has a working focus driver for the back camera now: #shotonmainline #libcamera #googlesargo #LinuxMobile

Thanks to @newbyte we have a new devel blog post: "New dependencies, requirements, and recommended workarounds for kernels" https://postmarketos.org/devel/2026/07/24/new-kernel-dependencies/ #postmarketos

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (29/2026): Jolla Shipping https://linmob.net/weekly-update-29-2026/ #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #PlasmaMobile #postmarketOS #UnifiedPush #PinePhonePro #Catacomb #Mobian #DanctNIX

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (29/2026): Jolla Shipping

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To make our info booths at conferences easier to identify we printed two banners for future use. They will also make future group photos (like the one from our last #pcm26 (https://ev.phosh.mobi/blog/pcm26-bits/) more telling. Our next booth will be at […] [Original post on social.phosh.mobi]

📰 News on the postmarketOS and @alpinelinux conference: * We are currently out of tickets, some people are on the waiting list already. We are looking into potentially making more spots available. * The deadline for the Call for Contributions is in two weeks and four days (2026-07-31)! PROTIP […]

pmbootstrap 3.11.0 is out now! Highlights: * Strict builds are now the default behavior * UI packages can now explicitly say if systemd and/or openrc are supported (previously they could only set the default) * Default to 512MB for /boot (previously 256 MiB) * 32-bit capable aarch64 CPUs can […]

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (26-28/2026): Rough Continuation https://linmob.net/weekly-update-26-28-2026/ #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #Jolla #FuriOS #postmarketOS #Mobian #LinuxMobile

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (26-28/2026): Rough Continuation

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If you're interested in contributing to #postmarketOS but don't know what to do, #pmbootstrap currently has some missing pieces w.r.t. type hinting. In particular adding `disallow_any_generics = true` under `[tool.mypy]` in pyproject.toml and then running `mypy .` reveals many places where types […]

Boot partitions have been increased to 512MiB by default in pre-built images, and will be created so by the upcoming pmbootstrap 3.11 version. "For quite a while now, 256MiB has served us very well, but we've been starting to see issues with larger kernel packages like linux-postmarketos-stable […]

@nikodunk submitted a nice merge request to improve the transition from the running application to the overview 🤩:

New edge blog post: UIs can soon explicitly declare support for service managers "By limiting the configurations a UI can be installed into to what the maintainer actually supports, postmarketOS can provide more consistent quality and make debugging any issues that do arise easier." Thanks to […]

🇪🇺Tomorrow 12:00 PM: Final vote on reinstating #ChatControl 1.0 A simple majority is no longer enough for rejection. 📩 New email template: https://fightchatcontrol.eu 📞 Even better: Call directly 📰 Info: https://heise.de/-11356680

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

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I want to extend a big thank you to Oormila Raveendran Andaythu (unfortunately no fedi account) for making an introductory tutorial on how to make your first #MobileLinux app as her master's thesis and presenting it at the first PCM this May. Developer documentation like this is something we're […]

New blog post featuring Plasma 6.7, the all-new usb-signaller for handling USB gadgets that works well with mainline, two talks and more! 😃 https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/07/06/pmOS-update-2026-06/ #postmarketos #linuxmobile #plasma

postmarketOS in 2026-06: Plasma 6.7

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

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phosh 0.56.0 is out 🚀📱: There's new features - most notably for immutable OSes, 🐛 fixes and improvements. Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.56.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵 🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release. #phosh #gtk #wlroots #gnome […]

Successfully booted a more recent 7.0 kernel on the Samsung Galaxy S8 🥳 One step further for packaging it for #postmarketOS. Upstream work was done by @ivoszbg #LinuxMobile

Procedural trick: Governments try to rush the European Parliament with a fast-tracked procedure on #ChatControl 1.0. 🚨 Already next week they want to force yet ANOTHER vote. This way, they try to break the resistance of the European Parliament against mass surveillance in the negotiations on a […]

June in :phosh:, the heatwave edition ☀️🔥. Although some of us were melting we managed to put out some changes. 👀 Check out our our latest improvements, 🐛 fixes, and what else is 🍳: https://phosh.mobi/posts/development-news-2026-06/ As usual we appreciate testing feedback, motivating words ❤️ […]

🇬🇧 EU Govs & Conservatives want to force a 3rd vote on the twice-rejected #ChatControl 1.0 mass scanning of our private messages! 🚨 🔗 https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/06/26/eu-countries-move-to-revive-temporary-message-scanning-regime-but-it-could-backfire A deal could happen tomorrow. No […]

I have good news and bad news. Good news: My son has been born this week. He's wonderful, his mom's more than awesome (the birth (and aftermath) wasn't easymode, I'll not share further details other then that I have been full of joy but also really fearful at times, but German healthcare, at […]

Help in testing the release candidates is much appreciated: https://dev.phosh.mobi/docs/releases/testing/ . This is especially simple on @mobian and @pmOS_devices as nightly builds are available for these distros via separate repositories. These distributions also usually contain the release […]