Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (15/2025): Boot your phone from USB
@cas @agx I am using my OnePlus 6 with postmarkeOS as daily driver nowadays. And I follow the development of the oroject since over 3 years.
Currently I am in the process of mainlining the Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e my self and I can see clearly now how much work and effort has been spend on the project.
I just wan't to say thanks for all the hard work, you and the whole team, spend to bring the project where it is today! And it is getting better every day!
@agx gonna be celebrating 5 years of #postmarketOS on the OnePlus 6 in may, i did a lil comparison of the state of things back in 2020 when it first got up and running and the difference is absolutely wild. I think a lot of people dont realise just how much progress has been made -- and we definitely aren't stopping now :D
Self-Hosting a Cluster on Old Phones https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/self-hosting-a-cluster-on-old-phones/ #handheldshacks #postmarketos #raspberrypi #bootloader #kubernetes #smartphone #unlockable #linux #k3s
Version 0.2 of my eSIM Manager app is out!
We've got significant UI improvements alongside many other additions such as an app icon, providing environment variables for lpac via the command line, error handling, eUICC 'notification' handling, viewing of eUICC chip info and appstream metainfo data!
I have to reference #gitlab merge request and issue numbers a lot while doing dev stuff for #postmarketOS and #alpinelinux (like for giving to our mrtest tool), so I made a simple bookmarklet that will copy this number to my clipboard:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/-/snippets/10
Bookmarklets are neat!
After many months, we finally have an upstreamable path for merging /usr in postmarketOS and hence Alpine! Still lots of work to be done, I just ruined one of my test installations LOL. But it's so cool to see it become real: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6389
@craftyguy talking about #postmarketos at the local Portland Linux Group here in #portland.
@postmarketOS omg!!
I was excited to hear the features, then disappointed to hear it's backed by proprietary libraries from #Gboard, but then excited again to learn this demonstrates the ability to run stuff from #LineageOS and its forks/ancestors without having to run a full-blown emulator! And not a normal app but a integrated subsystem no less 
If #postmarketOS were human, this would be a true #cyborg (in a good way) 
Nexus 5 (lg-hammerhead) joins the group again after reflashing #postmarketOS on it. I set all these up to make sure #TouchpadEmulator autostart works with screen rotation on all of them. I released a new version with minor changes to get this working and updated my Alpine merge request.
#postmarketOS family photo!
I need to reimage my Nexus 5 apparently, it didn't make the photo because it's stuck at lk2nd. Also my Galaxy S5 and Note 3 I should revisit.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (13/2025): Crossing Platforms, Breaking Barriers
@postmarketOS As daily driving a phone with #PostmarketOS I can't thank you enough folks for all the efforts so far ! 
I'll be talking about #postmarketOS at the next Portland Linux/Unix Group (PLUG) meeting on Thursday April 3rd, come on down if you're in the area 
https://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-announce/2025q1/001232.html
Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,
After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.
We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )
Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.
The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.
[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]
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Tested the latest #GNOME #Snapshot on #postmarketOS on my #PINE64 #PinePhonePro! It's been a while since I revisited the PinePhonePro but with cameras and camera utilities coming a long way on newer devices I wanted to revisit #libcamera on the PinePhones. I installed @NekoCWD's cameractrl and it successfully controls focus, but the PPP camera seems to have autoexposure that reduces the utility of cameractrl's exposure slider. Anyways, here's a picture of some other postmarketOS devices.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (12/2025): GNOME 48 and other goodies
