LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.
A postmarketOS July update, Fairphone 6 "sensor bonanza", Jolla Phone batch deliveries continue with people sharing first impressions of Sailfish OS 5.2, non-adaptive apps are now hidden in Phosh by default on pmOS edge, and more! Collected on Saturday, August 8th 2026, 18:51 UTC and finished (in multiple tiny chunks) on Sunday, August 9th. Commentary in italics. Worth Reading runarcn.no: I'm…
Highlights of the past week: Progress reports on PureOS and the Mecha Comet, Phosh Development News plus a nice project by Phosh.mobi e.V, a video on the Jolla Phone 2, some nice hardware enablement news, and more! Collected on Sunday, August 2nd 2026, 17:46 UTC and finished (in multiple tiny chunks) on Monday, August 2nd. I am going to collect the next Update late Friday or early Saturday in…
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4 are both out, Jolla Phone batch #1 is shipping with Sailfish OS 5.2 notes published, huge Fairphone 6 postmarketOS advancements, Pixel 9a porting progress, PINE64 released the full PinePhone 3D files, and Plasma Mobile has a working Orca screen reader and more! Collected on Sunday, July 26th 2026, 19:31 UTC and edited (in multiple tiny chunks) on Monday, July…
GNOME OS has been demoed running on a Fairphone 5 at GUADEC 2026, Phosh's immutable BengalOS booted on a Pixel 3a, and more! Collected on Sunday, July 19th 2026, 19:07 UTC and edited (in multiple tiny chunks) on Monday, July 20th. What took me so long? Maybe ask the baby, but please don't wake it up while you do so! ;-) Commentary in italics. Worth Reading foss2go.com: Juno Computers…
Quick and dirty three-week catch-up: the Jolla Phone finally landed in backers' hands at the Day1 event in Helsinki, FuriOS 14.0.3 shipped face authentication and Vulkan with swipe typing on the way, Phosh 0.56.0 is out, postmarketOS gets Plasma 6.7 and bigger boot partitions, and more! My son is already over two weeks old, as shared on the Fediverse . This is a hasty attempt to get back in…
postmarketOS v26.06 "Alpen Avocado" is out, and Commodore is back with a flip phone running Sailfish OS — at a price. Linux 7.1 released; Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Beta adds Nothing Phone (1) and notch support; KDE Plasma 6.7 ships, with Plasma Mobile improvements; postmarketOS duranium images gain a Waydroid sysext and Bazaar for Flatpak installs, and more! A Personal Note This week's Weekly…
A big Mobian kernel drop for sdm845 devices brings rear camera on the SHIFT 6MQ, both front cameras on the Pixel 3, NFC; a Arch Linux AUR malware incident, Alpine Linux 3.24.0 released; postmarketOS v26.06 testing is underway; and more! Commentary in italics. Worth Reading Christian Gmeiner: Fixing the R/B swap the right way Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, June 11…
Vulkan is coming to the FuriLabs FLX1 and the FLX1s+ is now shipping, Sailfish OS 5.2 may ship Mastodon integration out of the box, postmarketOS v26.06 test phase starts soon, C-PHY support for Qualcomm, a Ubuntu Touch Merge Request for initial Flatpak support, a report on Phosh's development in May development news, and more! Commentary in italics. Worth Reading Phosh.mobi Blog: Development…
Sailfish OS 5.1 "Pispala" is in Early Access (Bluetooth support for Android apps included), a Ubuntu Touch Q&A and early 26.04 testing, GNOME Circle and Flathub both ban AI-generated code, Phosh Contributors Meeting recap published, a postmarketOS v26.06 wallpaper vote, and more! Commentary in italics. Worth Reading Luigi311: Furilabs FLX1s Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Bits from the Phosh Contributors…
PureOS Crimson is out, Sailfish OS 5.1 is about to land next week, slides from the Phosh Contributor Meeting that happened in Essen, with swipe typing in the works, and great talk recordings from past events. Enjoy! Commentary in italics. Worth Reading Luigi311: Furilabs FLX1s . Nice review! FuriLabs: FuriLabs Three Years On Congratulations! FuriLabs: Darling Harbour Three Years On PINE64: Quick…