First day at the #linuxmobile stand at #FOSDEM 2024 was packed! Our devroom is sadly over but we'll be at the stand for another day, so come on by if you haven't already!
New ways to become a :postmarketos: Trusted Contributor
We know that people have been contributing to postmarketOS in many ways, not just via code reviews and submitting patches. So if you have been contributing to postmarketOS for the past six months or longer and don't fancy yourself a developer, there is now a path for you to become a Trusted Contributor too!
Folks owning a Nvidia Tegra 2/3/4 device, you might be interested in Svyatoslav Ryhel's work of replacing the proprietary bootloader ✨
> Svyatoslav ported most of these devices without owning one, just relying on testing from people. This means anyone having such a device can reach him and eventually will be able to replace the old proprietary vendor bootloader with U-Boot.
We hope to see you all there! We'll show of some devices running all our awesome software and will gladly answer all your questions and show you all the new cool stuff that happened since last year!
postmarketOS v23.06 is out, thanks to everybody who contributed! 🚀 :postmarketos:
* @alpinelinux 3.18 * First time including @gnome Shell on Mobile! * Phosh 0.27 * @plasmamobile 5.27.5 * Sxmo 1.14.0 * Lots of improvements to GNOME Software * USB tethering * Translations & locale improvements * Installer: minimum pass len changed from 8 to 6 characters * @PINE64 Pinebook Pro: backlight control and audio works by default * And lots more!
So #Reddit has sent us this nice "either you open up your subreddit or else" letter too. We will keep the subreddit private, let's see what their "next steps" look like.
> Our goal here is to ensure that existing mod teams establish a path forward to make sure your subreddit is available for the community that has made its home here.
We have established a path forward, it is using the #Fediverse instead of Reddit.
* All about SDM845 sensors * Call for testing of upcoming v23.06 release * Building KDE 6 * Concepts for wakeup on calls / opportunistic sleep * Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2023 * @PINE64 PineNote * Localization * Update on dnsane * postmarketos-mkinitfs 2.x
Contributions to the world of free software by transgender people are nothing short of extraordinary. Among other things, ARM support in Linux wouldn't be where it is today without the invaluable contributions of @alyssa. postmarketOS wholeheartedly embraces diversity and we believe that everyone, especially those who run free software, should too!
Leaving the birdsite for good. We've considered setting up a bot that posts abbreviated Mastodon posts to Twitter, and always has a link to the Mastodon post to read it in full (and no other links to blog posts etc, they would only be in the Mastodon post). But that would have been too much effort, time is better spent on improving postmarketOS. Also it feels good to not feed Twitter at all anymore!
Shout out to @mobian who beat us to it, while we were still discussing how to implement this ?
@technicalissues We won't publish pre-builds till the upstream patches have ended up in a GNOME release. But you can build images yourself till that happens, or just install the packages on an existing installation.
Note that the PinePhone specifically probably won't run this well, it's not performant enough to be usable.
@technicalissues Actually we are still discussing the pre-built images, we might do them for edge. As long as upstream is okay with that, it could be a good way to get more testing.
Since people kept asking: we have a merch site up now, where you can get sustainable, stylish piece of clothing featuring the postmarketOS logo in quite a few variations.
Also we put a link to the @pine64eu homepage there, the place to go if you want to buy a brand new #pinephone with postmarketOS pre-installed.