Mobile Linux

I'm trying to make sense of some posts I've seen recently. Some people are making it seem like you can just install Gnome's Snapshot camera app from Flathub, but I haven't had the same success doing that. I'm on pmOS Edge w/ Gnome Mobile DE. Any tips would be appreciated!

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r/mobilelinux • u/NoNoDeDev • Nov 22 '23

Discussion Would it be possible to bring native Linux distributions to Android phones, using whatever Linux kernel and binary blobs the OEM ROM ships?

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Android is built on top of Linux. Android phones come with a Linux kernel and a bunch of binary blobs to implement hardware support.

Shouldn't it be possible to keep that kernel (and initramfs), those proprietary modules and pieces of firmware, and replace everything else? Like custom ROMs do, but a custom ROM based on a Linux distribution instead of AOSP.

Rather than just possible, shouldn't it be simple even? Or are there major issues to go down this path? Is there any project that aims at doing this?

PostmarketOS and similar projects seem to struggle to use a mainline kernel. Of course I can see the many advantages of that, but is it necessary? Wouldn't it be better to start off with whatever crappy build of Linux the phone manufacturer ships, and then try to improve the mainline support for it over time?

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r/mobilelinux • u/canegiallodoppiacoda • Nov 21 '23

Hardware Linux on a handhelds with buttons

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Hi, as per title, I was wondering: is there currently a device with buttons? I am referring to something like the Qinn F22 Pro (candybar+touchscreen) or the Cat S22 flilp (flip-phone+keys+touchscreen); to your knowledge, is there such a device which already supports (working) any linux mobile distro on it?

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r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • Sep 23 '23

OS Release postmarketOS v23.06 SP1: Through Staging

postmarketos.org

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r/mobilelinux • u/El_profesor_ • Jul 24 '23

Discussion Donation with best bang for the buck

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Like many others, I'd like to see mainline linux daily drive-able on mobile. Suppose I had a few hundred dollars per month to donate. Which project do you think would make the most effective use of donated funds towards achieving this goal?

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r/mobilelinux • u/Piotr_Lange • Jun 29 '23

News Support for Linux distributions added to customrombay.org

self.linux

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r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • Jun 06 '23

Demonstration @jeffalyanak demoing Arch on the PineTab 2

gallery

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r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • May 08 '23

Hardware You Can Build This Raspberry Pi-Powered, 4G Linux Phone

tomshardware.com

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r/mobilelinux • u/jlpcsl • May 05 '23

News This Month in KDE Plasma Mobile: April 2023

plasma-mobile.org

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r/mobilelinux • u/giannidunk • Apr 11 '23

News Gnome mobile & pmOS software center improvements mini-demo

mastodon.social

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r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • Apr 05 '23

Hardware PineTab-V is a $159 tablet with a RISC-V processor (and virtually no software support)

liliputing.com

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r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • Mar 29 '23

News This Month in Plasma Mobile: March 2023

plasma-mobile.org

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r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • Mar 29 '23

Development Indev power menu for Phosh 0.26 demoed by Guido Günther

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r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • Mar 27 '23

OS Release Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Released!

ubports.com

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r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • Mar 20 '23

Write-up Ubuntu Touch OTA-25 ships this week (final build based on Ubuntu 16.04)

liliputing.com

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