The Librem 5 (and mobile GNU/Linux in general) has matured a lot over the years, but there are still some areas where the software stack is behind the hardware capabilities. Some of them are often talked about, such as camera quality or GPU (GLES3/Vulkan/OpenCL), but there are also lesser known ones in need of some plumbing and middleware infrastructure. Maybe you'll find something interesting to hack on there?
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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (15/2025): Boot your phone from USB
@dino Nice. Calls working for me again on #postmarketOS with #Librem5. Call icon no longer greyed out.
SEATTLE AREA TRADE OFFER!
I RECEIVE: freewrite alpha OR traveler OR smart typewriter portable word processor to help finish my memoir and write other stuff too
YOU RECEIVE: librem 5 linux phone
i'm serious!!! lmk if you wanna do this trade. boosts highly appreciated!!!!! 
@zwarf @joshua @eliasr @batichi @linmob @phosh
I'm also using the #Librem5 as my daily, primary phone for nearly three years now. The software keeps improving. I really like to have full control over my phone. And that the software is designed to give the user freedom and power.
https://janvlug.org/blog/one-week-librem-5-field-trial-day-1/
> Okay is there a phone Linux? This sucks
There is lots of good stuff. Look at for example #LinuxMobile #Phosh #PinePhone #Librem5 @linmob @phosh
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens
phosh 0.46.0 is out 
There's 
fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.46.0/ for details or see 
for a short
to everyone who contributed to this release.
#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile
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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (13/2025): Crossing Platforms, Breaking Barriers
@danie10 Please add @purism As far as I know, it's still the ony company in the world that has made #LinuxOnly laptops, minis, servers, tablet, and phones as well as the OS which is #FSF-endorsed.
In all fairness, Dell shouldn't even be on the list as their XPS laptops with Linux preloaded isn't #LinuxFirst or even available except in certain countries.
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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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (12/2025): GNOME 48 and other goodies
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (11/2025): #Libadwaita 1.7 and news from #Sxmo
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (09, 10/2025): Too much to put in a title
Erf, I upgraded my #mobian #librem5 and it break the mobile-config-firefox
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox
I dig a little and seems to be an issue with FileUtils
(cc @LWN)
Hi @phosh, I'm currently running #Mobian with #Phosh on a #Librem5. It looks great and works very well. Thanks for all this great work!
I have a question though, because I'm not a big fan of background images. Is it be possible to completely disable the background image and have just a black background (or could a plain black background be added)?
I like the very clean non-distracting black background like it currently is on #PureOS Byzantium.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (08/2025): Cameras and Project Updates
Woohoo, #libobscura returned an image from the #librem5 !
```
Buffer size: 823296, seq: 0, timestamp: 18178.362439 [s]
Writing to frame.GRBG
```
Now I'm scared to look at the data. It's probably garbage.
But the proof of concept is there: you can treat the Media Controller API as a database and query it for valid image pipeline configurations.
I wonder if the debayering #shader still works.
But first, clean up and publish.
vanta rainbow black 
