We now pre-install postmarketOS Duranium (immutable version) on mobile devices in our shop!

Duranium's rollback feature make it stable, reliable, and an exciting part of the future of mobile Linux~

Congratulations to the entire postmarket team and #mobilelinux community on amazing efforts bringing linux to a whole new platform, and especially @craftyguy as the lead developer of the Duranium version of
@postmarketOS

#postmarketos #phosh #linuxmobile #duranium
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RE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116778299228237826

Since forever #postmarketOS has had to rely on various hacky solutions in our custom shell-based initramfs to access the nested GPT which actually contains the root/boot partitions. It's necessary to do this since modifying the partition table on Android phones can very quickly lead to bricks.

However, thanks to this awesome patch by @craftyguy (and @bluca ) in the new Systemd v261 release we no longer need to deal with any of this!

The immutable #Duranium version of postmarketOS runs systemd in the initramfs and it now automatically sets up loop devices for nested partition tables with ZERO additional configuration! (well technically it has been shipping this patch for a little while already :D)

I think I'd cry if I knew how many hours we have collectively spent dealing with weird dumb bugs in the initramfs, so having all of this just be handled by systemd is so SO nice. The value of the event-driven declarative service model really can't be understated imho, especially when it comes to quirky things like loop devices.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/47d408163b0b71e5f8fed6b2e520c053cefc5780

The postmarketOS #duranium images for this week now include a waydroid sysext!

If running android apps is your thing, you can enable it with:

updatectl enable waydroid && updatectl update

We were discussing hiding & disabling preinstalled apps on immutable images at PCM26 and recently with the @postmarketOS #duranium folks.

We now have some bits that allow to hide those (and other) applications. There's plenty of more work needed for different app types (e.g. we can do better for webapps) so help here is appreciated.

#Phosh #LinuxMobile #gtk #BengalOS

With our changes to Phosh's first-boot in 0.55 and the recent changes in mobile settings we can now finally go full circle on immutable images:

• Set up the initial user via systemd-homed
• Perform OS upgrades from the mobile settings app using systemd-sysupdate

This  landed in Phosh's nightly images already but will hopefully also become useful for other immutable phone distros like @postmarketOS #Duranium .

As the systemd org.freedesktop.sysupdate1 interface is bound to change to #varlink in 262 this is currently rather minimal and will be tweaked in future releases but it makes things already usable without having to resort to the command line.

#LinuxMobile #Phosh #systemd #gtk #BengalOS

with systemd v261, postmarketOS #duranium loses some jankiness!

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/8660

Thank you @daandemeyer !

Going to try out Duranium on my old pixel 3. So glad I didn't sell that when I was offloading things. Immutable postmarketOS sounds like such a fun project to tinker with.

#duranium #PostmarketOS