Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (13/2026): Spring Cleaning

This past week: A PINE64 Community Update with (no actual?) news on a PinePhone 2, Phosh 0.54 release candidate tagged at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026, postmarketOS announces archival of unmaintained devices after v26.06, first batch of Jolla Phone preorders ready to be completed, and way more. Collected in a city known for a famous tragedy. Enjoy!

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Jolla 2026 Announced | Is This European Device Worth Upgrading From the C2?

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🎙️ Whoever placed a bunch of big tables and benches at the ULB parkinglot rocks, having those allowed us to record a podcast featuring fifteen (!) people sharing their experiences on FOSDEM Sunday. Lots of folks from postmarketOS and special guests:

* @ariadne from Alpine Linux
* @flypig from Sailfish OS
* @1peter10 from LINMOB.net

Huge thanks to @williamtries and @tgm for editing this episode!

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/47-FOSDEM-2026-special/

#fosdem #postmarketos #linuxmobile #newpipe #pine64 #sailfishos #pkgconf

#47 FOSDEM 2026 Special

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

postmarketOS Podcast

Welcome to the wonderful world of patches in SailfishOS!

Patches are created by the community, and are small system enhancements or change of behavior.

What is your favourite enhancements?

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/please-share-your-used-patches-i-have-also-reactivate-some-old-patches/21866?u=frankps

#SailfishOS #SailfishCommunity #OpenSource #LinuxMobile @jolla

Please share your used patches - I have also reactivate some old patches

I want only share with you the about 50 running patches that I currently activated on my Sony Xperia 10iiwith SFOS 4.6. Maybe this will inspire some people? I’ll also show my settings, where I’ve added one or two entries. Have fun and maybe there is someone who can ask the owners and add my updates to the “unified_diff.patch” files to the web catalog and update the patch in the files “patch.json” header? The green dots shows my moded patches or additional settings entries. Since I am able to...

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Wir sind auch heute wieder auf dem #clt2026. Kommt gerne vorbei und probiert ein Smartphone mit #phosh und #LinuxMobile aus.

#mobian #postmarketos

(more Linux news in original post)

Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-grub-secure-boot-luks-changes
(Why don't they drop Snap too to protect user's security? Snap Store also has malware lol)

Ubuntu’s Security Center app adds Ubuntu Pro settings:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-security-center-ubuntu-pro

Ubuntu 26.04 Beta is now available to download:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-26-04-beta-is-now-available-to-download

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Joins The Rust Foundation:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Joins-Rust-Foundation

Fedora 45 Aims For IPv6-Mostly Support Out-Of-The-Box:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-IPv6-Mostly

Fedora 45 Plan Approved For Web Frontend To Linux's "Blue Screen of Death" DRM Panic:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-To-Get-DRM-Panic-Web

openSUSE Releases Agama 19 Installer with Many New Features and Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-releases-agama-19-installer-with-many-new-features-and-improvements

Kali Linux 2026.1 Is Out with New Default Theme, New Tools, and BackTrack Mode:
https://9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2026-1-is-out-with-new-default-theme-new-tools-and-backtrack-mode

KaOS Linux 2026.03 Is Out with Linux 6.19, More systemd Components Removed:
https://9to5linux.com/kaos-linux-2026-03-is-out-with-linux-6-19-more-systemd-components-removed

Tails 7.6 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released with Automatic Tor Bridges:
https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-6-privacy-focused-linux-distro-released-with-automatic-tor-bridges

SystemRescue 13 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, GParted 1.8.1, and More:
https://9to5linux.com/systemrescue-13-released-with-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-gparted-1-8-1-and-more

KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Microphone

KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Vulkan-First-Step

GNOME Foundation Announces Fellowship Program:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fellowship-Program

Gedit Aims For More Frequent Releases, Bans AI / LLM Contributions:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gedit-50-Released

Introducing Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/03/17/introducing-duranium/

New postmarketOS installations now by default use sudo-rs instead of doas:
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/03/18/sudo-rs-instead-of-doas/

(More Linux and FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Ubuntu #Fedora #openSUSE #KaliLinux #KaOS #Tails #TailsOS #SystemRescue #KDE #KDEPlasma #KWin #GNOME #Gedit #Duranium #postmarketOS #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #DesktopEnvironment #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #DistributionRelease #DistroRelease #FosseryTech

Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB - OMG! Ubuntu

Ubuntu engineers are debating ways to reduce the number of features present in the signed version of GRUB, the boot loader used on systems with Secure

OMG! Ubuntu

Lots of fun stuff at Boiling The Ocean 10 today, including

- Fairphone 5 audio hacking
- Reflection newcomer session
- Fixed document sorting by editing date in Reflection
- Fixed multi-window zooming bug in Reflection
- Reflection on macOS
- GNOME Maps UX
- Bazaar app version pinning UX
- GNOME 50 celebration
- Talk: "Readability, Legibility, Usability" by @frankrausch
- and more!

#gnome #linuxmobile #postmarketos #gtk #localfirst #berlin

Looking for a cozy Sunday project? The fairly new #postmarketOS documentation website docs.postmarketos.org has some low hanging fruit that might be interesting to some folks

The guide for upgrading to new postmarketOS releases needs to be ported over from the wiki: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/docs.postmarketos.org/-/work_items/25

And the artwork repo which contains our style guide should be added to the docs website so its more easily available: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/docs.postmarketos.org/-/work_items/32

#foss #linuxmobile #opensource #documentation

Move Upgrade wiki page to docs.postmarketos.org (#25) · Issues · postmarketOS / docs.postmarketos.org · GitLab

The 'new release upgrade' page at https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Upgrade_to_a_newer_postmarketOS_release should probably be moved to docs.postmarketos.org.

GitLab

Protip: GTK can do hardware video acceleration using V4L2 on e.g. #Librem5, but only if you let it.

Adding "--device=all" to overrides lets it be used in #Flatpak apps that don't specify it in their permissions already, such as #Tuba.

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5524

#mobilelinux #linuxmobile

Directly from #clt2026 comes our release candidate for #phosh 0.54 and related components: 🎉 📱 .

The release is planned 2026-04-05: https://phosh.mobi/releases/calendar/

We've also tagged the companion releases for gmobile 0.7.0 and pfs 0.0.8.

#LinuxMobile

Release Calendar

This table lists release information for past and future releases. Release Freeze Date Release Date Comment Release Team 0.56.0 2026-07-05 2026-06-25 guidog 0.55.0 2026-05-07 2026-05-17 guidog 0.54.0 2026-03-25 2026-04-05 guidog 0.53.0 2026-02-05 2026-02-15 guidog 0.52.0 2025-12-24 2026-01-04 Shifted to the weekend guidog 0.51.0 2025-11-06 2025-11-16 guidog 0.50.0 2025-09-20 2025-09-30 guidog 0.49.0 2025-08-05 2025-08-15 guidog 0.48.0 2025-06-20 2025-06-30 guidog 0.47.0 2025-05-05 2025-05-18 (shifted to the next weekend due to time constrains) guidog 0.46.0 2025-03-20 2025-03-31 guidog 0.45.0 2025-02-05 2025-02-15 guidog 0.44.0 2024-12-20 2024-12-31 Might be a bit delayed (e.g. 2025-01-04) guidog 0.43.0 2024-11-05 2024-11-15 guidog 0.42.0 2024-09-20 2024-09-30 guidog 0.41.0 2024-08-05 2024-08-15 guidog 0.40.0 2024-06-20 2024-06-30 50% longer release cycle guidog 0.39.0 2024-04-30 2024-05-15 Shifted by 2 weeks, 50% longer release cycle guidog 0.38.0 2024-03-29 2024-04-05 guidog 0.37.0 2024-02-29 2024-03-08 guidog 0.36.0 2024-01-31 2024-02-04 (moved from Fr to Su) guidog 0.35.0 2023-12-31 2024-01-07 (moved from Fr to Su) guidog 0.34.0 2023-11-30 2023-12-08 guidog 0.33.0 2023-10-31 2023-11-03 guidog 0.32.0 2023-09-30 2023-10-06 guidog 0.31.0 2023-08-31 2023-09-03 Moved from end of September to end of August guidog 0.30.0 2023-07-31 2023-08-02 guidog 0.29.0 2023-06-30 2023-07-05 Slightly later than usual guidog 0.28.0 2023-05-31 2023-06-02 guidog 0.27.0 2023-04-30 2023-05-02 guidog For further details on releases refer to the release section of the Phosh Contributors Manual.

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