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2025-05-08 16:30:54 CEST

Due to the recent controversy and resulting defederations with some instances, we decided to move the postmarketOS Mastodon account away from Fosstodon. Thank you for hosting us since 2018 and best wishes to @nprofile…cee8 and her new team!
New account:
https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS
Thanks to @nprofile…u9u3 for writing this excellent transfer guide: https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/
See you on the other side! :blobcatwave:

2025-05-05 19:56:12 CEST

Heads up on recent mesa upgrades in postmarketOS edge:
* Due to changes in the drivers for the Mali GPUs in Mediatek SoCs like MT8183, the recent update to Mesa 25 causes graphical display issues on Mediatek SoCs. A workaround is in preparation: https://postmarketos.org/edge/2025/05/05/Graphical-issue-with-Mesa-25-on-Mediatek-SoCs/
* The qcom/adreno bug that caused GTK4 apps to fail to start with the new GTK4 rendering backend has been fixed in the latest patch release! Related workaround will be removed once it is in flatpak: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6472

2025-04-29 17:07:46 CEST

We are looking into moving our Mastodon account to another instance within the next week or so.

2025-04-13 17:45:30 CEST

Heads up: "On certain devices (Adreno-based GPUs, e.g. OnePlus 6) Flatpaks apps using GTK4 might fail to start with a currently unknown reason.
As a temporary workaround, you can start flatpak apps with GSK_RENDERER=ngl as environment variable."
pmaports issue:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3655
edge blog post (same text):
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2025/04/13/gtk4-flatpak-apps-fail-to-start/

2025-04-09 08:33:47 CEST

postmarketOS in 2025-03 :postmarketos: 📖
* GNOME (Mobile) 48
* 📷 Camera enablement for OnePlus 6, Motorola Moto E5 Plus, Motorola Moto G5s, Xiaomi Redmi (3S, 4 Standard, 4A)
* Generic SM7150 packaging
* @nprofile…klwf @nprofile…zzgr grant for Collation + i18n support in @nprofile…t2r4 libc got accepted!
* COSMIC desktop
* systemd service reloading/restarting on upgrade
* Lots of events coming up around the world
* A highly entertaining podcast episode
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/04/09/pmOS-update-2025-03/
#cosmic #linuxmobile #gnome

2025-04-01 06:28:23 CEST

In our previous blog post 2025 Priorities: Reliability, Audio, Cameras and More, we asked "is there anything that you find terribly important that we have missed here?". And indeed, there was one thing that people would have liked us to focus more on, which is a better keyboard experience.
This was unbelievably great timing, because we are actually integrating a new keyboard with great new features!
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/04/01/in-search-for-a-better-keyboard/

2025-03-31 20:05:42 CEST

happy trans day of visibility :3
#TDOV #TransVisibilityDay
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/258/368/397/977/067/original/410d78d9ee51ef96.png

2025-03-31 18:55:49 CEST

🗨 As the Matrix.org bridge to the OFTC IRC network will likely stop working soon, we are now self-hosting our own bridge for postmarketOS related channels. The chats should continue to work the same as before, but let us know if you run into unexpected issues.
If you are a well known community member who runs one or more channels related to postmarketOS (e.g. for mainlining a specific SoC) and would like to use our bridge too, then let us know!
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/31/matrix-bridge-migration/

2025-03-30 21:24:47 CEST

As our community grows, we are increasing the focus we put on planning and organizing the work we do. Therefore we have been thinking hard about priorities for this year.
Read all about it on our blog:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/30/pmOS-year-priorities/

2025-03-30 15:20:15 CEST

Update regarding the Matrix / OFTC IRC bridge for postmarketOS channels (+ related like Sxmo): We will keep a bridge around. We have set up a selfhosted bridge and are waiting on OFTC to increase our connection limit before we can start using it, which will probably happen any day now.

2025-03-17 23:13:23 CET

We will be able to spend a significant chunk of money on building our upcoming hardware CI system (and related software components) for improving the reliability of postmarketOS. For everybody who is donating to postmarketOS: you are amazing, thank you very much for making this possible! ❤️
See our new financial update blog post for our full budget plans and recap of 2024:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/17/pmOS-budget-and-financial-update/

2025-03-12 19:14:05 CET

Documentation is very important - one of the reasons that we are happy to announce that @nprofile…utf9 is our newest Trusted Contributor!
They currently do the following in postmarketOS:
* Working on the postmarketOS wiki; making sure the docs are up-to-date, useful and easy to understand
* Mainlining Broadcom Kona series chipsets (in pmOS soon!)
* Co-maintaining the Exynos 4 close to mainline kernel fork
* Occasionally tracking down bugs and regressions
📜 TC page:
https://postmarketos.org/trusted-contributors/#knuxify

2025-03-10 16:05:18 CET

xiaomi-davinci & xiaomi-surya now use u-boot and are merged into a generic qcom-sm7150 port:
> […] U-Boot comes with an EFI implementation that lets us boot the Linux kernel with systemd-boot and have U-Boot pick the correct devicetree blob instead of appending it to the kernel.
> This means that as long as a device is supported by the SM7150 Linux kernel fork and U-Boot, it can boot postmarketOS with no changes needed in postmarketOS!
Well done @nprofile…haql! 🎉
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2025/03/09/sm7150-generic-migration/

2025-03-04 03:25:33 CET

postmarketOS in 2025-02 :postmarketos: 👀
* New name foreshadowing
* Office hours
* MSM89x7 audio, charging, flashlight and suspend!
* Modern Xiaomis POCO X3 NFC and Mi 9T/Redmi K20 moved to community category
* 6 new device ports
* pmbootstrap cross-native2 for faster cross compiling
* systemd 256.11
* Improved Gstreamer experience
* Initial Mediaberry UI packaging
* Xfce and LXQt improvements
* mobile-config-firefox packaging now works with #librewolf
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/04/pmOS-update-2025-02/
#linux

2025-02-12 21:46:25 CET

We stand in solidarity with our friends at @nprofile…8x0h. No project should have to deal with this kind of abuse and we applaud their efforts to tackle it and protect their community. If you share our desire for truly free software and infrastructure that doesn't harvest your data, and have to the means to, consider heading to https://donate.codeberg.org. Community funding is the best way to ensure that projects like Codeberg can continue to succeed and be independent.
https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

2025-02-10 22:08:36 CET

For people who have been asking us, when the next postmarketOS podcast episode will come out: we did record one at FOSDEM and have just released it, enjoy! 🎙️
https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/45-FOSDEM-2025-special/

2025-02-10 22:04:47 CET

:postmarketos: As promised, here is our report from FOSDEM 2025 and the hackathon we did afterwards:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/02/10/fosdem-and-hackathon/
Just like last year, it was an incredibly productive time in which we were able to tackle hard problems and greatly move postmarketOS development forward. This hackathon has been financed through your donations from OpenCollective, thank you for making this possible! 💕
#fosdem #fosdem2025

2025-02-10 00:07:16 CET

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@nprofile…fsfs built on the shoulders of giants :postmarketos: 🚀

2025-02-08 13:59:37 CET

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@nprofile…wy8k that's a great idea 😎
until then try https://postmarketos.org/devices

2025-02-06 18:20:41 CET

our first PostmarketOS Change Request (PMCR) has been submitted since we finished formally defining the process earlier this week.
Implement hermetic /usr by @nprofile…dytd and @nprofile…pwfe
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmcr/-/merge_requests/2
Feedback is welcome, but we ask that you avoid commenting unless you have relevant technical input. Questions may be better asked in response to this mastodon post or over on Matrix.

2024-10-31 20:35:54 CET

We just shipped some major refactoring in our initramfs, removing some of the oldest tech-debt in the distro and finally making it possible to boot without first finding and unpacking the "initramfs-extra" archive!
This new unified-initramfs behaviour is now the default for most devices, and may lead to a slight boottime speedup!
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/5636
We're hopeful this doesn't break anything, but if you do run into issues please go check out the tracking thread here https://postmarketos.org/edge/2024/10/31/Recent-changes-might-affect-booting/

2024-08-11 18:14:19 CEST

Since December 2023 postmarketOS has been collecting donations transparently through Open Collective. Here's an update on where we are standing financially.
Huge thanks to everybody who is making this possible! ❤️
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/08/11/pmOS-financial-update/
#opencollective #linuxmobile #postmarketos

2023-12-16 18:02:31 CET

We're happy to welcome Nikita Travkin (@travmurav) as a trusted contributor! Nikita has been working on #postmarketOS since 2019, helping to maintain our msm8916 devices and contributing to many different parts of the distro, recently he's been digging into unlocking the full potential of some Windows on ARM laptops (checkout this awesome write-up https://github.com/TravMurav/Qcom-Secure-Launch)