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Hello 🌏 ! This is #phosh's new fediverse presence. It'll have phosh's release announcements and posts/boosts of related projects. Looking forward to an interesting and bright Linux mobile future 📱 :phosh: .

Many thanks to fosstodon for hosting us for so long!

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@devrtz @NGIZero @snwh …and as a service to user interfaces/DEs that don't want to add explicit #CellBroadcast support #cbd can now send notifications. Just enabling the setting is enough.

This is configurable on a severity level so you could use a system modal dialog for high severity events and notifications for low severity ones. This is (likely) how we'll wire it up in #phosh once everything has settled in.

One thing that bothered me since some time is that for switching between different 🎶 players required to🔓 the 📱 .

So e.g. pausing #gnome podcasts to listen to music via #gapless needed ever so many steps. I've thus added a lockscreen plugin to #phosh that tracks all currently running media players that use #mpris and allows to interact with them.

This is all pretty rough still but I can hopefully brush it up for 0.48 (gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p).

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@phosh

Mostly using #Phosh on a #LibreM5 running #Mobian #trixie lately but also a #PinePhone running #Mobian #bookworm (with a trixie era kernel).

About 95% or more using the #Dino #XMPP client.

Mostly with WiFi but occasionally cellular data. Never with cellular voice calls or text.

Had tried Chats ages ago but the #OMEMO support was unreliable and there was no offline support at all. Lack off offline support was a total deal breaker for me.

Love phosh a lot, many thanks!

We usually learn a lot about this on conferences but let's try it here as well:

If you're daily driving #phosh we're keen to here on which phone (or other device)? Which distro do you use and which phosh version are you currently running?

Another #Cellbroadcast bit coming to #phosh / #LinuxMobile. The results of the users choice are set in the modem via a small daemon based on information we're getting from mobile-broadband-provider-info. That way only the tiny UI bit is DE specific, the other bits can be reused on other platforms as is. @devrtz is working on adding persistent storage to keep a message history.

Thanks to @NGIZero for supporting this and @snwh for the UI design.

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 is now in hard freeze, MIPS (MIPS64EL) architecture support dropped, RISC-V is promoted as a release architecture:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Ha

Debian installer Trixie RC1 adds rescue support on Btrfs, Linux kernel 6.12, spice-vdagent is installed automatically on QEMU/KVM, Ext2 file system on PPC64EL architecture instead of Ext4, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-Insta

APT package manager 3.1 released with why/why-not commands, new solver default on Ubuntu, include/exclude options, HTTPS support for dselect, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-3

KDE Plasma 6.4 will include time-of-day wallpapers, adaptive-sync disabled by default:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-T

NixOS 25.05 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and 6.14, GNOME 48, initial COSMIC support, new `nixos-rebuild build-image` sub-command, nixos-rebuild-ng, rewritten nixos-option etc.:
9to5linux.com/nixos-25-05-rele

Ubuntu 25.10 switches Chrony for Network Time Protocol (NTP) for better security:
phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10

GNOME 50 dropping X11 support causes complications for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-

Tails 6.15.1 released with fixes for critical Tor browser vulnerabilities:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/

Wine 10.8 released with TIFF support, progress on PDB backend, boosted performance:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/

New Linux phone upcoming by the Divine D. project:
liliputing.com/divine-d-projec
(Hopefully it will be a relatively cheap phone to replace the aging PinePhone)

Phosh 0.47.0 released with status page for feedback quick settings, mobile data quick settings disabled when SIM is locked, bug fixes:
phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0

(FOSS news in comments)

www.phoronix.comDebian 13 "Trixie" Now In Hard Freeze: MIPS64EL Demoted, RISC-V 64-bit Promoted

I just want to give a HUGE shout out to all the developers working on #phosh and #mobian because the latest experience is amazing. I know there is no first class citizen Linux Mobile device, but the software has improved leaps and bounds over the last few years. Bravo to everyone involved. I only wish I could do more to help.