Linux on Android smartphones Using a Google Nexus 5 as a Linux phone, in 2020 One of the main objectives of Linux is to give new life to older devices, and many projects are proving this by running (somewhat) modern UIs even on ancient smartphones
Librem5 Purism announces Android app support for the Librem 5 While the Purism Librem 5 may not be getting the same level of attention it was during its early crowdfunding phase, its developers seem to be working harder than ever
PinePhone Exploting pogo pins: PinePhone gets modular Modular phones have been hypothesized for years, with Phonebloks and Project Ara being the most popular concepts and just some shy experiments, like Fairphone 2, LG G5, Motorola Moto Z
PinePhone PinePhone adds postmarketOS CE and higher-spec'd "convergence" variants to their line-up After the PinePhone "BraveHeart" (hardware 1.1) and the first Community Edition (1.2), Pine64 has released a new revision of their popular Linux phone, as announced in their July
Linux Tablets New CutiePi Shell "Sidekick" mode brings Linux convergence to the next level Back in 2013 or so, "convergence" was one of the most trending topics in mobile software development, taking inspiration from responsive web development and the gap between desktop and mobile
PineTab The $99 "PineTab" Linux tablet is now available for preorder Almost one year after being announced, PINE64 has finally opened preorders for the AllWinner A64-based PineTab Linux tablet. The PineTab will cost $99 to the public, or $119 with its
New "SXMO" PinePhone desktop brings a full, lightweight tiling-based experience to Linux phones In this period, PinePhone projects seem to appear faster than anything else in the Linux community, like the multi-boot PineLoader bootloader, the JumpDrive recovery system and USB flash storage emulation
postmarketOS now boots on over 200 phones and tablets In its first three years of life, postmarketOS has gotten considerable popularity over time, partly thanks to the rising interest in the field after the huge press coverage of projects
Linux on iPhones iPhone 7 boots postmarketOS, becomes the first Apple Linux smartphone [updated] Let us face it: six months ago, nobody would realistically have expected a proprietary Apple iOS device to become a Linux smartphone. However, as we have seen in the previous
Linux on iPhones Linux on iPhones gets nearer as iOS devices gain dual-boot support One month after the first signs of Linux support on several iPhones appeared, with the Linux 4.4 kernel (and Android!) finally booting on the iPhone 7 and some other
GNOME Mobile GNOME Shell is moving towards a convergent, mobile-friendly UI About a year after the first official GNOME apps received convergent user interfaces with Purism's libhandy, the most popular Linux desktop seems to be ready to take the next step:
Linux on Android smartphones Large Maemo Leste update brings camera and TV output to 11-year old Nokia N900, PowerVR GPU support for Motorola Droid 4 In pre-Lumia (read Microsoft) times, Nokia phones used to be extremely widespread and praised for their very durable and innovative designs. Their relatively simple interfaces included some of the most
KDE KDE introduces "Plasma Bigscreen", a Linux desktop aimed at smart TVs In a period of quick evolution of Linux environments towards broader concepts of UI, KDE has just introduced Plasma Bigscreen, a brand new desktop environment aimed at smart TVs. This
postmarketOS postmarketOS gets Anbox integration, will run native Android apps Supporting Android apps to some degree has always been one of the priorities of the postmarketOS project, with Anbox support being one of the oldest issues in the project's bug
Linux on iPhones "Project Sandcastle" brings Android 10 to the iPhone 7 Earlier this year, we wrote about the first successful attempt to boot the Linux kernel on the iPhone 7. However, the situation evolved unexpectedly fast, with LCD drivers added within
Linux Smartphone Linux-ready, made-in-Germany "Volla Phone" succeeds on Kickstarter Some months after a failed Kickstarter campaign with an ambitious €350k goal, German startup Volla has managed to raise more than €20k in a new campaign (still open for the
Linux Smartphone Developer gets Linux kernel booting on iPhone 7 and A10-equipped iPads Many years after the OpeniBoot/iDroid utopia that brought early Android versions to some iDevices back in 2010, a new attempt at running a Linux kernel ("mainline" 5.4.14
Software "CutiePi Shell" is a new, open-source UI for mobile devices Mobile-oriented Linux UIs and window managers are still rare, and a fair share of them happens to be based on old technologies or look understaffed, or even abandoned. However, we
Ubuntu Touch Xiaomi Redmi 4X receives unofficial Ubuntu Touch release Despite all the work on "pure" Linux distributions for smartphones in 2020, Ubuntu Touch is likely still the safest choice for most devices, and the only one ready for complete
postmarketOS Running Linux on your smartphone: everything you need to know in 2020 One of the main issues with modern smartphones is the extremely short lifespan of this category of devices, which makes even high-end ones painfully slow within years. In fact, studies
GTK Building responsive apps for Linux Smartphones with GTK and libhandy, Part 1 With the delivery of the first, developer-oriented Librem 5 and PinePhone prototypes to the bravest backers, we can now officially state that modern Linux smartphones are a thing. But, as
Linux Smartphone Yet Another Librem 5 and PinePhone comparison Let's start off with mentioning that both these new phones are great steps forward for Linux. While they will probably not beat Android and iOS in popularity, they will at
Purism First Purism Librem 5 "Birch" user reviews report good build quality and display, software still WiP Some days after the first Purism Librem 5 smartphones from the second, still developer-oriented "Birch" batch release, user reviews and videos have started appearing on the Internet. The most popular
PINE64 PinePhone "Brave Heart" early bird developer edition now available for $150 About two months after the first Purism Librem 5 batch was shipped, Pine64 has finally made the very first batch of PinePhones openly available for sale. We discussed the differences
Linux on Android smartphones Announcing "Can My Phone Run Linux?": listing over 200 Linux-supported smartphones It took a while, but Can My Phone Run Linux? is finally available at many.tuxphones.com in its earliest release. This web app lets you know if you are
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