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Raffaele T.

Raffaele T.

iPhone 7 boots postmarketOS and Ubuntu, becoming the first Linux-running Apple smartphone [updated]

iPhone 7 boots postmarketOS and Ubuntu, becoming the first Linux-running Apple smartphone [updated]

> Update 01/2021: A video showing an iPhone 7 running Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME desktop has been released [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO8vt34kTh0], bringing further ground to consider this the first Linux running iPhone Let us face it: six months ago, nobody would realistically have expected a

Linux on iPhones gets nearer as iOS devices gain dual-boot support

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 [https://tuxphones.com/corellium-project-sandcastle-linux-android-10-on-iphone-7/]!) finally booting on the iPhone 7 and some other models, well-known "jailbreakers" and developers @Ralph0045 [https://twitter.com/Ralph0045] and @mcg29_ [https://twitter.com/mcg29_

GNOME Shell is moving towards a convergent, mobile-friendly UI

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: migrating to a fully convergent (and thus mobile-friendly) desktop environment by redesigning the Shell to become more scalable (resolution-wise) and

Large Maemo Leste update brings camera and TV output to 11-year old Nokia N900, PowerVR GPU support for Motorola Droid 4

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 advanced features one could expect on a phone, and the company even developed some essentially full-Linux smartphones with the Maemo

KDE introduces "Plasma Bigscreen", a Linux desktop aimed at smart TVs

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 [https://dot.kde.org/2020/03/26/plasma-tv-presenting-plasma-bigscreen], a brand new desktop environment aimed at smart TVs. This is far, however, from being a simple "Kodi clone": not only Plasma

postmarketOS gets Anbox integration, will run native Android apps

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 [https://anbox.io/] support being one of the oldest issues [https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/issues/17] in the project's bug tracker. The news is, this issue has been very recently

"Project Sandcastle" brings Android 10 to the iPhone 7

"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 [https://tuxphones.com/linux-kernel-boots-on-t8010-a10-iphone-7-via-pongoos/]. However, the situation evolved unexpectedly fast, with LCD drivers added within days, and today the very first Android 10 ("Q") port approaching the beta stage thanks to