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 might soon have a new contender in this niche: the primarily tablet and Raspberry Pi-oriented CutiePi Shell, designed for the
KDE Improved KDE Plasma Mobile introduces "Plasma Nano" minimal shell for embedded devices KDE's Plasma Mobile project was ahead of its time when its "preview release" was announced back in 2016, about three years later than Ubuntu Touch, and had to follow a similar fate: underlooked and understaffed at first, it started getting mainstream interest in 2018 after getting a Nexus 5 port,
Linux Smartphone First prototype for PINE64 "PinePhone" Linux smartphone sports thin bezels and modern design After being announced several months ago, Pine64's inexpensive "PinePhone" Linux smartphone looks like a cheaper, entry-level alternative to the relatively popular Librem5 Linux smartphone by Purism, which promises total privacy and a full mobile Linux experience. In fact, most of the work on Linux for smartphones in the last months
GNOME Designing apps for Linux smartphones: a "quick start guide" by GNOME developer Tobias Bernard No matter how cool your smartphone (or its OS) is, you aren't going much further than with a feature phones unless there's a wide, good quality app ecosystem to back it up. As we've seen in our previous post, both Purism and GNOME are actively working on giving developers every
