postmarketOS in 2024-09 :postmarketos:
Highlights:
* systemd progress
* PCB for automated testing with real hardware
* process for applying kernel config changes for many of our kernels at once - and keeping them applied via CI checks
* apk plugins updated for GNOME Software (GNOME 47) & upstreamed to Plasma Discover!
* work on adding Alpine/musl CI for the entire KDE software stack
* pmbootstrap v3 in use by pmaports CI + BPO
* usr-merge improvements
📼 "systemd-ifying postmarketOS, our immutable future, and why Alpine is cooler than you thought"
Because people at @npub1wrg7...d24t are absolutely amazing, the talk is already up!
The migration to our selfhosted gitlab instance will be delayed by a month:
* The much better migration method from gitlab.com "direct transfer" is currently not available.
* We are in contact with (very friendly!) gitlab.com support and they can hopefully enable it for us.
* If it is still not enabled in a month, we will use the "export and import" method instead, which means comments/issues/MRs are not associated with original users anymore.
More info:
🎙️ Did a live recording *with audience* for the first time for the postmarketOS podcast!
Featuring:
* Lots of great talks
* Social event with hacking & soldering
* Pixel 3a port to @npub1ua9m...sk4k
* Getting home late at night with the Railway app
* An interactive quiz
"I no longer wanna wait, we are in 2024 and I think it's time for linux on phones now!" *room clapping*
postmarketOS in 2024-08 :postmarketos: --- the next installment of our monthly blog post is out!
Highlights:
* We will move to a self-hosted GitLab instance!
* Thinking about hosting SoC communities there, too
* Pixel 3a has been promoted to community, and it has somewhat working camera
* Firmware compression using zstd
* Proof of concept of VoLTE (4G calls) for SDM845
* PinePhone callaudiod drop-in replacement
* Proper PAM in SSH
* 7 new device ports
* So many events!
