We are excited to announce that @Anjan is now a trusted contributor in postmarketOS! He is a maintainer of our favorite tiling WM based Linux Mobile interface Sxmo, maintains quite a few Alpine Linux packages, contributed some cool pmbootstrap patches and recently made a talk "Introduction to postmarketOS" at SeaGL! 🥳 📜 TC page: https://postmarketos.org/trusted-contributors/#anjan-momi-anjandev 📽️ SeaGL talk: https://www.youtube.com/live/wJfbS8f2Zio?feature=shared&t=3084 #sxmo #seagl2024
:postmarketos: in 2024-10 * 2 Linux Mobile grants we applied for at the amazing [@nlnet](
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 ) @npub1dk0y...k0wd fund have been accepted: OpenIMSd and Enhanching Firefox for Linux on Mobile! 🎉 * Libcamera progress * Trailblazer now supports the PinePhone * A generic (!!) qcom-msm8953 port * Progress for pmb v3 * systemd progress, new timeline * Many mobile-config-firefox improvements, some features now optional via about:config * and much more! Thanks to everybody who contributed!!
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postmarketOS in 2024-10: Accepted Grants, Timelines and Tokyo
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pmbootstrap got some big refactoring today to it's "apk" handling. It will now always run apk on the host (no more slow apk through QEMU!) and should do a slightly better job at caching packages.
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 This should make some things like building packages go faster! If you're already running pmbootstrap 3.0 alpha you can "git pull" and give it a whirl.
We just shipped some major refactoring in our initramfs, removing some of the oldest tech-debt in the distro and finally making it possible to boot without first finding and unpacking the "initramfs-extra" archive! This new unified-initramfs behaviour is now the default for most devices, and may lead to a slight boottime speedup!
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 We're hopeful this doesn't break anything, but if you do run into issues please go check out the tracking thread here
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Recent changes might affect booting
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pmbootstrap 2.3.2 is out. Most importantly, this release migrates the pmaports.git URLs from gitlab.com to gitlab.postmarketos.org. Thanks to everybody who contributed!
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🚚 We have successfully migrated to gitlab.postmarketos.org! Why and how we did it:
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Why and how we migrated from gitlab.com to gitlab.postmarketos.org
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:truck: The migration to our self-hosted gitlab instance at
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 is mostly done. See the status update here:
Migration to gitlab.postmarketos.org | postmarketOS Status
(Find updates at the bottom) On Sunday, 2024-10-06 00:00 CEST, we are migrating from gitlab.com to our self-hosted instance at gitlab.postmarketos....
 Accounts are being approved. Let us know if you run into issues in the postmarketos-devel channel!
🚚 We will start the migration to our self-hosted GitLab instance in ~4h. See
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We continuously monitor the status of our services and if there are any interruptions, a note will be posted here.
 for details and for the current status.
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
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postmarketOS in 2024-09: systemd, PCB, talks, non-latin language fonts
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📼 "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!
systemd-ifying postmarketOS, our immutable future, and why Alpine is cooler than you thought
postmarketOS was started with the lofty goal of enabling long term support for mobile phones and other devices with traditionally short l...
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