Our project board at our #hackathon! Being together physically makes it possible to get so much done. Watch for our blog post afterwards detailing what happened at #FOSDEM2025 and this week!

Our newest Trusted Contributor is @achill @ fosdem soon! :blobcat: He currently does the following things: * Maintaining GNOME, Phosh and many other related packages in Alpine Linux * Helping out & fixing issues between Alpine Linux and postmarketOS * Polishing up the systemd integration * Fixing various paper-cuts on various upstreams * Occasionally working on the Linux kernel 📜 TC page: https://postmarketos.org/trusted-contributors/#achill-gilgenast-fossdd

hope you all had an awesome #FOSDEM, we sure did! All our leaflets gone, many people stopped by to show off their phones or play with ours, and a lot of "wow i really need to get this on my device" we had some amazing talks too at the FOSS on Mobile devroom, and some outreach by @Anjan presenting pmbootstrap in the embedded devroom. Huge thanks to everyone who helped run the stand and (hopefully) not lose their voices in the process :D Safe travels and see you next year

she had a pixel 3a, he had a oneplus 6, can i make it anymore obvious? 😏

We're live at #FOSDEM2025! Come see us in the K buildig, first floor. We have some devices and UI's to show you and are here to answer all your questions!

postmarketOS in 2025-01 :postmarketos: :blobcatreading: * Mission statement * systemd in edge * 12 new devices booting * mobile-config-thunderbird :thunderbird: * Linux 6.13 RC booting on the iPhone 6 * Camera progress for Midas devices * xiaomi-miatoll went from barely booting brick to almost fully usable mobile phone * Lomiri in edge * FOSDEM coming up! * lots more! Powered by... you! Look at all these names, thanks to everybody who contributed, you are awesome! 🥳

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postmarketOS in 2025-01: systemd in edge, mobile-config-thunderbird and Lomiri

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

pmbootstrap 3.2.0 has been tagged! :terminal: * Supports building pmOS + systemd packages and images (now that it has been merged into pmOS edge!) * pmb "flasher boot" now works for fastboot-bootpart * Fixes for Android recovery zip, the aportgen feature and various smaller fixes * A LOT of code quality improvements that will make future maintenance easier Thanks a lot to everybody who has contributed to this release! 💚

Making sure you're not a bot!

Speaking of postmarketOS edge blog posts: If you run a postmarketOS install from 2022 or earlier and are about to upgrade to current pmOS edge, you need to take manual action to ensure /boot is in your /etc/fstab:

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postmarketos-initramfs 3.7.0 requires manual action for pmOS installs from 2022 or older

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

The first postmarketOS edge images with systemd are now available, lots more are building as of writing! See the updated edge blog post for more information:

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systemd has been merged into edge

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

Huge thanks to everybody who has been involved in making this possible! :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

Update: the #systemd merger is in progress. We recommend NOT updating your devices which are running #postmarketOS edge until this is complete. We are currently working through some issues with the changes to

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A full explanation of the changes and our recommendations for migrating your devices to systemd will be published once things are ready! In the mean time, refresh

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at will

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We plan to merge systemd into postmarketOS edge tomorrow (Friday, 2025-01-10) :git: Please note that it will take some time until all systemd rela...