Linux Phones

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/45207780

I was searching for YouTube clients on my KDE Plasma Bigscreen GNU/Linux TV box, and found NewPipe, a popular Android YouTube frontend. Turns out this tool is how they moved it over.

Great solution alongside projects like Waydroid, as you can post individual apps to Flathub or other Linux storefronts, rather than needing to install a whole ROM to get your Android apps to appear in your Linux app tray.

It doesn't work like Wine, but I suppose the goal one day is to be able to click .APK files to install like you can with .EXE files with Wine. Currently developers need to integrate it for their (or their favourite open source) apps to install on Linux.

The Movuan project was started by community member lxb and announced in a forum post as an alternative to mobile distributions using the systemd init system. Thanks to being forked from Mobian, the project makes use of modified Mobian debos to build it’s images.

Movuan offers an image based on Devuan 5.0 (Debian 12) with Phosh.

Devuan for users who are unaware is a fork of Debian which provides alterative init systems to Systemd such as:

• sysvinit (default)
• openrc
• runit
• sinit
• s6
• shepherd

Another week, another update: Another FuriOS update, help postmarketOS test Phrog, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, a round-up of Sailfish OS Community news, and a lot more! Enjoy!

PINE64 have discontinued the PinePhone Pro, postmarketOS share details about a project to replace callaudiod with a wireplumber plugin (call audio issues be gone!), Phosh 0.49.0 (actually, Stevia 0.49.0) relieves me of hand pain, KDE Gear 25.08 bringing fresh new features to Plasma apps during summer heat, more progress on the NewPipe app for SailfishOS, some link to FrOSCon slides + a talk recording and more. Enjoy!