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casgiving <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/COSMIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COSMIC</a> a go on <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a> with the Yoga Slim 7x.This is really feeling like the natural successor to Sway for me, let's see how daily driving goes....Thanks <a href="https://freeradical.zone/@craftyguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@craftyguy</a> for getting it packed in pmOS :D

Robert MaderFirst try to create <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libcamera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libcamera</a> swISP tuning files for the OnePlus6 with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ideasonboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideasonboard</a> folks at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/embeddedworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#embeddedworld</a>. Unfortunately we hit an issue that we couldn't fix on-side - got a few todos to make sure things work out next time!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxmobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linuxmobile</a>

postmarketOSTo users of the postmarketOS Matrix and IRC channels:Looks like Matrix is shutting down the IRC bridge to OFTC that we are currently using soon. We are considering whether to selfhost / possibly use an alternative public bridge instance / maaaybe it is not worth keeping a bridge around at all (meaning that we would move to matrix only) :blobthinkingeyes: Is it important to you that we keep a Matrix <> IRC bridge around?<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketos</a>

pabloyoyoistaDoes anybody you know in the FOSS world is involved in some Foundation or Association for a project in Belgium or The Netherlands. I'd love to hear your experience! At <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@postmarketOS</a> we are looking into starting a legal entity, and we are still pondering pros and cons of different options (<a href="https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/postmarketos/-/issues/75#note_473084" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/postmarketos/-/issues/75#note_473084</a>) We already got lots of feedback from German e.V. and a Spanish Foundation is likely a no-go.<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#askfedi</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketos</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNOME</a>

postmarketOS New Devices Bot<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a> now boots on Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE Dual Sim! <a href="https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/tree/master/device/testing/device-microsoft-dempsey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/tree/master/device/testing/device-microsoft-dempsey</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a>

István (🍼-barista & C novice)Love the new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@postmarketOS</a> website! It is cool to see a foss projects structure being laid out so clearly front and center (<a href="https://postmarketos.org/team/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://postmarketos.org/team/</a>).<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/pmos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pmos</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketos</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a>

Delia<a href="https://diaspodon.fr/@dada" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dada</a> Pas un mot concernant <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iOS</a> et <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Android</a> dans l'article. Des alternatives <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> existent aussi pour <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/smartphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smartphone</a> : - <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ubuntu</a> / <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/UBports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UBports</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@ubports" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ubports</a>) : <a href="https://ubports.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ubports.com</a> - <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Alpine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alpine</a> / <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a> (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@postmarketOS</a>) : <a href="https://postmarketos.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://postmarketos.org</a> - <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NixOS</a> (<a href="https://chaos.social/@nixos_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nixos_org</a>) : <a href="https://mobile-nixos.github.io" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mobile-nixos.github.io</a>

LINux on MOBileWeekly GNU-like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MobileLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobileLinux</a> Update (09, 10/2025): Too much to put in a title <a href="https://linmob.net/weekly-update-09-10-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://linmob.net/weekly-update-09-10-2025/</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Phosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Phosh</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Sxmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sxmo</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SailfishOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SailfishOS</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UbuntuTouch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UbuntuTouch</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FuriLabsFLX1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuriLabsFLX1</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MechaComet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MechaComet</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PinePhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PinePhone</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Librem5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Librem5</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Mobian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mobian</a>

Lup Yuen Lee 李立源<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a> + GNOME on <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Xiaomi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xiaomi</a> Pad 5 Pro<a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/media-playback-tablet-running-gnome-and-postmarketos/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/media-playback-tablet-running-gnome-and-postmarketos/</a>

Adrian$HubShot on OnePlus 6T running SXMO, now with camera support . <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linuxphone</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oneplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oneplus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a>

Adam HonsePhoto cleanup in GIMP. I am pretty happy with the results! Taken with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnePlus</a> 6T with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a> and cameractrl for exposure and focus. Edited on device with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GIMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIMP</a>.

KodeInÇa fait des plombes que j'entends parler de postmarketos. Je trouve ce projet particulièrement cool. Mais il se heurte aux problèmes récurrent des os alternatifs pour appareils android : tous ces appareils sont foutu assez différents pour prendre la tête aux devs et les pilotes de pleins de périphériques intégrés sont inaccessibles même en blob binaire. Dans mon matos plus ou moins récent qui a été abandonné, j'ai une tablette et un tel. Le hardware dedans n'est plus du dernier cri, sans pour autant être totalement inexploitable. Mais comme ça fait quelques années que le support officiel a été drop, y a plein de trucs qui ne fonctionnent plus. Et même en se tournant vers les roms non officielles, on se heurte à un tas de petits bugs plus ou moins relouds qui font que ces appareils finissent en presse-papiers. Alors qu'avec un os moins usine à gaz qu'android et les pilotes adéquats, j'aurais ptet même pas eu envie/besoin de les remplacer.

stovisChoose wisely! <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> - the data vampires that harvests as much data about you as possible, with their opaque platform silos, black boxes, targeted advertisements, dark patterns and attention seeking algorithms? Or <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PostmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostmarketOS</a> - free, open source, driven by a community of enthusiasts who share a common goal: to promote a healthier and more sustainable society. And have some fun while doing it!

QuadRadicalBlahajes in their natural environment, shot on a OnePlus 6T running PostmarketOS!<a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/Blahaj" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blahaj</a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/IKEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IKEA</a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/ShotOnOneplus6T" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShotOnOneplus6T</a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/PostmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostmarketOS</a>

Adam HonseGot the camera actuator on my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnePlus</a> 6T to focus with the help of <a href="https://mastodon.social/@NekoCWD" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@NekoCWD</a> and poking i2c registers with i2cset. It looks like the actuator on my camera needs an enable register set.This is at focus 1700:<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a>

Delia<a href="https://piaille.fr/@mart1oeil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mart1oeil</a> Pas un mot concernant <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iOS</a> et <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Android</a> dans l'article. Des alternatives <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> existent aussi pour <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/smartphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smartphone</a> : - <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ubuntu</a> / <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/UBports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UBports</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@ubports" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ubports</a>) : <a href="https://ubports.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ubports.com</a> - <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Alpine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alpine</a> / <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a> (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@postmarketOS</a>) : <a href="https://postmarketos.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://postmarketos.org</a> - <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NixOS</a> (<a href="https://chaos.social/@nixos_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nixos_org</a>) : <a href="https://mobile-nixos.github.io" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mobile-nixos.github.io</a>

Delia<a href="https://framapiaf.org/@louisderrac" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@louisderrac</a> Pas un mot concernant <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iOS</a> et <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Android</a> dans l'article. Des alternatives <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> existent aussi pour <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/smartphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smartphone</a> : - <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ubuntu</a> / <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/UBports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UBports</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@ubports" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ubports</a>) : <a href="https://ubports.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ubports.com</a> - <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Alpine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alpine</a> / <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a> (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@postmarketOS</a>) : <a href="https://postmarketos.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://postmarketos.org</a> - <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NixOS</a> (<a href="https://chaos.social/@nixos_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nixos_org</a>) : <a href="https://mobile-nixos.github.io" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mobile-nixos.github.io</a>

Sam ThursfieldMedia playback tablet running GNOME and postmarketOSA couple of years ago I set up a simple and independent <a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/quickball-media-server-v2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">media streaming server</a> for my <a href="https://bandcamp.com/ssssam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bandcamp music collection</a> using a Raspberry Pi 4, Fedora IoT and Jellyfin. It works nicely and I don’t have to play any cloud rent to Spotify to listen to music at home.But it’s annoying having the music playback controls buried in my phone or laptop. How many times do you go to play a song and get distracted by a WhatsApp message instead?So I started thinking about a tablet that would just control media playback. A tablet running a non-corporate operating system, because music is too important to allow Google to stick AI and adverts in the middle of it. Last month Pablo told me that postmarketOS had pretty decent support for <a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Mi_Pad_5_Pro_(xiaomi-elish)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a specific mainstream tablet</a> and so I couldn’t reset buying one second-hand and trying to set up GNOME there for media playback.Read on and I will tell you how the setup procedure went, what is working nicely and what we could still improve.What is the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro tablet like?I’ve never owned a tablet so all I can tell you is this: it looks like a shiny black mirror. I couldn’t find the power button at first, but it turns out to be on the top. The device specs claim that it has an analog headphone output, which is not true. It does come with a USB-C to headphone adapter in the box, though.It comes with an antagonistic Android-based OS that seems to constantly prompt you to sign in to things and accept various terms and conditions. I guess they <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/19/with-friends-like-these" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">really want to get to know you</a>.I paid 240€ for it second hand. The seller didn’t do a factory reset before posting it to me, but I’m a good citizen so I wiped it for them, before anyone could try to commit online fraud using their digital identity. How easy is it to install postmarketOS + GNOME on the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro?I work on systems software but I prefer to stay away from the hardware side of things. Give me a computer that at least can boot to a shell, please. I am not an expert in this stuff. So how did I do at installing a custom OS on an Android tablet?Figuring out the display modelThe hardest part of the process was actually the first step: getting root access on the device so that I could see what type of display panel it has.Xiaomi tablets have some sort of “bootloader lock”, but thankfully this device was already unlocked. If you ever look at purchasing a Xiaomi device, be very wary that Xiaomi might have locked the bootloader such that you can’t run custom software on your device. Unlocking a locked bootloader seems to require their permission. This kind of thing is a big red flag when buying computers.One popular tool to root an Android device is Team Win’s <a href="https://twrp.me/about/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TWRP</a>. However it didn’t have support for the Pad 5 Pro, so instead I used <a href="https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Magisck</a>.I found rooting process with Magisck complicated. The only instructions I could find were in this video named “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHdD53ghM-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Xiaomi Pad 5 Rooting without the Use of TWRP | Magisk Manager</a>” from Simply Tech-Key (Cris Apolinar). This gives you a two step process, which requires a PC with the Android debugging tools ‘adb’ and ‘fastboot’ installed and set up.Step 1: Download and patch the boot.img file<ol><li>On the PC, download the boot.img file from the stock firmware. (See below).</li><li>Copy it onto the tablet.</li><li>On the tablet, download and install the Magisck Manager app from the <a href="https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Magisck Github Releases page</a>.</li><li>Open the Magisck app and select “Install” to patch the boot.img file.</li><li>Copy the patched boot.img off the tablet back to your PC and rename it to <code>patched_boot.img</code>.</li></ol>The <code>boot.img </code>linked from the video didn’t work for me. Instead I searched online for “xiaomi pad 5 pro stock firmware rom” and found one that worked that way.It’s important to remember that downloading and running random binaries off the internet is very dangerous. It’s possible that someone pretends the file is one thing, when it’s actually malware that will help them steal your digital identity. The best defence is to factory reset the tablet before you start, so that there’s nothing on there to steal in the first place.Step 2: Boot the patched boot.img on the tablet<ol><li>Ensure developer mode is enabled on the tablet: go to “About this Device” and tap the box that shows the OS version 7 times.</li><li>Ensure USB debugging is enabled: find the “Developer settings” dialog in the settings window and enable if needed.</li><li>On the PC, run <code>adb reboot fastboot</code> to reboot the tablet and reach the bootloader menu.</li><li>Run <code>fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img</code> to boot the patched boot image.</li></ol>At this point, if the <code>boot.img</code> file was good, you should see the device boot back to Android and it’ll now be “rooted”. So you can follow the instructions in the <a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Mi_Pad_5_Pro_(xiaomi-elish)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">postmarketOS wiki page</a> to figure out if your device has the BOE or the CSOT display. What a ride!Install postmarketOSIf we can find a way to figure out the display without needing root access, it’ll make the process substantially easier, because the remaining steps worked like a charm.Following the wiki page, you first install <a href="https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pmbootstrap</a> and run <code>pmbootstrap init</code> to configure the OS image. <a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>A note for Fedora Silverblue users: the bootstrap process doesn’t work inside a Toolbx container. At some point it tries to create <code>/dev</code> in the rootfs using <code>mknod</code> and fails. You’ll have to install pmbootstrap on the host and run it there.Next you use <code>pmbootstrap flasher</code> to install the OS image to the correct partition.I wanted to install to the <code>system_b</code> partition but I seemed to get an ‘out of disk space’ error. The partition is 3.14 GiB in size. So I flashed the OS to the <code>userdata</code> partition. The build and flashing process worked really well and I was surprised to see the postmarketOS boot screen so quickly. <a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-3.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> How well does GNOME work as a tablet interface?The design side of GNOME have thought carefully about making GNOME work well on touch-screen devices. This doesn’t mean specifically optimising it for touch-screen use, it’s more about avoiding a hard requirement on you having a two-button mouse available.To my knowledge, nobody is paying to optimise the “GNOME on tablets” experience right now. So it’s certainly lacking in polish. In case it wasn’t clear, this one is for the real headz.Login to the machine was tricky because there’s no on-screen keyboard on the GDM screen. You can work around that by SSH’ing to the machine directly and creating a GDM config file to automatically log in:<pre><code>$ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf # GDM configuration storage[daemon]AutomaticLogin=mediaAutomaticLoginEnable=True</code></pre>It wasn’t possible to push the “Skip” button in initial setup, for whatever reason. But I just rebooted the system to get round that.<a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-4.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>Enough things work that I can already use the tablet for my purposes of playing back music from Jellyfin, from Bandcamp and from elsewhere on the web.The built-in speakers audio output doesn’t work, and connecting a USB-to-headphone adapter doesn’t work either. What does work is Bluetooth audio, so I can play music that way already.I disabled the automatic screen lock, as this device is never leaving my house anyway. The screen seems to stay on and burn power quickly, which isn’t great. I set the screen blank interval to 1 minute, which should save power, but I haven’t found a nice way to “un-blank” the screen again. Touch events don’t seem to do anything. At present I work around by pressing the power button (which suspends the device and stops audio), then pressing it again to resume, at which point the display comes back.Apart from this, everything works surprisingly great. Wi-fi and Bluetooth are reliable. The display sometimes glitches when resuming from suspend but mostly works fine. Multitouch gestures work perfectly — this is first time I’ve ever used GNOME with a touch screen and it’s clear that there’s a lot of polish. The system is fast. The Alpine + postmarketOS teams have done a great job packaging GNOME, which is commendable given that they had to literally <a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/03/05/adding-systemd/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">port systemd</a>.What’s next?I’d like to figure out how un-blank the screen without suspending and resuming the device. It might be nice to fix audio output via the USB-C port. But more likely I might set up a DIY “smart speaker” network around the house, using single-board computers with decent DAC chips connected to real amplifiers. Then the tablet would become more of a remote control.I already <a href="https://opencollective.com/postmarketos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">donate to postmarketOS on Opencollective.com</a>, and I might increase the amount as I am really impressed by how well all of this has come together.Maenwhile I’m finally able to hang out with my cat listening to <a href="https://vladimirchicken.bandcamp.com/album/maharajah-single" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">my favourite Vladimir Chicken songs</a>.<a href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-5.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/tag/gnome/" target="_blank">#gnome</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/tag/postmarketos/" target="_blank">#postmarketos</a>

Adam HonseJust found out <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibreWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LibreWolf</a> is packaged in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlpineLinux</a> now! This includes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketOS</a>! I just migrated from the Flatpak version by copying the contents of.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/.librewolf to .librewolfand.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/config/librewolf to .config/librewolfthen going into about:profiles in native LibreWolf and selecting the correct profile. Also turned on media.webrtc.camera.allow-pipewire in about:config and now cameras work on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnePlus</a> 6T!

mistersixtIn case you are running <a href="https://kanoa.de/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postmarketos</a> with <a href="https://kanoa.de/tags/phosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phosh</a> : with the latest packages (pmo 24.12.) the GUI was no longer starting up on my librem5, ending up with the login prompt on the console. The reason is that "phoc" does not know the parameter -v , and removing that entry in /usr/bin/phosh-session brings back the GUI upon a reboot:exec $SYSTEMD_CAT "${COMPOSITOR}" -v -S -C "${PHOC_INI}" -E "bash -lc 'exec ${GNOME_SESSION} --disable-acceleration-check --session=phosh'"

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