#12 v21.12, TTYescape, Mainline OP6/SHIFT6mq/Fairphones, pmbootstrap

postmarketOS Podcast

It has been one year since we launched the podcast, and this time it's mostly about the upcoming v21.12 release. Among other topics, we have a follow up on TTYescape, which Caleb introduced in their interview in #8. So grab a pair of headphones or blast it through your speakers if that's your thing, and enjoy.

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @PureTryOut, @calebccff, @z3ntu, @Newbyte (in order of appearance).

Referenced in this episode:

• Plasma Mobile Gear 21.12 (aports!28208)

• Most GNOME apps upgraded to GNOME 41 with cherry-picked patches instead of forks (pma#1247, aports!26028)

• TTYescape 0.2

  • Mastodon post with short demo
  • HKDM - HotKey Daemon (for) Mobile
  • buffyboard
  • pma!2713

• mobile-config-firefox 3.0.0

  • Thread with screenshots
  • Mentioned kiosk bug has been fixed (#29)

• New devices in the community category for the upcoming v21.12 release

  • Lenovo A6000
  • Lenovo A6010
  • PINE64 Pinebook Pro
  • PINE64 RockPro64
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2015)
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab A 9.7 (2015) device page has a cute photo :D
  • Xiaomi Poco F1

• Mainline SDM845

  • Upgrade to 5.16-rc4 (pma!2690)

  • SHIFT6mq

    • shift-axolotl: new device (pma!2703)
    • shift-axolotl: switch to mainline (pma!2738)
    • unboxing photos

• Mainline all the Fairphones!

• pmbootstrap

  • Pretty much all of the mentioned improvements made it into the 1.40.0 release, or one of the previous releases
  • pmbootstrap -y init is still WIP (pma!2139)

• Podcast picks

  • Tehno klistir: Posttržno komunikalo
  • Cyberdeck Users Weekly: Linux on mobile with linmob

Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi