A deeper look in the new Tow-Boot firmware project for ARM devices.

Much to the suprise of many people, Imagination created a merge request for an open source PowerVR vulkan driver to Mesa.

Our long-time followers will know how much we love PDAs, be them Linux
evergreens [https://tuxphones.com/tag/pinephone/], radical RISC-V experiments
[https://tuxphones.com/bunnie-studios-precursor-open-hardware-risc-v-linux-pda-phone/]
or somewhat esoteric…

Update 27/06/2022: The PocketReform has been officially announced! More information can be found at this page.

In the last year, we have seen an unexpected revival of handheld computers (or PDAs) with hardware keyboard, all of which based on Linux: the PinePhone…

Our in-depth review is all about Purism's latest ultraportable: How does the king of libre hardware compete with the premium laptop market?

The second part of our in-depth review of Purism's latest ultraportable: How does the king of libre hardware compete with the premium laptop market?

After SXMO [https://sxmo.org/], the DWM-on-phone mod that became popular for its
practical minimalism with the PinePhone, and the lesser known ExpidusOS
[https://expidusos.com/] XFCE-based shell, many of the traditional lightweight
Linux desktops are receiving…

As a software developer on the go, one of the very first use cases that I
started investigating after installing Linux on my first tablet was that of
using a portable device as a secondary display for another Linux machine.
Ideally, this would happen wirelessly…

So far, cameras on Linux phones have been known for their extremely basic
results. Lacking good sensors, premium optics, and most importantly good
post-processing capabilities, the PinePhone's, extremely basic sensor cannot
often offer the shots one would…

The Pixel 3A was released in 2019 by Google as a cheaper alternative to the Pixel 4, and is powered by a Snapdragon 670 processor coupled with 4GB RAM, an OLED display, and a 3000mAh battery.  Being somewhat popular among the developer community, it was two…

Ethical is as ethical does

Update on Microsoft Teams & Tutanota

In some sense, 2022 has been resembling the long-memed Year of the Linux Desktop. Although this sounds like some cult's prophetic rubbish, by looking at the success of the Linux desktop in very empirical terms an improvement of the last couple of years becomes…

The dream of an HTML-based operating system is nothing new, and in fact, something we have seen since the early 2000s. With the Internet exploding in popularity and complexity, it has always been tempting to think of browsers as convenient graphical renderers…

Ubuntu has been traditionally considered the most popular and user-friendly distro, and its core principles inspired a stream of derivate distributions in the past years. Although many users are happy with the general architecture, Ubuntu owner Canonical…

Around one year ago, Sipeed announced initial support for Android on their RISC-V development boards, hinting that a first functional prototype of RISC-V phone could be coming within one or two years. Although Android is now supported by several development…

Our first post ever on this website was about the GNOME Project "getting ready" to adapt their environment to the growing demand of responsive, mobile-friendly Linux devices. That was back in 2019, before libhandy (Gtk mobile library) was considered stable…

In their December update, Pine64 announced the PineTab2, which is the successor to their PineTab from 2018. As a major change, the PineTab2 upgrades the slow A53-based A64 SoC with an A55-based Rockchip RK3566, the same chip that was used for the Quartz64…

As we tend to mention often, cameras are one of the areas where Linux phones are often seen as lacking behind their Android alternatives. This is partly due to extreme fragmentation of sensor drivers, with most mainlined devices not having any kind of Linux…

A common point in the Linux community is that escaping the walled garden of ecosystems like Android or iOS is already a means to higher security. Having no contact with Google or Apple servers ever again, nor cloud providers ever snooping on your private…