Screenshot of desktop version of Fedora Linux
Linux and the entire open source industry continues to evolve rapidly. More recently, open source evangelist Eric Raymond that in the near future, in his opinion, Windows will switch to the Linux kernel. Well now for smartphones.
The Fedora Mobility team is working on this project. Interestingly, she did not show much activity for 10 years, and now and began to work actively. As for the browser, it's only meant to be installed on the PinePhone, a smartphone created by the Pine64 community. The group promises to release a browser version for other smartphones soon, including the Librem 5 and OnePlus 5/5T.
Now in the Fedora 33 (rawhide) repository, there is a set of packages for mobile devices with a custom Phosh shell that is controlled from the touch screen. It is being developed by Purism for the Librem 5 phone. It includes a Phoc composite server that runs on top of Wayland. It is based on GNOME technologies (GTK, Gsettings, Dbus).
The developers have opened the possibility to use the KDE Plasma Wayland environment. True, there are no corresponding packages in the repository yet. As for already available applications and components, here is a list:
- oFono — stack for telephony access.
- chatty - messenger based on libpurple.
- carbons - XMPP plugin for libpurple.
- pidgin is a modified version of the instant messaging program pidgin, from which the libpurple library for chatty is used.
- purple-mm-sms - plugin for libpurple for working with SMS, integrated with ModemManager.
- purple-matrix - Matrix network plugin for libpurple.
- purple-telegram - Plugin for Telegram for libpurple.
- calls - interface for dialing and receiving calls.
- feedbackd — background process integrated with Phosh for physical feedback (vibration signal, LED indicators, sound signals).
- rtl8723cs-firmware - firmware for the Bluetooth chip used in PinePhone.
- squeakboard - on-screen keyboard with Wayland support.
- pinephone-helpers - scripts to initialize the modem and switch audio streams when making a phone call.
- gnome-terminal - terminal emulator.
- gnome-contacts - The address book.
A little about the smartphone PinePhone
This is a mobile device that was released by Pine64 in July this year. Its main advantage is the ability to use devices as a desktop PC. Of course, this system is not suitable as a media station, but it is quite enough for work. In particular, this desktop is ideal as a portable workstation for a data center engineer, system administrator, etc.
Pine Phone Specifications:
- Quad-core SoC ARM Allwinner A64.
- Mali 400 MP2 GPU.
- 2 or 3 GB of RAM.
- 5.95-inch screen (1440×720 IPS).
- Micro SD (with support for booting from an SD card).
- 16 or 32 GB eMMC.
- USB-C port with USB Host and a combo video output for connecting a monitor.
- 3.5 mm mini-jack.
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 (A2DP), GPS, GPS-A, GLONASS.
- Two cameras (2 and 5Mpx).
- Removable 3000mAh battery.
- Hardware-switchable modules for LTE/GNSS, WiFi, microphone and speakers.
You can deploy a full-fledged workplace anywhere and anytime. The cost of the device is quite affordable - only $200.
OS - postmarketOS, based on Alpine Linux, is a Linux distribution for mobile devices.
Source: habr.com
