February 2024 - FOSDEM'24 on Smartphones
FOSDEM is an annual event for open source software enthusiasts https://fosdem.org/2024/
Last weekend was FOSDEM'24. And lucky for us, there were many talks about mobile devices, there was even a FOSS for mobile devices room: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/foss-on-mobile-devices/
Here are some links that might interest you:
- A talk about Mobian development, what it is (Debian for Mobile), how it is a fork of Debian and what the next steps are - https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3290-towards-a-bright-future-with-mobian-/
- Droidian (Mobian for Android phones) bridging the gap between platforms and FuriOS: a fork of Droidan for an upcoming FLX1 Linux phone - https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3165-droidian-bridging-the-gap-between-various-platforms-with-convergence/
- Ubuntu Touch 20.04 ported to the Pine64 - https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2851-the-journey-to-ubuntu-touch-20-04-on-pine64/
- Linux phone app ecosystem, the app stores are different in mobile OSes - https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3303-the-linux-phone-app-ecosystem/
- David Llewellyn-Jones (Flypig) presented his experience of developing Gecko (the Firefox engine) for Sailfish OS https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2508-daily-blogging-embedded-gecko-development/
For the lucky people that went to the FOSDEM'24, Sailfish OS 4.6 and the preview of the Xperia 10 V were shown at the Jolla booth:
You can search for it here: https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview. You can search for the talk and then, based on the room name, find the video here: https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview