postmarketOS Podcast

Here's something different. We have been considering to move from gitlab.com to SourceHut and this episode right here is the companion to the blog post we just released. We decided to do both so people can get a TL;DR version on the blog with the most important information and the tentative roadmap. But also a fourtyone minute conversation where we go deep...

Linux on A7-A8X gets us pretty excited among lots of other topics. What are you reading this for? It's a podcast, hit play already! Featuring @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @z3ntu, @PureTryOut (in order of appearance).

Referenced in this episode:

• postmarketos-release-upgrade

  • git repo
  • Wiki: Upgrade to a newer postmarketOS release
  • LINMOB.net: Upgrading to postmarketOS 22...

What's Biktor's background and motivation for doing all that work with his alternative EG25-G modem firmware? Will we finally be able to upgrade from one postmarketOS release to the next one with upcoming v22.06? What's it like to play around in the SDM845 audio maze? You guessed it, we'll talk about all that and a whole lot more. Put on some headphones and enjoy!

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam, @dylanvanassche, @PureTryOut (in order of appearance)...

If you are like us and open the virtual LINMOB.net newspaper once a week to discover what's new in the scene without getting your brain fried by social media, you'll be as excited as we are to learn more about the person that keeps the show running. The weekly updates is just one of his endeavours of course, we also talk about LinuxPhoneApps and some other cool projects he has been involved with...

"Allow yourself to spend time on things today that create more time tomorrow." - with that in mind, the new mrtest tool was created. In fact, it was just finished up and released as 1.0.0 along with this episode. Even the aports.git support got implemented! You probably think "what the heck is mrtest" now, and don't worry, that exact question does get answered in this episode along with other great news...

We got a chance to talk to Miles Alan about a lot of his exciting projects: how he started Sxmo, his new and even more minimalistic framebufferphone UI, and the super fast map application Mepo. The latter will not only run on Sxmo and fbp, but also Phosh and possibly on Plasma Mobile and more UIs.

Featuring @craftyguy, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @mil (in order of appearance).

Referenced in this episode:

• Sxmo Early Days

  • suckless...

Shortly after @Danct12 asked about everyone's favorite singer in the extended Q&A part of the Closing session (not recorded), a few of us met outside of FOSDEM in front of our computers again to talk a bit about our experience at FOSDEM 2022. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @calebccff (in order of appearance)...

An easy way to upgrade the PinePhone's modem to Biktor's firmware is quite the puzzle to solve. Dylan has been finding and patching one piece after another, and elaborates what the whole picture with fwupd looks like. Besides that, we get into a lot of mainlining related topics and even answer one listener question.

Featuring @craftyguy, @MartijnBraam, @calebccff, @dylanvanassche, @PureTryOut, @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance)...

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...

Chris Talbot aka @kop316 plays a huge part in getting MMS support on modern mobile Linux distributions. We sit down virtually and talk about the journey he went through to make this possible, besides lots of other topics. At one point some of us hear for the first time what visual voice mail is all about.

Featuring @craftyguy, @z3ntu, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @kop316 (in order of appearance)...