mintCast 295 – Linux on Mobile
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Bi-Weekly Wanderings:
- Tony H
- Playing with Audacity, and putting some of the tutorial that Rob did after the last recording on editing the show audio, into practice.
- Installed and had a little play with LMDE in a VirtualBox machine.
- Pulling a couple of very old laptops apart for the spares
- Tinkering with Lenovo X200 tablet with Mint 19 Mate.
- Moss
- I installed Ubuntu Studio 18.10, got tired of how XFCE works and put MATE on it. Happy now.
- My wife had a problem with her Ubuntu MATE 16.04 installation. Easiest way to fix it was with LM19
- I downloaded the latest versions of OpenMandrivaLx 3.03 and Mageia 6. Mageia 6 refused to install, with a very clunky installation process.
- Looking at OpenMandriva installation disk, the first few screens act like my laptop and tv are halves of the same monitor
- OpenMandriva can write to my printer without a driver download and with only a few mouse clicks.
- Leo
- Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2. Bootloader seems like it’s locked or is just really good at ignoring me
- Moving Plex from OpenMediaVault to its own VM. Trying out the snap.
- Playing with my Yeti to get better audio quality.
- Tony Watts
- Lots of tinkering with Linux mobile OS, the Nexus 5 and LG Urbane smartwatch
- Met somebody moderately famous playing acoustic “gig” at Mexican restaurant
- Joe
- Playing with Libresonic and Plex to change how i see my podcasts
- Youtube-dl used for some that are only on youtube
The News:
- Linux Mint 19.1 released in time for Christmas
- Linus is Back in Charge of Linux
- IBM is acquiring software company Red Hat for $34 billion
- Moss – Pine64 is (working on) making a smartphone running KDE plasma starting at $100 PinePhone https://itsfoss.com/pinebook-kde-smartphone/comment-page-2/
Linux Innards
- Leo: Status of Linux mobile phones
- Intro to Librem 5 phone, what the project is about
- Privacy first — does not track you
- PureOS comes stock, but any Linux distro will do
- Latest updates on Librem 5 to ship in 2019
- Intro to Librem 5 phone, what the project is about
- TonyW
- Brief discussion of Google-less Android
- Lineage OS
- F-Droid
- Overview of Ubuntu Touch (UBPorts)
- Tony’s experience with Ubuntu touch on Nexus 5
- Overview of Plasma Mobile
- Experience with Plasma Mobile install attempt in phone, testing with ISO
- Discussion of Sailfish OS
- https://sailfishos.org — costs $60 PLUS PHONE, only runs on Sony Xperia X and XA phones at present
- https://blog.jolla.com/sailfish3/
- Nice look at Sailfish OS here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxWWO66zEH4
- Overview of Asteroid OS
- Asteroid OS on LG G Watch Urbane
- Librem 5?:(
- WebOS port to Lune OS – http://www.webos-ports.org/wiki/Main_Page — Not sure what phones it runs on, but it’s still being developed.
- Brief discussion of Google-less Android
- Joe’s experience putting Linux Mint on Tablets
- How to install
- ROTOR 7 inch windows tablet
- No touch
- No audio
- No bluetooth
- No rotation
Dell Venue Pro 8
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- No bluetooth
- T100ta
- https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/T100TA
- http://www.jfwhome.com/2016/01/04/latest-steps-to-install-ubuntu-on-the-asus-t100ta/
- No HDMI audio after kernel update
- Bluetooth audio out works. No mic
- T102ha
- No line out audio or headset
- No HDMI audio after kernel update
- Bluetooth audio out works no mic
- Suspend works fine after some tweaking
- Linux on android
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- Tony H – Linux Mint on X series tablets
- Moss
- https://itsfoss.com/linuxboot-uefi/ LinuxBoot For Servers available (03/2018), open source boot manager, replaces UEFI. For Linux-only servers (will not boot other OSes), available currently on the following system boards: qemu emulated Q35 systems; Intel S2600WF; Dell R630; Winterfell Open Compute node (works well); Leopard Open Compute node (works well); Tioga Pass Open Compute node (works well); Monolake Open Compute node (not tested)
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While I hope to hear from old friends Rob and Isaac again, I’m enjoying the new energy and interaction among the larger crew.
I’d prefer the show not take ads, which inevitably come across as endorsements. Leo Laporte used to extol ESET A/V that advertised on his network. Now he recommends against any A/V except (possibly) Microsoft’s built into Win for Win systems. Seemed all the Jupiter shows ran Digital Ocean ads, always from first person as though an endorsement, but now that Jupiter’s shows are ad free, there’s some “leaking” how expensive it can be to have a large number of “droplets . . . ”
If you check out the travails of Solus when Ikey went MIA with all the keys to the kingdom, you’ll get some idea of the issues involved with taking money, and being sure it only goes where it should. If “Mintcast” needs a piece of gear, let listeners know, perhaps they’ll donate? If the idea is to raise money for the Mint project, just keep reminding listeners to do that. Building and distributing Mint isn’t free –
I consider myself more advanced than noob but hardly expert. A positive aspect of the large crew is thus far one or more of you ask for further explanation when cryptic terms and acronyms fly by. The new segments you seem to have invented are neat. I’d liked to suggest “noob corner.” Mint is often the first stop for newcomers, and those newcomers may be likely to find your podcast.
Maybe begin with that mysterious GRUB the MBR partition and how to repair when something goes wrong, then work on in.
Great new episode! Looking forward to new ones in the future.
Any tips on how to slowly start learning how to improve some linux apps? Example: In Pix, press M and jump to a random picture in the folder.
So far I only know JavaScript and I never did any coding for applications but would like to start somewhere.
ps: The only app I really miss from windows is IrfanView and I would love to help Pix improve a bit. Btw I think the concept of Xapps is a great idea.
Thanks
Moss mentioning Ubuntu Studio made me remember a web site I came across while cleaning up a bunch of open browser tabs (I’m a tabaholic). It’s an “Audio Handbook” for musicians using Ubuntu Studio. Hope someone finds it useful.
https://ubuntustudio.org/audio-handbook/
Nice show! I’m enjoying seeing how the show evolves with the new hosts each time. One bit of constructive criticism is that the bumper music seemed a bit off. It cut off the end of what a host was saying a couple times and the audio quality was a bit poor (sounded muffled). Personally, I use LineageOS with F-Droid and no Google apps, so it was interesting to hear the mobile discussion. I hope we see some good new open source friendly options soon. Regarding Highlander’s question, the way Android drivers are produced links them strongly to the Android kernel. Since they are mostly binary blobs, this makes it difficult to run non-Android derived operating systems on them (even Plasma Mobile, Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish use Android components under the hood to work on phones made for Android).
Top panel for the win!