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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