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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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2025: off to a flying start! // Mobian's Blog (blog.mobian.org)

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Over the past few months, and especially since the last holiday season, many exciting things have happened in Mobian: new devices are (about to be) officially supported, many new and improved packages have made their way into both Debian and Mobian, and we’re getting ready for our next stable release!

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[–] ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

I've used Mobian stable and pmOS stable on both the Librem 5 and PinePhone Pro.

I also can't give in an-depth comparison, but apart from the obvious (differences in available packages, versions and OpenRC vs systemd), I found them basically identical. Both had difficulty keeping the modem connected for more than an hour at a time, but otherwise did everything I expected (wifi, text messages, mobile networks, adaptaive apps, cameras, music/podcasts, etc).

For now, I'm sticking with pmOS, as, for the current stable version, Mobian doesn't offer prebuilt Librem 5 images with full disk encryption support (I can't remember why - this is specific to the device, and I'm hoping it will be fixed in the next release).