The Dev Log: April 2024 - June 2025
plasma-mobile.org
The Plasma Mobile team is happy to announce the developments in the project over the past few months! Housekeeping This blog post was completed much later than originally planned. In the meantime, several releases have taken place:

This blog post is already quite long, so it will omit changes merged for Plasma 6.5 (releasing in October, to be announced in a future post).

With the Plasma 6.2 release, we moved Plasma Dialer and Spacebar to the Plasma release cycle, allowing us to have consistent releases of the two apps. This completes our year long move to having all Plasma Mobile related projects released as part of wider KDE releases, streamlining the work for distributions and taking a load off us on having to maintain a separate release cycle!

In other news, a Fedora spin for Plasma Mobile was released! It will only be targeting devices that can currently boot Fedora (i.e. not ARM phones), but is very exciting nonetheless!

  • trevor (he/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    I highly doubt that those “couple dozen” patches are trivial though. Even Pixel devices can’t run the vanilla mainline kernel without a bunch of added code to make it work with the hardware (see: the Greg KH interview I linked).

    And abstracting the hardware is what you do when you make drivers, so this is a distinction without a difference.

    • balsoft@lemmy.ml
      1·
      15 hours ago

      And abstracting the hardware is what you do when you make drivers

      Yes, what I’m saying is that Mobile Linux people are typically doing just that, sometimes also trying to upstream it as well. I don’t see how else they could be “working on abstracting the hardware”.