A little more than 2 months after Debian, we’re finally releasing Mobian Trixie as our new stable release! We’re also taking this opportunity to start rotating the PGP/GPG keys we’re using for signing both our images and package archive. Ov…
This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to work with the Mobian project for Google Summer of Code 2025. My goal was to continue the work on tweakster to a point where it could integrate smoothly with the Mobian ecosystem. This post is…
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 an…
Multiple Linux mobile related projects (such as e.g. postmarketOS or phosh) have benefited from the NGI funding. The following is an open letter initially published in French by the Petites Singularités association. An english translation i…
Time flies when you are having fun. 2023 was no exception, and we find ourselves in 2024 already! Time to take stock what happened last year (and perhaps also what we attempt to achieve this year). It is safe to say that the bookworm releas…
Mobian started as a hobby project, triggered by the excitement of finally being able to hack one’s mobile phone at will. It is fair to say that the device that made it possible back then was the original PinePhone. However, after running on…
The Mobian Team have recently released a security update fixing a local vulnerability caused by a bug in our Bookworm images. Mobian users must install the following package in order to address the issues described in this post. A normal up…
According to schedule and on time Debian has managed to put out the Bookworm release. Congratulations! In step with that release, Mobian is herewith officially releasing its first stable release, codenamed … tadaa … “Bookworm”! A lot has ha…
PinePhonePro users might get nagging messages about packages being held back right now… TL;DR: Please add the non-free-firmware section to the Debian repository line in /etc/apt/sources.list. UPDATE: slightly reworded first paragraph. Piggy…
March isn’t even over yet and we are already summing up what has happened in both February and March. Dang, are we fast… February 2023 began with a bang: finally a physical FOSDEM conference in Brussels, and a few (or rather, plenty of) mob…
Mobian (and most of the Arm Linux ecosystem) have been dealing with device-specific boot sequences since our inception. However, recent changes have made it possible to standardise these. This blog post will discuss how these changes affect…
Most of us just want their phone to be working. But some like to be more on the edge of things, trying out the newest bugsfeatures. The recently announced staging distribution allows users to do just that. Read further to learn its purpose