postmarketOS Podcast

This was the third post-FOSDEM hackathon in a row, about time we record an episode about one of those! With that in mind, @ollieparanoid , @pabloyoyoista , @Newbyte , @f-izzo , @PureTryOut , @WhyNotHugo , @Aelin , @bshah , @fossdd , @kcxt , @craftyguy and @lucaweiss (in order of appearance) sat down and shared their impressions from the past three days. Special thanks for editing this episode to @...

@f-izzo , @ollieparanoid , @1peter10 , @Newbyte , @Ariadne , @WhyNotHugo , @craftyguy , @bshah , Mario, @fossdd , @flypig , @grimler , @lynxis , @PureTryOut and @lucaweiss (in order of appearance) found a couple of tables and benches in the parking lot of ULB and talk about their FOSDEM experiences. This is probably the episode with the most people in one episode so far! Special thanks for editing...

NOTE: This episode was totally published right after we recorded it. @RannyBergamotte , @ollieparanoid , @lucaweiss , @1peter10 (in order of appearance) talk about Linux Mobile action at DEF CON 33 , WHY 2025 and FrOSCon 2025 , all which took place between August 7 and 17 this year. We get into how DEF CON in Las Vegas compares to the European events, what it's like to be at a hacker camp, plenty...

As FOSDEM 2025 was coming to a close, we sat down in the cafeteria to talk about the two amazing days that we just had behind us. Featuring @Newbyte, @z3ntu, @craftyguy, @PureTryOut, @anjandev, @f-izzo, @ungeskriptet, @Aelin, @camelCaseNick, Philipp, Marijn (mostly in order of appearance). Not included in the episode: a three day post-FOSDEM hackathon, read all about it on the blog ! Video recordi...

Caleb and Pablo had a great time as guests of Sustain Episode 255 ! We talk about the experience and play the original episode. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @pabloyoyoista, @caleb, @richlitt (in order of appearance). Find the original show notes below (with adjusted timestamps). Credits for pmOS podcast parts — Editing: @ollieparanoid, Music: The Passion HiFi Original Show Notes Guests Caleb Co...

As a first, we recorded with a live audience! Featuring @Aelin, @ollieparanoid, @1peter10, @devrtz, @calebccff, @Fellintr, @agx, @kuleszdl, @z3ntu, @erebion (in order of appearance). Social event hacking & soldering: "@cas and @elly hacking on the …" - chaos.social "Xiaomi Mi Smart Clock (x04g) b…" - chaos.social Luca Weiss: "👀 [ 0.000000] Booting Lin…" - Fosstodon Xiaomi Mi Smart Clock (xiao...

Jonas tells us some crazy stories about how together with Tobias he started GNOME Shell on Mobile, how he found quite the important vulnerability in Apple's AirPods, running Aliendalvik from Sailfish OS and more! Featuring @craftyguy, @verdre and @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance). GNOME Shell on Mobile: Matrix room gnome-shell-mobile.git Blog post: Towards GNOME Shell on mobile Blog post: GN...

Guido is the main Phosh developer. He tells us how getting involved with Purism was just a happy coincidence, how he went straight from the N900 to the L5 and a lot more in this exciting interview! Featuring @ollieparanoid, @agx and @Newbyte (in order of appearance). Phosh accepts donations via Liberapay. Related links: Guido's OpenMoko setup Phosh Contributing What's a good way to contribute? Mat...

Not long after the recent Plasma 6 megarelease, we are excited to hear from Plasma Mobile's lead developer! Featuring @espidev, @ollieparanoid, @PureTryOut, @calebccff (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Plasma Mobile — main website Daily driving Plasma Mobile — Bart published this blog post shortly after the episode was aired, he details his experience of using Plasm...

This time postmarketOS user @magdesign shares his amazing and inspiring story of traveling around the world for the past 1.5 years... on bike! Featuring @magdesign, @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @craftyguy (in order of appearance). Marc and Fiona accept donations at brandisbrandisbrand.com . Referenced in this episode: User:Magdesign and Sxmo/Tips and Tricks : impressive wiki pages with lots of note...

Compared to last year, we decided to do the recording inside the cafeteria instead of outside , and on Sunday instead of Saturday . Twice the amount of FOSDEM days to talk about, and with more people talking in the background. Enjoy! Featuring @z3ntu, @ollieparanoid, @pabloyoyoista, @craftyguy, @Newbyte, @dos, @PureTryOut, @linmob (in order of appearance), also @~r (sampled in the outro). Not incl...

Clayton totally surprises us for real, with his announcement of working full-time on postmarketOS from now on. Furthermore we are super hyped about the upcoming FOSDEM 2024 (as we release this episode, only a week away!) and talk among other topics about how you could become a Trusted Contributor. Featuring @craftyguy, @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @pabloyoyoista (in order of appearance). To support...

"Why am I running Linux on my desktop, but not on my phone?" is what Konrad asked himself at the beginning of this amazing story that ends up with him becoming a maintainer for Qualcomm support in Linux. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @konradybcio, @craftyguy, @calebccff (in order of appearance). Konrad accepts donations, preferrably in form of tea ☕. Referenced in this episode: SoMainline B4 ("before...

In a somewhat chaotic and much longer recording session than what ended up in the final episode, we had a very good time talking to our friends from Mobian. As you can guess from the name, Mobian brings Mobile and Debian together, similar to what postmarketOS does on top of Alpine Linux. Featuring @kop316, @ollieparanoid, @devrtz, @calebccff, @PureTryOut, @a-wai (in order of appearance). Mobian ac...

Luca did it again! On the day the Fairphone 5 was released, he added it to postmarketOS. How exactly that is possible and a whole lot more about recent developments and Linux Mobile related events we followed in this episode. Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @z3ntu, @pabloyoyoista (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Free Silicon Conference 2023 Luca's talk: Open Source for S...

This time we did a mix of an interview and an event report with Anjan from Sxmo who just was at FOSSY 2023 in Portland, OR, USA. Sxmo is a minimalist environment for Linux mobile devices, allowing you to run a tiling window manager on your smartphone. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @anjan (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Anjan's talk: Thoughts after daily driving postmarketOS for 3...

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @calebccff, @jsparber, @tbernard, @verdre, @z3ntu, @jane (in order of appearance). Upcoming events (close dates, there are many more): July 13-16 — Portland, OR: FOSSY 2023 @anjan from Sxmo will hold a talk: Thoughts after daily driving postmarketOS for 3 years July 15-21 — Thessaloniki, Greece: Akademy 2023 July 26-31 — Riga, Latvia: GUADEC 2023 Threadiver...

You rotate your phone and the UI rotates as well. Sounds simple, right? In this episode Caleb explains us why implementing it for SDM845 requires far more complexity than one may think - among many other topics. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @PureTryOut, @calebccff, @pabloyoyoista (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Testing Call For Testers Testing Team KDE kde-srcbuild Akademy 2023...

Natanael Copa joins us to talk about Alpine's story. From being dead scared to fork the initial version off from Gentoo to Alpine becoming bigger than himself and making sure it stays around with a good bus factor. If you ever wondered how exactly apk is so incredibly fast, that is also covered - and what plans there are to make it even faster in the future. Also what would be necessary to get rep...

We are happy to announce that Pablo joined the Trusted Contributors! He has been a driving force in getting GNOME Software working properly on Alpine and postmarketOS, and since he is joining us today, guess what we talk about in this episode! Besides that we get into getting your patches merged and the new postmarketOS splash screen that just landed in edge. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @pabloyoyois...

Between the Saturday closing of FOSDEM 2023 and going to a restaurant, we managed to squeeze around a table outside the cafeteria to record the very first ever in-person postmarketOS podcast episode! Fresh in the moment we share our experiences from the FOSS on mobile devroom, meeting great people at the Linux on Mobile stand (and everywhere else at FOSDEM/in Brussels) and random other cool things...

Chromebooks! We talked about them in the past, but this time we have our newest Trusted Contributor Anton aka @jenneron on to tell us more about the ~40 ports we now have in postmarketOS. Besides that we get excited about FOSDEM and talk about more cool things cool people did. Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @jenneron (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: New t...

Like every other podcast in your feed we give our two cents on what's been happening in the Fediverse, like why it's really great to see so many free software related projects and people moving over from that bird site. And that one should seriously consider supporting the admins of the instance they are using with a monthly donation or something. Besides that, we share some news on soon-to-be-rel...

What happens if the author of an upcoming security focused desktop OS, who is at the same time also a postmarketOS user, comes on our podcast? A lot of interesting questions being asked and answered from both sides for sure! Featuring @ollieparanoid, @qyliss, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Spectrum — a step towards usable secure computing Using pack...

It seems Akademy 2022 had it all. Amazing talks, great people, nice weather, a tour through Barcelona as well as a nearby supercomputer, climbing in a mountain and for some, pizza on the beach. Or as Bart puts it, Akademy was kind of dope to be honest. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @PureTryOut, @MartijnBraam, @z3ntu (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Akademy 2022 Homepage with talk...