"I flip it." It's the first thing I thought of when I read the release note for postmarket OS 21.12.1, or what is the same, the first Service Pack of the December 2021 release. What surprises me is that the developers continue to coddle the Nokia N900, a phone launched by the former Finnish giant that in its day passed with more pain than glory. It was 2009, and that phone was competing with the already well-established Symbian and the kings of mambo today, Android and iOS.
But this is not news about the Nokia N900 nor from developers who want to show how good they are by offering support for a 2009 device to run an operating system from 2022. The news is the release of postmarketOS 21.12.1, an update that comes with a rather short list of new features than you have below.
What's new in postmarketOS 21.12.1
- About the Nokia 900 they say that «!it's back! He cheated death once again with the help of @sicelo and @danct12 who have taken up device maintenance, updated the kernel and made various fixes«. Of the two developers, Danct12 is the one behind Arch Linux ARM as well.
- Allwinner Linux 5.15.3 is now the latest kernel used for the PinePhone, this also brings PINE64 physical keyboard support to the stable release.
- Sxmo 1.7.1 is the latest and greatest version of Sxmo, bringing visual voicemail among many other things.
- GNSS Share 0.4 is now the GPS implementation for the Librem 5. This is an important component needed to get assisted GPS to work on this hardware, improving the speed at which a GPS lock can be acquired.
- The GNOME Control Center has a small bugfix that stops the crash when opening the print panel, so the printing system is now enabled in GNOME.
For interested users, postmarketOS 21.12.1 (Service Pack 1) available en this link.