Although for a long time the version of GNOME for mobiles has been Phosh, the truth is that it is an unofficial project. It is based on GNOME, but is not from Project GNOME. The team of developers behind the desk that use operating systems such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Debian is also working on its mobile proposal, and it is already available on the postmarket OS v23.06 which has been launched a few moments ago.
This operating system, which is one of the most popular among mobile devices powered by Linux, with the permission of Android, is available in different editions or with different graphical environments. The most popular is the aforementioned Phosh, but it is also available in Plasma and Sxmo. As of postmarketOS v23.06 it will also be on the official GNOME version, but for the moment in a preliminary version.
What's new in postmarketOS v23.06
- It is now available on these devices (PineTab has been dropped from the list, which can continue using the "edge" version and they say that whoever wants it to return to the stable channel must take care of its maintenance):
- ASUS MeMoPad 7.
- Arrow DragonBoard 410c.
- BQ Aquaris X5.
- Fairphone 4.
- Lenovo A6000.
- Lenovo A6010.
- Motorola Moto G4 Play.
- Nokia N900.
- ODROIDHC2.
- OnePlus 6.
- OnePlus 6T.
- PINE64 PineBook Pro.
- PINE64 PinePhone.
- PINE64 PinePhone Pro.
- PINE64 RockPro64.
- Purism Freedom
- SHIFT6mq.
- Samsung Galaxy A3 (2015).
- Samsung Galaxy A5 (2015).
- Samsung Galaxy E7.
- Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300 and SHW-M440S).
- Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Value Edition.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0″.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1″.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab A 9.7.
- Wileyfox Swift.
- Xiaomi Mi Note 2.
- Xiaomi Pocophone F1.
- Xiaomi Redmi 2
- Available GNOME Mobile.
- Many improvements in GNOME Software.
- The translations app is now installed by default.
- Tethering via USB is now functional.
- The minimum password length in the installer has been changed from 8 to 6 characters.
- On the PineBook Pro, brightness and audio control works by default.
- The available environments are:
- GNOME Shell on Mobile 44_git20230405.
- Phosh 0.27, in which Evince has been added as the default document viewer.
- plasma 5.27.5.
- sxmo 1.14.0
Images can be downloaded from this link. To update from existing versions you have to open a terminal and type postmarketos-release-upgrade.