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postmarketOS@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems (2026-09-23 21:47:36)
10 years of postmarketOS by @ollieparanoid
"Imagine all the things you could accomplish in ten years if each week you spend a significant amount of your time on them. You could choose a small scope project and drive it to perfection. You could probably make a lot of money, live large, get a big house and five cars. Instead of that yours truly spent his time on his favorite Linux Mobile distribution. This talk gives a look back from how it all started until now, the technical changes postmarketOS went through, how our community got bigger and better and how the mainstream operating systems got worse over time. I'll already spoil the conclusion here, what we have been building together is more meaningful than ever in 2026, I'm proud of what we have accomplished and I'm so happy I didn't do something else instead!"
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postmarketOS@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems (2026-09-23 21:48:38)
Rebuilding the build farm: a new package builder architecture by @fossdd , @ptrc
"Today, we still rely on Lua scripts written over ten years ago to build all of our repositories. But Alpine has grown a lot since then: we have many new architectures (one of which, riscv64, is unbelievably slow...), and a single failing test in one package still blocks the upload of all other, unrelated packages. TL;DR: the builders are very often the bottleneck of Alpine development.
To meet our needs today, I'll propose some requirements I think a new architecture should have, along with an idea for what it could look like. Hopefully we can find some interested people and build the "Next Gen. Alpine-Builder"™."
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postmarketOS@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems (2026-09-23 21:49:44)
The story of Kodiak - The SoC that can do everything by @z3ntu
"This Qualcomm SoC - code-named Kodiak - is used for many use cases. With its SC7280 variant it's used in laptops and was planned to be used in Chromebooks, the SM7325 variant is used in smartphones, QCM6490 is the IoT variant used in plenty of SBCs and some smartphones, and perhaps we'll see yet another new variant of this chip?
Let's talk about the history of this chip, with a strong eye on Linux kernel development and device bringup."
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