This comes after over four years of effort put in by @z3ntu and various other contributors, along with the more recent three months of effort I have put in.
This is a surreal moment for me because this is the biggest project I have ever worked on, so having something actually come of it is amazing.
Lomiri should be added as a UI option to #postmarketOS once some final packages are upstreamed and bugs are worked out.
I would love to try Lomiri on postmarketOS. Probably my favorite out of all the mobile Linux UIs. I wonder what blockers there are from it entering the main repos? I would even consider maintaining it in the repos if I had to. I guess I'll just have to build it manually...
Decided to try to setup a blog for my development. For my first piece I decided to recount the development history of #Lomiri as a frame for my future posts.
All parts of #Lomiri have been upstreamed from #postmarketOS to #AlpineLinux!!! Now it is super easy to test Lomiri yourself! Only the pmOS UI package needs to be built manually. I might write a quick post explaining how to do it if people are interested.
Lomiri on Mir2 runs on postmarketOS now! This is a milestone because it is the updating of the entire desktop to the newest version and also to use Wayland!
In-line with my previous blog post about #Flatpak in #Lomiri I have been working on getting the core Lomiri click apps packaged for Flatpak.
Thankfully, there have been upstream efforts to do this already! Sadly it seems that the packages are out of date and barely functional, but it is something to work with!
So far I have the Lomiri calculator, clock, and filemanager running.
For those wanting to give #Lomiri a try on #postmarketOS based on my last post, I wrote a quick shell script to set up the pmaports environment for you. All you have to do is run the shell script and then run pmbootstrap init and make sure to select "y" when prompted "Build outdated packages during 'pmbootstrap install'?".
#Lomiri on #postmarketOS running on systemd! It is in a very early state and barely anything works yet, but I am excited about the prospects of not having to dance around the OpenRC polyfills anymore!
#Lomiri on the #Librem5 ? Yes! In a moment of frustration, I flashed #Mobian and installed the version of Lomiri in the Debian 12 repo. It was buggy as hell and crashed after 2 minutes. I suspect this was due to the GTK app I tried to run. After it crashed the first time, it wouldn't boot again and I had to flash Mobian all over to record this video.....
There is no better time to return from a hiatus than now! I guess I should re-introduce myself to anybody who sees this. I am justsoup, a person who likes #MobileLinux a little too much, specifically #postmarketOS. I have a totally healthy obsession with making #Lomiri run on it for no reason other than not being a spy for Canonical. I also tinker with Chromebooks sometimes. I run #VoidLinux as my daily driver and absolutely love #Linux (if that wasn't obvious).
I really wish somebody continued the Suru icon theme or #Lomiri would switch over to Yaru. Having to hack together a way for the two to coexist is giving me a headache.
The most complex package I have ever written has been merged into #AlpineLinux! It totally has nothing to do with #Lomiri on #postmarketOS. (It actually does. It fixes a bug.)