Plasma Mobile
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Developer(s) | KDE |
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Stable release | 5.26.5[1] ![]() |
Preview release | 5.26.90[2] ![]() |
Repository | invent |
Written in | C++, QML |
Operating system | Linux |
License | GPLv2 |
Website | plasma-mobile |
Plasma Mobile is a Plasma variant for smartphones.[3][4][5] It is currently available for the Pinephone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6.[6]
It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro.[7]
History[edit]
After Plasma Active sponsor Coherent Theory (under the Make·Play·Live brand)[8][9] had given up their ambitions to release a tablet computer,[10] Blue Systems emerged as a new sponsor in 2015 and shifted the focus of Plasma's handheld work towards smartphones.[11][12] However, this stopped in 2021, with the project now being maintained by volunteers.[13]
The official announcement of the new form-factor interface was on 25 July 2015 at Akademy, accompanied by a working prototype running on a Nexus 5.[3]
Pine64 began sales of their PinePhone mobile device, with the KDE Community Edition being made available as pre-orders on 1 December 2020.[14][15]
Technology[edit]
Plasma Mobile uses KWin's Wayland session.[11] Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device.[16]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "KDE Plasma 5.26.5, Bugfix Release for January". 3 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ "Plasma 5.27 Beta". 19 January 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ a b Swapnil Bhartiya (25 July 2015). "KDE Community announces fully open source Plasma Mobile". ITworld. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ Wallen, Jack (February 5, 2018). "Why KDE's Plasma Mobile is the ideal platform for Linux fans and developers". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Eddy, Max (2021-01-28). "Break Away From Android: 7 Free Open-Source Mobile OSes to Try". PCMag. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "FAQ". www.plasma-mobile.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- ^ "Distributions offering Plasma Mobile". Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Byfield, Bruce. "Orchestration". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live". lwn.net.
- ^ Larabel, Michael (2014-05-24). "Improv Open ARM Board Failure Leads To A Ton Of In-Fighting". Phoronix. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ a b Bhartiya, Swapnil (25 July 2015). "Sebastian Kügler: KDE's Plasma Mobile is running on Plasma 5 and Kubuntu". ITworld. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ "Embracing Mobile". sebas' blog. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ "Moving on". Bhushan's Blog. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ "PinePhone: KDE community edition". Plasma Mobile. 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Introducing the PinePhone - KDE Community edition". KDE Community. 2020-11-15. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
- ^ "WayDroid brings lag-free Android app integration to the OnePlus 6/6T Linux port". TuxPhones. Retrieved 17 November 2022.