Great news from @lynxis in OpenIMSD:

"I've written a profile manager for the QCOM baseband which talks to the PDC service.

The PDC is the persistent device configuration. It controls similar settings as the carrier configuration on Android, such as the APN, SMSC, the IMS functionality, the 5G functionality, ... But the PDC profiles have more control over the baseband than the Android carrier configuration does."

Full blog post:
https://www.openimsd.com/09-qcom-baseband-profile-manager.html

Source code:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/modem/openimsd/qcom-baseband-profile-manager

#openimsd #linuxmobile

As we've posted in our monthly blog posts before we're working hard on hardware CI to automatically run a bunch of tests on various phones for changes in the software we ship.

To accomplish this some of our team members have created PCB's to connect the phones to so we have full control over them, and after some iterations the first batch of the production units have just arrived!

We'll start setting them up in the hackathon we're doing after #FOSDEM and we'll soon share the initial results!

2026-01: monthly blog post reboot

* Excited for FOSDEM, we'll have a stand and talks
* #PineNote moved up to community
* New nightly repositories
* First Contributor Support Programme report
* systemd musl support + service file upstreaming
* Number of settings apps in Phosh reduced
* USB stack reworked
* loongarch64 binary packages
* New maintainers.txt files

Thanks to everybody who contributes to postmarketOS, you are amazing!

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/25/pmOS-update-2026-01/

#linuxmobile #fosdem #postmarketos

We made good progress on automated hardware testing in postmarketOS, resulting in being able to run pmaports changes on a real OP6T! Thanks to everybody who donated to postmarketOS or contributed their time to make this possible! ️

More about this and future plans:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/21/hw-ci-mvp/

#linuxmobile #CI_tron

If you have quiet audio in postmarketOS edge or stable with systemd and GNOME or Phosh installs, read this blog post: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/17/v25.12-release-issue/

Heads up for edge users: alpine edge repositories are temporarily broken due to the ICU upgrade:

https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/01/13/icu-upgrades/

Thanks Jesse for the kind review! We're so glad you've enjoyed using postmarketOS

If you fancy a performance boost (particularly when it comes to storage) then the Fairphone 4/5 are probably the best option without giving up support for external displays.