Ryan on Nostr: Gnome Debian desktop running on my Pixel 6a ...

Gnome Debian desktop running on my Pixel 6a

I installed gnome-core and virgl-server, it just worked 😂 Holy shit! Brilliant work by the GrapheneOS team.

quoting nevent1q…w552

#GrapheneOS version 2025031300 released.

This release greatly improves the experimental virtual machine management app with many backports from the Android Open Source Project main branch. You'll need to install Android's latest Debian-based image in order to continue using it. You'll be prompted to do this at startup after it fails to start with the old setup with an opportunity to back up the data. The data inside it should continue to be treated as disposable rather than relying on it not losing it from a bug or a backwards incompatible update.

• Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: overhaul our default enabled reimplementation of the Google Play location service (location request rerouting) to provide much better compatibility for apps depending on network-based location by always telling apps that the Google Improve Location Accuracy toggle is enabled and providing fallback to GNSS for low power location requests when the OS network location service is disabled as it is by default (unlike Google Play services, which has no fallback, but apps assume users enable the feature)

• fix Storage Scopes related null pointer exception in thl

• Bluetooth: backport fix for empty adapter name handling in Android 15 QPR2 to avoid crashes when the name is set to an empty value or whitespace

• Terminal (virtual machine management app): backport a large set of improvements including terminal tabs, port forwarding, GUI support with opt-in GPU hardware acceleration (ANGLE-based VirGL until GPU virtualization support is available), speaker/microphone support and fixes for a bunch of bugs including overly aggressive timeouts

• Settings: add Terminal app toggle to System category when developer options are enabled (requirement will be dropped when it's no longer experimental) so it can be enabled in other users (it's still currently only possible to use 1 instance at a time due to conflicting use of an internal network specific to virtual machine management)

• Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold: fix support for enabling UWB (ultra wideband) radio by adding missing SELinux policy to avoid the UWB service chain crashing and burning CPU

• kernel (6.1): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.1.130

• kernel (6.6): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.6.82 • Seedvault: update to 15-5.3 (will be replaced with a better backup implementation in the future)

• Vanadium: update to version 134.0.6998.95.0

• Camera: update to version 83

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025031300

#android #linux