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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mmsd
Posts with mentions or reviews of mmsd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-24.
- Build a PinePhone App with Zig and Zgt
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Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway
> MMS or Multimedia Messages are supported by gammu but they are stored in a binary format I have yet to find documentation on how to make something usable out of it for download. Any info in it is greatly appreciated.
You could look at this implementation: mmsd-tng [1]. It is used to handle MMSes on the PinePhone for instance.
[1] https://gitlab.com/kop316/mmsd/
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Getting MMS working on Mobian (T-Mobile)
I installed mmsd-tng from Chris Talbot's repo (I don't run Mobian unstable and didn't wanna go fetch the package from there), and installed Chatty from Purism's repo per the Mobian docs. To be sure of no conflicts, I carefully uninstalled the existing Chatty via dpkg -r --force-deps chatty to remove just Chatty without taking Phosh out with it.
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Weird tradeoff but great phone
Apparently MMS isn't used much outside of North America so it's not as high of a priority. I' on Mobian and use Janky MMS to at least receive them, but I still can't send them. There is also an MMS daemon that someone created to at least process them, but getting a messaging app to pick them up is still a challenge. They are also working on getting it integrated into Chatty. Apparently its getting pretty close but its kind of slow going because its mostly one guy working on it. So if you're any good with C (especially UI design) they are always open for more contributors.
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My pinephone daily driver experiences so far
To get it working, you basically need a fork of mmsd (i.e. mmsd-tng) and you need an app that can pull the MMS messages in. The same developer who has worked on mmsd (kop316) has spent a good amount of time updating Chatty/Chats with his own custom branch, though it is quite barebones and really only allows receiving MMS images as file:// links in the UX. It sounds like Purism will eventually get around to implementing this in the UX but it may not be for months.
pmaports
Posts with mentions or reviews of pmaports.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-01.
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Transform Your Android Device into a Linux Desktop
For me, not until it gets VoLTE: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1878
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The state of (real) Linux on phones - will they ever be truly usable?
Looking into the reasoning for why I found that we actually decided against AppArmor in the end. You can see our current reasoning and options at https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1596
- Pinephone Pro Camera Support?
- HW buttons not working after update (Asus, Grouper)
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Has anyone had any luck with the Samsung Galaxy S7 (herolte)?
It stopped working some time ago, don't think anyone has properly debugged it yet: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1667
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Gnome Shell on Mobile with PostmarketOS + Oneplus 6 (Snapdragon 845) Mainline Smartphone Linux | DUNK
You can track the progress in https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1505 Charging is probably fixed already but I did not test it yet.
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Linux Cell phone
As a follow up, spent some hours diving the problem and found this 2 year old open issue with the pinephone telephony stack: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/731
- pmbootstrap adds experimental support for Gnome Mobile UI
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mmsd and pmaports you can also consider the following projects:
ArmCord - ArmCord is a custom client designed to enhance your Discord experience while keeping everything lightweight.
slack-term - Slack client for your terminal
ims - Send macOS iMessages via CLI
Pine64-Arch - :penguin: Arch Linux ARM for your PinePhone/Pro and PineTab/2
vvmplayer
quill - An open-source, Qt-based eBook reader for Kobos (and other devices).
stable_deref_trait - Unsafe marker trait for types that deref to a stable address
boot-deploy
vvmd
gord - The Discord terminal client you never knew you wanted.