Fedora 38 Cleared To Produce "Mobility Phosh" Spins

Written by Michael Larabel in Fedora on 5 December 2022 at 06:25 PM EST. 23 Comments
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The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has provided their blessing to begin creating new x86_64 and AArch64 ISO images for mobile devices that feature the Phosh Wayland compositor.

Phosh is the Wayland compositor worked on by Purism and other developers as a GNOME-based Wayland shell primarily focused on mobile devices. There's been a proposal to create Fedora Linux images featuring Phosh and intended for Fedora mobile device use on x86_64 and AArch64. This proposal has now cleared voting by the FESCO committee so that it can move forward with Fedora 38 in the spring.


Purism Phosh showcase.


Fedora's Mobility SIG already packaged up Phosh and related packages into a "phosh-desktop" package group and this approval gives them the go-ahead to begin working on x86_64 and AArch64 install images for mobile devices and tablets. Separately, the Fedora Mobility folks are also eyeing Plasma Mobile images too.

More details on the Phosh Fedora plans via this Wiki page. Via this ticket the change is now approved by FESCo.
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