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Mobile Systems: Mobian 13.0 released, GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal
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Distro Watch ☛ Distribution Release: Mobian 13.0
The Mobian team has announced the release of Mobian 13.0, a major update of the project's port of the Debian distribution, running the mainline Linux kernel, to smartphones and tablets. It comes in two user interface variants (Phosh and Plasma Mobile) and is available for various popular devices as well as standard 64-bit computers. [...]
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Linuxiac ☛ Mobian Trixie Officially Released with Broader Device Support
Over two years in development, this release brings an updated base aligned with Debian 13, Phosh 46.0 (a mobile user interface for Linux phones), and Plasma Mobile 6.3 desktop environments, as well as a Linux kernel 6.12 for most supported devices. The Librem 5 remains on kernel 6.6 for now.
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DeepSeaGem Technologies India ☛ GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal
GrapheneOS also provided additional clarification about their upcoming OEM partnership, addressing concerns about driver licensing and device requirements.
The team confirmed there won’t be licensing issues with the partnership, as this is an official collaboration where the OEM will provide official GrapheneOS support. According to GrapheneOS moderators on Reddit, they can likely obtain source code access to Snapdragon firmware and userspace components, though this isn’t a hard requirement for the initial device launch. The source access would enable additional security hardening in future updates.
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Mobian brings Debian 13 'Trixie' to phones and tablets
The latest version of Mobian, an edition of Debian aimed at mobile devices, is here, based on Debian 13 "Trixie".
Mobian Trixie is the new stable version, available in two main variants: one with Phosh, GNOME's Phone shell, and one with KDE Plasma Mobile 6.3. There are versions for the PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, and PineTab, both sizes of Google's Pixel 3a, the OnePlus 6 and 6T, and Xiaomi Poco F1. All run the current kernel from Debian 13, version 6.12. There's also a version for the Purism Librem 5 phone that uses the older kernel 6.6. And alongside these fully supported devices, there are versions for the Fairphone 4 and 5, PineTab2, and SHIFT6mq, but these come with significant hardware support limitations.
(Additionally, there are x86-64 images of Mobian, which in principle let you test it out if you don't have a suitable phone – but we couldn't get any of them to start in three different hypervisors.)
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Mobian: A new Stable, and rotating keys
A little more than 2 months after Debian, we’re finally releasing Mobian Trixie as our new stable release! We’re also taking this opportunity to start rotating the PGP/GPG keys we’re using for signing both our images and package archive.