What a weekend at FOSDEM 2026! 🙌

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to meet the team, try out the Jolla Phone appearance model, and take a look at the latest progress on the community ports. The hands-on feedback on ergonomics and the excitement around the return of The Other Half really meant a lot to us.

A special thank you as well to everyone who joined the community meetup at À La Becasse. Good conversations, good company, and a shared passion for Sailfish OS. Seeing so many Birds of a Feather come together in Brussels was a great reminder of what this community is all about.

If you want to relive the moments or see more photos from FOSDEM and the meetup, we’ve collected them in this forum thread:
👉 https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/fosdem-2026-sailfish-os-meetup-and-bof/26813/24

You are the heart of Jolla. See you at the next one. ❤️❤️❤️

#FOSDEM2026

Jolla is at FOSDEM! Welcome to meet the team, try the new Jolla Phone appearance model at your own hand 👋 and see the latest Sailfish OS community ports ❤️

For a limited time, you can use the discount code FOSDEM2026 at the Jolla Shop and get a free Jolla pipo 🥳

We’re also hosting a community meetup in the evening and would love to see as many of you there as possible. Meetup details here:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/fosdem-2026-sailfish-os-meetup-and-bof/26813

#FOSDEM2026

Shoutout to @LauraMalvoyante 👋

Take a look at Laura’s deep dive on the new Jolla Phone, its specs, design, and most importantly, the question many of you are asking: is this actually up to for daily driving?

Watch here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55kuHDBVGm0

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #European #DigitalSovereignty #CommunityPowered

This is a simple way to support an independent European Linux phone and help move the project forward. Every successful referral strengthens the community and brings us closer to the next milestone of 10,000 pre-orders.

Learn how it works and join in:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-referral-program/27123

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #european #DigitalSovereignty #CommunityPowered

We’ve just got our hands on the first appearance models of the new Jolla Phone. Having the device physically in hand is an important milestone for us, and we wanted to share it with the community.

So not to confuse: the appearance model does not have functioning electronics inside yet - actual functional samples are to come down the road later.

Have a look and join the discussion:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-design-appearance-models/27024

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #european #DigitalSovereignty #CommunityPowered

🐧📲 Jolla Phone: technical specs 🔣

The up & coming freedom respecting premier Linux smartphone passed 6000 pre-orders.

Goal of 10 000 (by the end of january '26) unlocks new The Other Half!

◉ MediaTek Dimensity 7000-series chip
◉ 12 GB RAM
◉ 256 GB storage
◉ 4G/5G support
◉ Dual SIM + microSD
◉ 50 MP main camera (Sony)

Pre-order campaign 👉 https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

Further details 👉 https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/next-gen-jolla-phone-update-12-25/26509

#Jolla #JollaPhone #specs #technical #SailfishOS #Linux #PrivacyFromFinland @jolla

🐧 Merry Tuxmas & happy new year of Linux! 🎇

'26 is set to be a *fabulous* treat for the penguin:

◉ Steam Machine (/w Half-Life 3 ...?)
◉ Steam Controller
◉ Steam Frame
◉ KDE Linux
◉ Fedora Linux 44
◉ Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
◉ Pop!_OS 26.04 (/w polished COSMIC desktop)
◉Linux 7.0 (rather than 6.20 - if the Finnish God of Linux bestows)
◉ Legion Go 2 (/w SteamOS)
◉ Jolla Phone

Pictures are courtesy of Mark the Klowner!

#Tuxmas #Xmas #Linux #NewYear #Valve #Jolla #KDE #Ubuntu #System76 #SteamMachine

🎄 6,000 pre-orders before Christmas. What a pleasant present.🎄

The new Jolla Phone has just passed 6k pre-orders, and it really feels like a shared milestone. Quietly impressive. Very much community-driven.

In the latest forum update, we share hardware progress, details on cameras and battery, cellular connectivity configuration and more. There’s also a question to the community about how a future referral program should work, and what kind of rewards would truly make sense.

If you have a calm holiday moment between meals and walks, this is a good read.

👉 Join the conversation: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/next-gen-jolla-phone-update-12-25/26509

Warm thanks, and peaceful holidays to everyone building this together ✨

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #european #DigitalSovereignty #CommunityPowered

➗ 🎮 Splittown | Retrotastic point 'n' click holiday gaming for fans of Sam & Max / Day of the Tentacle - big 1.1 update + -20% on Winter Sale ❄️⛄

◉ Native Linux
◉ Steam Deck ✅
◉ Story rich
◉ Classic familiar UI
◉ 30+ achievements
◉ Full controller support
◉ From 2 (!) independent enthusiast devs

👉 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2117400/view/523111043238462462

#Splittown #adventuregames #pointandclick #retro #classic #gaming #SteamDeck #Linux #native #indiedev #LucasArts #Suomi

⚛️ 🐧 Proton is the Jedi tool enabling Windows games on Linux | Valve hopes testing / bug hunting help for the next release (now RC) Proton 10.0-4 ✅

"We are interested only in issues that are new to the 10.0-4 RC builds. If you believe that something broke please confirm that the problem does not occur with 10.0-3 before reporting".

A repertoire of more Windows games without Windows.

Release Candidate testing reports / changelog 👉 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9323

#Proton #testing #help #gaming #Linux

Zorin OS is one of the popular Linux operating systems. The distro was recently in news crossing over a 1 million downloads in short time (confirmed most by Windows users).

Now they're giving back (in cash) to open source ecosystem benefiting us all. €500 donated to:

◉ Kdenlive
◉ Inkscape
◉ Dash to Panel
◉ Bottles
◉ Krita
◉ GIMP
◉ Tiling Shell
◉ Winboat
◉ Dublin Linux Community
◉ Tech Bridges to Malawi

https://blog.zorin.com/2025/12/17/our-gift-to-the-open-source-ecosystem-this-holiday-season

#ZorinOS #amnesty #donation #gift #holidays #Tuxmas #Xmas #Linux

@hj @warmbeverageenjoyer

Sure - that is one way to see it. But there are surprisingly many ppl who cannot find their home in any of the free as in freedom browsers - and still want to use a PC computer - so there's that.

Nothing prevents discovering other options later on - as the time goes by - and information about sorts of things you're talking about and are important to YOU, increase.

@hj @warmbeverageenjoyer

Basically there are just choices for pretty much everyone. If Vivaldi (for example) is the one making someone *looking for automatic AI:less browser* sticking with Linux - it's worth to put there innit.

Have not heard much bad at all about Vivaldi either...

@M33

Waterfox is there plus even their statement is in the thread..

@hj @warmbeverageenjoyer

There are many options and browsers (plus their teams) are prone to grow.

Ladybird and Servo based ones in development then again provide a whole new ground. Happening already possibly next year.

a statement from Waterfox team:

"... browsers are operating systems of their own, and a browser’s job is to be a good steward of that environment. AI, in its current form and in my opinion does not match that responsibility.

... The core browsing experience should be one that fully puts the user in control, not one where you’re constantly monitoring an inscrutable system that claims to be helping you.

Waterfox will not include LLMs. Full stop."

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/

a statement from Vivaldi team:

"Today, as other browsers race to build AI that controls how you experience the web, we are making a clear promise:

We’re taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship. Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting."

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring

a statement from LibreWolf team:

"As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP."

https://chaos.social/@librewolf/115716906957137196

@hj

Firefox derived does not mean "equals Mozilla Firefox" - since Firefox itself is open source; forks can rip out anything they want and go "clean".

@cynical13

Yes, so user can choose. Regular Mozilla Firefox is making it opt-out (and probably via needlessly technical way - not with a "click of a button").