Halium is a hardware abstraction layer developed collaboratively by multiple open source communities (KDE, UBPorts, Mer, LuneOS) to enable Android devices to run GNU/Linux distributions. I had posted this news on Twitter some time ago, but I’m still happy that my port got mature enough to deliver hardware-accelerated graphics: This port is quite special as the phone has an x86 CPU, a PowerVR GPU and a closed-source HWComposer. To make it possible, I authored a number of patches to Libhybris and Halium; as of now, most of them have been merged. I am going to continue my work on the device.

Hello blog, no news from me for a while 😅 Studies at the university are really overwhelming, and I feel that passing my first exams was a major step in my life. Despite my week off coming to its end already, I still haven’t done many things I planned: my brain felt exhausted, and I couldn’t help spending time watching TV series and stuff 🙂 Anyway, I still have some news to share, and so I will in next blog posts.

ITMO University is a very welcoming place, and I enjoy so much being here 🙂 Welcome party! New friends! Student docs Also, I finally have a stable web connection. P.S. And all in all, St Petersburg is not THAT rainy?

In a couple of hours I’m leaving my home city and going to Saint Petersburg, where I’m going to study for a software engineer in ITMO University for 4 years. I’ll be there tomorrow, but I probably won’t have a stable Internet connection for a while. If I don’t answer your messages, it’s just that I can’t 😉 Best wishes 😃

Hey blog! How about a new blog post? 🙂 There have been no messages from me for a while, mostly due to my exams, and I feel guilty of the silence. Now that’s high time I write about my experience. The most important event in my life for the past few months is the Google Code-In trip. It was an amazing opportunity to meet so many interesting people, see lots of stunning views, visit lots of amazing places, hear talks about topics I’ve never thought of before and make new friends. ...

If someone asked me to describe Google Code-In with one word, I would definitely say “amazing”. And that’s not just a common word: that’s what this contest really makes me feel. To begin with, I learned about GCI by chance in a few days after its start. After registration and completing my beginner tasks, I was scrolling through the enormous task list choosing the one for me when I suddenly read “KDE”. ...