Three talks have touched on AsteroidOS over the past weeks, in three different settings. We want to archive them here before the links scroll out of sight in our Matrix chat.
AsteroidOS maintainer Ed Beroset gave a presentation titled "AsteroidOS — Free your wrist!" at TriLUG, the Triangle Linux Users Group serving the Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. TriLUG is an educational non-profit that has been running monthly Linux and FOSS meetings for more than 25 years. The talk turned into a quasi state-of-the-union covering where AsteroidOS stands today and the upcoming Qt 6 transition.
One update worth adding here: the Qt 6 work has moved on noticeably since the talk was recorded. We now have first booting Qt 6 based images and have started adapting the UI to the new circumstances and possibilities Qt 6 brings.
Watch it on YouTube: TriLUG Meeting Apr 2026 — AsteroidOS — Free your wrist!
At the NLUUG spring conference VJ2026 on May 7th in the Netherlands, Cambionn presented AsteroidOS to an audience of professional Open Source users. NLUUG, the Dutch UNIX and Linux user group founded in 1978, is one of the older open systems associations in Europe and the same group that founded NLnet, the first Dutch internet provider. Cambionn is a regular in our Matrix chat. For the record: every regular in chat is part of the project to us, no contribution gatekeeping involved.
Cambionn's announcement: @Cambion@mastodon.nl
Recording: asteroidos.mp4
At the same NLUUG event, postmarketOS maintainer Bart Ribbers (PureTryOut) gave a postmarketOS talk that touched on AsteroidOS. Not strictly an AsteroidOS talk, but related to our mainlining goals. Bart's interest in seeing AsteroidOS on Qt 6, paired with direct contributions to several of our repositories, generated the momentum with in the team and community that now drives the migration home.
Bart's announcement: @bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
Recording: postmarketos-av1.mp4
A big thank you to Ed, Cambionn, and Bart for three informative talks and for putting AsteroidOS in front of audiences that had not heard of it before. Much appreciation from the whole team and the wider AsteroidOS community, and thanks to everyone who keeps showing up, in chat, at user groups, and on stage.