Window Maker LiveJust verified the current #wmlive version for arm64 boots just fine on a #PinebookPro, thanks to #towboot enabling UEFI booting. This also includes the graphical #Debian installer, so no more fiddling with the serial console.
Window Maker LiveJust verified the current #wmlive version for arm64 boots just fine on a #PinebookPro, thanks to #towboot enabling UEFI booting. This also includes the graphical Debian installer, so no more fiddling with the serial console.
Zoe 💜This thread will be about my experiments with my new #pinePhonePro.
I got it yesterday and had a few minor hurdles out of the gate. I followed instructions on the wiki but couldn't get it to boot into #sailfishOS. I don't remember what I did differently but after a few attempts it booted fine. I immediately wanted to replace sailfish but first checked that sms and calls worked fine and it did (though took a while to receive the first call).
I flashed #postmarketOS with #PlasmaMobile to an sd card and tried booting from it but quickly realised I had missed a step 
. The wiki said I had to install #towboot to the SPI so I did that. After following the instructions properly this time I installed the OS successfully. I found Plasma extremely sluggish and unresponsive so quickly moved on. The next OS I flashed was postmarketOS again but this time with #sxmo and I immediately fell in love with the interface.
After that I went to sleep as it had been a long day and was getting late. This morning I flashed postmarketos with sxmo to the eMMC and will be tinkering with it today. Ill update this post with comments about my progress.
#linuxphone #linuxmobile #FOSSphone #FOSS #OpenSource #tilingWM #pinePhone #pine64
I got it yesterday and had a few minor hurdles out of the gate. I followed instructions on the wiki but couldn't get it to boot into #sailfishOS. I don't remember what I did differently but after a few attempts it booted fine. I immediately wanted to replace sailfish but first checked that sms and calls worked fine and it did (though took a while to receive the first call).
I flashed #postmarketOS with #PlasmaMobile to an sd card and tried booting from it but quickly realised I had missed a step
. The wiki said I had to install #towboot to the SPI so I did that. After following the instructions properly this time I installed the OS successfully. I found Plasma extremely sluggish and unresponsive so quickly moved on. The next OS I flashed was postmarketOS again but this time with #sxmo and I immediately fell in love with the interface.After that I went to sleep as it had been a long day and was getting late. This morning I flashed postmarketos with sxmo to the eMMC and will be tinkering with it today. Ill update this post with comments about my progress.
#linuxphone #linuxmobile #FOSSphone #FOSS #OpenSource #tilingWM #pinePhone #pine64
Yann Büchau Something is very wrong with #towBoot's documentation. Broken links, a moved website, always talk about flashing a certain 'mmcboot.installer.img' to an SD card, but WHERE for the love of god can one find this piece of bytes?? 😂
Certainly not in the releases page on GitHub or within the pinephone (non-pro) tarballs.
Kind of annoying because apparently 
mobile-#NixOS refuses to boot with the default Braveheart bootloader or something...
Threshold Kid 0mega ☎️ 6601Nachdem ich jetzt die aktuellste Version des #TowBoot Bootloaders und das jüngste Release von #Mobian auf meinem #PinePhonePro installiert habe, scheint das Display auch wieder aus dem Standby-Betrieb aufzuwachen. Dann kann ich mich in den nächsten Tagen ja mal wieder damit beschäftigen, das Ding als "Daily Driver" fertig einzurichten. Yay \o/
Wobei jetzt natürlich auch noch die Chance besteht, ein anderes OS auf die eMMC zu werfen. Wie sieht es denn momentan mit #GloDroid oder #SailfishOS aus? Sind sie einen (erneuten) Blick wert?
Wobei jetzt natürlich auch noch die Chance besteht, ein anderes OS auf die eMMC zu werfen. Wie sieht es denn momentan mit #GloDroid oder #SailfishOS aus? Sind sie einen (erneuten) Blick wert?
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️@stu I"ve only used #PinePhone(Pro)'s but I imagine the process is basically the same.
Download image from website. ( postmarketos.org )
Extract. (I use Ark )
Write image to sdcard ( I use Balena Etcher )
Insert SD card and hold volume down button to boot from that rather than internal storage.
Follow onscreen prompts.
PS, I think @postmarketOS also requires you install #TowBoot first? It's an extra step but not hard. SImilar to what's above. Website is TowBoot.org iirc.
Robert Mader@ahoneybun #manjaro Gnome, with a custom Mutter/Gnome-Shell build, notably including https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3177
I usually prefer #Fedora but unfortunately the install fails on the #PinebookPro. I guess it doesn't play nice with #towboot for some reason.
wayland: Implement direct scanout for cropped and scaled surfaces (!3177) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab
Until now we only supported direct scanout to the primary plane if the buffer size perfectly matched the display size. Since display controllers usually support scaling and cropping...
j4n3zPár let jsem na #pinebookpro používal Arch (btw) + Sway, posledních několik měsíců jsem byl trochu frustrovaný (ne)plynulostí a zvažoval, že ho prostě strčím do šuplíku.
Ale zatím to vypadá, že #postmarketos byla skvělá volba! I s #gnome je zase perfektně rychlý a díky #towboot sedí celý systém v NVME SSD 🥳
Ale zatím to vypadá, že #postmarketos byla skvělá volba! I s #gnome je zase perfektně rychlý a díky #towboot sedí celý systém v NVME SSD 🥳
LINux on MOBileWeekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (27/2023): Boot loader news and Phosh 0.29.0
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-27-2023/
#LinuxMobile #PinePhone #GloDroid #Gentoo #Sailfish #towboot
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (52/2025): postmarketOS v25.12 and Other Last Minute Goodies!
This past week: postmarketOS v25.12 released with Alpine 3.23, APK v3, GNOME 49, Plasma Mobile 6.5.3, Phosh 0.51, postmarketOS edge reworks USB stack (with MTP support), FuriLabs FLX1s in stock and shipping, MNT Reform Touch prototype debuts at 39c3, autofocus working on Jolla C2 with Unisoc chipset (with close-to-mainline), and Reflection local-first note-taking app hits Flathub Beta. Enjoy!
Wilson J. HolmesMy #pinebookpro is getting a well deserved upgrade!
#towboot #postmarketos #fde #fulldiskencryption #dd #alpinelinux #alpine #linux
