Mastodawn

Have you ever wanted to learn a new variant of Linux, but felt that the efficiency of the Linux kernel was just too snappy and responsive on modern hardware - such that your learning iterations were destined to be too quick and successful?

If so, let me tell you about the current state of Linux phones!

Sorry, for the sarcasm. I am #boredomposting while I wait for my Linux phone to update some packages.

The graphical updater has been rubbish for me on the #PinePhone (on #ManjeroLinux), but the #cli is seems to be (slowly) succeeding in applying udpates, right now.

I'm tempering my expectations, but the CLI works fine most of the time.

I really hope this works!

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EdTheDev Jun 15

update: it did not work.

I'll try flashing a version of Linux I'm more familiar with, next.

#Linux #LinuxPhone #cli #there_was_an_attempt #JustKeepSwimmingJustKeepSwimming

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EdTheDev 5d ago

Linux Phone update:

I messed around trying to flash Mobian (mobile Debian) on my PinePhone, but I got a flashing light error code, and could not find any documentation for error codes in TowBoot.

"But, Edward!", you say, "If lack of documentation stopped your project, why not see if the famously excellent Arch Wiki can solve it?!"

Well, I tried that too!

And what happened is - I now have a snappy responsive Linux phone running Arch!

#Linux #mobile #archlinux #mobian #pinephone #floss #privacy #ivoidwarranties

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EdTheDev 3d ago

I spent this evening trying to get `pacman` to install a Matrix client on my PinePhone without any luck.

There's two strong possibilities:

1. The Matrix clients I tried simply aren't available for my PinePhone's ARM chipset
2. I have no idea what i am doing with `pacman`

I will probably switch to compiling things from source code soon, but I'm nervous as my base model PinePhone doesn't have much processor or memory.

I've had very good luck compiling various ARM binaries from source on my Raspberry Pi.

Anyone know if that's likely to work if I build on a Pi and copy it over?

#linux #arm #pinephone #devops #ivoidwarranties

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Henry

@EdTheDev My experience with mobile linux (Manjaro-Ubuntu-Postmarket) has suggested that console on mobile is almost useless. It's generally not worth the hastle to install something that's not in the app distibutor. Even if you do get it installed, there will be no support. Sorry to be a downer :(

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EdTheDev 3d ago

@WhereTheFraserRiverFlows Thanks for sharing your experience.

I'm either very bad at `pacman` or there's very little packaged for Arch on ARM. I'm betting it's the first one, but it could be both.

I do know I'm well into the "submit a fix if I want a fix" corner of open source early adotpion, haha.

I may try to build some apps I want on my Pi and see what happens when I copy them onto my PinePhone. I am pretty good to at getting things to work from source code, on ARM.

But I guess I probably need to get a better handle on `pacman` first, to make sure I'm not duplicating someone else's efforts.

#pinephone #linux #arch #linuxphone #devops #makefiles #armchips #ivoidwarranties