EdTheDevJun 15

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!

Show threadEdTheDevJun 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

Show threadEdTheDev5d 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

Show threadEdTheDev4d 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

Show threadUndeadLeech4d ago
@EdTheDev I'm not sure what Matrix clients you're trying to install, but one of the most popular ones should be easily installable using just `pacman -S chatty`.
Show threadEdTheDev

@UndeadLeech Thank you! I haven't tried that one.

Knowing a package to try that has worked for someone else may be a big help to me while I diagnose whatever else I've been doing wrong.

I'm 99% I'm introducing a few of my own problems, just by being very unfamiliar with Arch.

I will try chatty.

Thanks!

Jun 24 at 12:42pmWeb