Some more great progress by @tobykurien who is porting #FreeBSD to the #PinephonePro in the project sponsored by us:
After getting #X11 running a short while ago, he now implemented #touchscreen support.
Some more great progress by @tobykurien who is porting #FreeBSD to the #PinephonePro in the project sponsored by us:
After getting #X11 running a short while ago, he now implemented #touchscreen support.
Ok, so check this out. I raved about how magical #FreeBSD #linuxulator is, but it gets even better! In my Ubuntu linux jail, I downloaded the source for the #mobian kernel, installed cross-compiling tools, compiled the kernel and modules, copied to an sdcard, and booted up the kernel on my #pinephonepro So, on my amd64 FreeBSD, I used a translation layer to load up Ubuntu Linux, used it to cross-compile a Linux kernel for arm64, and booted that up on a device! How unbelievable is that?!?
I got #X11 running on the #PinephonePro under #FreeBSD ! Shown here running my favourite #icewm window manager. Super exciting! Now to get the touch screen working
https://tobykurien.com/images/microblog/post-1744879274-0.jpg https://tobykurien.com/images/microblog/post-1744879274-1.jpg https://tobykurien.com/images/microblog/post-1744879274-2.jpg
@nippon Hello,
Personally, I use my PinePhone Pro as my only smartphone, and it's completely satisfactory (except for the low battery life).
I'm running Manjaro Linux with phosh and all the available apps (thanks in part to WayDroid).
Sincerely, Pierre.
The Pine Phone Pro arrived earlier this week. After a few unfocused, false starts I finally got it booting into Gnome and currently installing Waydroid over ssh.
My wife uses a cheesey coupon clipping app (iOS/Android) for doing the groceries and such. I'll need to take a look at what traffic flows in-n-out of this app to see what is being farmed and segregate/container off if required.
We are heavy Signal users but I may use this as an excuse to set up a XMPP server. Twas on the 'roadmap'.
Initial impressions are good. Definitely not as shiny and smooth as an iOS or Android device but - it's a phone. We spent half our lives with dumb rotary dialing doohickeys - we'll survive. lol
Pretty impressed with Gnome on a touch device so far. This is my first real experience with it. No 'klunkiness' so far but just scratching the surface.
It will be interesting to see how a non-technical person takes to it. I'm going to monkey with it myself for the first week or so to find the hard edges to save her the frustration.
I want to experiment with Android Auto - see what (if anything) is possible.
I also obtained a Seeed Studio Sensecap T1000-E (meshtastic, lora, etc.) to connect to this device. We'll see how far I get with that.
I really need a staff... Ha!
Since #immich still has a lot of time before we get a usable #mobilelinux client that would help us backup our images easily. I am working on a daemon that will upload images automatically. What features would you be interested in?
Current ideas so far
1. Wifi only
2. SSID checking
3. Charging only
4. Systemd service for autostart and logging
5. Specifying paths
Endlich läuft auch ein Signal-Client auf meinem Linux-Phone. Bei meinem letzten Versuch hatte ich ihn noch selbst kompiliert und er hatte nicht so recht funktioniert. Heute über flatpak installiert und was soll ich sagen: Läuft.
https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare/
#linux #pinephonepro #ppp #signal #flare
Tested the latest #GNOME #Snapshot on #postmarketOS on my #PINE64 #PinePhonePro! It's been a while since I revisited the PinePhonePro but with cameras and camera utilities coming a long way on newer devices I wanted to revisit #libcamera on the PinePhones. I installed @NekoCWD's cameractrl and it successfully controls focus, but the PPP camera seems to have autoexposure that reduces the utility of cameractrl's exposure slider. Anyways, here's a picture of some other postmarketOS devices.
@pine64eu Is the #PinePhonePro going to be in stock soon at https://pine64eu.com ? Seems to have been out of stock for some time now...
#SailfishOS 5.0 images for the @PINE64 devices are now available via the flash-it script. #pinephone #pinephonepro #pinetab #pinetab2 https://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevil/documentation/wiki/Installation
@debacle @pauljhulford #pinephonepro is just a little faster and battery sucks like #crazy
As I understand it, full disk encryption currently does not work with #PostmarketOS, at least with v24.12. (pmbootstrap-installation with FDE does not boot on my PinephonePro...)
As a Plan B I tried to set up #ecryptfs but the kernel module is missing.
Does anybody have a good solution for encrypting at least home on @postmarketOS?
I am looking into getting my #PinephonePro in a state so that it can be used as a daily driver but encryption is mandatory then of course...
@mainframed767 on my #PinephonePro #postmarketOS #gnomemobile, #runcat does not show as installable.
Working on the @PINE64 #PinephonePro camera using @libcamera . Progress is slow but steady!
cheese an alternative to megapixels on the PinePhone Pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_(software)
Better photo quality than with megapixels I find...
#PinePhone and #PinePhonePro users, which email client do you prefer on your device?
Is it @thunderbird ?
https://pineguild.com/thunderbird-desktop-in-mobile-mode-on-pinephone-pinephone-pro/
Just a reminder about the meetup in Christchurch, New Zealand on February 26.
The topic is Linux Mobile and I (Dan) will bring 4 devices:
#OnePlus6
- OS: #postmarketOS | Environment: #plasmamobile
#PinephonePro
- OS: postmarketOS | Environment: #gnomemobile
- OS on SD card: #Mobian | Environment: #phosh
#Pinephone (braveheart + upgraded motherboard)
- OS: #Archlinux | Environment: #sxmo
Pinephone (braveheart)
- OS/Environment: #UbuntuTouch
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FreeBSD Takes a Leap: Running on PinePhone Pro
The porting of FreeBSD to the PinePhone Pro marks a significant step in mobile operating system diversity. This initiative not only enhances the capabilities of the PinePhone Pro but also opens doors ...
https://news.lavx.hu/article/freebsd-takes-a-leap-running-on-pinephone-pro
@michaeldavies What about #PinePhone, #PinePhonePro and #Librem5. They were built to run #LinuxMobile (not Android) from the start.
@benjaminedwardwebb well battery life ain't a strength of #pinephonepro either.