For the PinePhone , developed by the Pine64 community, a universal , which offers 13 Linux distributions at once. This build significantly simplifies familiarization with the existing editions of distributions and user interfaces for the PinePhone. To launch any distribution, it is enough to write a single () to an SD card and select the desired distribution from the boot menu.
For booting, a specially written bootloader . The distributions are organized into Btrfs subvolumes, allowing the use of snapshots, deduplication of duplicate files in the distributions, and maintaining a shared free disk space and user data across all distributions. All distributions include Linux kernel 5.9, a driver for modem management, and the latest firmware with support for suspend mode (Suspend to RAM).
The following distributions are provided for booting:
- Arch Linux ARM 2020-09-08
- Lune OS 0.113
- Maemo Leste 20200906
- Mobian 20200912
- KDE Neon 20200912-132511
- pmOS / fbkeyboard 2020-09-11
- pmOS / GNOME 2020-09-11
- pmOS / Phosh 2020-09-11
- pmOS / Plasma Mobile 2020-09-11
- pmOS / sxmo 0.1.8-20200726
- PureOS 20200908
- Sailfish 1.1-3.3.0.16-devel-20200909
- Ubuntu Touch 2020-09-10
It is additionally noted of the pre-order acceptance for the smartphone , equipped with firmware based on the distribution . Three user interfaces are offered to choose from: (Unity8), (developed by the Librem project based on GNOME and Wayland) and KDE Plasma Mobile. The price of the smartphone is 149 dollars for the device with 2GB RAM and 16GB eMMC, and 199 dollars for the device with 3GB RAM, 32GB eMMC, and a USB Type-C adapter for connection to a monitor (HDMI), network (10/100 Ethernet), keyboard, and mouse (two USB 2.0 ports).
Note that the hardware of the PinePhone is designed for replaceable components — most modules are not soldered but connected via detachable ribbons, allowing, for instance, the option to replace the mediocre camera that comes by default with a higher-quality one. The device is built on a quad-core ARM Allwinner A64 SoC with a Mali 400 MP2 GPU, equipped with 2 or 3 GB of RAM, a 5.95-inch screen (1440×720 IPS), Micro SD (with support for booting from the SD card), 16 or 32 GB of eMMC (internal), a USB-C port with USB Host and a combined video output for connecting a monitor, a 3.5 mm mini-jack, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 (A2DP), GPS, GPS-A, GLONASS, two cameras (2 and 5 MP), a removable 3000mAh battery, and hardware-disable components with LTE/GNSS, Wi-Fi, microphone, and speakers.
Source: opennet.ru
