A universal assembly with 13 distribution kits has been prepared for PinePhone

For smartphone pinephone, developed by the Pine64 community, prepared by universal assembly, which offers 13 Linux distributions at once. The assembly greatly simplifies familiarization with the existing editions of distributions and user shells for PinePhone. To run any distribution kit, it is enough to write a single image (5GiB) and select the distribution kit of interest through the boot menu.

A specially written bootloader is used for loading p-boot. Distributions are placed in subsections of Btrfs, which allows using snapshots, deduplicating files that are repeated in distributions, and maintaining free disk space and user data common to all distributions. All distributions include Linux 5.9 kernel, modem driver and latest firmware Crust with support for standby mode (Suspend to RAM).

Suggested for download:

• Arch Linux ARM 2020-09-08
• Monday OS 0.113
• Maemo East 20200906
• Mobian 20200912
• KDE Neon 20200912-132511
• pmOS/fbkeyboard 2020-09-11
• pOS / GNOME 2020-09-11
• pmOS/Phosh 2020-09-11
• pmOS / Plasma Mobile 2020-09-11
• pmOS/sxmo 0.1.8-20200726
• Pure OS 20200908
• Sailfish 1.1-3.3.0.16-devel-20200909
• Ubuntu Touch 2020-09-10

Additionally noted start accepting pre-orders on a smartphone PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition, complete with firmware based on the distribution Manjaro. There are three user environments to choose from: lomiri (Unity8) phosh (developed by the Librem project based on GNOME and Wayland) and KDE Plasma Mobile. The smartphone is priced at $149 for a device with 2GB RAM and 16GB eMMC and $199 for a device with 3GB RAM, 32GB eMMC and a USB Type-C adapter for connecting to a monitor (HDMI), network (10/100 Ethernet), keyboard and mouse (two USB 2.0 ports).

Recall that the PinePhone hardware is designed for the use of replaceable components - most of the modules are not soldered, but connected via detachable cables, which allows, for example, if you wish, to replace the default mediocre camera with a better one. The device is built on a quad-core SoC ARM Allwinner A64 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 an SD card), 16 or 32 GB eMMC ( internal), USB-C port with USB Host and combined video output for connecting a monitor, 3.5 mm mini-jack, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 (A2DP), GPS, GPS-A, GLONASS, two cameras ( 2 and 5Mpx), removable 3000mAh battery, hardware disconnectable components with LTE/GNSS, WiFi, microphone and speakers.

Source: opennet.ru