The Droidian 99 project, which develops a build based on the package base, is now available. Debian GNU/Linux, designed for use on smartphones instead of the platform AndroidThe graphical environment offered is the Phosh shell, based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library. The system and user environments are built using repositories Debian and Mobian. Unlike the Mobian distribution, which is aimed at use on boards and specialized Linux-smartphones like the PinePhone, Droidian is designed to be installed on regular Android-smartphones.
To ensure compatibility with smartphone hardware, Droidian uses the kernel from the platform Android, a set of system components from the Halium project and the libhybris layer, which allows the use of drivers created for the platform Android and running in user space. To run Android-applications from the environment based on Debian The Waydroid platform is used. The oFono2MM stack is used for telephony and call-related tasks. Installation of additional programs in Flatpak format is supported.
The project claims official support for installation on smartphones Xiaomi Poco M2 Pro / Redmi Note 9 Pro / Pro Max / 9S, Fxtec Pro1, Sony Xperia 5, Google Pixel 3a / 3a XL and Volla Phone. Separately, the community is creating unofficial firmware for Sony Xperia 1, OnePlus 3 / 3T and Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro.
In the new version:
- The package database has been updated to Debian sid as of August 21.
- It uses a new graphics stack that uses the Wayland protocol and includes wlroots 0.17.4, phosh 0.41.0, phoc 0.41.0, gtk 4.14.4, phosh-mobile-settings 0.41.0, libhybris 0.0.5.53 and feedbackd 0.4.1.
- The ofono2mm telephony stack has expanded capabilities related to logging and displaying modem status.
- The Maps, Weather, Initial Setup and Eye of GNOME applications have been ported from GNOME 47.
- For Qt5-based applications, the on-screen keyboard is automatically called when setting focus on input fields.
- Launch pad Android-Waydroid applications have been updated to version 1.4.3.
- Core Linux updated to version 5.10 from Android 12.
- For the Google Pixel 3a smartphone, an option has been implemented in the settings to exit standby mode by double-tapping.
- Using a different Clang compiler and specifying additional configuration blocks is allowed.
Source: opennet.ru
