Pinebook Software Releases

This page contains a list of all available releases and tools for the Pinebook.

Linux Image Releases

Special thanks to Sunxi community, ayufan, and longsleep for their contributions.

AOSC

AOSC OS is a general purpose Linux distribution that strives to simplify user experience and improve free and open source software for day-to-day productivity. To learn more about AOSC, please visit the official AOSC website.

Note: AOSC is using LZ4 compression algorithm for the downloads, please visit the LZ4 GitHub site for an utility for extracting the archives

Download:

Warning: Possible outdated or not available anymore.

• https://aosc.io/downloads/ (supports the microSD card and eMMC, 8GB or more)

Default credentials
Default user	aosc/anthon

Armbian

Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM boards. They are usually Debian or Ubuntu flavored. To find out more about Armbian and available download options please visit the Armbian ROCK64 site.

Download:

• https://www.armbian.com/pinebook-a64/

Kali

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Kali Linux is an Advanced Penetration Testing Linux distribution used for Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking and network security assessments.

Download:

• https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-arm

Default credentials
Default user	kali/kali

Debian

Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. The forum thread for release can be found here.

Download:

• Debian concatenateable installer images (netboot)

Installation:

• The Readme provides info about concatenating firmware.pinebook.img.gz + partition.img.gz to create a bootable installer image.

Notes:

• Installer offers automatic partitioning and full-disk encryption (LUKS), but only manual partitioning with a single ext4 partition has been confirmed to work.
• Bootloader must be installed separately after installation, before rebooting.
• WiFi driver kernel module must be provided during installation, or a USB network adapter used. (Android USB tethering works, with network driver rndis_host).
• See also: Debian Netboot installer on the 1080P Pinebook under 1080P Pinebook Software Release#Debian

DietPi

DietPi is a lightweight yet easy to setup and feature-rich Linux distribution, based on Debian. To find out more about DietPi, please visit the official documentation. Discuss the ROCK64 build on the PINE64 forum thread.

Download:

• Debian 11 Bullseye (supports the microSD card and eMMC, 4GB or more)
• Debian 12 Bookworm (supports the microSD card and eMMC, 4GB or more)

Default credentials
Root user	root/dietpi

KDE neon

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Warning: The images are unmaintained.

KDE neon is a Linux distribution developed by KDE based on Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, bundled with a set of additional software repositories containing the latest versions of the Plasma 5 desktop environment/framework, Qt 5 toolkit and other compatible KDE software.

Download:

• Direct download latest release build from KDE Neon Pinebook and 1080P Pinebook

Default credentials
Default user	live/live

Slackware

Slackware is a very old, interesting, convenient and easy distribution. Visit the project's website here (https://fail.pp.ua). You can follow the ongoing discussion about Slackware on the PINE64 forum (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9439)

Note: This Slackware build using the LRZ compression algorithm, please visit the lrunzip GitHub site for a decompression utility.

Slackware Aarch64 Miniroot Community Build Image [microSD Boot]

• DD image to microSD card and boot. Highly recommend using Etcher
  • Direct download from developer KRT site and look for slarm64-current-aarch64-base-rootfs-xxxxxxxx-x.x.xx-pinebook-build-xxxxxxxx.img.lrz

Default credentials
Root user	root/password

Slackware Aarch64 XFCE Community Build Image [microSD Boot]

• Only works on 1080P 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook.
• System with a graphical shell
• DD image to microSD card and boot. Highly recommend using Etcher
  • Direct download from developer KRT site and look for slarm64-current-aarch64-xfce-rootfs-xxxxxxxx-x.x.xx-pinebook-build-xxxxxxxx.img.lrz

Default credentials
Root user	root/password

BSD Image Releases

NetBSD

NetBSD Community Build Image [microSD Boot]

• To learn more about NetBSD please visit NetBSD main page
• DD image to microSD card or eMMC module. Highly recommend using Etcher
  • Direct download latest release build from NetBSD by select 64bit - Pinebook
• Instructions concerning enabling SSH can be found here

Default credentials
SSH and TTY user	root/[none]

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 6.6-snapshot, Community Build Image (FVWM2 WM)

• To learn more about OpenBSD please visit OpenBSD main page
• DD image to microSD card or eMMC module (at least 8GB). Highly recommend using Etcher
  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/79hpdpehrbbk984/pinebook-2019-11-04.img.tgz.sha256?dl=0 (sha256)
  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/yas1glfvvucb9a0/pinebook-2019-11-04.img.tgz?dl=0 (image)
  • compressed size: 3.6GB
• If you need more information please ping: https://forum.pine64.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=12423

Default credentials
SSH and TTY user	pine64/pine64
Root password	pine64

Android Image Releases

Android 7.x

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Warning: Unmaintained.

Android 7.1 Community Build Image [microSD Boot] by ayufan

• Only work on 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 1080P 11.6' Pinebook.
• Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors
• Please use good random IO access performance microSD card such as Samsung EVO when try out Android 7.1
• DD image (advise 4GB microSD card and above):
  • Direct download latest release build from ayufan github and look for android-7.1-pine-a64-pinebook-x.x.x-xx.img.gz
• Please allows some time (around 5 minutes) for the initialization process on 1st boot

Android 6.x eMMC

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Android 6.0.1 Stock Image for 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook [microSD to eMMC] [20170605]

• Rootable build, online update (OTA) only works when the build is not rooted
• LCD resolution is 1366 x 768
• Rooted DD image (advise 4GB microSD card and above):
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file): C99BF459C6724BA73F12C532E87A8BA5
    • File Size: 776MB

Android 6.0.1 Stock Image for 1080P 11.6" Pinebook [microSD to eMMC] [20181001]

• Rootable build
• LCD resolution is 1920 x1080
• Rooted DD image (advise 4GB microSD card and above):
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file): E433A148CEBD743EADE6CAA765331A4B
    • File Size: 595MB

Android 6.0.1 Stock Image for 1080P 11.6" Pinebook [microSD boot] [20181001]

• Rootable build
• LCD resolution is 1920 x1080
• Please use high performance microSD card for Android boot which request frequent random read access.
• Please ignore warning message regarding SD corrupted on home screen upper left corner
• DD images:
  • For 8GB microSD Card
    • Direct download from pine64.org
      • MD5 (GZip file): CD27DF6083E6A4A5E7C8B986EB92FAA7
      • File Size: 553MB
  • For 16GB microSD Card
    • Direct download from pine64.org
      • MD5 (GZip file): 1376AAE8382E96FD7B45B0998A5CD6E9
      • File Size: 703MB
  • For 32GB microSD Card
    • Direct download from pine64.org
      • MD5 (GZip file): B54E7F323B316750654E385B078AEC58
      • File Size: 867MB
  • For 64GB microSD Card
    • Direct download from pine64.org
      • MD5 (GZip file): C8DBC6293EB51E58F91E27364C8C587D
      • File Size: 734MB

/e/

Warning: Unmaintained.

/e/OS Community Build Image p [microSD and eMMC Boot] [20190926]

• Only works on 1080P 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook.
• To learn more about /e/OS, please visit the official website
• Please check out this article on the Pinebook /e/ build.
• For thread diiscussion please visit the PINE64 forum
• DD image (for 8GB microSD card and above)
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file): 4DC46A4E3ED2B47F4830E96DFCBBC6D8
    • File Size: 685MB

Linux BSP SDK

Download:

• Linux BSP 4.0 from pine64.org (4.67GB, MD5 of the TAR-GZip file 802D7C92D27177CBD17567359F9845A7)
• Linux BSP 3.0 from pine64.org (4.18GB, MD5 of the TAR-GZip file 898ACF446851DF3BE7B643F62CE3CE84)
• Linux BSP 2.0, kernel v3.10 (including GPL compliance header) from pine64.org (6.41GB, MD5 of the TAR-GZip file 2EE11C9AED246C17995493F213A6A6DA)

Android SDK

Android Marshmallow [v6.0]

• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (Zip file): 12362D0B63EBF29FC363A50A942346D5
  • File Size: 15.92GB

Mali-400 64-bit Driver

The Mali-400 64-bit Driver, build 20160622

Download:

• Mali 64-bit Driver Download

Other Tools

• Allwinner PhoenixCard Bootable SD-Card Creator
• Allwinner DragonFace V2.2.5 software that will let you edit and modify A64 Android Build PhoenixCard image
  • Direct download at Mega