PinePhone Pro Software Releases
This page contains a list of all available releases and tools for the PinePhone Pro.
Software releases
Arch Linux ARM
(Unofficial) Arch Linux ARM with choice of Phosh UI, Plasma Mobile, sxmo or barebones. Currently being maintained by the DanctNIX community (GitHub: danctnix, dreemurrs-embedded).
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Get both stable and test builds at GitHub releases.
| Default credentials | |
|---|---|
| Default user | alarm/123456
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| root (barebone only) | root/root
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Notes
The GitHub page can be found here: dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch
A re-image of the above Arch image providing a Btrfs root partitioning has been made by user kaida.
Gentoo
There is an unofficial Gentoo overlay with ebuilds for the PinePhone Pro. There are no images - you'll be building it yourself, picking which kernel, bootloader and desktop environment you want to use. The PinePhone Pro will not work with P-Boot but will with U-Boot, there is an ebuild for it you can use. You will be using the arm64 version of Gentoo.
Download
The overlay can be found under https://github.com/stealthgun/gjdwebserver-overlay
Notes
See https://stealthgun.tweakblogs.net/blog/19830/gentoo-on-a-pinephone-pro for the documentation.
LuneOS
LuneOS is one of the original multi-tasking OS-es that runs on Linux. Based on HP/Palm's webOS, merged with latest technology stack from LG called webOS OSE (a derivative of what LG uses on their Smart TV's), software such as Qt5 and makes use of the Yocto build system.
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- LuneOS (Initial preview): Downloads
| Default credentials | |
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| Default user | root
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Notes
In order to connect to the device using SSH/SCP via WiFi: You can simply connect via SSH/SCP via WiFi using the PinePhonePro's IP address on port 22.
Manjaro ARM
Manjaro is a user-friendly Linux distribution based on the independently developed Arch operating system with the Plasma Mobile desktop environment.
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| Default credentials | |
|---|---|
| Default user | manjaro/123456
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| root | root/root
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Mobian
An unofficial Debian build for ARM64 running with Phosh (developed by Purism, uses Wayland instead of Xorg). The base system is pure Debian, with only the GUI applications and a few others (ModemManager, WiFi chip firmware) being built from modified sources (as well as the kernel and u-boot). Current version is Debian Bookworm.
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| Default credentials | |
|---|---|
| Default user | mobian/1234
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Notes
The development is work in progress. See pinephonepro-support for further information.
In order to connect to the device using SSH/SCP via WiFi, you need to install SSH on the device. You can do this by executing the following in a shell: "sudo apt-get install ssh", afterwards you can connect via SSH/SCP via WiFi using the PinePhonePro's IP address on port 22.
Nemo Mobile
Nemo Mobile is the open source build of Sailfish OS with a open source UI called Glacier, based on Manjaro.
Download
| Default credentials | |
|---|---|
| Default user | manjaro/123456
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| root | root/root
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Notes
The website of the Nemo Mobile UX Team can be found here. Please report bugs regarding the Nemo Mobile UI as GitHub issue.
NixOS
NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager using declarative configuration to allow reliable system upgrades.
Download
Not available yet.
Notes
WIP. See https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/issues/440
postmarketOS
postmarketOS extends Alpine Linux to run on smartphones and other mobile devices. It offers various user interfaces (Phosh, Plasma Mobile, Sxmo, Plasma Desktop, Gnome 3, Kodi, XFCE4, ...).
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Official images for the PinePhone Pro will be available once it is in the "community" category of devices. Until then, build your own image with pmbootstrap.
Notes
See the pine64-pinephonepro page of the postmarketOS wiki for details.
Various DPA Images
Multiple versions of unofficial images of various Debian-based distributions by the user DPA. They also contain some of DPA's own software.
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The latest successful image builds can be found here: https://repo.dpa.li/apt/dpa-image-builder/images/pinephone-pro/
Notes
Most of these images are still in development / incomplete and DPA doesn't have time to test them all, but they can still be useful as a starting point to get distributions running for which no other images have been created yet. DPA made these images because they wanted to run their favorite distribution, Devuan, on their phone.
The build scripts can be found in various places: GitLab, my server, GitHub
In theory, these build scripts can create images for any Debian-based distribution which supports ARM64 and can be bootstrapped using debootstrap.