Linux Image Releases

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

Below you will find useful links to various resources and forum threads:

Sunxi Pinebook Page

Xenial Mate eMMC

Xenial Mate Community Build Image [microSD to eMMC] [0.6.2-77] by ayufan

This is the default OS comes with Pinebook
Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors
This is microSD install to eMMC version. Please follow bootup screen to complete eMMC installation process
Included Mate Desktop, Firebox Browser, and LibreOffice Suite
Not yet optimize for Graphic and Video HW acceleration
DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above):
- Direct download from pine64.org
  - MD5 (GZip file): A945FA7E0E40EB6109C530D9815C20A3
  - File Size: 1.3GB
Login with
- username: pine64
- password: pine64

Xenial Mate

Xenial Mate Community Build Image [microSD Boot] by ayufan

Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors
Included Mate Desktop, Firebox Browser, and LibreOffice Suite
Not yet optimize for Graphic and Video HW acceleration
DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above):
- Direct download latest release build from ayufan github and look for xenial-mate-pinebook-bspkernel-x.x.x-xx.img.xz
Login with
- username: pine64
- password: pine64

Xenial Minimal Image

Xenial Minimal Community Build Image [microSD Boot] by ayufan

This is the latest Xenial 16.04 image provided by ayufan based on longsleep base image. NB. This is a base image and doesn't come with a DE.
Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors
DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
- Direct download latest release build from ayufan github and look for simple-image-pinebook-x.x.x.img.xz
Login with
- username: pine64
- password: pine64
Execute sudo /usr/local/sbin/resize_rootfs.sh script to resize the root partition in order to fully utilize the SD Card
To update to the newest uboot, kernel and fixes use scripts found in /usr/local/sbin/
Install Mate DE using: sudo /usr/local/sbin/install_desktop.sh

KDE Neon Image

KDE Neon Community Build Image [microSD Boot]

DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
- Direct download latest release build from KDE Neon Pinebook

Armbian

Armbian Bionic [microSD / eMMC Boot]

Armbian provides a build system and images for Debian/Xenial with BSP kernel and mainline kernel (beta)
DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
- Pinebook Armbian download mirrors
Login with
- username: root
- password: 1234
To find out more about Armbian and available options please visit their site.

Arch Linux mainline XFCE

Arch Linux mainline with XFCE GUI by anarsoul

Included XFCE Desktop, and Firefox browser
DD image (for 8GB and above SD Card):
- Direct download latest release build from anarsoul github and look for archlinux-xfce-pinebook-xxxxxxxx-x.img.xz
Login with
- User Name: alarm, Password: alarm
- User Name: root, Password: root
please login root and execute "pacman -Syu" for latest update
Standby feature not yet implememnted

* From SSH Login default disable root to access . So please first login alarm after command su password root to switch root

Q4OS

Q4OS Community Build Image [microSD Boot]

Q4OS is advertised as a 'fast and powerful operating system based on the latest technologies while offering highly productive desktop environment'
To learn more please visit the forum or official Q4OS website
DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
- Direct download latest release build from SourceForge and look for q4os-x.x-pinebook.xx.zip
login with:
- username: adminq
- password: adminq

i3

i3 Community Build Image [microSD Boot] by ayufan

DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
- Direct download latest release build from ayufan github and look for xenial-i3-pinebook-bspkernel-x.x.x-xx.img.xz
Login with
- Username: pine64
- Password: pine64

Netrunner

Netrunner [20180417] [microSD Boot]

You can visit the Netrunner website here
DD image:
- Direct download from sourceforge.net

AOSC

AOSC Community Build Image with Mate Desktop [microSD Boot] [20181016]

To learn more about AOSC, please visit the official AOSC website
Known issue: no audio sound output.
DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
- Direct download from pine64.org
  - MD5 (GZip file): A52A7692C1690F342685451527343E6B
  - File Size: 2.62GB
Login with
- username: aosc
- password: anthon

AOSC Community Build Image with Mate Desktop [eMMC Boot] [20181016]

To learn more about AOSC, please visit the official AOSC website
Known issue: no audio sound output.
DD image to eMMC module using USB adapter for eMMC module.
- Direct download from pine64.org
  - MD5 (GZip file): 1EE68EFF94C6CDB8DFAD573195FC3F2B
  - File Size: 2.63GB
Login with
- username: aosc
- password: anthon

AOSC Community Build Image [microSD Boot] [20180616]

To learn more about AOSC, please visit the official AOSC website
This is a minimal build and comes without a desktop environment
DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
- Direct download from pine64.org
  - MD5 (GZip file): 616927BDE340FBB73969BD0BE396975A
  - File Size: 462MB
Login with
- username: aosc
- password: anthon

AOSC Community Build Image [eMMC Boot] [20180617]

To learn more about AOSC, please visit the official AOSC website
This is a minimal build and comes without a desktop environment
DD image to eMMC module using USB adapter for eMMC module.
- Direct download from pine64.org
  - MD5 (GZip file): 792E689EF6014DECC4DBAF182A867D0D
  - File Size: 472MB
Login with
- username: aosc
- password: anthon

Android Image Releases

Android 7.x

Android 7.1 Community Build Image [microSD Boot] by ayufan

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

Android 6.0.1 Stock Image [microSD to eMMC] [20170605]

Rootable build, online update (OTA) only work when the build still not root
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

Bliss OS

Bliss OS [20170919] [microSD Boot]

An Open-Source OS, based on Android, for phones, tablets & PCs.
Multi-Windows Android Build
You can visit the Bliss OS website here
DD image:
- Direct download from blissroms.com
  - MD5 (GZip file): 6B5BC28D69D575BA5448AD8081A0D356
  - File Size: 921MB
Use the Taskbar launcher for Desktop mode UI

Linux BSP SDK

Linux BSP [3.0]

Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 898ACF446851DF3BE7B643F62CE3CE84
- File Size: 4.18GB

Linux BSP [2.0], kernel [v3.10], with GPL compliance header

Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 2EE11C9AED246C17995493F213A6A6DA
- File Size: 6.41GB

Android SDK

Android Nougat [v7.0]

Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 5D23D65BC1AA32B9048F62A4176BD9B3
- File Size: 22.60GB

Android Marshmallow [v6.0]

Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (Zip file): 12362D0B63EBF29FC363A50A942346D5
- File Size: 12.17GB

Pinebook Software Releases