Pinebook Software Releases
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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:
Manjaro ARM
- To learn more about Manjaro please visit Manjaro Forum
- DD image to microSD card or eMMC module. Highly recommend using Etcher
- Console and SSH default login:
- username: manjaro
- password: manjaro
Manjaro KDE Plasma ARM Community Build Image [microSD to eMMC Boot and microSD / eMMC Boot]
- This is microSD boot and install to eMMC version. Please follow bootup screen to complete eMMC installation process
- Please using this method to refrssh the Pinebook eMMC flash to Manjaro KDE Plasma build
- Direct download from osdn.net
Manjaro KDE ARM Community Build Image [microSD / eMMC Boot]
Manjaro MATE ARM Community Build Image [microSD / eMMC Boot]
Manjaro XFCE ARM Community Build Image [microSD / eMMC Boot]
Manjaro I3 ARM Community Build Image [microSD / eMMC Boot]
Manjaro SWAY ARM Community Build Image [microSD / eMMC Boot]
KDE Neon Image
KDE Neon Community Build Image [microSD Boot and eMMC Boot]
- DD image (for 8GB microSD card and above)
- Login with
- username: live
- password: live
KDE Neon Community Build Image [microSD and eMMC Boot]
- DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
- For 14.1' and 11.6" Pinebook, please choose "neon-pinebook-remix-useredition-202xxxxx-1500-arm64.img.gz"
- For 1080P 11.6" Pinebook, please choose "neon-pinebook-remix-useredition-202xxxxx-1500-arm64-1080p.img.gz"
Factory Restore KDE Neon Community Build Image for 1080P 11.6" Pinebook [microSD to eMMC] [20181028]
- DD image (for 8GB microSD card and above)
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): D3C65FB812E125445C2EEA37FA99965F
- File Size: 1.66GB
- Default Login (changed after 1st installtion setup) with
- username: live
- password: live
- Direct download from pine64.org
Armbian
Armbian Debian Buster [microSD / eMMC Boot]
- Armbian provides a build system and images for Debian/Xenial with BSP kernel and mainline kernel
- DD image (for 8GB microSD card and above)
- Login with
- username: root
- password: 1234
- To find out more about Armbian and available options please visit their site.
Armbian Ubuntu Focal XFCE Desktop [microSD / eMMC Boot]
- Armbian provides a build system and images for Debian/Xenial with BSP kernel and mainline kernel
- DD image (for 8GB microSD card and above)
- Login with
- username: root
- password: 1234
- To find out more about Armbian and available options please visit their site.
KALI
KALI Build Image by Defensive Security [microSD / eMMC Boot] [2020.2]
- To learn more, please visit the official KALI by Defensive Security website
- DD image (for 8GB micoSD card and above)
- Direct download from Defensive Security
- MD5 (XZ file): 7E3643730D2D287A3726B641A6DA177C
- File Size: 686MB
- Direct download from Defensive Security
- Login with
- username: kali
- password: kali
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 microSD card and above)
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): A52A7692C1690F342685451527343E6B
- File Size: 2.62GB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- 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
- Direct download from pine64.org
- 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 microSD card and above)
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): 616927BDE340FBB73969BD0BE396975A
- File Size: 462MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- 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
- Direct download from pine64.org
- Login with
- username: aosc
- password: anthon
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 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook (8GB microSD card and above)
- DD image for 1080P 11.6" Pinebook (for 8GB microSD card and above)
- login with:
- username: adminq
- password: adminq
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 Pinebook build on the PINE64 forum thread.
- DD image (for 4 GiB micro SD card and above)
- Login with
- Username: root
- Password: dietpi
Xenial Mate [No Longer Maintained]
Xenial Mate Community Build Image for 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook [microSD to eMMC] [0.6.2-77] by ayufan
- This is the default OS comes with 14.1" and 11.6" 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 microSD card and above):
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): A945FA7E0E40EB6109C530D9815C20A3
- File Size: 1.3GB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- Login with
- username: pine64
- password: pine64
Arch Linux mainline XFCE [No Longer Maintained]
Arch Linux mainline with XFCE GUI by anarsoul
- Included XFCE Desktop, and Firefox browser
- DD image (for 8GB and above microSD Card):
- 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
Netrunner [No Longer Maintained]
Netrunner [20180417] [microSD Boot]
- You can visit the Netrunner website here
- DD image:
RISC_OS [No Longer Maintained]
RISC OS Community Build Image [microSD Boot] [19.02]
- Only work on 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 1080P 11.6' Pinebook.
- To learn more about RISC OS please visit RISC OS website
- DD image to microSD card or eMMC module. Highly recommend using Etcher
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): 4BE5698516FAF8420AEA34A422C20991
- size: 50MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
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
- Console and SSH default login:
- username: root
- password: [none]
- Instructions concerning enabling SSH can be found here
OpenBSD
https://files.pine64.org/sw/pine64_installer/json/openbsd.jpg
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
- Console and SSH default login:
- username: pine64
- username: pine64
- root password: pine64
- If you need more information please ping: https://forum.pine64.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=12423
Android Image Releases
Android 7.x [No Longer Maintained]
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):
- Please allows some time (around 5 minutes) for the initialization process on 1st boot
Android 6.x eMMC
Android 6.0.1 Stock Image for 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook [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
- Direct download from pine64.org
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
- Direct download from pine64.org
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
- Direct download from pine64.org
- For 16GB microSD Card
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): 1376AAE8382E96FD7B45B0998A5CD6E9
- File Size: 703MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- For 32GB microSD Card
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): B54E7F323B316750654E385B078AEC58
- File Size: 867MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- For 64GB microSD Card
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): C8DBC6293EB51E58F91E27364C8C587D
- File Size: 734MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- For 8GB microSD Card
/e/ [No Longer Maintained]
/e/OS Community Build Image p [microSD and eMMC Boot] [20190926]
- 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 micoSD card and above)
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): 4DC46A4E3ED2B47F4830E96DFCBBC6D8
- File Size: 685MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
Bliss OS [No Longer Maintained]
Bliss OS [20170919] [microSD Boot]
- Only work on 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 1080P 11.6' Pinebook.
- 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 pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): 6B5BC28D69D575BA5448AD8081A0D356
- File Size: 943MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- Use the Taskbar launcher for Desktop mode UI
Linux BSP SDK
Linux BSP [4.0]
- Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 802D7C92D27177CBD17567359F9845A7
- File Size: 4.67GB
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 Oreo [v8.1]
- Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-Gzip file): 7E73672FE84F8CD099264D640E107EA3
- File Size: 28.87.95GB
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
Mali-400 64-bit Driver
Mali-400 64-bit Driver [20160622]
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
Checking microSD Card Performance and whether it is Counterfeit
This will help you to determine if the SD-Card is Counterfeit Drive or not