PineTab2 Releases

This page contains a list of all available releases and tools for the PineTab2 in alphabetical order.

The installation instructions can be found under PineTab2#Installation instructions.

Linux

Arch Linux ARM

(Unofficial) Arch Linux ARM maintained by the DanctNIX community (GitHub: danctnix, dreemurrs-embedded). This includes uboot.

Download:

• https://echo.danctnix.org:7269/danctnix-factory-image-20230527.img.xz

Default credentials
Default user	alarm/123456

Notes:

• Currently ships without a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth driver
• system hangs on reboot/shutdown (SDDM bug, workaround possible)
• screen rotated 90°, workaround possible

Mobian

An unofficial Debian build for ARM64 running with Phosh.

The current version of the base Debian system is Debian Bookworm.

Download:

• Images (until the weekly images are built, you can download the PineTab2 image from here)

Note: U-Boot is required to be able to boot the images, see here!

You can install U-Boot to the SPI, eMMC, or an SD card.

If you are booting Mobian from an SD card and you haven't overwritten the eMMC, the pre-installed U-Boot from the it should boot your SD card.

Default credentials
Default user	mobian/1234

Notes:

• The development is work in progress. Mobian's support for the PineTab2 is maintained by Julian. The Mobian wiki can be found here.
• In order to connect to the device using SSH/SCP, 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 using the PineTab2's IP address on port 22.