Hi all, I've ordered a BraveHeart and am looking forward to playing around with it.  I'd be interested in creating some simple apps for it and wanted to get people's opinions on what language people will probably use to create apps for the PinePhone.  Most of my programming is done in Python but I wonder if many people will consider Python to be too resource-intensive for a fairly small and low-spec machine like the PinePhone, perhaps going instead for something more minimalist like Lua or even C++ would be more appropriate.

What are people's thoughts on this?  If you are planning on creating apps for the PinePhone, what language would you likely use?  I know there will be the option to use different languages and that the most appropriate language will probably depend to an extent on the OS that is ultimately chosen, but I would like to hear if people think some languages are inherently better suited to the task than others.

Anyone else want a Pinebook Pro spare parts kit?

Here is my current list, in priority order;

- Bottom case screws, at least 1 each of short & long
- Rear hinge spacers, 2
- CPU thermal pad
- Laptop disassembly kit, plastic pry tool(s)

And potentially a miniature precision screw driver

I already have the last 2, laptop tools and various screw drivers. But, I can see where someone else would want / need them. Plus, it makes a dedicated kit for the Pinebook Pro. (I once had a laptop SSD failure while traveling. Could not repair because I did not have the parts and tools with me.)

This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

Hi,

I've had a quick search of the forums but can't find anything on this topic, so I thought I'd make a new post to see if anyone else has this issue.

Ever since new, I've noticed that my PBP makes a high pitch whine when powered on. It kind of sounds electrical. I don't know what it's coming from, but I don't think it's the speakers. The noise seems to decrease in pitch slightly when the power cable is unplugged. Is this normal?

Ben

Fedora 31 has now support for PineH64 Board.

Download the image here --> https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/
Similar to Armbian you can have different flavours like Server, Minimal, Workstation, Cloud etc.

To get the image onto your H64 do the following:

sudo dnf install arm-image-installer uboot-images-armv8
sudo arm-image-installer --image=/home/YOURuser/Downloads/Fedora-Workstation-31-1.9.aarch64.raw.xz --target=pine_h64 --media=/dev/sd? (use lsblk to find media)

It takes about 2min15sec from applying power to fully booted Desktop Environment.
It's a full Gnome 3 Desktop like on x86 with Firefox, LibreOffice and other apps pre-installed.
WiFi and Audio do NOT work at the moment (Fedora-Workstation-31-1.9).
And Video playback speed varies from slideshow on FullHD to acceptable on SVGA resolution.
Also there is NO support for eMMc only SD-Card works.


Other supported boards are: pine64-lts, pine64_plus, pinebook and sopine_baseboard amongst a variety of other makes.

Helllo,

I just ordered the standard model and would like to know if it is possible to replace the eMMC with bigger ones without having to solder it to the board. After all,
cheaper,bigger and faster eMMCs might become and I might want to upgrade to something more than 64 Gbit, which is perfectly enough for a desktop standard installation but maybe you want a few media files for the plane or for your holidays.

Yours
Stefan

Hello,

there is one thing I have not yet understood completely. I have seen that new images for the Pinebook Pro are constantly being built (ayufan's Ubuntu images).

What I do not yet understand: Can I update my Installation with normal packages from the official debian / armbian repositories once after installing the image?

I am mainly asking because a) I would like to be able to install security updates and of course b) I would like to install software from the huge repositories kept by debian. Can I upgrade the kernel or would I have to patch it first and then compile one myself? (I know how to do this also I haven't done this in a looong time. The debian kernels always include everything I need in server and desktop.

Yours sincerely
Stefan

Hello,

I see the UK keyboard option for the Pinebook Pro 64 -- but will there be a UK power supply option in addition to the US and EU options at any point?

Thank you.

Did someone managed to install archlinux on the Pinebook Pro?

Occasionally I have a need to use Citrix Receiver / ICAClient for Linux. (I don't have MS-Windows or Macs at home.) My AMD Ryzen, (sorry I used profanity :-), under Gentoo Linux does work with Citrix ICAClient. Had to fuss with the install, as ICAClient wanted an older version of some library. But I was not downgrading my system for it. I simply put in a soft-link from the old name to the installed version. Worked perfectly after that.

Now it was time to see if Citrix ICAClient would work for my Pinebook Pro.

Turns out Citrix assumes that any "64" output from "uname -m" means it's x86_64. Silly, since the default OS image uses "aarch64" for ARM64. Here is the section of code from the installer script, "setupwfc";