Hi everyone, my first thread ... whoowhoo ... 

Switching from Winblows after 18 years to Linux in 2009, I've been utilizing primarily Linux Mint with the XFCE Desktop as well as MX Linux, also with the XFCE Desktop. Both of these more or less based on Debian, MX Linux moreso than Mint. I use the terminal when I have to, feel perfectly comfortable with it, but really prefer to just point 'n' click as much as possible.

Now I'm seriously considering making a switch from my current Linux over to the upcoming PINEBOOK Pro. My concern of course being whether or not such a switch is even possible since I'm a hobby photographer who uses Gimp almost daily (with reduced image sizes below 2000 px width per image), as well as LibreOffice / OpenOffice (since 2003), Komodo Edit (not IDE) for Webpage stuff, and Thunderbird for all of my email accounts (for the past 15 years or so). There's a ton of other software that I utilize as well, but nothing that I couldn't easily switch away from. The ones that I just listed are really important to me. I'm not a gamer, could care less about all of the gaming junk, but I am seriously hooked on the XFCE desktop environment (Mate is alright too, but I prefer XFCE).

So if I were to get a PINEBOOK Pro, how difficult would it be for me to continue using those mentioned items that I really don't want to do without (Gimp, LibreOffice, Komodo Edit, Thunderbird, XFCE Desktop) ??? Are these already available within the ARM architecture? Is it difficult or even possible to port current Linux apps such as the ones mentioned, over to a PINEBOOK Pro Linux Laptop?
Do ARM based versions of Linux also have Software/Package managers with click to install apps?
Is it possible to utilize 2TB external drives on the PINEBOOK Pro USB ports?
I would sincerely appreciate some helpful input on these questions. Thank you, everyone.

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Hello all,

My RockPro64 isn't behaving nicely. I first started with openmediavault, arm64, 0.8.3. It took a few times but it finally booted and I commenced to configure. It was okay but the network speed was no more than 6mbs. I tried troubleshooting the problem to no avail. One day, I discovered the server was down. I thought I should try some other options before I got too involved with this iso. So...

I've tried the latest versions of Debian Stretch, Debian by mrfixit2001, OpenMediaVault and Slackware, armhf and arm64, and with pretty much the same results but now - both red and white lights on. I can't seem to fix the red light problem but the slackware and openmediavault, armhf versions, did boot up okay but I did not go through setting them up because on the red light. 

Is there a way to reset that red light or is my board dying?

Sorry, if this is a stupid question, but I've never ordered anything from Pine.

On the store page, for the Pinebook it reads, "Due to Lithium-ion battery in Pinebook, the shipment of Pinebook orders will be handled differently from other Pine64 products, that’s the reason we didn’t allow to combined Pinebook order with other Pine64 products. Sorry for any inconvenience caused".  Which I find a bit confusing since the last part is written in past tense, so perhaps the situation has changed.

When the Pinebook Pro becomes available, will we be able to order accessories for it (eg. M.2 SSD adapter) at the same time?  Do we have to place two separate orders?

Thanks

Can a Pinebook be upgraded to 4GB?

Hello.

Well, as the subject says I would like to know how the Pinebook Pro boots. Does it have a UEFI (arggh) or does it use something reasonable like Coreboot / Libreboot / Das U-Boot etc. I am happy enough to own a notebook without Intel's ME but a privacy-conscious boot-manager would be the icing on the cake.

Yours faithfully
Stefan

In my quest to get redshift working, or an alternative, I installed and started keeping tabs on the performance of Wayland. It was unsurprisingly hard to use, being very choppy, at first. After the latest post 19.06 updates something borked my xorg plasma session and started boot looping. On a whim to get to the desktop I selected a Wayland session, and it not only got me in, but its running fairly well, with noticeable improvements. The performance even feels better than with xorg. Night color works well, with some slight choppiness while transitioning temperatures. I have a feeling not many people thought to try running Wayland on the Pinebook, so I figured Id let it be known, its actually worth it now.

I am running Debian Buster on my A64+ (not LTS) with a 5.0.2 kernel which should, in theory, support audio on this board. However, no mixers are present. Has anyone else experimented with recent kernels with Pine64 mainlined? What am I missing?

Additional information:
Kernel was built from source by tweaking the 5.0-trunk config as such:

For those who prefer to chat about the July community update on the forum, here is the thread.

Hi,

I am using a Rock64 (4GB, SSD via USB) running Debian for my home automation (ioBroker). Additionally I want to use it for video surveillance.

Currently I am trying out motioneye and I am streaming (or trying to) from 2-3 Xiaomi Cams that run the dafang hack. The latter enables the cams to stream via rstp H264. The cams are connected via wifi (Ubiquiti Unifi AC Pros). Both access points ( AC Pros ) and the Rock64 are connected via gigabit lan to my router.

At the moment the whole system is rather unstable and I am trying to figure out why. For a few days I was able to get streams from two cams, but I could not add a third one without motioneye stopping to show any cams. Now that we are back from vacation suddenly I can get only one cam to show up in motioneye. As soon as I add a second, no video is shown.

I guess there could be multiple sources or error:
- Wifi is bad (I was hoping that good hardware like Unifi would counter this)
- Router performance not enough for several streams
- Rock64 hardware (ethernet port) has too little performance
- motioneye software is buggy

Right now I am looking in all directions in order so solve this.

Load on the Rock64 is low after I upgraded to the newest version of motion. 

My questions to the community:
1) Has anyone else made any experience using the Rock64 for video surveillance ?
2) Can I rule out some of the sources by running certain tests ?

Best
Martin