According to Softpedia, Parrot OS - an ethical hacking and security Linux distribution - is slated for release on the Pinebook in the not-to-distant future.

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Hi,

Can anyone advise if it is possible to run react os on pine64?

Thanks
Sarge

https://www.reactos.org/

Armbian - Xenial (SOPINE) 5.27

There are now stable legacy and experimental mainline kernel Amrbian images available for the SoPine.

I wanted to exchange some files as easy as I do in all my machines, phones, tablets, etc. However there was nothing available in arm architecture, such as Dropbox, Ubuntu One as far as I see is no longer available, so I had to be creative, and I managed to find that mega had a binary for Raspbian, so from here it was a learning process...

This can also be used to run all the binaries that are made for armhf (raspberry pi an so on) on arm64 machines.

Lets go for the real HOW TO...

1st - it is necessary to download the software from the MEGA website. There is only one option when it comes to arm, so you need to go to https://mega.nz/cmd and download Raspbian 8.0 (Jessie) in 64 bits. The file name should be megacmd-Raspbian_8.0_armhf.deb

2nd - this binary comes for architecture armhf, so we need to activate multi-architecture in Pinebook Ubuntu Xenial so that we have access to all the requested libraries necessary to run. For that you should run:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
sudo apt update

3rd - we are not there yet, as Mega uses some fancy cryptografic libraries, we need to add a source to the resources list. just run

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and add this line

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ trusty main universe

after press control+x and say yes.

now run

sudo apt update

4th - now we have all resources to make the installation, run the instalation in the same folder were the megacmd is located

sudo gdebi megacmd-Raspbian_8.0_armhf.deb

just follow the instructions and reply yes, it might be the case that it ends in error, just ignore.

5th - now you are ready to run mega-cmd from the terminal. you will be asked your username and login, and after login it is similar to a linux terminal. You can also open another terminal and use the scripts mega-ls, mega-cd, etc, etc... just read tru the help... 

Very important is that you can also sync folders which can be very useful, just read the help on mega-sync command, nothing special to do.

BUGS - so far only bug found, and already reported to Mega.nz is that the get function (to download to your computer) does not work with filenames containing spaces. However using the folder syncing it works without any issues using the same files.

Anything that is not working properly, or you would like some explanation just drop a message or contact me in the Pine 64 irc channel.

Pinebook (or any arm64) - Linux Mega.nz Howto

Special Thanks to Xalius_PB11 on the multiarch...

I'm trying to figure out how many GPIO pins I can use on the EULER bus, from the schematic I see some which look like they may be usable as GPIO so long as I don't need their 'primary' functions....

For example PB3,PB5,PB6 are labeled as I2S_MCLK,I2S_BCLK and I2S_DOUT, can I use the as gpio??

If so, I see the following pins available for GPIO (please correct me if any of these won't work as GPIO)

PB3,PB5,PB6,PD2,PD3,PD1,PB2,PB8 on one side (assuming I don't use the uart for uart stuff)

And PH8,PB4,PB7,PD4,PD5,PD0,PD6,PD7 AND PB9 on the 'right side of the schematic'

Total: 8 + 9 = 17 GPIO available on EULER??

My project needs as many GPIO as possible, communications etc will all be by ethernet once data is collected into ram)
Thanks!

im making a Pine64 tablet with a c4 labs screen case, i want to put a 5v solar panel with a 5v 2A voltage regulator on the back to charge the 3.7V Li ion battery, im thinking about using a usb plug from the voltage regulator to the pine64 board, my questions are is this possible and do i have the voltage and amps correct to charge?

I've installed the Remix OS build from 2017-01-05 on Pine64+ 2Gb.  I'm using HDMI to a Yamaha home theater receiver which is connected to TV and speakers.

When playing a video, ex. youtube, there is no audio coming out the speakers. 
When I check the audio settings, there is just a grey box without any slider bars/knobs.

Did some searches on this forum, see similar issues but no solutions.

I have used this board with Linux OS previously and audio did work so it is not a hardware issue.

Can someone please respond with a solution to this problem?

Hi,

     I built a strongSwan on my VPS linux system as the server. I planed to connect my pine64 to the server via VPN, so I installed a strongSwan in it. However when I bring the connection up, there is something wrong. I refered to strongSwan website, and find that it requires the kernel support(the modules needed) https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/str...nelModules:

ah4
ah6
esp4
esp6
xfrm4_tunnel
xfrm6_tunnel
xfrm_user
ip_tunnel
tunnel
tunnel6
xfrm4_mode_tunnel
xfrm6_mode_tunnel

The system I had installed are Ubuntu Base Image [20161218-1] by longsleep and Ubuntu Mate [20161215] built by PINE64. However they both do not include these modules required.

So, how to insert these modules or should I recompile the kernel from the beginning.