I have a RockPro64 board, that I plan to setup as a home server using an M.2 SSD for storage. My preferred Linux distro is Debian, and as this will be an internet facing server, it needs to be fully patched.

I downloaded and installed Mrfixit2001's Debian desktop release. The level of polish on the desktop environment is very impressive, but I am concerned that it is running an older Debian release that will go out of support soon, a 4 year old kernel, and does not appear to be updatable. (I tried changing /etc/apt/sources.list to point to buster, but the upgrade failed).

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to install Debian buster with a mainline Debian built kernel? I did find an install guide on the Debian wiki for the Pine A64, but I don't think that would be much help as the Pine A64 uses an Allwinner A64 SOC, so the bootable image is unlikely to work.

Alternatively, are there any guides on how these bootable images are put together, so I can have a go at creating a minimal text mode Debian one that can be upgraded?

Thanks.

Does Pine64 publicly track security vulnerabilities and when they were mitigated in the default OSes of its products?

(This question prompted by my curiousity as to whether or not the PBP default debian install was vulnerable to kr00k.)

Hi all. There are many Pine64 rooms on Matrix and each uses different thumbnail (some use just a Pine64 logo on different backgrounds, some use product images). IMHO, the lack of unified style for them somewhat prevents the feeling that they belong to one organization. So I tried to make some thumbnails:



Downscaled Pine64 logo there might look unclear in Matrix clients because of the very small size, so here is another version without them (hopefully background pattern makes it visually identifiable as Pine64):



If people here (including Matrix rooms admins) like the idea, I can send SVGs and PNGs of the needed size or improve what's needed. Any suggestions are welcome. Also, if I forgot any room, please tell me.

Btw, I didn't find Pine64 logo in vector format, so I converted it from raster one and it might be inaccurate, if anybody can help me to find it in vector, I'll replace it. Plus, I removed pine's tail from the logo, sorry, I was just experimenting with it's look when downscaled, I'll bring it back if needed)

I'm getting a pinebook pro soon and I'm wondering if anyone has tried overclocking it and how fair you can push the board

You may have seen mentions of Fedora + GNOME in the chat, or linked to from lists of PinePhone software. Although running GNOME on a phone was pretty cool, it's borderline unusable as it is. Over the last few weeks, I've been learning how to package phosh (and related apps) and finally have them ready for Fedora Rawhide!

I updated the build script to add my COPR repository and add Phosh: https://github.com/nikhiljha/pp-fedora-sdsetup
... and I finally have flashable images: https://github.com/nikhiljha/pp-fedora-s.../releases/
... if you're already running Fedora (somehow), you can also add my COPR and just install the new packages: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/njha/mobile/

If you're going to use the flashable image, please read the releases page carefully. It contains important information.

Things are still heavy WIP and are nowhere near as good as UBTouch or pmOS. I hope to have an image where calling and texts work out of the box soon ™.

Hello everybody,

I have a USB3 to SATA cable with JMS578 and firmware version v0.4.0.9.
Unfortunately I am not able to use hdparm to detect drive state (= unknown). I also would like to control spindown.

I found several threads which recommends to update to firmware version v173.1.0.1 from here: odroid wiki

What do you think about it?

Best regards
Oliver

Yesterday, I was having no serious problems driving an external display from my PBP via a USB-C-to-HDMI adapter (J5create model JCA379).

This morning, I boot it up (it was shut off for the night), plug in the adapter, and the external display isn't recognized, and I see a flood of error messages in dmesg:

Because I've still not received my BH pinephone, I contacted the local post service of Belgium (bpost) and asked them if they know where my  pinephone is.

I've got an answer back (in Dutch). They say that my pinephone has never arrived at bpost (latest scan is "event Awaiting presentation to Customs") and I should contact the sender

What should I do? Wait a little-bit longer? Or is it better to contact service at pine64.org?
Note that I don't want my money back, I just want to play with a pinephone

Kali for the Pinebook is available for download

Link

HI,

I have had a look on some videos about PinePhone. On the videos all OS are running very fast and smooth. I have tried them all on my PP, but none was working so smooth as on the videos.

Have someone an idea why ? Does I have bad hardware ? Is there a way to test the hardware / performance ??