(04-04-2022, 10:24 PM)Tim_D Wrote: " I can agree with that. After all, the Manjaro Plasma which comes with the PinePhone still does not come with a readymade SMS/MMS client. Instead to get texts, you have to install an application which is designed to do things with the modem, not specifically for SMS/MMS." - KNERD

I haven't played with Linux for half a decade and this is Manjaro KDE, not my old Debian system I ran KDE on (in spite of them basically being GNOME based... I digress.)

My question is this...  how can I set up ANY SMS? Do I still need to hold onto my 2 year old Android phone JUST to get SMS? I jumped on board thinking that THIS had the capability of my old desktop in a phone, or at least something resembling my 2014'ish desktop.

(04-05-2022, 03:25 PM)LPIZ Wrote: Ubuntu Touch on the PPP? Where can I find the image?

(04-05-2022, 04:52 PM)KNERD Wrote:

(04-05-2022, 03:25 PM)LPIZ Wrote: Ubuntu Touch on the PPP? Where can I find the image?

Hmmm...there seems to be no work on the PPP with Ubuntu Touch going on


https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro_Software_Releases

Seems the offerings for PPP are much less than the PP

(04-06-2022, 12:47 AM)Tim_D Wrote: I followed your link to https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro_Software_Releases#NixOS and went down and saw "Mobiian", saw this Debian swirl and wondered if there was a KDE version or interface. I also noticed that Phosh used Wayland and thought I might try that too, especially considering the RESPECT I have for Purism who garnered my attention BOTH by creating an OS based on Debian AND by being the FIRST to make a Linux phone! Don't get me wrong, I do LOVE that PINE saw it was a good idea and ran with it!

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(04-05-2022, 04:52 PM)KNERD Wrote:

(04-05-2022, 03:25 PM)LPIZ Wrote: Ubuntu Touch on the PPP? Where can I find the image?

Hmmm...there seems to be no work on the PPP with Ubuntu Touch going on


https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro_Software_Releases

Seems the offerings for PPP are much less than the PP

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_P...e_Releases I went here and scrolled down trying to find Ubuntu. I figured "WAY, WAY back when, Ubuntu sprouted from Debian"... And then I swear I saw a spiral I recognized next to the name Mobian! I don't know if they have a KDE version of it or not but I saw Phosh, which was developed by the Librem team. I bought a laptop from them. I REALLY dug the privacy respecting OS they built from Debian. Then they made a Linux phone, made Phosh for it, alas, I didn't have the means at THAT time, and despite ALL the pro's they were offering, I just couldn't afford it.

Then came PINE. They saw the potential that Purism invested in their phone and ran with it too!

Edit: I just saw my edit above, so I guess this is TECHNICALLY an Edit Edit!

(04-06-2022, 12:47 AM)Tim_D Wrote: I also noticed that Phosh used Wayland and thought I might try that too, especially considering the RESPECT I have for Purism who garnered my attention BOTH by creating an OS based on Debian AND by being the FIRST to make a Linux phone!

(04-06-2022, 10:15 AM)wibble Wrote:

(04-06-2022, 12:47 AM)Tim_D Wrote: I also noticed that Phosh used Wayland and thought I might try that too, especially considering the RESPECT I have for Purism who garnered my attention BOTH by creating an OS based on Debian AND by being the FIRST to make a Linux phone!

They missed first by over a decade, but did a good job resurrecting the idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko

(04-04-2022, 10:24 PM)Tim_D Wrote: My question is this...  how can I set up ANY SMS? Do I still need to hold onto my 2 year old Android phone JUST to get SMS?

(04-30-2022, 04:03 PM)TRS-80 Wrote:

(04-04-2022, 10:24 PM)Tim_D Wrote: My question is this...  how can I set up ANY SMS? Do I still need to hold onto my 2 year old Android phone JUST to get SMS?

SMS should 'just work' on any distro which supports PinePhone by now.  MMS is another story, although even that is becoming pretty well supprted by now (was not always the case).