Armbian on Quartz64

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I actually want to play with phosh on another RK3566 device.  Does that mean that actually I should concentrate on Mobian rather than Armbian?  The difference between the two isn't clear to me.

Mobian is focused on phones, mainly PinePhone and Librem 5 (and maybe others).  Where Armbian is focused on many (almost 100(!)) different SBCs (and a couple other devices like PineTab/Book, etc). Armbian project have also been around a lot longer, and historically had better support for headless SBC, but as F/LOSS graphical stack have improved over the years (and they gained more help in that area), some time ago started also publishing desktop images.

Both projects are based on Debian, and in most of cases use plain vanilla Debian user space packages as much as possible. I am sure there may be some slight differences in the way they do packaging or organize things as well.

Finally, both projects produce complete flashable images, and in that sense could be considered "distributions." However the actual product Armbian is making is a build tool; the published images are just the output of that tool, really. But you can (and should!) take that tool and customize it and produce your own images rather easily.

I suggested Armbian as a place for you to start to learn maybe some of basics around ARM devices and GNU/Linux, which will be the same for all. If your interests are more in playing with phosh, you will likely be able to get more info about that in particular from Mobian project (who have a great wiki and an IRC of their own as well).

In fact there is nothing stopping anyone from creating an Armbian image for PinePhone for example, it's just that no one has done that work yet. Both projects are really just some handful of volunteers, so time and resources are scarce as always.

I started a thread here https://forum.armbian.com/topic/19288-ho...-quartz64/
I will have a go at this myself.

Glad to see you got a decently warm welcome there. As I said, big difference between "are/when you guys going to support this?" and "I am trying to work on ... but have some questions." Although I realize that might not be apparent to casual observer at first.

I will also upvote your post, which should help you out later on with forum permissions. Welcome aboard! Although I would urge you to consider Igor's words about what you are getting yourself into, there is quite a lot to learn and a lot of that is going to have to be on your own. But I have seen the guys helping out here and there if it seems like someone is really trying.

IRC is another really good place to gain access to higher level wizards in a more informal setting, both #armbian (on libera.chat) as well as PINE64's own channels. Finally, Mobian project have their IRC on OFTC network. You can find me idling on all 3 whenever I am manning my battle station.

Good luck (you are going to need it,)!