Pinebook is going the way of Betamax?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

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What I would want is an extremely lightweight OS (ultra simple GUI or maybe even an I3TWM-like environment) based on Debian or Ubuntu, but with full support for what's inside, so a working audio/video solution, webcam.... that would provide a broad base to start from and expand, hardware ánd software wise. Hell, I wanted to solder in some keyboard backlighting and a usb-c power connector but I never got around to that because I figured it wouldn't be much use if I can't get the laptop itself to work normally.

Hi, trigger.

Have you seen Daniel Thompson's Debian Installer for the Pinebook Pro? It's worth dropping him a message in that thread, to see if he thinks that you could use this with minor changes, to install on the original Pinebook. My assumption is that you'd use a different kernel and DTD for your machine, but the rest of his work is probably fully applicable.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8487

If this is a viable route to image the Pinebook classic, it likely fulfills your wishes for a functional Debian base system upon which you could install I3TWM or openbox, etc.


The git sources are here:
https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pineb...-installer