01-29-2020, 03:30 PM
I'm hoping to resurrect the Hellaphone project (Inferno OS on smartphones, worked on it on an Android phone back in 2012) on Pinephone. One unfortunate caveat of Inferno is that it is currently cannot compile as a 64-bit binary (386 and armhf only, not amd64 or arm64). According to the postmarketOS IRC channel, pmOS doesn't support multiarch, so that seems to be already off the table.
I'm looking for a Linux distro I can use for testing/developing this rather weird application. I would like to be able to compile *on the device*. I don't care about any UI because Hellaphone uses the framebuffer for its own UI, I just need to be able to interface with wifi / sms / audio / calls via either command-line tools or daemons or /dev.
UBPorts seems like a reasonable option but in reading their forums a little, they seem kind of hostile to the idea of people treating it like "just a Linux box". Would perhaps Manjaro be more appropriate? I'd appreciate any thoughts.
I'm looking for a Linux distro I can use for testing/developing this rather weird application. I would like to be able to compile *on the device*. I don't care about any UI because Hellaphone uses the framebuffer for its own UI, I just need to be able to interface with wifi / sms / audio / calls via either command-line tools or daemons or /dev.
UBPorts seems like a reasonable option but in reading their forums a little, they seem kind of hostile to the idea of people treating it like "just a Linux box". Would perhaps Manjaro be more appropriate? I'd appreciate any thoughts.