Movuan distribution for PinePhone

[merom]

You may not know yet, but the Mobian Clone, which is without SystemD, has been released. It uses Devuan Linux as the basis.
Release v 0.0.0.2 comes with an attached image that can be burned to your bootable SD card straight for the PinePhone.

Code:

https://gitlab.com/l2385/movuan/movuan-recipes/-/releases

If you would like to test/use it in a VM, on a laptop, or on other compatible phones, you will however have to build it yourselves.

Code:

https://gitlab.com/l2385/movuan/movuan-recipes

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On gitlab they have limited free storage space, hence providing a single image in a split zip archive. They also have free compute minutes monthly, that are almost enough to build one Movuan image monthly. Everything important is written on the project pages.
Yes, you can try it.  

[Kevin Kofler]

FYI, there is one unpaid host that will allow you to upload such huge image files in one piece without complaining: SourceForge.

I found that out because I was (a few years ago) unsure how to distribute the ISO images for my Fedora Remix named Kannolo (desktop only, no mobile version planned at this time). Well, it turned out (I found it out by looking at where other similar projects were hosting their ISOs) that SourceForge is the place.

Note that this is not paid advertisement. I do not get any money, nor any other advantages, from SourceForge for recommending them. (And neither am I a paying customer of SourceForge – as I said, the service is free as in beer.) I just want to point you to it because having to split a single image into multi-volume ZIP files is not ideal (it means extra work both for you and your users), and there is at least one alternative.

Sure, SourceForge is full of ads and other annoyances (though at least there should not be any malware there anymore under the current owners), but it does not cost you a dime, they only require that your project is FOSS and that you upload the corresponding source code along with the binaries. And they allow huge files. According to https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/document...imitations, the current per-file limit is 10 GB (as long as you upload using rsync, SCP, or SFTP – HTTP uploads are possible, but limited to 500 MB). (It was 7 GB when I last checked just a few months ago, they have increased it to 10 GB recently.)

E.g., the last Kannolo release so far (I call it "last so far" rather than "latest" because I am not currently doing any Kannolo releases and do not know whether I ever will again) includes a 1.3 GB ISO and a 3.5 GB ZIP of SRPMs. And I have several files of such sizes there.

[merom]

Thank you for the detailed information. The author of this project uses nickname lxb. They were also talking about SourceForge on the Devuan Forum and offered him help. I have the same view that it is better to download one full image with the system instead of several archives.

We'll see how it will continue. Meanwhile, I can confirm that Movuan works and is very similar to Mobian.

[biketool]

mobian->movuan->maemo 7

Most of the Maemo 7 work is being done on talk.maemo.org but that is also built from Deuvian  with much Maemo 5(Nokia N900 pre-systemd Debian Sarge fork) styling and maybe some Maemo6/Meego and Jolla Sailfish OS touches.

[tllim]

Looking forward to explore :-)