09-20-2020, 01:14 PM
Thanks for the writeup, megous. I am just not ordering a PinePhone.. and while my Linux skills are intermediate, I am by no means a developer... I do hope to contribute to the project in ways that I can, but they will be limited to my experience levels for sure...
I appreciate the discussion and topics you brought up; furthermore, I will certainly take more precautions that I originally anticipated when I do have the hardware in my hands. I knew that this wasn't a fully-cooked Linux Phone that I could replace my iPhone with... but I originally had thought I could use it as phone #2 and switch over fully when OSes became cooked enough. Now, I understand that this phone is more like.... phone hardware, coupled with OSes that are being developed and not in any way ready for prime time... that the phone hardware I'm ordering is way more for testing and attempting to get nearer to a final product phase.
Being the tinkerer that I am, even at my experience level, this is still something I want to get my hands on... I have dreams of one day owning a device that is as powerful as my iPhone, running a linux system that I can plug into a monitor or network and USE as a Linux box... with a phone for use as my daily driver. I thought that the PinePhone hardware could be made into exactly this. Now, I think that both the software AND hardware will have to be further developed before this can be a reality...
I would bet that if we ever get close or to that end, new hardware would be needed... with the fine tuned hardware that this development and research the community is doing now is providing. Regardless of that, I still want to be involved.
Thanks, tho for bringing up topics that should be considered by anyone who's using the PinePhone hardware. I'm still excited for what it CAN do today... even if there are more limitations than I first thought.
I'm going to follow your blog, and certainly the forum here.. and also try to get in one ONE development OS that I choose. What current one do YOU think has the best possibility of becoming capable of being a daily-driver phone OS? I guess I have two things on my wishlist that maybe I need to separate: Having a full Linux system and having a Linux based PHONE OS. Anyway, I'd love to hear what your picks are.
Anyway I wrote a book - all I wanted to say was THANKS..
I appreciate the discussion and topics you brought up; furthermore, I will certainly take more precautions that I originally anticipated when I do have the hardware in my hands. I knew that this wasn't a fully-cooked Linux Phone that I could replace my iPhone with... but I originally had thought I could use it as phone #2 and switch over fully when OSes became cooked enough. Now, I understand that this phone is more like.... phone hardware, coupled with OSes that are being developed and not in any way ready for prime time... that the phone hardware I'm ordering is way more for testing and attempting to get nearer to a final product phase.
Being the tinkerer that I am, even at my experience level, this is still something I want to get my hands on... I have dreams of one day owning a device that is as powerful as my iPhone, running a linux system that I can plug into a monitor or network and USE as a Linux box... with a phone for use as my daily driver. I thought that the PinePhone hardware could be made into exactly this. Now, I think that both the software AND hardware will have to be further developed before this can be a reality...
I would bet that if we ever get close or to that end, new hardware would be needed... with the fine tuned hardware that this development and research the community is doing now is providing. Regardless of that, I still want to be involved.
Thanks, tho for bringing up topics that should be considered by anyone who's using the PinePhone hardware. I'm still excited for what it CAN do today... even if there are more limitations than I first thought.
I'm going to follow your blog, and certainly the forum here.. and also try to get in one ONE development OS that I choose. What current one do YOU think has the best possibility of becoming capable of being a daily-driver phone OS? I guess I have two things on my wishlist that maybe I need to separate: Having a full Linux system and having a Linux based PHONE OS. Anyway, I'd love to hear what your picks are.
Anyway I wrote a book - all I wanted to say was THANKS..
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