Mobian OS Aims To Bring Debian Linux To Mobile Devices

guest · Jun 21, 2020

Mobian OS For PinePhone Aims To Bring Debian Linux To Mobile Devices
It features Phosh user interface with GNOME apps
June 20, 2020
https://fossbytes.com/mobian-os-for-pinephone-aims-to-bring-debian-linux-to-mobile-devices/

Debian GNU/Linux is one of the oldest Linux-based operating systems known for its rock-solid stability and large community support.
However, you cannot install pure Debian directly on your smartphones or tablets. You need hardware-specific customizations to run it smoothly on different devices.

Surprisingly, Debian exists for smartphones either as PureOS or Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system. Now here comes another Debian-based mobile operating system, Mobian, which aims to bring the full power of Debian to mobile devices.
What Is Mobian?
Mobian is a new open-source project with a mission to bring Debian GNU/Linux on modern mobile hardware devices

Mobian’s base system uses pure Debian 11 ‘Bulleye’ build for ARM64-based devices. It also uses a powerful tool, debos, to create a custom Debian image. Inside the images, Mobian packs standard Dеbіаn расkаgеs and ѕоmе GNОМЕ аррlісаtіоnѕ to perform specific tasks.
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As of now, Mobian targets Linux-based PinePhone to provide a fully-functional smartphone with open source and powerful Debian Linux. In the future, Mobian also aims to port it to other mobile devices and tablets like PineTab.
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For a full list of applications, check out the GitLab package repository here.

If you have any edition of PinePhone and want to try Mobian, download the prebuilt images from here. Then follow the Mobian installation guides for PinePhone here.
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Mobian - Debian for mobile

Mobian is an open-source project aimed at bringing Debian GNU/Linux to mobile devices.
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Supported Devices
Currently, only the PinePhone is supported. Other devices will be added in the future, depending on mainline Linux support and device availability to the project's members.
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guest · Sep 12, 2020

Mobian OS For PinePhone Now Available For Linux Tablet ‘PineTab’
Images are now available to download and install
September 10, 2020
https://fossbytes.com/mobian-os-for-pinephone-now-available-for-linux-tablet-pinetab/

A few months ago, we reported about Mobian Linux, an open-source project that aims to bring Debian GNU/Linux to mobile devices. Initially, Mobian was only available for Linux-based PinePhone. But as expected, Mobian OS has finally been ported to another PINE64 device, PineTab.

Yes, the Mobian team officially announced on Twitter that along with PinePhone it has started to support and build images for Linux-based tablet PineTab too.
The team also said that Mobian OS would support even more devices in the coming months. As of now, images of Mobian Linux are only available for PINE64’s smartphone and tablet device i.e., PinePhone and PineTab.

If you have a PineTab tablet, you can download the latest prebuilt Mobian image for PineTab and install it following the official guide.
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Mobian operating system consists of a collection of Debian packages from the official archive Debian Bullseye and a small set of packages from the Mobian archive.
For a full list of supported applications on Mobian, check here, or if you want more information about Mobian, you can visit its wiki page.
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