multi-boot image for the PinePhone


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Looking for a way to test variety of OS-es on the PinePhone ? Here is Megi's multi-boot for the PinePhone with 17 Linux distros (via Lilipuuting)

[Relatively] small 6GiB image containing 17 distributions:
  • Arch Linux ARM 2020-11-21
  • Arch Linux ARM / dreemurrs 20201112
  • Lune OS 2020-11-23
  • Maemo Leste 20201101
  • Manjaro / Phosh beta2-20201119
  • Manjaro / Plasma 201122
  • Mobian 20201121
  • KDE Neon 20201123-084050
  • pmOS / Plasma Desktop 2020-11-21
  • pmOS / fbkeyboard 2020-11-21
  • pmOS / GNOME 2020-11-21
  • pmOS / Plasma Mobile 2020-11-21
  • pmOS / Phosh 2020-11-21
  • Sailfish 1.1-3.3.0.16-devel-20201101
  • pmOS / sxmo nightly-202011090018
  • Ubuntu Touch 2020-11-19
  • Jumpdrive 0.6
 
Not quite sure why they wrote this though... :

News​

2020-11-23​

  • Added more distros (Manjaro, Arch dreemurrs, Jumpdrive, pmOS / plasma desktop). Removed PureOS (doesn't seem to be maintained anymore).


Or do they mean a PureOS port specifically for the PinePhone, rather than PureOS in general?
 
They seem to be rather slow in producing a release image, but packages still seem to be updated; I just checked their drop of vim and there was a release from March this year.

Edit: PureOS comes from Purism, and I don't know anyone using it on a device that's not a pinephone personally.
 
They seem to be rather slow in producing a release image, but packages still seem to be updated; I just checked their drop of vim and there was a release from March this year.

Edit: PureOS comes from Purism, and I don't know anyone using it on a device that's not a pinephone personally.
Interesting, so it should be put back in this ~17-strong multiboot...

Well, I’m sure any of their laptop customers run PureOS?
 
To be fair to them, they might take you to the last release drop of each OS when you boot into them, which in the case of PureOS right now is rather old. I'm not sure it's so old it's dangerous if the first thing you do is update it, but I guess you can't rely on everyone doing that.
 
To be fair to them, they might take you to the last release drop of each OS when you boot into them, which in the case of PureOS right now is rather old. I'm not sure it's so old it's dangerous if the first thing you do is update it, but I guess you can't rely on everyone doing that.
Hmm I’d have thought for anyone wanting to use it in the first place, updating would be instinctive...
 
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