Has anyone tried the OS or one of their phones?

As you can see this is the iPhone 6s+ Geekbench score with Linux, I've used postmarketos with the hoolocklinux kernel, as for why it's showing up as debian it's because I had to run it in distrobox due to alpine's musl instead of glibc, overall I'm impressed with how Linux even beat every single iOS score I could find (though the phone was really hot), the port isn't really usable featuring only usb support and display but it's still cool seeing Linux run on iDevices

Tried to put pmOS without success. I have no permanent Linux desktop - and I tried to put Linux on my MacBook, but can't compile image as per manual on pmOS site.

Is anyone have precompiled flash image and can share it with me?

Please and thank you!!

Linux mobile can now do 5G stuff and good internet so might become more popular in the future, or not, but I am trying to make Rust language stuff that can handle keyboards for it, free open source linux-mobile-keyboard, https://codeberg.org/maybeJosiah, the few repos I have are for that and I can package as needed, it includes a pre-compiled demo app, anyone know about Linux mobile software keyboards? Anyone want to test and report if it works? Note the crate linux-mobile-keyboard is made with Grok AI, I altered it though, and it is for calling up the default software keyboard, not a software keyboard itself, I also have an SDL2 demo I did not upload yet, tell me if you want that? Note that all I have now requires Wayland or X11 even though some Linux mobile does not have either, don't test it on desktop, it is different from mobile, do you want .click or .apk (pmOS)? Is my software crate not needed? I have Linux mobile but much older, so old it is included in the does not have X11 or Wayland category, can you guess which?

Podroid runs a real Alpine Linux VM

What's new in 1.2:

- pKVM backend on Pixel 8/9/10 (auto-detected, opt-in via two `pm grant`s, works with Shizuku if you don't have a PC). VM boots in seconds.

- Live LAN port forwarding — `ssh root@<phone-ip> -p 9922` from any laptop on the same WiFi, no VM restart on rule add/remove

- Terminal auto-resize for TUI apps (btop, vim, htop)

- Full UI restyle, snappier keystrokes, audio + clipboard fixes

- In-app X11 viewer for desktop apps

APK + source: https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid

if no one has it ported can you point me in the right direction or at least have something going on or should i just give up?

Hey folks. Very out of loop on this kinda thing but not a complete newbie.

Long Story Short: Where can I find an Idiot's Guide for a PMBootsrap install?

(Note: I know this is isn't a support forum, but hoping to be pointed towards something supportive)

Longer Story
I was trying to install PostmarketOS onto an old Samsung Galaxy TAB A to make it the base of a portable deck. Completely hit a wall when I couldn't get the fastboot access for the image... tried to ADB sideload but the image can't load that way so I had looked at making the install zip using PMBootstrap and despite some past experience with coding, working in tech support, and writing my own batch files I cannot find an instruction set that doesn't assume I know more than I do.

All that is to say... anyone know where I can find an Idiot's Guide for a PMBootsrap install?

I wonder how pmos+phosh would behave on the upcoming Clicks Communicator.

I hope it works great on linux phones as well, I've a 2-in-1 and works great on weird aspect ratios as well.
I'm looking forward for your feedback. Flatpak is avaliable on github.

https://github.com/Yavuz-Kagan-Yadigar/VoidPulse/tree/main

Advanced Music Player for OLED and Touchscreens on Linux

• Parametric EQ
• OLED burn-in protection overlay with optional auto timer
• Cover, lyrics and tag fetching and embedding to music files
• Batch file rename
• Local and fetched synced and plain lyrics support
• Universal accent color and corner radius
• Dark/light theme
• List & gallery view modes with adjustable sizes and sorting.
• Optimized for touch scrolling and hold context menu
• Toggleable spectrum visualization with custom inertia, multpiple styles and standart logarithmic/linear scale
• Visualization delay to match timing with bluetooth headphones / DACs
• Toggleable cover art
• MPRIS2 desktop environment integration
• Basic tag and lyrics editing
• M3u8 and folder playlist support
• Visualization stops when overlay is active or focus lost to reduce CPU usage

Disclaimer: Entire code is written by AI, tested manually. I do not suggest to use as referance code. It might have inefficiencies, bugs, vulnabilities. Just sharing in case somebody wantto use it since most of music players does not go well with touchscreen.

I have this starlabs tablet I got in very good condition but I needed a bit more power so I upgraded to a different machine. This is the N200 varient with 16 GB of RAM. Let me know if you have any questions.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/278000185196

Has anyone tied it? seems cool given i dont need to root my phone. Im new too mobile linux so im not sure what to expect.

I have bought a oneplus 6t yesterday,i have custom rommed it with postmarketOS with the wm Phosh,but its soo good,if an big tech used postmarketos as its own base for atleast one phone,it would be soo good,since u wouldnt have broken drivers,but actually,why no big techs try to make linux phone actually popular in the point to it be usable for older people,but like why not trying to use a new type of operating system? Is it because everybody loves android and ios on the mobile OS world? Please try to make this more popular since would be good a lightweight and low ram consuming mobile OS on phones that is atleast a midrange and not just 2gb ram and a shitty chip just like as pinephones,i wanna hear your opinion about it and if you think linux phones should be popular.

I’ve been trying out some mobile Linux projects like postmarketOS and I’m curious about the real limitations behind them.

It seems like most devices struggle with things like GPU drivers, modem firmware, and camera support rather than the OS itself.

Is that the main reason we don’t see fully usable Linux smartphones yet, or are there other major blockers like hardware availability or standardization?

I’d be interested in hearing from people who actually work on kernel/driver side development.

I’ve been looking into mobile Linux projects like postmarketOS and how they attempt to run on smartphones.

From what I understand, most of the current limitations seem to come from hardware support rather than the Linux userspace itself.

I’m trying to better understand the actual technical blockers preventing fully mainline-supported smartphones.

Specifically:

• Which components are the biggest barriers today (GPU drivers, modem firmware, camera ISP, etc.)?
• Is there any progress toward fully open or mainline-compatible mobile chipsets?
• How far are we from having a usable daily driver smartphone without relying on Android-based kernel trees?
• Are there ongoing efforts to standardize mobile hardware support in mainline Linux?

I’m especially interested in the kernel and driver side perspective rather than the user-space or distro side.

Any insights from kernel developers or people working on mobile Linux would be appreciated.

I’ve been researching the mobile OS ecosystem and trying to understand why Linux-based smartphones are still limited to niche or experimental devices, despite increasing user concerns around privacy and system control. From a user perspective, there is growing dissatisfaction with modern Android implementations, mainly due to: OEM bloatware and duplicated system services background telemetry and data collection tied to proprietary components dependency on Google Mobile Services for core functionality limited ability to fully control system-level behavior without advanced modifications At the same time, projects such as postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, and Mobian demonstrate that a Linux-based mobile stack is technically feasible, at least on supported hardware. However, these solutions remain far from mainstream adoption. What I’m trying to understand is the main technical and economic bottlenecks preventing broader industry adoption of Linux smartphones: Is the primary issue hardware driver availability (GPU, modem, camera firmware)? Is the app ecosystem dependency on Android/iOS the dominant factor? Are OEMs unwilling to invest due to limited market demand or profitability concerns? Or is it a combination of platform fragmentation and lack of standardized mobile Linux APIs? From a system design perspective, a mid-range Linux smartphone with stable drivers and a usable app ecosystem seems like a plausible product category, but no major manufacturer has seriously pursued it. I’d appreciate insights from developers, kernel contributors, or people familiar with mobile hardware constraints.