Mobian Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Best OS for Pinephone Pro?

  I haven't messed with mine recently so not sure what the status of mobian is right now, but it would be worth giving it a try. Source: 12 months ago

• Show HN: DivestOS, long term support for end-of-life Android devices

  Sounds like you want https://postmarketos.org/ or https://mobian-project.org/ ? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Recent work towards mobile GNOME demoed on OnePlus 6 (Video by @calebccff on Twitter)

  This is still in active development. I would recommend trying postmarketOS or Mobian if you have a compatible device. They are both mainly packaged with Phosh, which is also a GNOME project, although most development is headed by Purism. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Droidian Linux on Google Pixel 3a

  Droidian is based on Mobian, a distro that aims to adapt Debian to mobile. It uses the same technologies as Ubuntu Touch (libhybris and Halium) to create support for Android devices. Source: almost 2 years ago

• We have developed an application that gives people worldwide a tool to boycott brands that have not left Russian and pay taxes there, identifying businesses that still operate by their names. We have added a barcode scanner so that you can scan products directly in the store.

  I have to make compromises often, but I choose to only install programs that can trust after setting up my system because I need to trust the device that I carry around with me 100% of the time in my pocket. I use Mobian on my phone and the only nonfree software installed are a few drivers. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Project Prism: architecture overview

  At the foundation of gShell (the software running on the Prism) is Linux. We love Linux's open-source nature and the huge community that has grown around it in the last 30 years. It was the sensible choice for Prism. The specific version of Linux running on Prism is Mobian (mobian-project.org), which is a version of Debian designed for mobile phones. The underlying OS of Mobian could change in the future, because... - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Pinephone Pro: calling and texting (sms)

  A few months back, I was able to call and SMS using Mobian on T-Mobile US network. MMS support is almost done for Mobian, too. Source: about 2 years ago

• The PinePhone Pro brings upgraded hardware to the Linux phone

  If you are interested in Debian, look at: https://mobian-project.org/ I would call it....sort of official? It isn't Debian per se, but many of the devs working on it also are working with Debian to get as much upstreamed as possible (or are offiliated with Debian proper). It also tries to use upstream Debian packages as much as possible. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Apple Is Normalising Surveillance

  Don't forget to also use Mobian on a smartphone: https://mobian-project.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Pinephone software?

  See the Pine64 wiki to get started: PinePhone Software Releases they have all known OS's listed here with links to the homepages of each. Mobian for example has their own website mobian-project.org and postmarketOS has theirs; some distros like Manjaro release images thru GitHub, e.g. Phosh image here. Source: over 2 years ago

• Honda will use Google’s embedded Android Automotive in its cars starting in 2022

  If something like this happens again with e. g. Bluetooth (or the proprietary Android Auto and Apple Carplay protocols, which exlcude phones with any other OS) and phone manufacturers decide to not offer backwards compatibility, you might actually get into the situation that your car and your phone both have e. g. Bluetooth (e. g. Use 2,4 GHz frequencies), but can't talk to each other due to changes in the... Source: over 2 years ago

• PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience

  Not itself, no - but Mobian is compatible with other similarly open phones (so basically the PinePhone and a few others) and runs essentially the same software: https://mobian-project.org/ For other Android phones there's Droidian which is downstream of Mobian; I've not used it myself though so can't speak to its current state: https://droidian.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• ETA on delivery?

  Not the person you asked, but I have a PinePhone (3GB model). There is indeed no separate modem module, nor is there a PGP card slot. The hardware is less powerful than the Librem 5, but it works absolutely fine for me. I'm using Mobian instead of PureOS, but the two should be very similar: they're both based on Debian, and both use Phosh as the shell. Source: over 2 years ago

• Battery Life

  Mobian. It's a modified version of debian for mobile devices. https://mobian-project.org/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Day 1 - Accessing your server

  I am SSHing into a Digital Ocean VM from Trisquel GNU/Linux and Mobian devices. I deployed the droplet with doctl. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Loading Linux to android tablet?

  My recommendations would be either Ubuntu, GrapheneOS (which isn’t fully linux) or, and last time I saw the thing it didn’t seem to function well, but regardless there is a mobile version of Debian. https://mobian-project.org. Source: about 3 years ago