Is anyone using PinePhone with openSUSE? What’s your experience been? I’m thinking about getting one next month but I have some questions about it.
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I use a Pinephone. I have installed 15.6 on it with no success. It boots to a black screen. Several other O.S.'es work, but I ended up using PostmarketOS. Be aware that most “apps” do not execute. I do not recommend buying one unless you love Linux and like to experiment.
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Wow, that’s too bad. I’ve had it with Android and I’m not going to shell out for an iPhone. If there’s a Linux-driven device, that would be perfect. It doesn’t sound like it’s ready for production.
Are you aware of this bare metal linux project: mind you, still in very early stages!
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That’s impressive. Do you have any idea what the schedule is for release?
You need to follow the Mastodon or Email newsletter (as described in the FAQ of the project) to stay up to date with newest infomations.
I’ve no personal experience with it, but FuriLabs is another one to have a look at. The Register did a review of it.
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Nice project, but a thing to consider is that the Fury labs phone, just as so much other “linux” phones, uses halium, so can’t be considered android-free.
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That might be OK, if it doesn’t have Google’s footprint. There are some apps I would miss.
I have recently bought one and am trying to get openSUSE to work with the tumbleweed image openSUSE provides, but have not had any success yet.
I suspect that the image itself has some problem…Eventually I will figure it out, and then I can update this thread. I was recently fighting to get it installed on a raspberry pi 5, and now that that is finally figured out I am moving on to this.
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Hi, welcome to the openSUSE forums. Please let know about your prorgress
Really silly solution it seems…
Do NOT use etcher, instead follow the instructions on the openSUSE website.
Namely:
xzcat [image].raw.xz | sudo dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdX iflag=fullblock oflag=direct status=progress; sync
It presently boots the installer (and is running now), so I suppose I can update later, but the solution it seems is to not follow the PinePhone wiki, and instead literally just do what is on the openSUSE PinePhone article which is here:
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During install, I am running into an error “Failed to start Load Audit Rules”.
Not entirely sure how to fix this from the install terminal yet…
SUCCESS
If you load the image the eMMC storage and NOT the mSD the image installs without an issue.
Finally works great!
DM
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I think I’ll get a Furi Labs FLX1s as soon as it starts shipping. Thanks, lawmurray, for pointing this out. There’s not much documentation on the FuriOS, but it’s Debian-based so it shouldn’t be hard to learn. It supports dual booting. I’ll try to get openSUSE running. The documentation for the PinePhone should get me started.
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I noticed jolla is looking for backers for a new linux phone: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder If you’re still interested and living in Europe that is
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