One thing that I have desperately longed to experience is the freedom of Linux on mobile devices. My search led me to find postmarketOS.
Found out that it is based on Alpine Linux and is community developed. Learned that it is a Linux based mobile OS.
Who has experience with using postmarketOS on mobile devices or has any knowledge about it? Which kind of mobile devices can it be used? Does it have any particular specs needed for mobile devices to be able to run well?
I think about two months ago, a friend flashed postmarketOS on a PinePhone Pro. It wasn’t as fast as Android but it was not dead slow either. It actually achieves the goal of full control. My friend tweaked everything possible on the phone and was even able to to optimize kernel to improve the battery life of the phone. Phish UI was used to have access.
I have run PostmarketOS on two xiaomi a1 (tissot) for over a year.
It installs an Alpine linux system and runs Docker, even the bluetooth works.
Everything in Docker containers (Home Assistant, SWAG, crowdsec, Jupyter…), it amazing what can be done and I access over wifi a NAS for large storage.
I wrote up a guide you can find on my github bryansplace.
The only issue is the power supply. The xiaomis have a well behaved power supply but I would be happier to reduce the battery voltage. I found a way to do this for an earlier nexus5 but can’t find a way for the xiaomi.
Good luck
Hi @Bry50 , that’s very interesting and thanks for the Github article. Next year I would like to get a smartphone to try out postmarketOS.