Pine64 has announced KDE will be the default OS for the PinePhone.
Manjaro Plasma, specifically!
We expect severe component shortages and major component price hikes after CNY. I am writing this to prepare you for what is to come.
Industry wide, this is going to be a problem. They’re just admitting it. Brace yourself, and expect this to affect producers of flagship devices, too.
[W]e’re working on a plan to actively support mobile Linux projects moving forward. Talks are held with all major projects and we already have some ideas on how to provide developers with ongoing support. Aside from projects which received a Community Edition, we are now also talking to Maemo Leste, LuneOS, openSUSE, DanctNIX and Fedora developers.
Suse! Fedora! WTF is a DanctNIX?
These patches, currently in a testing stage, should make the PinePhone wake up and start ringing on the first dial tone when there’s an incoming call or text, as well as fix intermittent USB resets that show up when resuming from suspend.
New patches in testing!
I do nonetheless want to give you a general sense of the sort of hardware that we’ll be delivering. Our first SBC will feature two RISC-V CPUs, the main one being a C906 64-bit SoC coupled with an auxiliary 32bit BL602 SoC for WiFi and BLE. The C906 is already capable of running Linux and, from what I understand, is completely open while the BL602 is in the process of being open sourced
We’re officially crossing threads. 