Present Project release PostMarketOS 21.06 , developing Linux distribution for smartphones based on Alpine Linux, Musl and BusyBox. The objective of the project is to provide the possibility of using the GNU / Linux distribution on a smartphone that does not depend on the life cycle of support for official firmware and not affected by the standard solutions of the main players of the industry asking for the development vector. Build Prepared for Pine64 Pinephone, Purism Librem 5 and 15 Supported Community Devices, including Samsung Galaxy A3 / A3 / S4, Xiaomi Mi Note 2 / REDMI 2, OnePlus 6 and even Nokia N900. Limited experimental support is provided for 330 devices .
Postmarketos environment is the most unified and puts all components specific to specific devices in a separate package. All other packages are identical for all devices and are based on packages Alpine Linux . In assemblies, the vanilla kernel Linux is used, and if it is impossible, then kernel from firmware prepared by devices manufacturers. As the main custom shells Offered Kde Plasma Mobile, Phosh, sxmo , but it is possible to install and other environments, including GNOME, Mate and xfce .
In a new release:
- Batch base is synchronized with Alpine Linux 3.14.
- The number of devices officially supported by the Community is increased from 11 to 15. Added support for Smartphones OnePlus 6, OnePlus 6T, Xiaomi Mi Note 2 and Xiaomi Redmi 2. For each of the supported devices, except Nokia N900, packages for installing PHOSH shells, Plasma Mobile and Sxmo.
- updated versions of all user interfaces.
- when unlocking the encrypted section rootfs utility osk-sdl Now turn off the queues of record operations and reading that allowed on an FS with a block size 4K raise the recording performance by about 35%, and reading by 33%.
- in the installer Removed Separate name and password request for SSH user.
- Optimizing the kernel for a Pinephone smartphone, which allowed to extend the battery life. Linux kernel for Pine64 devices Gathered based on Project operations Linux-Sunxi