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Discussion on: Why isn’t mainstream Linux available for mobile?

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Akash Kava

Pine64 is Android distro or is it independent of Android, is it pure Linux distro? Also can it be customized? Like can we have our own distro?

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Karan Gandhi

Pine64 is actually a phone vendor which makes sort of open hardware.
LineageOS/ Omni / BlissOS / AEX are custom android ROMs (or custom Android distros). Yes you can create your own ROM after forking.
You can check XDA to see ROMs for various devices.

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Akash Kava

Oh, so in order to run OS on Pine64, OS has to be Android fork or it can be linux fork?

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Karan Gandhi

Ummm. PinePhone is pretty open. You can run Android and Linux on it. IIRC, it coms with Manjaro-ARM preinstalled.