Free and open-source operating system for smartphones, based on Alpine Linux
postmarketOS
Developer
postmarketOS open-source community
OS family
Linux (Unix-like)
Working state
Active
Source model
Open source
Initial release
26 May 2017; 6 years ago (2017-05-26)
Latest release
23.12 (The One We Asked The Community To Name)[1] / 18 December 2023; 4 months ago (2023-12-18)
Repository
gitlab.com/postmarketOS
Marketing target
Operating system replacement for Android and other mobile devices
Available in
English and Czech
Update method
apk-tools (package manager)
Package manager
apk-tools (from Alpine Linux)
Platforms
ARM, ARM64, x86, x86-64
Kernel type
Monolithic (Linux)
Default user interface
Phosh, Sxmo, Plasma Mobile
Official website
postmarketos.org
postmarketOS (abbreviated as pmOS) is an operating system primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution.[2][3][4][5]
postmarketOS was launched on 26 May 2017[3][6] with the source code available on GitHub before migrating to GitLab in 2018.[7] It is capable of running different X and Wayland based user interfaces, such as Plasma Mobile,[8][9] MATE, GNOME 3, and XFCE;[10] later updates added support for Unity8 and Phosh.[11] It is also capable of running Docker, if the device specific kernel has cgroups and relevant configs enabled.[12] The project aims to provide a ten-year lifecycle for smartphones.[13]
^"v23.12: The One We Asked The Community To Name". postmarketOS. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
^Staff, OSNews. "100 days of postmarketOS". www.osnews.com.
^ ab"Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones". postmarketos.org.
^"PostMarketOS Saves Old Smartphones". Hackaday. 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
^DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD". distrowatch.com.
^Ward, Craig (3 January 2018). "PostmarketOS team makes progress towards goal of 10 year smartphone lifecycle - NotebookCheck.net News". Notebookcheck.net. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
^"postmarketOS is #movingtogitlab". postmarketos.org.
^"Get Plasma Mobile". plasma-mobile.org.
^Shah, Bhushan (20 November 2017). "14:00 Plasma Mobile". Akademy 2017.
^Verma, Adarsh (2 January 2018). "postmarketOS--A Linux Distro For Smartphones--Now runs Plasma/Lune UI/Xfce On Real Devices".
^"Linux-based postmarketOS project aims to give smartphones a 10-year lifecycle". Linux Today. 2017-08-17. Archived from the original on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
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cellular modem, so it must make calls by VOIP, like a pocket computer. PostmarketOS is based on the Alpine Linux Linux distribution. It is intended to run...
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operating systems such as the Android 11-based LineageOS 18 along with Ubuntu Touch and postmarketOS. In the European market, Poco X3 Pro was launched at...
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and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6. It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro. After Plasma...
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mobile Linux operating systems including PureOS, Mobian, and Fedora Phosh. It is also an option on postmarketOS, Manjaro, and openSUSE. In August 2017, Purism...
Android and Apple iOS have evolved to the 64-bit ARM architecture: Android ChromeOS Mobian Sailfish postmarketOS Tizen Ubuntu Touch webOS Formerly, but now...
Full disk encryption#The boot key problem). On mobile Linux systems, postmarketOS has developed osk-sdl to allow a full disk encrypted system to be unlocked...
have been developed as a replacement to a device's default OS, such as Replicant and postmarketOS on cellphones, or DD-WRT and tomato on routers. The process...
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apps can also run Firefox in its desktop version, for example using postmarketOS. view talk edit Legend: Old version Older version, still maintained Latest...
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software upgrades to the N900 is postmarketOS which uses recent Linux kernels and userspace components. postmarketOS Internet appliance Internet tablet...
on Debian) Mobile NixOS (based on NixOS) postmarketOS (based on Alpine Linux) PureOS Sailfish OS (based on Nemo Mobile) SHR SteamOS (Powering Steam Deck)...
of 9to5Linux wrote about availability of Mobian as an alternative to postmarketOS on PinePhone. He said there were many apps available, but also many were...
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project made use of the Alpine Linux based Linux distribution called postmarketOS, which is primarily developed for Android devices. The developer suggested...
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