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| Developer(s) | KDE |
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| Preview release | n/a |
| Repository | invent |
| Written in | C++, QML |
| Operating system | Linux |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | plasma-mobile |
Plasma Mobile is a Plasma variant for smartphones. [2] [3] [4] It is currently available for the Pinephone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6. [5]
It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro. [6]
After Plasma Active sponsor Coherent Theory (under the Make·Play·Live brand) [7] [8] had given up their ambitions to release a tablet computer, [9] Blue Systems emerged as a new sponsor in 2015 and shifted the focus of Plasma's handheld work towards smartphones. [10] [11] The official announcement of the new form-factor interface was on 25 July 2015 at Akademy, accompanied by a working prototype running on a Nexus 5. [2] Pine64 began sales of their PinePhone mobile device, with the KDE Community Edition being made available as pre-orders on 1 December 2020. [12] [13]
Plasma Mobile uses KWin's Wayland session and the Qt framework. [10] Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device. [14]
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A mobile operating system is an operating system for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typical/mobile laptops are "mobile", the operating systems used on them are generally not considered mobile ones, as they were originally designed for desktop computers that historically did not have or need specific mobile features. This line distinguishing mobile and other forms has become blurred in recent years, due to the fact that newer devices have become smaller and more mobile unlike hardware of the past. Key notabilities blurring this line are the introduction of tablet computers and light-weight laptops and the hybridization of the two in 2-in-1 PCs.
Mer was a free and open-source software distribution, targeted at hardware vendors to serve as a middleware for Linux kernel-based mobile-oriented operating systems. It is a fork of MeeGo.
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Besides the Linux distributions designed for general-purpose use on desktops and servers, distributions may be specialized for different purposes including computer architecture support, embedded systems, stability, security, localization to a specific region or language, targeting of specific user groups, support for real-time applications, or commitment to a given desktop environment. Furthermore, some distributions deliberately include only free software. As of 2015, over four hundred Linux distributions are actively developed, with about a dozen distributions being most popular for general-purpose use.
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Pine Store Limited, known by its trade name Pine64, is a Hong Kong-based organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, as well as smartwatch/smartphones. Its name was inspired by the mathematical constants pi and e with a reference to 64-bit computing power.
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Halium is a collaborative project to unify the Hardware Abstraction Layer for projects which run Linux on mobile devices with pre-installed Android. The project aims to standardize the middleware software used by various projects to talk with android daemons and make use of hardware on installed devices. It is distributed as free and open-source software under a mix of software licenses.
Phosh is a graphical user interface designed for mobile and touch-based devices and developed by Purism. It is the default shell used on several mobile Linux operating systems including PureOS, Mobian, and Fedora Mobility. It is also an option on postmarketOS, Manjaro, and openSUSE.
The Librem 5 is a smartphone manufactured by Purism that is part of their Librem line of products. The phone is designed with the goal of using free software whenever possible, includes PureOS, a Linux operating system, by default, and as of 2021 is the only smartphone recommended by the Free Software Foundation. Like other Librem products, the Librem 5 focuses on privacy and freedom, and includes features like hardware kill switches, and easily-replaceable components. Its name, with a numerical "5", refers to its screen size, and not a release version. After an announcement on 24 August 2017, the distribution of developer kits and limited pre-release models occurred throughout 2019 and most of 2020. The first mass-production version of the Librem 5 was shipped on 18 November 2020.
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KDE Connect is a multi-platform application developed by KDE, which facilitates wireless communications and data transfer between devices over local networks. KDE Connect is available in the repositories of many Linux Distributions and F-Droid, Google Play Store for Android. Often, distributions bundle KDE Connect in their KDE Plasma desktop variant. KDE Connect has been reimplemented in the GNOME desktop environment as GSConnect, which can be obtained from Gnome Extension Store. Since 2021, KDE connect has also been available on Windows, and it is available as an unstable nightly build on MacOS.
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The JingPad A1 is a Linux based tablet developed by Jingling. The JingPad A1 was released in 2021. The tablet is using its own JingOS Linux distribution which is based on the Android hardware layer Halium and KDE Plasma mobile. Ubuntu Touch has been ported to the tablet. The device is using a Unisoc Tiger T510 SOC, has 8GB of RAM and a maximum of 256GB storage. It has a pencil and attachable keyboard accessories.
Mobian is a project to add support to standard Debian Linux distribution with mainline Linux kernel on smartphones and tablets. The project was announced 2020. Project is publishing install images for PinePhone, PineTab, Librem 5 and for Android devices, with mainline kernel support, OnePlus 6/6T and Pocophone F1. Droidian version uses Mobian on top of Android kernel and Libhybris and Halium adaptation layer and works with devices which are supported by Ubuntu Touch and it can be installed using Ubports installer.
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