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| Developer | postmarketOS open-source community |
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| OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
| Working state | Active |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 26 May 2017 |
| Latest release | 24.06 (The One With Over 250 Devices)[1] / 16 June 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Marketing target | Operating system replacement for Android and other mobile devices |
| Available in | English, Czech, German, French, Italian, Spanish, etc. |
| 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 |
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]
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- ^ Staff, OSNews. "100 days of postmarketOS". www.osnews.com.
- ^ a b "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".
- ^ "600 days of postmarketOS".
- ^ "User talk:Docker - postmarketOS". wiki.postmarketos.org. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
- ^ "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.