Last Updated on February 1, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
We invested a lot of time and also money in a Linux phone from which we do not know if we will ever use it.We where mainly interested in LibreOffice on the Pinephone, and we have given this up and we do not know if we ever come back to it.
The other application we wanted to use the Pinephone for is as a data aquisition system for our application. We have given this up and we do not know if we ever come back to it either.
Much more interesting for us personally is Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS
10 years of software development is hard to beat for Pinephone distro developers. Issues where resolved with Raspberry Pi OS. On the other hand we have countless Pinephone distros. And we do not know if they are much more than a proof of concept for YouTube video makers to make their demos on YouTube.
And Raspberry Pi hardware development started about 15 years ago in a computational lab of the world renowned University of Cambridge. But Pinephone hardware development started only 4 years ago on the YouTube channel of Martijn Braam: