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I suspect Pine ships Manjaro ARM because that distro will apply nearly any patch to the kernel if it makes something work, no matter how hacky or unsustainable
by CameronNemo 5y ago
I suspect Pine ships Manjaro ARM because that distro will apply nearly any patch to the kernel if it makes something work, no matter how hacky or unsustainable the patch is. Right now their kernel has 43 patches, and they are not even organized or annotated well.
https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/core/linux https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/core/linux
- TheUnelisted 5y agoThey ship Manjaro ARM because the people behind PINE64 are manjaro fans and they think that Manjaro has a good business setup. It would have been much nicer to have PostmarketOS shipped stock.
- RealStickman_ 5y agoAfaik Manjaro have their own company, so it's easier to make contracts about software support. Additionally, pine64 have already worked with them on the pinebook and pinebook pro as default distro. Personally, I don't like Manjaro either, but it's easy enough to use a different distro and is probably good enough for most.
- mulflav 5y agoI had wondered why they ended up on Manjaro of all things. Did Pine64 make an explicit statement on the matter?