Mobian Reviews

Mobian Description

Mobian aims at integrating the standard Debian distribution and the Phone Shell (phosh), project in a package that can be used on certain mobile phones such as the Pinephone. The idea is to reduce the Mobian-specific pieces by "upstreaming customization to the original projects." Mobian is shipped with Phosh, the Phone Shell from Purism. It is based upon well-known modern Gnome technologies like GTK, GSettings, and DBus. It runs on a wlroots-based wayland compositor named phoc. Mobian aims at integrating the standard Debian distribution and Phone-specific projects or modifications in a distribution that can be used on certain mobile phones and tablets such as the Pinephone and Pinetab. The idea is to reduce the number of Mobian-specific pieces by "upstreaming" modifications to the original projects. We have to strike a delicate balance between custom patches and packages that allow Mobian to run on supported devices.