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Mobian

Mobian is a Debian derivative aimed at running on mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones.

• Status: active (2023-10-12)

• Homepage: https://www.mobian.org/

• Origin story: https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2021/04/08/road-to-mobian-1/

• Blog: https://blog.mobian.org/

• Microblog: https://fosstodon.org/@mobian

• Corporate sponsor:
• Government sponsor:
• Funding model: based on donations
• Merchandise:
• Location: completely international
• Privacy policy:
• Data collection: none

• Join: https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian/Contribute

• Research publications:
• hardware wishlist:

• hardware supported: https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian/Devices

• hardware certification:

• user IRC: ircs://irc.oftc.net/mobian

• devel IRC: ircs://irc.oftc.net/mobian-dev

• Debian IRC: ircs://irc.oftc.net/debian-mobile

• user list:
• devel list:

• Debian list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile

• user forums:
• devel forum:
• Debian forum:

• wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian

• Security contact: aferraris@debian.org | https://www.example.org/security/

• Debian derivatives census maintainer: Arnaud Ferraris <aferraris@debian.org> (a-wai on IRC)

• Debian derivatives census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Mobian

• Debian derivatives census output: http://deriv.debian.net/Mobian/

• Subscribers:
• Distrowatch page:

• Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example

• Distribution type: live image | installable
• Debian derivative model: uses Debian binary packages and adds/modifies some source packages
• Debian archive quantity: overlay
• Based on: Debian testing
• Interfaces: Phosh KDE (Plasma Mobile)
• Init systems: systemd
• Archive tool: aptly
• Build status:

• Build tools: Salsa CI-based pipeline

• Image build: from scratch

• Image tool: debos (recipes)

• Install tool: calamares dd

• VCS repository: https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team

• Bug tracker:
• Bugs forwarded to Debian:

• Package info: https://packages.mobian.org/

• Package tracker:
• Architectures: amd64 arm64 armhf riscv64
• dpkg vendor:
• Patches repo:
• Docs about Mobian for Debian developers:
• Docs about Debian for Mobian developers:
• Mobian glossary:

• Package comparison: https://packages.mobian.org/

• Popcon information:
• Quality assurance information:
• lintian information:
• piuparts information:
• CI/autopkgtest information:
• static analysis information:
• list of developers:
• developer blogs:
• developer microblogs:
• derivatives of this distribution:
• mirrors list:
• mirror CDNs:
• mirror tools:
• changelogs pool:

• apt repositories: https://repo.mobian.org/

• apt sources list (source, binary, stablerelease/nextrelease):

# Current stable release
deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] https://repo.mobian.org/ bookworm main non-free-firmware
deb-src https://repo.mobian.org/ bookworm main non-free-firmware

# Current development version
deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf,riscv64] https://repo.mobian.org/ trixie main non-free-firmware
deb-src https://repo.mobian.org/ trixie main non-free-firmware

# Current unstable repository
deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] https://repo.mobian.org/ staging main non-free-firmware
deb-src https://repo.mobian.org/ staging main non-free-firmware

Last updated 2023-10-12