I’d love to know how this goes (as a fedora user). Just learnt about the uConsole and it looks potentially like a perfect phone for my use (jmp.chat on a Librem5 is my current phone).
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To all chinese user, I believe the most useful function of the uconsole is help you to 加班 any where, anytime, lol
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Bruh!!! 
I work from home a tiny closet all day. When my work day is over, if I just stayed in that room to use my Linux desktop, I wouldn’t see much of my family. I can use a laptop, but I don’t like the ceremony around laptops. Opening the bag, opening the laptop, dedicating my lap or the coffee table to using it. A handheld device, which is NOT my phone, would be ideal for me. I want to be seen by my family and admin my homelab from anywhere in the house. The robust little slab of Pi called uConsole will be a perfect companion. It reminds me of my favorite extinct form factor: the MID craze from 2000-2006 or so. I couldn’t participate then, and this is my chance to really enjoy it.
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I never used a devterm or the uconsole (soon!) But maybe someone can answer this: can I have several SDcards with diferents os on each? If i can, witch os can be the best
for the uconsole?
You absolutely can have multiple SD cards. Which OS is best depends on which core you ordered, but I would start with whatever image that Clockworkpi puts up for download first, and then work out from there
Initially, i would imagine linux would be all that’s available, but other stuff like freebsd may be ported in the future
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I choose the CM4 witch is the most compatible, i think. Thanks for your anwer! we are pretty close to get our little toy!!
For CM4, Raspbian will probably be the best supported answer
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I want to be able to manage my Orange Pi server remotely. I need to call my ISP to get the password for my router, it isn’t the default one, so I can enable port forwarding to the thing. I want to run a Minetest server for myself and my friends, OpenVPN so I can VPN to home from public WiFi, PiHole for adblocking/malicious websites, and anything else I think of.
Also, as a mobile tool for formating USBs as I tend to need to for work and college. As well as other Linux CLI tools. And of course some emulation, maybe download movies/anime, Linux gaming, there’s really so much.
Your ISP not providing you with your router’s admin password is a drag. I’d be tempted to return their provided router and pick up something that you can actually configure.
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well I could just reset it if I wanted to, calling them would be the least intrusive because I wouldn’t have to set up the network again (I have a connected mesh wifi network as well so I don’t want to have to set that up again). I just need to get around to calling them lol
Oh man! Hadn’t thought of this usage – what software tracker would you use?
Me too. I plan to use SunVox on the uConsole. I’ve been using SunVox since 2011 and I like using it on super portable things with qwerty keyboards. An old beaten-up £30 Panasonic CF-U1 is my current weapon of choice, but I can’t wait to get the uConsole for this. I will also try out ORCΛ, which is a kind of esoteric (confusing) live coding audio sequencing tool which I’ve used with SunVox.
I’m also a Polyend Tracker user and I love the original one. I was super excited about the new PE Tracker Mini, but really annoyed to see that they have dropped the keyboard, which I can’t do without on the Tracker. So the uConsole is going to be my SunVox equivalent of the PE Tracker Mini. It’ll have keys to play!
So with SunVox you get up to 3 octaves of notes that you can map to whatever qwerty keyboard keys you wish. Then while you’re on the bus/in the woods/on the loo/on the moon you can play the keys to noodle/figure-out little melodies and record them into the tracker sequencer. I love it. I think the uConsole will be great for this. I’m hoping I’ll find the trackball type mouse (yeah not a trackball, but whatever it is) fine to get used to, as there obviously won’t be a touchscreen/stylus input.
Yes I know that tiny computer keys sounds like a funny thing to be playing melodies on. That’s my idea of fun, but maybe not most musicians…
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Nice idea! SunVox would be a ton of fun on uConsole! I’ll try it, too. And probably that Debian-friendly FastTracker 2 clone by 8bitbubsy.
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ooh I don’t know that one. Thanks for the tip!
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if you’re looking at other software : reaper (DAW) REAPER | Download
traction waveform (DAW) Waveform Free | digital audio workstation band editing software - Tracktion and Renoise (tracker) Downloads | Renoise all have versions that run on raspberry pi.
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An idea just come to my mind, actually CM4 is compatible to android 
so uPhone is coming soon
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I have a Ham radio messaging software working in linux - tested it over TCPIP but not over radio using RF - once I get it working on my linux laptop I’ll test it on the DevTerm and eventually the uConsole…(it’s command line with a web-based gui)
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is there a way to copy the SD card image as shipped - I have a 256 GB micro sd just for the uConsole - I tend to load applications and easily exceed the original card - usually a disk image is posted when shipment starts no knew images…
You can create a partition on the disk for the extra space and add it to your fstab.