Has anyone tried installing TwisterOS yet?

[bugmenot]

Twister OS

twisteros.com

It's basically one of the best RPi Operating Systems/Distros for a while now.

I'm willing to bet that it can work on both the Pandora, and the Pyra...

Has anyone tried installing the 32-bit, or the Armbian, version yet?

 

[ClockworkCoder]

Looks like it was designed specifically to work with the Pi4 (and not earlier models), and I doubt it would be an easy port to Pyra/Pandora.

Could be interesting though. I've also been following dev videos for SerenityOS which is an interesting project.

 

[Phlyra]

RE SerenityOS, wouldn’t you have to try it through a VM since it’s for x86?

 

[ClockworkCoder]

RE SerenityOS, wouldn’t you have to try it through a VM since it’s for x86?

Probably, yes.

 

[ptitSeb]

Trivia: do you know why it's called TwisterOS?

Spoiler

Because Box86 is a Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a Twist

 

[levi]

Looks like it was designed specifically to work with the Pi4 (and not earlier models), and I doubt it would be an easy port to Pyra/Pandora.

Maybe Twister OS armbian which is targetted at some of the Rockchip chips but sounds like it might just be more vanilla might be more appropriate a starting point?

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all,

@ptitSeb : nice to see you are involved in this project and that Box86 is gaining traction beyond our small scene

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[todk]

Is this OS still available? I might give it a try.

 

[ptitSeb]

Is this OS still available? I might give it a try.

You mean this: https://twisteros.com/ ?

 

[joki1]

is this an update or new software?

 

[levi]

They seem to be providing new versions of the software regularly. Plus it seem to be built on top of debian which allows you to update packages and on top of that it seems to have a porting system. Whether it's new to you depends on what you've seen before I guess.

 

[spud42]

Twister OS ™ works quite well on my RPi4 2GB with Argon One M.2 case and a 256GB M.2 SSD.

 

[levi]

That's worth knowing, although the pertinent question in this thread is can it work on the Pandora (and secondarily on the Pyra)?