--- title: Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities description: Drew DeVault argues that Pine64 is misallocating its community funding by prioritizing Linux distribution support over more foundational work like kernel... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pine64-should-re-evaluate-their-community-priorities-ec9kimccz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities | daily.dev og:description: Drew DeVault argues that Pine64 is misallocating its community funding by prioritizing Linux distribution support over more foundational work like kernel... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pine64-should-re-evaluate-their-community-priorities-ec9kimccz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ec9KimcCZ.png og:image:alt: Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities **[Drew DeVault](https://daily.dev/sources/drewdevault)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Drew DeVault argues that Pine64 is misallocating its community funding by prioritizing Linux distribution support over more foundational work like kernel driver upstreaming, u-Boot support, and telephony stack development. He contends that funding distros creates fragmentation while the harder, more impactful lower-level work goes underfunded. His recommendation is for Pine64 to hire at least one full-time developer focused on upstreaming patches to Linux mainline and u-Boot, which would benefit all distros simultaneously rather than duplicating effort across dozens of independent projects. He also criticizes Manjaro Linux as a poor recipient of Pine64 funding due to internal issues and technical problems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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