Wow, we did not expect the level of interest you all have had in the #PineTime!
More info:
- Cost will be approximately 25USD
- Charging dock included in price
- Built-in heartbeat monitor
- Case built of Zinc alloy and plastic
- Battery life measured in days
- Sorry, can't run Linux itself. SoC is nRF52832, which uses a Cortex-M4 core. That's why we need FreeRTOS :)
You're not wrong, but the Cortex M support was not merged to mainline. Also most of the chip support that was brought over was ended in 4.17.
@PINE64 Wow. I wasn't expecting a response. Thank you. I look forward to buying a pinetime and I guess I'll learn a new OS.
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
@blendergeek
It is not a relatively simple matter of porting it. The Cortex M cores are microcontrollers, and are much simpler than the Cortex A series.
In particular, they do not have a memory management unit (MMU), which is necessary for normal Linux.
There is a variant of Linux (uCLinux) which technically works on the Cortex M cores, but the chip we are using likely does not have enough RAM, and uCLinux seems to be a dead project as far as I can tell.