On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 08:02:26PM +0000, Daniel Abrecht wrote: > On 31/10/2018 15.00, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:44:48AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom - 31.10.18, 01:49: > > > > Now they're working on a Purism phone. They do seem to intend it to > > > > work with a variety of GNU/Linux systems. They're currently hoping > > > > to get some developers to adapt their free software to Purism's > > > > mobile hardware. > > > > > > AFAIR Purism also contact both the KDE and GNOME communities about > > > adapting their desktops. Maybe some developers got test machines. > > > > I know they were selling development boards. But a development board > > doesn't have the same ergomonic affordances as an actual mobile device. > > I've ordered both back when their crowdfounding campaign was running. The > devkits aren't for sale anymore, but the phone is still available for > pre-order. > > The devkits haven't been delivered yet. Initially, they made one with i.MX6 > processor, and posted images of it working. But then they decided to switch > to the newer i.MX8, and that in addition to some other things delayed things > a bit. The last estimate I know of was around the middle of October, but > given the mails their devs accidentally sent to the public development > mailing list around that time, (they renamed the mailinglist domain > afterwards to make sure that doesn't happen again), they just got the Bord > to boot to the console with the new core around that time, and they can't > make changes to the hardware anymore. So I assume the boards may already > exist, but I expect until they finish the software side and finally ship > them, it'll probably take at least another month. The phone has already been > delayed too. > > All the software is publicly available on their gitlab: > https://source.puri.sm/Librem5 > > They have some documentation for new devs (some stuff needs an update > though): > https://developer.puri.sm/ > > There are instructions to setup a qemu vm, but I haven't done anything yet, > because a VM just isn't the same thing. > > The mailing lists for the librem-5 are pretty quiet. They used to read them > though. Most communication is probably on matrix, but I haven't looked at it > yet. There is a someone at a mastodon instance somewhere who gives > interesting updates, I forgot where exactly. Their twitter account mostly > posts links to the usual boring public stuff, and they don't seam to read > development questions sent to their twitter account. The mailing lists and > matrix stuff can be found in the documentation too: > https://developer.puri.sm/Contact.html > > There have been 21 progress reports as of now: > https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-1/ > https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-2/ > ... (just replace the number in the url) > https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-21/ > > I hope they ship the devkit soon, I want to install devuan on it too. > Getting a Desktop Environment and Apps to work so it is usable could then > become a bit tricky though.
Uness there is already a desktop environment adapted to the needs of mobile touch devices. Or they provide it. Unless they rely on systemd, of course. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
