Am 11.01.2024 17:52 schrieb Gottfried:
> thanks very much. > > Unfortunately my new company didn't allow me to choose a mobile phone but > they gave me immeadiately a Samsung phone with Android and all sorts of bad > things like Google, whats app and so on. > > This company is spread worldwide and all the workers are connected with > certain programms on this phone. The ID department is sitting in London/UK > and they installed some security apps etc. on this phone. Laptop and phone is > connected. > > I have to live with it and use it only for my work. > Privately I use at the moment an old phone only for SMS, to be reachable via > SMS. > > Gottfried > > Am 09.01.2024 20:44 schrieb Roman Riabenko: > > Hi Gottfried > > У чт, 2023-12-21 у 11:42 +0000, Gottfried пише: > which mobile phone would You support with which free software? > > I have been using a Librem 5 device for the last five months. However, > I only needed phone calls, SMS messages, and XMPP chats via Dino. I > also developed a habit of constantly charging it with a portable > battery. The call quality is average, but the device was reliable. > > It comes with PureOS, which is one of the FSF-approved GNU > distributions. The caveat is that the cellular modem and the chip > require some non-free firmware: > https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Frequently-Asked- [1] > Questions#18-what-is-respects-your-freedom-certification-and-how-close- > is-the-librem-5-to-getting-it . > I am sorry, my question is not about Guix, but about free software. > > There have been some efforts to make the Guix System work on Librem 5. > I am learning to install a distribution on it and potentially test > something for Guix. If anyone here has any suggestions, I am open to > any experiments! I have noticed that Purism uses some development tools > for flashing that are missing in Guix. > Or is there a website or a forum which would be able to help? > > If your question is still relevant, you may want to take a look at > https://forums.puri.sm/c/hw/l5/ [2] . The authors own various mobile > devices, not only from Purism, and are eager to tell about it. Beware > that some focus more on what they perceive as security rather than on > freedom. > I will hopefully get a job and I need a mobile phone for it. > > It depends on your job expectations. I have a separate phone for > clients who demand me to use non-free software for communication. > However, if you need only a phone number, you do not necessarily need a > smartphone. > > Roman Links: ------ [1] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Frequently-Asked- [2] https://forums.puri.sm/c/hw/l5/
