Librem 5 Phone, progress reports

trainailleur

@maxinova2001 said in Librem 5 Phone, progress reports:

@trainailleur also note that the phone in question is branded Verizon so that would add lots of seconds to the boot time, in this specific case they could at least use a debranded phone ahhh...

Exactly.

And all of that promoted on the official website ahhh...

Yes, I found that surprising too. When I saw who wrote/filmed it, I wasn't surprised the test was so slanted, but I was even more surprised Purism had it on their website. Lunduke can be entertaining, but he is deliberately sensational and the credibility of his work is often questionable.

arubislander

@trainailleur
It is on the official website because Bryan Lunduke is director of marketing at Purism.

advocatux

@arubislander the interesting thing is that he says that on https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanlunduke but he isn't listed on https://puri.sm/about/board/ nor https://puri.sm/about/team/ Do you know why?

arubislander

@advocatux Well, I wasn't informed . But the reason that comes to mind is the he is neither on the board of directors, nor, judging from the site, on the core team...

advocatux

@arubislander ah, I think that the reason is that he started working at Purism just some days ago (May) and those pages have not been updated yet (?)

arubislander

@advocatux While you are probably correct, I like my reasoning more...

advocatux

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trainailleur

@arubislander said in Librem 5 Phone, progress reports:

@trainailleur
It is on the official website because Bryan Lunduke is director of marketing at Purism.

Aha, thank you for that info. Now it makes more sense to me. Well, the man has a following and a certain panache at times. Let us hope he does more good than harm.

flohack

Just one more thought about this metric, unless the OS is finished and starts all necessary services, the boot time says absolutely nothing.

libremax

Librem 5 June Software Update : https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-june-software-update/

kugiigi

To be fair, I like the progress in making gnome apps adaptive/convergent. Hopefully, someday UT will benefit from them

trainailleur

Purism are starting to demo seven pieces of software a week on the Librem 5. Here is week 1:

Runs on the Librem 5 Smartphone – Week 1

matteo

Looking at the demos, Purism is claiming to be able to use apt get to install a package. I'm wondering whether they can use that command only in a confined environment similarly as for UT or they can run it straight as it is with their own Terminal.

libremax

@matteo Never read about confinement for Librem 5 pureOS version.
I suppose, it's why using apt commands are natively supported.

arubislander

@trainailleur the Evince demo is impressive. I was wondering if drag scrolling would work. And it does.

matteo

@libremax said in Librem 5 Phone, progress reports:

@matteo Never read about confinement for Librem 5 pureOS version.
I suppose, it's why using apt commands are natively supported.

If so it's great: they can actually install packages like if it were a real linux distro. Let's see if it will really be like that. Thank you for replying though.

kalle.kruse

Purism forum says:

I believe that two devkits should have arrived with UBports folks recently.

Beyond that, I don’t have any more information. I hope that the boards survived shipping and that the developers can do something interesting with them.

trainailleur

Librem 5 July Update

kalle.kruse

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-smartphone-final-specs-announced/

libremax

An Interresting speech of Purism CTO at CCCamp about mobile phone market and mobile who respects your freedom (Librem5) plus a few new pictures of device internal parts: https://media.ccc.de/v/Camp2019-10238-a_mobile_phone_that_respects_your_freedom#t=372