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2019-01-06
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#492
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Originally Posted by lantern
Keep wishing then, i'm sure one day you will get the unicorn if you wish hard enough
oh no, I don't want a 5.7'' skateboard with 720p screen.
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2019-01-06
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i STILL cant get over how they fricken advertised it as 5" and just changed it to 5.7" without even bothering to make an announcement or justify the decision or anything. they just pretend like "5 inches" means "you know, sort of 5-inch-like" and that they always meant it that way
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2019-01-08
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Originally Posted by wolke
They have told that in a blog post as far as I remember.
i STILL cant get over how they fricken advertised it as 5" and just changed it to 5.7" without even bothering to make an announcement or justify the decision or anything. they just pretend like "5 inches" means "you know, sort of 5-inch-like" and that they always meant it that way
The choise is probably because it is hard to get 5" this days? Ever heard of the world small volumes vs big volumes?
And since we talk about the HW:
For those who wonder about the CPU: We can't be sure it will be the same ARM core as the one used on devboard eg: iMX8M.
More realistic seems to be a iMX8M-Mini cause of the problems with iMX8M is eating to much power. There has been a blog post about the power problems last year. But my guess is people has forgotten it and people will soon whine about that also but hey is there something else we can choose? Just tell me... Maybe another CPU manufacturer? Maybe Allwinner LOL now try get techsheets from them in best case you get a google translate from chinese PDF. Qualcom? no way closed as heck. The one used in the RPI(Broadcom)? nope they want big volumes. TI naah to old CPU and also GFX closed.
So nope we are back on NXP land and iMX8 family or iMX6.
No someone will say there is a open competitor: Necuno mobile LOL. Open?? Nope something is really smoking ******** with their site and marketing.
The true is:
We should be happy Purism at least try make a open phone which is far from easy task. Indeed almost impossible. Many has failed already.
AFAIK librem5 is the most open hardware as far as I know. Not even rapberrypi can compare.
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2019-01-08
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I also like the freedom, It's not just about how fast it is. It is about how well you use what you have.
Android software is getting slower every release.
Sailfish is still not open!
Can we even make a compatibility layer to run sailfish apps on GNU/Linux? (No proprietary software in a chroot)
Anyway, check out the dev board: here
Go big
or go home 
Android software is getting slower every release.
Sailfish is still not open!
Can we even make a compatibility layer to run sailfish apps on GNU/Linux? (No proprietary software in a chroot)
Anyway, check out the dev board: here
Go big
or go home
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2019-01-09
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing
That would be quite a bummer, since the Mini doesn't seem to have HDMI. [1]
For those who wonder about the CPU: We can't be sure it will be the same ARM core as the one used on devboard eg: iMX8M.
More realistic seems to be a iMX8M-Mini cause of the problems with iMX8M is eating to much power.
What's Purisms take on that?
Originally Posted by mikecomputing
Can you elaborate please?
No someone will say there is a open competitor: Necuno mobile LOL. Open?? Nope something is really smoking ******** with their site and marketing.
I don't feel well informed about the Necuno at the moment, but that might be just my fault because without a GSM modem that device is of little interest to me.
Originally Posted by mikecomputing
What do you think of the Dragonbox Pyra in comparison to the Librem 5?
AFAIK librem5 is the most open hardware as far as I know. Not even rapberrypi can compare.
I know their concepts aren't totally comparable, but besides that, is there a reason you didn't mention it?
btw:
Do you know what happened to the Librem 11 detachable? It's been announced for how long now? 2 years?
What happened to it that resulted in it neither seeming to make any progress nor being cancelled?
I'd be fine with either of those options as long as there's info on that, but by now frankly I'd expect that info to be placed prominently on the product's page.
[1] https://www.nxp.com/products/process...rs:IMX8-SERIES
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2019-01-09
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing
Offtopic a bit: I'm also watching this one and will try to get it running on Sailfish when the Qt version allows it (>= 5.8). According to latest resolved issues, seems it already runs on Ubuntu Touch. Very promising. Planning to rewrite Troll Bridge with it as I really don't like Go
There already is Rust bindings for QML, but also Gtk, the one I have tried is https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs. When/if I port sailserver to librem I will for sure write backend in Rust instead of C++. It is way easier and fun make a tinywebserver in C++ using already written framework such as actix-web. It can be really cool indeed since you may add your own templates and so on.
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2019-01-10
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#498
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New blog post, a retrospective of the dev kit development:
https://puri.sm/posts/how-we-designe...free-software/
I think that must be the first project with that much updates and openness I have seen. They have mostly kept the same updates rhythm all along the past year, and seem to continue to do so. Good !
https://puri.sm/posts/how-we-designe...free-software/
I think that must be the first project with that much updates and openness I have seen. They have mostly kept the same updates rhythm all along the past year, and seem to continue to do so. Good !
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2019-01-17
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Originally Posted by one_with_linux
"Oh boy, it looks great"
I also like the freedom, It's not just about how fast it is. It is about how well you use what you have.
Android software is getting slower every release.
Sailfish is still not open!
Can we even make a compatibility layer to run sailfish apps on GNU/Linux? (No proprietary software in a chroot)
Anyway, check out the dev board: here
Go big
Would be even better if the LCD display actually worked.
Still waiting for that... Those damn display controllers... Often those are messy to get going on embedded products
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2019-01-17
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Originally Posted by Zeta
Yup I like their are so open. They also answers questions on matrix channels.
New blog post, a retrospective of the dev kit development:
https://puri.sm/posts/how-we-designe...free-software/
I think that must be the first project with that much updates and openness I have seen. They have mostly kept the same updates rhythm all along the past year, and seem to continue to do so. Good !
Next time I buy a laptop I will buy it on puri.sm for sure.
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