Purism and the Linux Kernel
Purism contributes to several free software projects such as GNOME, wlroots and Debian. We’re especially proud of our kernel contributions – where 13 patches have made it into 5.1. Since this is our...
View ArticlePurism and the Linux 5.2 Kernel
Hello again. Following up on our report for the Linux 5.1 kernel, here’s a list of contributions for the Linux 5.2 kernel cycle, for which our team recently contributed with 14 patches–including a new...
View ArticlePurism & Linux 5.3
Following up on our report for Linux 5.2, here’s a list of Purism’s contributions for the 5.3 cycle Linux kernel. We contributed 12 patches, which include the Librem 5 devkit device tree and a driver...
View ArticlePurism’s contributions to Linux 5.4
Following up on our report for our contributions to Linux 5.3, here’s a list of Purism’s contributions to the Linux kernel for the 5.4 cycle. We contributed 20 patches including improving the devkit’s...
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2019 Year in Review: Librem 5 Software and Kernel
The Librem 5 software team have shared monthly updates throughout 2019 but we wanted to highlight some of the big achievements here. As of 2019 we’re shipping a phone with a GNOME stack that has...
View ArticlePurism’s contributions to Linux 5.5 and 5.6
Following up on our report for Linux 5.4, we continue to improve mainline kernel support for the Librem 5 phone. Here’s a summary of the progress we have made during the 5.5 and 5.6 development cycles....
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Librem 5 March 2020 Software Update
Let’s take a look at what the Librem 5 software team were busy with in March 2020 (weeks 10-13). Some items are covered in more detail in separate blog posts at https://puri.sm/news. The idea is to...
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Librem 5 April 2020 Software Development Update
This is another incarnation of the software development progress for the Librem 5. This time for April 2020 (weeks 14-18). Some items are covered in more detail in separate blog posts at...
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Librem 5 May 2020 Software Development Update
Librem 5 May 2020 Software Development Update This is another incarnation of the software development progress for the Librem 5. This time for May 2020 (weeks 19-22). Some items are covered in more...
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Librem 5 June 2020 Software Development Update
This is another incarnation of the software development progress for the Librem 5. This time for June 2020 (weeks 23-26). Some items are covered in more detail in separate blog posts at...
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Software Development Progress July and August 2020
This is another incarnation of the software development progress for the Librem 5. This time for July and August 2020 (weeks 27-35). Some items are covered in more detail in separate blog posts at...
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Phosh Overview
This article is a repost from https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/phosh_overview.html phosh is graphical shell for mobile, touch based devices like smart phones. It’s the default graphical shell on Purism’s...
View ArticleWe’re puttin’ the Band back together
Calls, Chatty, Phosh, Phoc and Squeekboard started their band in a somewhat long gone gitea instance. They had little infrastructure to rely on and mostly borrowed equipment from here and there but...
View ArticleOn Road to Prizren with Librem 5
Yes, you can go onto a multi week trip with a smartphone running free software. I wanted to share some impressions from my recent trip to Prizren/Kosovo to attend Debconf 22 using a Librem 5. It’s a...
View ArticleKerberos authentication on the Librem 5
The Librem 5 features a built-in smartcard reader. While most people use it for GPG I wanted to see if it can be used as an authenticator for services like email (SMTP, IMAP), access to web pages...
View ArticlePhosh 2022 in Retrospect
I wanted to look back at what changed in phosh in 2022 and figured I could share it with you. I’ll be focusing on things very close to the mobile shell, for a broader overview, do watch Evangelos...
View ArticleDeveloping for Mobile Linux with Phosh – Part 0: Running Nested
Mobile Linux is gaining in popularity. What is a simple way to develop for it? This upcoming series of posts will help with that using Phosh and related technologies. We’ll start out really simple and...
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