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Re: Purism phone

 

I don't think they can even make convergent apps let alone the os using the
gtk, am I wrong? Also what compositor do they use for Wayland? I've heard
some talk about Mir being considered as a Wayland compositor for Mate!

On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, 12:00 Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> El día Friday, August 25, 2017 a las 10:46:59AM +0100, Sam Bull escribió:
>
> > In case anybody here has not seen the news, Purism are now attempting
> > an open, convergence capable phone. It looks like it will be running
> > GNOME, but could be replaced with anything else. Both hardware and
> > software is focused on user privacy and almost everything is open
> > source.
> >
> > So, if you're still interested in a open source, convergent phone, I'd
> > recommend backing it here: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
>
> I saw this too already in the UBports Forum:
>
> https://forums.ubports.com/topic/506/croudfunding-phone-purism-librem-5-with-ubports
>
> Would be interesting to know what drivers or blobs they use to control
> the GPS and GPRS chips.
>
> Btw: Me and my family (4 devices BQ E4.5 and 1 M10) we are still using
> the latest OTA as daily phones and I switched one already to UBports
> without any problem.
>
>         matthias
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