On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:23 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Thanks to all those that came out to the GTALUG meeting, and the social afterwards. A couple of interesting items came up in conversation, so I wish to share the links more broadly.
* Phones
** Librem 5
https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
Pursim, is a company offering laptops with the most comprehensive Free/Libre and Open Source for their hardware (their laptops ship CoreBoot). There now trying to do the same for a phone, and have successfully funded it's development. KDE and Gnome communities are on board for UI development.
As someone who has been interested in Free/Open Source mobile platforms since I learned about the OpenMoko FreeRunner ( http://openmoko.org although that appears down) ages ago, and used one for quite a while, It's refreshing to see more people taking up the torch in the form of the Libre M. I've already backed it for a phone because it sounds ideal. There's also the Neo900 ( https://neo900.org/ ), which has very low specs compared to modern phones, but has been a long term pet project to revive/reinvent the glory of the Nokia N900. I'm currently awaiting Sailfish X's availability in Canada, so that I can reflash that onto my Sony Xperia X, so that I can have an experience like the Nokia N9 (imho the best smartphone ever made) running a more pure Linux. Sad I missed the irl conversation about these devices.