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. * Computer / Device Firmware fwupd: Updating Firmware in Linux https://fwupd.org/ https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devicelist I wrote about this a few months back when logitech got on board. But the explosion of UEFI updates for DELL hardware is encouraging. It's nice to see hardware vendors collaborate with the community to improve this part of the hardware life-cycle for Linux users. https://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/2017-May/004847.html * 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. ** Unihertz Jelly http://www.unihertz.com/spec.html I tiny, Android 7, 4G LTE smartphone, that fits in your pants coin/watch pocket. It is feature packed, and I'm enjoying mine. The semi-rigid rubber case is nice, the armband... not so much. -- Scott Sullivan
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.
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