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> Nobody buys a phone for the operating system I did. Pretty much because all the drivers are mainline(able). Even if purism went belly up today, I could conti
by azdle 7y ago
> Nobody buys a phone for the operating system
I did. Pretty much because all the drivers are mainline(able). Even if purism went belly up today, I could continue to run up to date Linux on my librem 5 basically forever.
- criddell 7y agoThe baseband OS is still a binary blob that you don't really have any visibility into though, right?
- azdle 7y agoIt's a black box for sure, but it's not a 'binary blob'. That's an important distinction. There's no kernel module that tied to a specific kernel version. And even better the WWAN module is in an M.2 (?) socket, so it'd replaceable in the future as new tech comes out.
- cartoonworld 7y agoThis internal expansion is a really cool feature. I'm not sure how much use I would make of it, but I really like this feature and I was surprised they were able to cram it in there. Nice one. More info: https://liliputing.com/2019/08/librem-5-smartphone-will-have-two-m-2-slots-for-replaceable-wireless-cards.html https://liliputing.com/2019/08/librem-5-smartphone-will-have...
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