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Sure, there are many base libraries Pure OS on the Librem 5 uses, but most of them have never really been used on mobile devices and as you mention require qite
by m4rtink 7y ago
Sure, there are many base libraries Pure OS on the Librem 5 uses, but most of them have never really been used on mobile devices and as you mention require qite signifficant enahancements.
Then in comparison, there are libraries that have been used on mobileLinux devices for a while and even open source native applications (mostly on Plasma Mobile & Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS apps are still sadly mostly closed source).
Not making use of and extending all the mobile friendly software almost seems like starting from scratch to me.
BTW, what telephony midleware is Pure OS using ? Ofono, FSO or something else ?
- seba_dos1 7y agoWell, I've seen the effort needed in the past to lay the foundations (when working on SHR and FSO) and see what's needed now (when working on PureOS). The difference is massive - turns out that thanks to things like always-connected 2-in-1 laptops with mobile broadbands and hidpi touchscreens, lots of things that you simply had to make "mobile specific" in the past can be just reused from the desktop now; and improving them makes things better for all GNU/Linux users, not just mobile ones. The telephony middleware is a great example of that - it uses ModemManager, which is a part of a regular desktop stack and already well-integrated in GNOME (and other DEs) for many years. Thanks to that, you can just plug a USB 3G/4G stick to your laptop, install Chatty and start SMSing - just like that, plug'n'play (you may even be able to make calls if your modem exports audio over USB, but it's rare).