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With the Librem Phone, the extra money is also paying for the development of the software ecosystem. I would argue that's worth the investment. For reference,
by kop316 6y ago
With the Librem Phone, the extra money is also paying for the development of the software ecosystem. I would argue that's worth the investment.
For reference, a lot of the Pinephone distros are using the software developed by Purism. I am not saying that's bad, thats the whole spirit of open source!
- syshum 6y agoPinePhone appears to come with PostmarketOS, and they give a small amount of every sale to PostmarketOS. Other than PureOS what other "pinephone distros" are using Purism Software? On top of that, how much of "Purism Software" is upstream linux?
- kop316 6y agoBoth PostmarketOS (if you use the phosh env) and Mobian use phosh, proc, chatty, libhandy, squeekboard, and a number of Purism packages. Mobian would take a lot more work (and likely would not exist) if they did not take advantage of Purism's work. Feel free to go through https://puri.sm/posts/ https://puri.sm/posts/ to see their documentation of what they contribute, but here is one post I choose arbitrarily: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-may-2020-software-development-update/ https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-may-2020-software-development... Note the "Linux Kernel" section. Here's another one: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-june-2020-software-development-update/ https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-june-2020-software-developmen... Also note the "Linux Kernel" section.
- fsflover 6y ago"Phosh is current available on 8 different mobile distros that have been ported to the PinePhone, and Phosh is the preferred DE on 7 of those 8." https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-phosh/ https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-ph... The list of those distros is in the link.
- glglwty 6y agoI think they upstreamed patches to gnome and wlroots