Purism Librem 5 update: Unexpected good news!
Howdy all, The free-software handheld product from Purism, the Librem 5, is on track for delivery again after an unexpected resolution of the heat issues they were experiencing. […] So a lot of research was made, and our development team started evaluating the i.MXM8 Mini to see if it could be used within our requirements–free software only, no binary blobs, mainline based software stacks. And then the month of February began, and something else unexpectedly happened: NXP released a new software stack for our first CPU choice, the i.MX 8M–and all of the power consumption and heating issues suddenly disappeared! <URL:https://puri.sm/posts/massive-progress-exact-cpu-selected-minor-shipping-adjustment/> The post also gives a good progress update and a video of a hardware prototype. Looking forward to receiving a handheld designed with modern hardware, entirely free drivers, and full communication features! -- \ “Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who | `\ speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” —Ambrose | _o__) Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 05:56:40PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Howdy all,
The free-software handheld product from Purism, the Librem 5, is on track for delivery again after an unexpected resolution of the heat issues they were experiencing.
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The post also gives a good progress update and a video of a hardware prototype.
Looking forward to receiving a handheld designed with modern hardware, entirely free drivers, and full communication features!
-- \ “Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who | `\ speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” —Ambrose | _o__) Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney
It is good progress! I have one and helped craftyguy set up the bootloader on Postmarket OS.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 05:56:40PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Howdy all,
The free-software handheld product from Purism, the Librem 5, is on track for delivery again after an unexpected resolution of the heat issues they were experiencing.
[…] So a lot of research was made, and our development team started evaluating the i.MXM8 Mini to see if it could be used within our requirements–free software only, no binary blobs, mainline based software stacks.
And then the month of February began, and something else unexpectedly happened: NXP released a new software stack for our first CPU choice, the i.MX 8M–and all of the power consumption and heating issues suddenly disappeared!
<URL:https://puri.sm/posts/massive-progress-exact-cpu-selected-minor-shipping-adjustment/>
The post also gives a good progress update and a video of a hardware prototype.
Looking forward to receiving a handheld designed with modern hardware, entirely free drivers, and full communication features!
I ordered one in the initial funding. I am very much looking forward to retiring my Replicant-ified Galaxy S3, whose screen is looking like a spider web from being dropped so many times, and who has been through ~6 batteries! Bring on the Librem 5! Cheers, Fraser
-- \ “Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who | `\ speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” —Ambrose | _o__) Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney
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