An Interview With Former Purism CTO Zlatan Todoric Hints At Chaos At Purism (phoronix.com) 8
mpol writes: Phoronix published an interview with former Purism CTO Zlatan Todoric who left Purism in September 2018. The story hints quite strongly at chaotic situations over at Purism. He started at the company in 2015, when it was a small outfit, and steered it into the bigger company that it is now. To him the smartphone development for the Librem 5 was a mistake and way too early. He has high hopes for the Pinephone, who according to him are doing things right. The first "Aspen" batch of the Purism Librem 5 are supposed to be shipping, though seemingly only people related to Purism are showing off their devices.
Bugger (Score:2)
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There are so many great design decisions for the Librem phone that this would truly be a loss. From an industrial SoC which has active support to separating CPU functions from locked down other stuff, where the owner of the phone has control of their main CPU, rather than some unknown process with encrypted drivers having full access to RAM and the Northbridge.
I am surprised that more people are not supporting this project.
Not Todd! (Score:1)
It's always bloody Todd.
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It does, and it's highlighted in big bold letters on the product page. https://puri.sm/products/libre... [puri.sm]
GNU Linux missing information (Score:2)
Speaking of the features mentioned on that pages, there's a blatant omission:
It says "no" for "runs GNU / Linux" under the "Google Android" column. That's actually only true for non-unlockable smartphones (those saddly these have been a bit more frequent recently).
There's this thing called "libhybris" developed by the people at Jolla (for their Sailfish OS) and then further used by UbuntuTouch whose entire purpose is exactly that: enabling a full-blown GNU/Linux distribution to run on hardware on which the
What is Purism and why should I care? (Score:2)
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Never heard of this organization. <shrug/> Meh.
Far as I can tell it's just the company behind the latest Linux (not android) phone. It uses a new open source OS. There are phones out there. You could probably find a 5 minute video on it and see if it's worth looking into more but that's about it.