our update from mid nov is now out on Crowd Supply as well! https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/november-production-update
Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping
"Shipping the Librem 5 has been an immense multi-year developmental effort. It is the culmination of people’s desire to see an alternative to Android and iOS..."
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-mass-production-phone-has-begun-shipping/
YouTube-dl's repository has been restored \o/ https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Apparently, thank to intervention of the @eff https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/dmca/master/2020/11/2020-11-16-RIAA-reversal-effletter.pdf
The Librem 5 Mass Production Shipping FAQ
"Right now we are finishing up our extensive quality control steps and fulfillment procedures so that we can start shipping the revolutionary Librem 5 phone."
https://puri.sm/posts/the-librem-5-mass-production-shipping-faq/
Precursor is a RISC-V, FPGA-assisted open hardware PDA aimed at developers and hackers
https://tuxphones.com/bunnie-studios-precursor-open-hardware-risc-v-linux-pda-phone/ #linux
made a last minute MNT Reform motherboard revision today, to accomodate for a 7cm long chonker of a LS1028A CPU/RAM upgrade module to be released at some point next year by https://rbz.es & us.
Thanks to @exalm@floss.social taking care of Webkit's packaging, Epiphany's GPU acceleration can now work on the #Librem5! Before (no acceleration) and after (GPU accelerated):
Anbox on the Librem 5
https://puri.sm/posts/anbox-on-the-librem-5/
"Anbox now runs on the Librem 5, getting you access to many additional free software apps that are packaged only for Android."
New episode of @reality2cast featuring @kyle of @purism talking about #DigitalConvergence and more!
Managed to get PSP emulation working on the Librem 5!
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp.git
cd ppsspp
sudo apt install clang cmake libgl1-mesa-dev libsdl2-dev libvulkan-dev
./b.sh --rpi64
vi cmake/Toolchains/raspberry.armv8.cmake (add set(PPSSPP_PI_MODEL4 ON))
./b.sh -rpi64
https://wololo.net/downloads/index.php/download/1326 running on the L5:
Additionally, as part of this plan, we will develop a camera option/upgrade for MNT Reform.
Big news: NLnet/NGI0 PET will fund the development of two new open hardware processor modules compatible with MNT Reform: An NXP LS1028A module developed in partnership with RBZ Embedded Logics and an FPGA module for prototyping with open CPU designs:
https://nlnet.nl/project/MNT-Reform
TheLinuxGamer reviews the Librem 5 Dogwood:
If you need some #debconf20 entertainment around #phosh and #libhandy, watch this talk by @agx: https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2020/DebConf20/13-my-phone-runs-debian-and-it-does-phone-calls.webm
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