Better late than never: PureOS 11 (crimson) is finally out, catching up with Debian 12 (bookworm) just in time for when bullseye/byzantium lose their extended security support next month. If you're still on byzantium, update ASAP! It's a solid improvement over both byzantium and plain bookworm. 🧵
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While it's still not exactly on the bleeding edge, it's a significant step forward. Lots of infrastructural blockers that prevented further development have been resolved in the process, and even though the base isn't very fresh, there's quite a bit of fresh work included too. I'd say the end result may even be more polished in some areas than in other up-to-date distros now (with a strong accent on "some areas", obviously, as they're clearly ahead in some others!)
@dos Thanks a lot for all your work on this!
How do you manage to show an "empty" screen so that you can see the wallpaper? If I close all apps, I see the icons of the available apps, and the Search apps... box.
I only see the wallpaper sometimes very briefly when opening an app.
@janvlug There are several ways to get there, but pressing the Escape key is probably the simplest one 😀
@dos Cool, I learnt something new!
@dos Thank you Sebastian for all the hard and valuable work you've done to help make this happen!
@dos I have been hesitant to ask a timeframe on Dawn since I know how Purism's been burnt in the past when estimating dates. I won't hold you or anyone to "coming months" but its still great to hear this.
The phone, as it stands today, is running the smoothest and most reliably that it ever has for me. Thank you for this.
@dos Would you say Dawn might come quicker with all the set up work done in Crimson?
@f_underscore I have no crystal ball to look into, but Crimson has been exceptionally unlucky in this regard, with multiple mutually unrelated reasons for its delays. For Dawn, the "only" thing left is to actually polish the distro itself.
@dos I can testify to this. Camera with #Millipixels and GPS turn-by-turn navigation is with #Puremaps are both significantly improved. In fact, I just drove to a new suburb for the frst time without needing my degoogled Android. Previously I was using #postmarketOS on this #Librem5. Thanks.
@opensourceopenmind @janvlug You may want to adjust Speaker Boost ALSA control rather than use software amplification that causes clipping. This is shared with the earpiece, be careful not to blast it at full volume when you have it near your ear.
@opensourceopenmind @janvlug I hope that PipeWire will let us sort this out better. PulseAudio was very stubborn at considering the maximum available hardware amplification as 100% instead of 0dB, so I had to restrict it from using the whole range to keep it sane :(
@dos @janvlug I'm excited for Pipewire. In pmOS 25.06 on L5, almost everything (not only Millipixels) including Firefox with Jitsi and Galene, other camera apps like Snapshot, other apps using camera like Decoder, Dino XMPP, Delta Chat, etc all mostly worked for scanning, video calls, etc. In 25.12 there were problems with legacy voice calls so they switched back to pulseaudio.
@opensourceopenmind @janvlug But PipeWire can still handle video even when PulseAudio is handling audio...?
@dos @janvlug That's how I thought it should work but I actually now I remember, the L5 camera not being detected by Firefox on pmOS 25.12 was observed before they did the change back to pulseaudio: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/work_items/4179
@opensourceopenmind @janvlug libcamera won't produce nice image yet, but it should work nevertheless, so that's likely just some distro misconfiguration that you should be able to debug. Make sure you enable PipeWire support in Firefox in the first place, I don't think it's enabled by default yet.
Now moving onto the trixie-based PureOS 12 "dawn", which should become usable by early adopters in the coming months 🎉
Thank you for your support and patience on the way there 🤗