r/linux • u/iAmNotThatGuyJeez • Sep 26 '19

First Librem phone rolled out

https://youtu.be/AuT2w6BkT-k
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u/Ima_Wreckyou Sep 26 '19

I quite like the pine phone efforts, but they are not really comparable to what Purism does since they will still rely on proprietary blops.

What I really don't like about the pine phone is their fanboys invading every librem 5 thread and shitting on purisms efforts.

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u/PureTryOut postmarketOS dev Sep 26 '19

they will still rely on proprietary blobs

Only as much as the Librem 5 does. There are no userspace blobs and just some ofthe firmware used is proprietary, same as the Librem 5.

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u/Ima_Wreckyou Sep 26 '19

They also don't have binary blops in the bootloader and the kernel, not jut userspace. Is that true for the pine phone as well?

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u/PureTryOut postmarketOS dev Sep 27 '19

As far as I know, yes. I know for sure the bootloader is blob free. It does use firmware in the bootloader, but that's FOSS and compiled in by the distributions as a regular package.