Purism Is Hoping GNOME 3.32 Will Be In Great Shape For Their Librem 5 Smartphone

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Purism Is Hoping GNOME 3.32 Will Be In Great Shape For Their Librem 5 Smartphone

With the Librem 5 GNU/Linux smartphone not shipping now until at least April 2019, this will give them time to adopt GNOME 3.32 and they are hoping more GNOME applications will prepare for convergence...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.32-Librem-5-Hope

[wswartzendruber]

I wonder if the Librem 5's USB-C port will be able to drive more than one monitor...

[dkasak]

Sweeeeet Hope they get some traction ...

[Lanz]

Gnome is essentially a tablet GUI anyway - shouldn't be too hard.

[cynical]

It’s funny how the ideas from Unity are creeping in here finally. I wish Canonical hadn’t killed those plans, given their great sense of design, but hopefully they are realized one day soon. I really don’t want to use iOS or Android, and the alternatives aren’t appealing.

[Cape]

Good! My Android is quickly loosing structural integrity, hopefully my Librem5 will arrive jit to justify a phone upgrade to my GF 🙂🙃

Anyway, I still struggle to understand why Gnome 3 almost killed the desktop paradigm under the altar of a unified UI for desktop and mobile, and yet it needs a complete rework + a new library to be usable on mobile...

[lowflyer]

Is somebody able to post a link where I can preorder that phone? I am not able to find it on the purism website.

[johanb]

Is somebody able to post a link where I can preorder that phone? I am not able to find it on the purism website.

The site is puri.sm and here's the pre-order page: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Scroll down and you will on your right side see options for buying the Librem 5

[Guest]

Optimism bias much?

[Mateus Felipe]

It's nice that Purism has chosen the most high-quality DE available to make the best phone possible.

Keep doing a great work, guys!

I would buy Librem5, but USD to BRL is at 3.78 (as of 12/10/18), so it would be very expensive to me.