Purism Shows Off The Librem 5 Linux Smartphone In Action

[jo-erlend]

Librem stands for "Libre Marginally" right? There is a lot of proprietary hardware on that thing for something that has "Libre" in the name. At >£600 it certainly isn't referring to the price either.

Yes, there are still no public domain, patent free computers on the market, to my knowledge.

[kpedersen]

Librem stands for "Libre Marginally" right? There is a lot of proprietary hardware on that thing for something that has "Libre" in the name. At >£600 it certainly isn't referring to the price either.

[Stilgar]

Michael, when you were writing this post did you happen to notice that there were games installed on the phone like animatch? That they aleready had showned working before on a Devkit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPEPtL6kFTo

Or Dosbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJMRI8kdc64 again also in the devkit

Orsolitaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFRbOvZvxM

Or Quake2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixRYRQd54Bc

The statement "don't expect any games" is kinda deterministic, and pessimistic don't you think

[Britoid]

I expect things like scrolling performance will improve once GTK4 is out and implemented.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Purism Shows Off The Librem 5 Linux Smartphone In Action

Now that the first (beta-ish) batch of Librem 5 smartphones is shipping, Purism has published the first video showing the phone in its current state in action...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Librem-5-In-Use-Video