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Purism suffered a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on July 29, 2023, which took down their site, as they explained on their Matrix channel and forum (when the site came …

> It's highly likely that you have a financial stake in the company's products because nothing else would explain your devotion to so thoroughly misleading people and marketing the…

> The Librem 5 hardware is also just as much of a black box. It's 100% as proprietary. It does not have firmware or hardware that's any more open and this is a blatant lie. Them ma…

> Linux doesn't mean systemd, polkit, glibc, GCC, binutils, GNOME, pulseaudio/pipewire, Wayland/X11, etc. It makes no sense to claim these are Linux phones when the vast majority o…

> More developers are familiar with Android than the desktop Linux software stack. More work goes into it. Far more apps are written for it, and that includes a very active open so…

@anw, According to the Purism forum, the shipping queue for the Librem 5 has reached people who pre-ordered on October 20-25, 2017, so you should have gotten your phone by now. You…

It depends on your goals. If you donate to the GNOME Foundation, your donation won't help develop Phosh (which is the leading mobile Linux interface according to 3 different PinePh…

Xiaomi is the number one brand in Europe and India, and was the number 3 brand worldwide by unit sales in the year 2021. Xiaomi actually does the worst in its home market. It was t…

> Looking up the Librem 5 devicetree in the upstream kernel, it seems it was submitted on Aug 21 2020. Aspen shipped in September 2019, so it took them about a year from shipping t…

The RYF certification program is based on Richard Stallman's outdated idea that hardware shouldn't be changed and software is anything that can be changed or updated after the devi…

Hi, I'm the "random community member" who wrote that FAQ answer. Thanks for investigating how this works. Where is the file cpu_rec.py located? I can't find it. I will edit the FAQ…

It would be almost impossible to make a phone with parts that are entire manufactured in the US. Most silicon foundry work is done in Taiwan (TSMC, UMC, Vanguard) and S. Korea (Sam…

Yes, the CPU is weak, suspend-to-RAM hasn't yet been added to the mainline Linux driver for the i.MX 8M, camera auto-focus doesn't yet work, and lot of work is needed for full func…

The NXP i.MX 8M Quad processor in the Librem 5 has "Made in Korea" stamped on them and there have been news articles published about how NXP was switching its foundry work from TSM…

Purism has said that it will be providing proprietary firmware updates, and it already has instructions how to update the firmware for the RS9116 WiFi/BT on its web site. Because P…

I'm a strong believer in "free software" as RMS defined it, and I give the man a lot of credit for getting the movement started. However, my few interactions with him were not plea…

I have no idea whether the internal process at the FSF changed or not, but the rules are the same for the FSF endorsing a distro and giving its Respects Your Freedom certification …

There has been documentation for how to update the proprietary firmware for the RS9116 modem on the Librem 5 since early 2019: https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Development_Environ…

The people doing the final assembly of the Librem 5 USA are working in Purism's Fulfillment Center in Carlsbad, California, which is a suburb of San Diego. Housing is very expensiv…

ThatGeoGuy, Since you called me that "crazy uncle at Thankgiving," I feel that the "crazy uncle" should have a chance to respond to the arguments that you made in your review: http…

For info on Jumpdrive and many other things, see the FAQ: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

Looking at the pin description on page 24 of the A64 Datasheet, it looks like the 8 data pins (CSI_D0 … CSI_D7) are for a MIPI Camera Parallel Interface (CPI), but Allwinner is cal…

Hi megous, I created the spec table comparing the two phones. The "2.7. Image In" section on page 10 of the A64 Datasheet ( https://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pine64/A64_Datash…

A lot depends on what online services you are using. The goal of Purism is to provide a suite of online services at Librem One ( https://librem.one/ ) so you don't have to share yo…

Current shipping date is estimated at mid-to-late November 2020. It is definitely getting closer. I try to keep the community FAQ up-to-date, if you want current info: https://sour…