Librem 5 dev kits are shipping
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Re: Librem 5 dev kits are shipping
#2They're still aiming for a first release of the phones in Spring 2019 (this is from the newsletter, not the blog post)
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#4Would be interested in some links to SDKs and/or style guides. As a developer, how do I get started writing my app to target the Librem 5?
Went through the website and many forums but haven't found any definitive.
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#5Is there any document where they describe how their focus on security shapes pureOS? I'm seeing stuff like bundling some add-ons for the browser, and kernel patches.
In my mind, securing users in 2018 means to have a decent password manager with an up-to-date browser, make sure that apps are sandboxed and prohibit the browser from accessing all my user's files. Do they tackle this?
Re: Librem 5 dev kits are shipping
#6They're still aiming for a first release of the phones in Spring 2019 (this is from the newsletter, not the blog post)
I really hope they succeed. Do you know what the specs of the phone are?
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#7Every time Purism is mentioned on HN there are always people chiming in with negativity around how it's not open or secure or free enough, based on some unachievable metric of those things and with an side dose of utopian fantasizing.
Buy one of these phones because you
- Want a 'free' phone to exist in the future
- Want an open source phone to exist in the future
- Want a secure phone to exist in the future
It may not be up to your standards now, but without your support (money) it will never exist.
If you have the money to spend, then spend it. Consider it a donation to the cause.
Re: Librem 5 dev kits are shipping
#8Would be interested in some links to SDKs and/or style guides. As a developer, how do I get started writing my app to target the Librem 5? Went through the website and many forums but haven't found any definitive.
The phone runs PureOS, which is a Linux distro using the Gnome desktop environment. They're developing their own shell, called "phosh", that they plan to push upstream back to Gnome.
Re: Librem 5 dev kits are shipping
#9Every time Purism is mentioned on HN there are always people chiming in with negativity around how it's not open or secure or free enough, based on some unachievable metric of those things and with an side dose of utopian fantasizing. Buy one of these phones because you - Want a 'free' phone to exist in the future - Want an open source phone to exist in the future - Want a secure phone to exist in the future It may n…
Fully agree - there has been a lot of talk about an erosion of privacy, ads and consolidation in the tech sector. Viable alternatives will not emerge unless we fund them with individual purchasing decisions. We must remember that we are the invisible hand of Adam :) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand]
Disclaimer: Views expressed are my own and do not have anything to do with my employer.
Re: Librem 5 dev kits are shipping
#10Would be interested in some links to SDKs and/or style guides. As a developer, how do I get started writing my app to target the Librem 5? Went through the website and many forums but haven't found any definitive.
> how do I get started writing my app to target the Librem 5?
For commandline applications all you need is to develop for GNU/Linux. It should work pretty fine on Librem 5 too. If you want to develop GUI applications see libhandy[0], a GTK+ widget library developed by Purism for Librem 5.
If you need to, you can get motivations from https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/app-mockups and HIG guide for GNOME is available at https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/