Purism's Librem 5 Making Progress In GTK4 Toolkit Usage, Kernel Upbringing
Purism announced earlier this week that the Librem 5 smartphone has been delayed to April 2019. In trying to make that date not slip further, which they attributed this three-month delay on NXP hardware errata, they continue working quickly on the software side of this privacy-minded GNU/Linux smartphone puzzle.
Purism has published another blog post today offering their latest general development report on the project. Among their latest areas of work have been:
- Work in the direction of being able to build Plasma Mobile Librem 5 images.
- Various fixes to their Phosh Wayland shell. Somewhat related are also some fixes for the WLROOTS Wayland support library.
- Various fixes going on with upstream GTK+ 4 and the Librem 5's libhandy library in making up the default Librem 5 user-interface. Preparations for Wayland virtual keyboard support are also underway.
- Continued work on SMS/messaging and calls support.
- They are currently working on adapting the Linux 4.18 kernel to work on their developer kit. They have managed to get a power supply driver for the battery charger working and hope to upstream it soon. They also have USB 2.0 support tested and working.
- On the hardware side, they have sent out the manufacturing files for PCB fabrication and assembly of prototypes.
This 20th general development report on the Librem 5 Linux smartphone can be found via the Purism blog.
Purism has published another blog post today offering their latest general development report on the project. Among their latest areas of work have been:
- Work in the direction of being able to build Plasma Mobile Librem 5 images.
- Various fixes to their Phosh Wayland shell. Somewhat related are also some fixes for the WLROOTS Wayland support library.
- Various fixes going on with upstream GTK+ 4 and the Librem 5's libhandy library in making up the default Librem 5 user-interface. Preparations for Wayland virtual keyboard support are also underway.
- Continued work on SMS/messaging and calls support.
- They are currently working on adapting the Linux 4.18 kernel to work on their developer kit. They have managed to get a power supply driver for the battery charger working and hope to upstream it soon. They also have USB 2.0 support tested and working.
- On the hardware side, they have sent out the manufacturing files for PCB fabrication and assembly of prototypes.
This 20th general development report on the Librem 5 Linux smartphone can be found via the Purism blog.
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