Guido Günther – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.28 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png Guido Günther – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Opportunistic Word Completion https://puri.sm/posts/opportunistic-word-completion/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:57:26 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=80994 I make lots of typos so I need computers to correct those for me as much as possible. That especially showed when leaving my laptop at home more only picking the up the Librem 5. Longer texts would just end in a catastrophe. That needed to change and hence I added completion support to an […]

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]]> Developing for Mobile Linux with Phosh – Part 0: Running Nested https://puri.sm/posts/developing-for-mobile-linux-with-phosh-part-0-running-nested/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:16:21 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77278 Mobile Linux is gaining in popularity. What is a simple way to develop for it? This upcoming series of posts will help with that using Phosh and related technologies. We’ll start out really simple and move into more complicated topics step by step. For many bits you won’t even need to modify your phone (or […]

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]]> Phosh 2022 in Retrospect https://puri.sm/posts/phosh-2022-in-retrospect/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:05:07 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76759 I wanted to look back at what changed in phosh in 2022 and figured I could share it with you. I’ll be focusing on things very close to the mobile shell, for a broader overview, do watch Evangelos upcoming FOSDEM talk in February 2023. Some numbers We’re usually aiming for a phosh release at the end of […]

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]]> Kerberos authentication on the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/kerberos-authentication-on-the-librem-5/ Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:37:33 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76149 The Librem 5 features a built-in smartcard reader. While most people use it for GPG I wanted to see if it can be used as an authenticator for services like email (SMTP, IMAP), access to web pages (HTTPS), calendars, etc. without either having to retype a password often or having to store it on the […]

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]]> On Road to Prizren with Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/on-road-to-prizren-with-librem-5/ Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:20:51 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75675 Yes, you can go onto a multi week trip with a smartphone running free software. I wanted to share some impressions from my recent trip to Prizren/Kosovo to attend Debconf 22 using a Librem 5. It’s a mix of things that happened and bits that got improved to hopefully make things more fun to use. And, […]

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]]> We’re puttin’ the Band back together https://puri.sm/posts/were-puttin-the-band-back-together/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:00:16 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73409 Calls, Chatty, Phosh, Phoc and Squeekboard started their band in a somewhat long gone gitea instance. They had little infrastructure to rely on and mostly borrowed equipment from here and there but they had a line up: Calls: vocals Chatty: vocals and rhythm guitar Phosh: bass guitar Squeekboard: synthesizer / keyboard Phoc: drums and a […]

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]]> Phosh Overview https://puri.sm/posts/phosh-overview/ Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:44:44 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70682 phosh is graphical shell for mobile, touch based devices like smart phones. It's the default graphical shell on Purism's Librem 5 (and that's where it came to life) but projects like Postmarket OS, Mobian and Debian have picked it up putting it into use on other devices as well and contributing patches.

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]]> Software Development Progress July and August 2020 https://puri.sm/posts/software-development-progress-july-and-august-2020/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:21:15 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69506 This is another incarnation of the software development progress for the Librem 5. This time for July and August 2020 (weeks 27-35). Some items are covered in more detail in separate blog posts at https://puri.sm/news. The idea of this summary is so you can have a closer look at the coding and design side of […]

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]]> Librem 5 June 2020 Software Development Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-june-2020-software-development-update/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:36:35 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68941 This is another incarnation of the software development progress for the Librem 5. This time for June 2020 (weeks 23-26). Some items are covered in more detail in separate blog posts at https://puri.sm/news. The idea of this summary is to have a closer look at the coding and design side of things. It also shows […]

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]]> Librem 5 May 2020 Software Development Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-may-2020-software-development-update/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:01:48 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68510 Librem 5 May 2020 Software Development Update This is another incarnation of the software development progress for the Librem 5. This time for May 2020 (weeks 19-22). Some items are covered in more detail in separate blog posts at https://puri.sm/news. The idea of this summary is so you can have a closer look at the […]

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]]> Librem 5 April 2020 Software Development Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-april-2020-software-development-update/ Tue, 26 May 2020 10:38:32 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68393 This is another incarnation of the software development progress for the Librem 5. This time for April 2020 (weeks 14-18). Some items are covered in more detail in separate blog posts at https://puri.sm/news. The idea of this summaries is so you can have a closer look at the coding and design side of things. It […]

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]]> Librem 5 March 2020 Software Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-march-2020-software-update/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:36:43 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68138 Let’s take a look at what the Librem 5 software team were busy with in March 2020 (weeks 10-13). Some items are covered in more detail in separate blog posts at https://puri.sm/news. The idea is to summarize the coding and design efforts for the month and showcase how we’re standing on the shoulders of giants. […]

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]]> Purism’s contributions to Linux 5.5 and 5.6 https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-contributions-to-linux-5-5-and-5-6/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:12:33 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=67827 Following up on our report for Linux 5.4, we continue to improve mainline kernel support for the Librem 5 phone. Here’s a summary of the progress we have made during the 5.5 and 5.6 development cycles. Librem 5’s backlight LED driver The driver that saw the most patches was the LED backlight driver. More specifically […]

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]]> 2019 Year in Review: Librem 5 Software and Kernel https://puri.sm/posts/2019-year-in-review-librem-5-software-and-kernel/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:37:16 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=66957 The Librem 5 software team have shared monthly updates throughout 2019 but we wanted to highlight some of the big achievements here. As of 2019 we’re shipping a phone with a GNOME stack that has essential phone functionality. Work is ongoing to feed all that back into upstream GNOME (contacts, folks, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center (wwan panel), […]

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]]> Purism’s contributions to Linux 5.4 https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-contributions-to-linux-5-4/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:20:01 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=66352 Following up on our report for our contributions to Linux 5.3, here’s a list of Purism’s contributions to the Linux kernel for the 5.4 cycle. We contributed 20 patches including improving the devkit’s IMU and panel drivers, made more preparation for a mainline display stack and submitted the first fixes for bugs that cropped up […]

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]]> Purism & Linux 5.3 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-linux-5-3/ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:09:29 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65721 Following up on our report for Linux 5.2, here’s a list of Purism’s contributions for the 5.3 cycle Linux kernel. We contributed 12 patches, which include the Librem 5 devkit device tree and a driver for the i.MX8MQs D-PHY. Librem 5 devkit device tree Besides the kernel sources, the Linux git repository contains device tree […]

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]]> Purism and the Linux 5.2 Kernel https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-the-linux-5-2-kernel/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:51:58 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=64622 Hello again. Following up on our report for the Linux 5.1 kernel, here’s a list of contributions for the Linux 5.2 kernel cycle, for which our team recently contributed with 14 patches–including a new driver for the Librem 5 devkit’s panel: Support for the Librem 5 devkit’s proximity and light sensor The following series of […]

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]]> Purism and the Linux Kernel https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-the-linux-kernel/ Mon, 20 May 2019 18:27:00 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63757 Purism contributes to several free software projects such as GNOME, wlroots and Debian. We’re especially proud of our kernel contributions – where 13 patches have made it into 5.1. Since this is our first installment, it also includes the changes that went into 5.0 and 4.20. Bellow is a list of our most recent contributions. […]

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