Martin Kepplinger – 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 Martin Kepplinger – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 PureOS Unaffected by ext4 Data Corruption Bug https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-unaffected-by-ext4-data-corruption-bug/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:57:28 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=80972 The Recent ext4 Data Corruption Bug A few days ago an ext4 filesystem bug in stable kernels was found in stable kernels that can corrupt data. Such a bug in a filesystem is one of the worst one can imagine. Nobody likes losing data. Ext4 is also very widely used; it’s the default for Debian […]

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]]> Purism and Linux 6.5 to 6.7 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-6-5-to-6-7/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:02:46 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=81040 It’s time to report on code flowing upstream again: Following up on our report for Linux 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 6.5, 6.6 and 6.7 development cycles. hardware description updates It’s crucial to describe our boards correctly and […]

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]]> Purism and Linux 6.2 to 6.4 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-6-2-to-6-4/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:24:45 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=80018 It’s time to report on code flowing upstream again: Following up on our report for Linux 5.19, 6.0 and 6.1 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 development cycles. Librem 5 hardware description updates It’s crucial to describe our boards […]

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]]> Update for the Librem 5 Support in Mainline Linux https://puri.sm/posts/update-for-the-librem-5-support-in-mainline-linux/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 11:17:12 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77421 Following up on the higher-level report on the state of  the mainline Linux in August 2021 where we announced a “usable” devkit in fully mainline Linux, let’s focus on the phone and see how things look like right now. As you might know, the latest Linux kernel tree we ship to users contains lots of changes […]

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.19 to 6.1 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-19-to-6-1/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:35:35 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76735 I know you missed our kernel reports lately but even if you can’t believe it, we haven’t forgotten about them. I just took a break for a few weeks but now the desperate wait is over: Following up on our report for Linux 5.18. Summary of the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 […]

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.18 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-18/ Fri, 06 May 2022 16:02:59 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74939 Following up on our report for Linux 5.17 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.18 development cycle. This summary is only about code flowing upstream. Librem 5 camera support This time it’s been all about various media drivers that are needed when using […]

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]]> Improving the Stability and Reliability with a Modular Modem in the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/stability-and-reliability-with-a-modular-modem-in-the-librem-5/ Mon, 02 May 2022 03:32:44 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74852 Usually we can fully rely on our phones to be reachable at any time—given cellular reception of course—and we take that for granted. You surely know situations in your life where that becomes especially critical. Be it when you’re expecting an important call or when you need to be able to receive “emergency” calls in […]

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.17 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-17/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:36:52 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74174 Following up on our report for Linux 5.16 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.17 development cycle. This summary is only about code flowing upstream. Librem 5 selfie cam This time around, not too much code was flowing upstream, but some important code […]

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.16 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-16/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:16:53 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73422 The Purism team is continuously working on improving the hardware and software support for the Librem 5. These innovations contribute directly to the mainline, upstream kernel so that the hardware can be supported as part of the development community in the future. Following up on our report for Linux 5.14 and 5.15 this summarizes the […]

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.14 and Linux 5.15 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-14-and-linux-5-15/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:32:25 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73082 The Purism team is continuously working on improving the hardware and software support for the Librem 5. These innovations contribute directly to the mainline, upstream kernel so that the hardware can be supported as part of the development community in the future. Following up on our report for Linux 5.13 this summarizes the progress on […]

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]]> Librem 5 support in mainline Linux https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-support-in-mainline-linux/ Mon, 09 Aug 2021 08:41:29 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72614 We in the Purism kernel team maintain a set of patches against the mainline Linux codebase that is released by Linus Thorvalds on a regular basis.

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.13 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-13/ Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:49:21 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72412 Following up on our report for Linux 5.12 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.13 development cycle.

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.12 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-12/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:47:39 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71642 Following up on our report for Linux 5.11 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.12 development cycle.

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.11 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-11/ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:03:30 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71115 Following up on our report for Linux 5.9 and 5.10, this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.11 development cycle.

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.9 and 5.10 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-9-and-5-10/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:32:37 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70863 Following up on our report for Linux 5.8 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.9 and 5.10 development cycles.

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.8 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-8/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:37:45 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70824 Following up on our report for Linux 5.7 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.8 development cycle.

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]]> Purism and Linux 5.7 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-linux-5-7/ Tue, 19 May 2020 08:25:48 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68314 Following up on our report for Linux 5.5 and 5.6 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem5 phone and its development kit during the 5.7 development cycle. Our contributions improved support for the hardware found on our Devkit as well as phone components like the accelerometer and GPU. Devkit updates We have […]

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