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Beautiful, Secure, Privacy-Respecting Laptops, Tablets, PCs, and Phones

Latest posts by Purism (see all)

• The Liberty Phone: Secure Government Mobility - September 17, 2024
• PureOS Crimson Development Report: August 2024 - September 12, 2024
• PureOS Crimson Development Report: July 2024 - August 6, 2024

Make new friends, and keep the old

I’m very pleased to announce that we continue to see new PureOS subscriptions coming in. Thank you very much to our subscribers, new and old! Your support enables us to continue advancing PureOS, and we are pleased that it remains freely available to all.

Archive maintenance

As we discussed last time, the most important work needed right now is to resolve dependency issues in the Crimson archive. We knew about a large number of dependency issues originating from the linux-libc-dev dependency.  Crimson does not import this package from Debian due to a conflict with the Librem 5 kernel package.

We also found that Crimson is not currently synchronizing security updates from Debian. They should reach the crimson-security suite automatically, but they are not.

Unfortunately, the maintainer of Laniakea and the PureOS archive was away in August. We are eager for him to be available again soon, but we also respect that personal needs must take precedence. Due to the nature of these issues, we would greatly appreciate the maintainer’s involvement in correcting them, and we felt it best to hold these at that time. This blocked the planned work.

Responsibility

We have a responsibility to use your subscription funds in the best possible way to advance PureOS. Right now, that is moving Crimson toward release. Quality-of-life improvements to apps are great, but not useful if they’re in an unreleased distribution.

Given the circumstances, we will use the August funds in September to advance Crimson toward release. Once we do the necessary archive maintenance, ideally with the maintainer’s involvement, we will apply those funds toward these tasks that are no longer blocked. We use 100% of PureOS subscription funds for the development of PureOS.

Always improving

We’ve heard your call for more visibility into the work done using these funds. To compliment these blog posts, we will set up public milestones representing the funding for that month, with issues representing the work we’ll do using that funding. This will offer visibility into the amount of upcoming work funded in addition to the results we publish in these blog posts.

We will share this with you in our next update, which will be in the first half of October. We again thank all of our supporters and subscribers, and we look forward to our next post!