Benchmarks and testing – 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 Benchmarks and testing – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Repo stats https://puri.sm/posts/repo-stats/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:14:18 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77432 It’s no secret that I will take any opportunity to look in the warped mirror of statistics to glean insights on myself. I did it before for squeekboard, and I dug into the prehistory of my browser tabs. Recently, a new tool appeared, called Git-Heat-Map, and I asked the statistical crystal ball some questions. Which […]

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]]> Librem 5 Screenshots Snapshot 2020-11-15 https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-screenshots-snapshot-2020-11-15/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:01:47 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69926 With the Librem 5 mass production beginning to ship imminently, we are publishing some image screenshots to snapshot this momentous occasion. Taken from a Librem 5 Evergreen (mass production) release on November 15th, 2020.      

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]]> Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected & Minor Shipping Adjustment https://puri.sm/posts/massive-progress-exact-cpu-selected-minor-shipping-adjustment/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:04:27 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=62377   We are so close to being finished, and we are so excited about it. Things are progressing so rapidly at Purism, in and around the Librem 5 smartphone, that we want to share the latest updates with you. As we’ve said before, we want to make a secure mobile communication device; one which offers […]

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]]> Librem 5 Development Kits: we are getting there! https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-2018-11-hardware-report/ Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:18:58 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=61256 A few weeks ago we published an update about the forthcoming of our Librem 5 development kits when we ran into some issues which caused delays. Today we’re bringing you another update on the hardware fabrication process, as well as some pictures and a video. At the same time as the last update got posted, […]

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]]> Initial Touch and Web Browsing experiments on Librem 5 prototyping boards https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-touch-and-web-browsing/ Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:16:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=32299 When it comes to prototyping the Librem 5, we are working hard and making progress on several sides. As you have seen in yesterday’s testing update blog post, we are working on development hardware in order to start getting software development groundwork done. Today, I’m sharing the results of a quick experiment with web and […]

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]]> The Librem 5 Development Roadmap and Progress Towards i.MX 8 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-roadmap-to-imx8/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:45:55 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=20964 The Librem 5 crowdfunding campaign is still cranking along nicely, while it is going on we wanted to provide a progress report on the hardware selection as well as the advancements with our existing development boards. TL;DR: The base hardware with i.MX 6 is demonstrably working. i.MX 8M, Etnaviv, full HD, are the likely hardware […]

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]]> Preventing AMI’s BIOS from interfering with coreboot flashing on the Librem 13 https://puri.sm/posts/preventing-interference-from-the-old-bios-while-flashing-coreboot/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 21:05:07 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=16932 I wrote recently about one of our collaborators having tried to install coreboot and unfortunately bricking his laptop in the process. I sent him mine as a replacement, then he swapped hard drives and he sent me his testing unit, so that I could investigate what happened. This is what we found. Once I received […]

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]]> Todd’s Purism Librem 13 experience with coreboot and a neutralized ME https://puri.sm/posts/todds-librem-13-with-coreboot-and-a-neutralized-me/ Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:00:56 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=15072 A few days ago, I got to experience the efforts of a culmination of free software supporters; from Purism team members, ME hackers, coreboot developers, and a lot of other individuals. I am very pleased to run a Librem 13 with coreboot, running a neutralized Intel Management Engine, and no microcode update. I used that setup […]

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]]> Neutralizing the Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops https://puri.sm/posts/neutralizing-intel-management-engine-on-librem-laptops/ Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:00:37 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=15191 In my last blog post, I have spoken of the completion of the Purism coreboot port for the Librem 13 v1 and mentioned that I had some good news about the Intel Management Engine disablement efforts (to go further than our existing quarantine) and to “stay tuned” for more information. Since then I got a […]

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]]> The Librem 13 v1 coreboot port is now complete https://puri.sm/posts/librem-13-coreboot-report-february-25th-2017/ Sat, 25 Feb 2017 22:00:29 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=14838 Here are the news you’ve been waiting for: the coreboot port for the Librem 13 v1 is 100% done! I fixed all of the remaining issues, it is now fully working and is stable, ready for others to enjoy. I fixed the instability problem with the M.2 SATA port, finished running all the tests to […]

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