Re:Librem 5 general development report – October
by AsyncAwait on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:58AM
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> Is it usual for an ambitious project like this to be doing this sort of development (i.e. core dev, not polish) within 6 months of release?
It's not usual to be doing a project like this at all. How many such projects can you point to? So nobody knows.
Re:Librem 5 general development report – October
by 9712263 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:10AM
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This phone is basically a Gnome Phone, so mail client will be Geary, which is decent enough. The anbox project is able to port Android apps into GNU/Linux. Though last time I tried, not very stable and crash very often. Whatsapp could be installed. Hope at release the project could be more stable and able to port to Librem 5.
Re:Librem 5 general development report – October
by beatgammit on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:15PM
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WhatsApp isn't open source, and they don't have a client for that chip AFAIK, so getting WhatsApp working would require work from Facebook.
Apps like Signal that are open source will likely be available.
Re:Librem 5 general development report – October
by jhasse on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:45AM
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Don't get your hopes up for WhatsApp.
Re:Librem 5 general development report – October
by pulsarpietro on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:56AM
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Me too. I need safe cyber-space to be in :-)
I'm really looking forward to this phone and will almost certainly move over if there is are decent mail, Whatsapp and Signal clients. Despite the cost and early adopter pains I'm likely to face :)