It was less than a year ago when we announced our new Librem Mini campaign . We wanted to offer people a powerful and accessible desktop PC in a mini form-factor running the same free firmware and operating system as our laptops. The Librem Mini campaign was a big success and now we are excited to an…

[image] kieran: if it can get to the internet, it will correct the time shortly after boot. yes but that happens manually only in my case … by default PureOS-Amber/GNOME has the update-time-date switch greyed out … people can do a search and find out our specific conversation regarding that h…

Yes, it will only do that if you configure it / allow it to do that.

I use Mac for 14 years, so for me the question is will I be able to continue doing what I’m doing on my iMac ? I use GraphicConverter and SwiftPublisher for graphic work. Gimp is way too much for me, but I can get used to it. Desktop publisher alternative ? In terms of power, how Librem compares to…

[image] zaltuta: I use GraphicConverter and SwiftPublisher for graphic work. Gimp is way too much for me, but I can get used to it. Desktop publisher alternative ? In my opinion, Krita is easier to use than Gimp. If you are doing vector graphics, then check out Inkscape . For desktop publishi…

iMac machines have very performant/silent cooling mechanisms that Apple is very good at implementing … Apple is the best when it comes to this stuff but when it comes to software i wouldn’t trade GNU+Linux for iSpy my only complaint about the LMini is that it has the motherboard right in the middle…

[image] kieran: That leads on to: what type of battery? Your normal inserted button cell? that’s correct

I don’t know whether you can get someone to put that in the Tech Specs for the v1 and/or v2.

it’s not the kind of thing we’d list on the product info page, better suited for a wiki page

The Mini is a bit unloved in the material available on the Purism web site. No section in the FAQ and no section in the Documentation. :frowning:

there are still some things going on with my LMini v1 that are left unresolved (not show-stoppers though). i’m curious if the v2 inherited them as-well. hopefully i’ll be able to sort them out with support soon …

Announcing the Librem Mini V2

Hardware

MrChromebox November 5, 2020, 10:46pm 28

that’s correct

How does the time synchronization work in PureOS?