Thanks. I appreciate the effort. I write software at my job and as I get a little older, I always feel like my progress is either inferior to what I would have expected of my past self, or else I was cutting corners. And I have not even finished making an account on Purism GitLab, because it asked for some info I didn’t feel like entering, so I have not made formalized bug reports of anything I see. It’s quite possible that I’m a part of the problem, yabbering on forums and not writing code to solve the problem, instead focusing my software dev time on my day job.
Do you think it will be possible to in-place upgrade current “Crimson” installations? Mine is on a 1 TB uSD card and I did not partition it. So in a perfect design I would probably nuke the PureOS partition and retain the SD card user data. But since it’s all one, I might end up needing to backup everything off of the SD, then re-imaging the SD with PureOS Crimson Official Future Version, then put the user data back.
Am I understanding correctly that that will be necessary, based on what you’re saying? If so, I’m sure I will still figure it out when I get there.
No worries at all here. I think your feedback is constructive, and I appreciate constructive feedback in any form. If discussing this way works best for you, then I welcome it. I’m not going to demand you submit good feedback in some particular form, since you’re giving it for free
I think your need for balance in combination with the day job is totally reasonable too. I didn’t always have a job in FLOSS and not everybody has the free time outside of work for more dev, no matter how much you may want to. I consider myself fortunate to have a job working in FLOSS, and my vision is to grow FLOSS adoption to the point that more have that opportunity as well.
At this stage, where we do not yet consider Crimson on Librem 5 ready for even clean-flash alpha (though close, I think!), it is likely you will need to back up user data and reimage as you said, so plan for that.
When we complete the second milestone - where we are confident Byzantium is upgradable in-place to Crimson - installs/upgrades at that point will be upgradable to the final release.
Which image sdid you reflash for Crimson? I also installed one on my Librem 5(Crimson shows on the os details), but the apt update breaks thee whole os thing after a reboot. I bascially can’t use it if I want to do an update.
I think this was the one I reflashed, but then the update from atp or the pureos store will break the system if I reboot. During the reboot, it is a black screen. If I don’t update, it is usable to some degree.
I followed this article since the author keeps updating it. He found two libraries break the os after updating the system using apt update. I used his scripts, after updating it becomes the os: Landing, it can reboot but most of the softwares becomes usable. Did you guys do the system update after flashing to the crimson? Thanks.
Can someone please help me i just updated my phone. And now i can pass the disk encryption screen. It wont even let me input the password at all. Also i have been stuck on benzytium for 2 years. How do i upgrade to crimson?
has anyone tried this one yet? difference between the crimson image that we flashed from the landing? this one can now officially flash from the librem 5 flash script for crimson.
You can edit /etc/apt/sources.list before doing anything on your fresh crimson install.
#deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos landing main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson-security main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson-updates main
deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos crimson-updates-proposed main
run: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
and reboot it works and you stay on crimson.
Next, if you want to go for landing:
With that new post: Crimson Daily Driver Part 3 (the author doesn’t recommend that)
I exclude landing after this again until Librem5: Crimson Daily Driver updates his experience.
And there is also an apt-mark unhold command for the future (or after removing landing again).
But with landing you end up at dawn instead of crimson.
I love crimson right now. The apps are fast and up to date. The power last longer. I use suspend after X seconds and suspend on purpose by Mobil-Settings/Shutdown-Button.
Good job on everyone who take progress on Apps and Gnome for Mobile.
Love it, its like a howl new device. Just like Linux and open source!
No, it’s not true. Fractional scales such as 150% may consume more resources than integer ones when using apps that don’t support them natively, but there won’t be any significant difference between 100% and 200% unless there’s some nasty bug hiding somewhere
