Crimson Report: December 2024

General Announcements
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With the latest package updates combined with the latest image tools, we now have initial PureOS Crimson images for the Librem 5!

Give it a try!

If you don’t mind erasing your Librem 5, and you’re not relying on it as your daily phone, you are welcome to try out this image and contribute!

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You can and should take a disc image as backup first, before erasing!

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And/or maybe back up individual app content, as well as any home directory customizations.

And possibly apt history.

And installed item list.

Not to forget the stored backups from the Backups app, just in case.

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Any way to boot this image from SD card?

That would make the difference for me between trying and not trying it.

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Yes, hold Vol - during bootup.

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But where is the img file that I load onto the SD card?

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https://storage.puri.sm/librem5/images/crimson/latest/librem5r4/plain/artifact/librem5r4.img.xz
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For those looking for an easy tool to write images to an SD card, I recommend rpi-imager.

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Why not dd ?

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I never learned how to use it and it makes me nervous that I’m going to blow away my hard drive lol

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@FranklyFlawless
What is current phosh version on crimson?

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This makes me immensely happy.
I will be interested in trying this myself on my DD once I hear enough people saying calls/SMS/MMS are reliable.

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Or Gnome-Disks. It works quite well, and does not require anyone to install any extra apps on their L5

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I am not in a position to test this exact Crimson image due to other conflicting priorities at the moment.

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Thanks. :cry:

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carlosgonz@blackbird:~/librem5-flash-image/scripts$ ./librem5-flash-image --stable --variant plain --dist crimson
2025-01-16 21:39:35,133 INFO Looking for librem5r4 plain crimson image
2025-01-16 21:39:38,096 INFO Found disk image Build "stable" 'Last stable librem5r4 build' from Tue Jan 14 18:35:42 2025
2025-01-16 21:39:41,290 INFO Found uboot Build 85 from Thu Aug 25 09:22:41 2022
2025-01-16 21:39:41,290 INFO Downloading to ./tmp_librem5-flash-image_1pgh81vg

I cant wait for Gnu Crimson Frankly…

Purism :heart:

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Also a bit tied up - I hope to get to it by tomorrow. I was also thinking it would be good to set up a separate testing thread with wikified list/table so everyone gets to know which parts have been tested and what the situation is.

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Okay, you will need to create separate columns for each Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module then. You can use these Markdown tables I have created as a basis:

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0.34

purism@crimson:~$ apt list phosh
Listing... Done
phosh/crimson,now 0.34.0-2pureos1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
purism@crimson:~$

Edit:
Vs.

purism@pureos:~$ apt list phosh -a
Listing... Done
phosh/byzantium-updates,byzantium-updates-proposed,now 0.32.0-1pureos1~byz1 arm64 [installed]
phosh/byzantium 0.28.0-1pureos1 arm64

purism@pureos:~$

General Thoughts:

  • The pop-outs are not adapted to the mobile screen.
  • Nautilus has a bug (previously reported) that the menu pops up as you are scrolling.
  • More thoughts might possibly come…
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extremely old version. :cry:

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