Crimson Report: December 2024

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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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OK, the Crimson testing comments now have a thread → L5 Crimson image testing thread

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Yes but not as old as Byzantium

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:~$
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Let’s start “Crimson backports unofficial” project? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Sure, go ahead.

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Please, Please. :pray:

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One of the many advantages of Qubes OS is that in the worst case I would only destroy an emtpy VM :slight_smile:

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Is it possible for Purism to update the scripts/librem5-flash-image to work with a current Python version?

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Yes, possible.

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and doable?

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Same thing.

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and for newbies like me where is the installation instruction for the current crimson alpha release?

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Blog article:

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