RYF certification L5

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Purism always deliver on their promises, except for the time estimations. Given that they do what no one has ever done before, I think it’s fine.

@user1

thanks and that’s quite recent too but would be good if they could specify a general time frame.

The time frame of the FSF or FCC certification depends not on Purism by on the FSF and FCC.

@user1

I am incredibly skeptical about them ever getting RYF for the L5

FSF already recommend Librem 5 and given how strict they are in general, it means they do believe it will be certified.

@user1

The company putting the word ‘libre’ in the name of their laptops when they clearly are not and how purism words their way of saying they only kinda removed ME makes it sound like you can trust the device when it still clearly runs not understandable proprietary code to start up as it requires it.

Purism says quite clearly what is proprietary and what isn’t. Even though their laptops are not 100% libre, they are the most free on the market (see below about your T400). Purism are also definitely trying to make their devices are free as possible, even if it costs them a lot.

@user1

At the moment, for anything very important, I use a T400 booted from USB on a free OS which still isn’t perfect due to proprietary EC

Did you hear about the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities? I have bad news for you: those issues will never be fixed by Intel for the RYF-certificated laptops, which makes them very insecure. I would not recommend that you do anything sensitive on them. To me it effectively means that those laptops are not free enough, because you just cannot fix their essential code.