Re: Are there any plans about designing and producing a FreeBSD smartphone with privacy in mind?

Dear Matthias,

Thanks for the information you are sharing.

Do you guys at Purism actually design and assemble the hardware of your
products?

Enrico Migliore



Il giorno gio 17 nov 2022 alle ore 19:42 Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
ha scritto:

> El día jueves, noviembre 17, 2022 a las 06:44:54p. m. +0100, Enrico
> Migliore escribió:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >
> > Are there any plans about designing and producing a FreeBSD smartphone
> > with privacy in mind?
> >
> >
> > Ciao,
> >
> > Enrico Migliore
>
> Hello Enrico et all,
>
> In October 2017 I've sponsored a crowdfunding with USD 600 for a
> smartphone with
> open hardware and running Linux, the Purism L5 (https://puri.sm). It was
> finally built and I got mine in October 2021. Since some month it is my
> daily
> driver, even with all problems it still has (for example the battery
> lasts only for 8-10 hours). Saying this, it would be a long run to do
> the same with FreeBSD as OS. Keep in mind that the Linux community is
> perhaps bigger than the FreeBSD one. Better would be to focus on this,
> the L5 project, even if it is Linux and not my beloved FreeBSD (I do
> FreeBSD since 1995).
>
>         matthias
>
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