On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:44:48AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hendrik Boom - 31.10.18, 01:49:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:53:03PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:01:03 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message
> > > 
> > > <20181030180103.7xwhnvyqbs6zn...@topoi.pooq.com>:
> > > > I use Devuan on a Purism laptop.  Purism's OS is based on Debian,
> > > > and
> > > > has become contaminated with systemd.
> > > 
> > > ..they blindly accepted it?
> > 
> > Don't know how blind they were.  I suspect they had started as a
> > Debian derivative and didn't have the resources to jump ship.  Though
> > I suspect merging their changes into devuan would have been
> > feasible...
> > 
> > Now they're working on a Purism phone.  They do seem to intend it to
> > work with a variety of GNU/Linux systems.  They're currently hoping
> > to get some developers to adapt their free software to Purism's
> > mobile hardware.
> 
> AFAIR Purism also contact both the KDE and GNOME communities about 
> adapting their desktops. Maybe some developers got test machines.

I know they were selling development boards.  But a development board 
doesn't have the same ergomonic affordances as an actual mobile device.

-- hendrik
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