Hello,
Some bits from PureOS;
1. Byzantium on all the things 2. End of life for Amber? 3. EFI
1. Due to the fact that there is a new SoC / CPU in the Mini and the Librem 14, we need to move to a new kernel for these new devices. The good news is that the Byzantium kernel appears to fit our needs. The Mini that I have here is a Intel Coffee Lake i7-8565U @ 1.80GHz with 8 Cores.
uname -a; "Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.9.1-1 (2020-10-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux"
/etc/os-release; VERSION_ID=10.0 VERSION_CODENAME=byzantium
Everything has been working quite smoothly except for some issues around accessing our repos; https://tracker.pureos.net/T960
I have an ISO with the installer that Matthias has fixed up and we hope to have a Go / No Go decision with that image for tomorrow (Wednesday).
2. Amber should likely have a EoL date. I feel like that should be a sort of LTS style approach and say we'll support Amber for two more years. We still sell some products (Librem 15, server) with Amber still on it and enterprises expect longer support so something along those lines seems sensible. Feedback most welcome.
3. Can we deliver an installer that supports EFI? I realize this has been a goal for a while and that there is work still needed to be done for this and we have the usual resource constraints. What more needs to be done?
Thank you!