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Purism Successfully Runs KDE Plasma Mobile on Librem 5 Linux Phone’s Test Boards

The company, which is known for selling the most secure laptops powered a Linux-based operating system, said in a report that they worked closely with the KDE community to install, run, and enable a mobile network provider service on the Plasma Mobile graphical environment on top of the Debian-based PureOS distribution. While their Librem 5 Linux phone is far from becoming a reality, Purism’s initial enablement of KDE’s Plasma Mobile was done on an i.MX 6 development board running their PureOS operating system installed, which is currently based on Debian Testing, and using a Wayland/Weston environment.

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