[PureOS] Bits from PureOS | Life in the time of novel corona virus

[Jeremiah C. Foster]

Hi everyone,

A somber note today mostly to try to express solidarity for everyone on
the list and anyone involved who may be going through hard times. Let
me know personally if there's anything I can do.

With regard to PureOS it is onward and upward. Matthias has been
working on integrating flatpak support into Laniakea. This is a big
deal and I'm really excited to see it. We've been working on a CI
pipeline that builds flatpaks and then they get uploaded to the CD
system, but that has been problematic because a lot of the technolgy is
new and it's shifted around a lot. Flatpaks also do a sort of nested
virtualization or nested isolation and that can be difficult to handle
with many of the tools we use. Having some native functionality in
Laniakea will be very helpful. 

I've been doing some poking at OpenQA from the SuSE folks. It is not
packaged for Debian (though it's core package os-autoinst is). Trying
to get a log in to Debian's instance of OpenQA 
https://openqa.debian.net/ leads to some weird site called
microfocus.com. I wonder what relationship that holds to Debian's
infrastructure? I'll have to dig a little more but I believe that
having PureOS tested there might be a good thing. Kali is tested there
as well so it may save us some disk space and CPU time to have it done
there. We'll need to make sure that it meets the Free Software policies
we have and while OpenQA itself surely does (its GPLv2), we shouldn't
have to give info to a third party to access testing services. 

The RYF application for the Librem Key is still in process. We've
updated the source code and it's README and nearly completed our
response to the FSF so hopefully we'll receive some good news when we
resubmit.

That's it for now! Stay well and we'll get through this together!

Jeremiah

PS - I really mean it when I say you can reach out to me personally,
I'm happy to talk to anyone on this list about PureOS, Purism, or just
personal stuff. 

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Jeremiah C. Foster <jeremiah.foster at puri.sm>
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