Puri.sm puts out LapDock for its Librem 5 smartphone
Puri.sm has sold all-FOSS laptops for almost a decade. In 2021, we covered its new Linux-based smartphone, the Librem 5. Last year, its founder and CEO talked to The Reg and explained about its hardware and software.
The enabling technology here is that the Librem smartphones and laptops run very closely-related OSes. If you don't read the company's description closely enough, you might be forgiven for coming away with the impression that it's the same OS: the company's in-house Linux distro, PureOS, which you can download and run on your own PC.
That distro, PureOS, is an x86-64 distro for PC-compatibles, whereas the phone has a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 i.MX8M SoC. So, at the very least, there are two editions of the distro: an x86-64 one for generic PCs, and an Arm one for the Librem phone. As far as we can tell, the Arm edition of the OS doesn't run on any other vendors' devices.