Notices by josch (josch@floss.social)

I'm currently updating the images and repository on https://reform.debian.net for the upcoming Debian Trixie release. Thanks to the insane generosity of @wickedshell I can now test this on a RK3588 @mntmn MNT Pocket Reform myself. And you know what? It just works. Out of the box. This platform has truly come a long way. It feels very mature and I believe it is a device that I can truly recommend to fellow GNU/Linux users. This not just a machine to tinker. This is a reliable daily driver.

@CyrilBrulebois just announced the first release candidate of the Debian Installer for Debian 13 "Trixie". 🥳 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/05/msg00003.html
Thanks to @vagrantc it includes flash-kernel support for the @mntmn MNT Reform 2 with RCORE RK3588 Module.
You still need a kernel with the RK3588 patch stack by @collabora but at least you don't need to patch flash-kernel anymore. 😀

@mntmn Soo.... according to my temperature sensor, my A311D is 50°C right now. Will it keep my coffee warm if i place my pot on top of the "heatsink" cover?? :D

@mntmn reform-tools 1.69 just reached Debian unstable as well as the MNT repositories. If one uses the number of changelog lines as a metric, this is the biggest reform-tools release to date. A big thank you to all testers and contributors who helped making this possible!

@cwebber I'd like to echo this. There exist many great open hardware projects out there that you can clone and get manufactured yourself with your own modifications. There also exist many laptops for normal day-to-day tasks. To my knowledge, the MNT Reform is the only device that sits at the intersection of those two sets of devices. You can literally clone the whole device yourself. You cannot do that with a Framework.

(I too prefer a small shop of lovely queers over a venture capital firm)

@aaribaud @starlabssystems Did you file a bug against the relevant packages for this issue? Without a bug, things don't get fixed and others will run into the same problem that you did.

@vagrantc What's your take on now only having one button between the space bars instead of the two "alt" buttons that the original keyboard had? I remapped one of the alt buttons to backspace and the left spacebar to "enter" so that my thumbs get to do more things than just idling around. Unfortunately they will have one key less to press with keyboard v3...

After upgrading my MNT Reform from IMX8MQ to A311D, I had to remove all my mods. I finally found some time to 3D print all parts so that everything fits again. Full description in the MNT forum: https://community.mnt.re/t/adding-lte-modem-and-other-usb-devices/1215/20

I bought the same speakers that the @mntmn Pocket Reform uses (CUI CES-36181118PM67) and installed them into my MNT Reform following a mod that Lukas had already performed. My first attempt fried my audio chip (reason unknown -- i was probably not careful enough with the cabling) but now it worked! To save space, I routed the cables between motherboard and keyboard. These speakers are finally proper loud. 📢 🎉

My dad used to repair TVs and he remembers the time when for each TV you could get the schematics so that he could repair them at his shop.

When was the last time you bought a computer that came with schematics?

Finally my LS1028A arrived today!

https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform-ls1028a-module