after many days of work, here is another functional demo of #GNOME shell running on the secondary display connected to the #flx1. it took many hours to build the app and make everything act nice and not crash and integrate cleanly. still a long way to go but i think it is a good time to showcase the progress in the past 7 days.

i hope to get this ready and done by 13.0.9 which is the next release but obviously no promises.

so yes the rumors are correct (this was leaked on reddit a few days ago, oh well)

the #FLX1 will be getting support for hooking up to external displays. the difference here compared to other approaches is that it will be running full #GNOME shell instead of #Phosh desktop mode (with some integration). as much as we love Phosh, GNOME shell simply provides a superior experience on a large display (and our community members voted for this too)

Initially the plan for bootman was to make it split a partition from LVM and reuse that for dual boot, but then @doggestman brought up sd card for installation storage which sounded good, so i decided to make it work. now, it can now boot from that too.

This will also allow for installation of other operating systems such as SailfishOS or Ubuntu Touch when they get ported over to the device, so its not limited to FuriOS only.

someone in the chat asked if the flx1 can run a KVM machine and my initial thought process was well, probably not out of the box since during the boot process EL2 is locked and even if kernel has KVM, it will never initialize correctly.

so today after finishing my daily tasks i decided to take a stab at our bootloader, preloader and trustzone's source code.

Lo and behold, turns out i did indeed cook.

Docker support will land in the next release too!