We do have some refurbished Librems (as I mentioned it already here) but to get it you need to show some work already. Feel free to ping me on IRC (zlatan on freenode) or mail me directly so we talk about it.

If you have any smashed up, deformed, or otherwise defective librem laptops missing a battery and disk and have no chance of selling them, I wouldn't mind taking it off of your hands for me to do some experimental PureOS development! :)

We need to get rid of desktop-base dependencies, I'll take a look on what is missing there (then we can also finally change the GRUB wallpaper without problems)

@jeff @todd ^

If they need to be in a different format just let me know.

@mladen.pejakovic because png has good quality/compression ratio and is the intermediate image format that I always use for reference or format conversion when required.
If they need to be in a different format just let me know.

@francois, why png?

the new gdm screen is updated in the repos.

Looks like this xul-ext is not in the debian repo, we might add it as deb and add as purebrowser dependency.

I think the gnome settings (and with extension Details) has hardcoded size for some reason (I didn't check the code but I can't resize it) and there is already a big gnome logo with gnome version there. We will see to tweak it but after we get some time from things with higher priority. Any patch in meantime is highly appreciated :)

Could you also remove the "Debain" branded wallpapers and add those pictures in the wallpapers list (that appears in the settings) :

We could also do this:

That's not freedom issue, but could be classified as a privacy problem.

So unless you have seen this elsewhere in gnome control center (via dell, thinkpad etc) this would require creating a patch against gnome package (and probably UI tweaking) which we currently don't have time to do (and as you say, it can be viewed via terminal). Putting it into wishlist.

Francois is almost correct. We indeed sync with Debian testing, which is now in freeze state (state where new package don't merge in but only Release Critical bug fixes and cherry-picked updates) and yes, soon a copy of Debian testing will become next Debian stable release. Debian goes every ~1.5 year into freeze state and there stays for about half a year until it irons out RC bugs, after that the freeze blockade lifts off and packages from unstable start migrating into testing (usually 5-10 days is needed for migration unless some critical bug is found and reported). Also during freeze a lot of new packages (such as systemd and linux kernel) go into experimental branch of Debian from where packagers will reupload them into testing once freeze lifts. Sadly, GNOME packages don't get refreshed into experimental as they are occupied with a lot of work to have it in best possible shape (as GNOME is default DE for Debian as well). For the 5 years part Francois got - that is how long Debian gets security support for stable release (as Debian now has its own LTS efforts).