I remember looking for a free & open source #SIP-Client for Linux having trouble finding one.

All the projects I tried had been too complicated to configure, not too good integrated into my desktop environment or didn't reliably work.

The #PinePhone and shortly after the #Librem5 became available. One much discussed difference between the two Linux mobile phones has been the very different price tag.

Just one of these days gnome-calls started working reliably as a #VoIP client in my #Debian Bullseye based #PureOS Linux distribution running on my notebook.

It even works with a bluetooth headset connected.

I had some troubles the months that passed either getting the bluetooth connection for the headset to work, connecting the client to my VOIP router or keeping those connections alive.

But these problems seem to have been ironed out since a few weeks now.

Today I just realized that it works (at the moment) and that I now use a free & OpenSource VoIP client that integrates very well with the gnome-desktop I use.

I realized that the customers of #Purism had paid for this development through buying their products.

The active development on calls for the Librem5 seems to have started in 2018 in Purisms repository and has been moved in 2021 to Gnomes gitlab.

Now in 2023 we have a working calls application for mobile linux devices using a modem and a working sip client. #FreeAsInFreedom and #OpenSource.

Thanks to all the people believing in the idea of Free Software, buying products supporting this idea, using it and giving feedback, providing merge requests and Purism and their people shouldering the better part of the development.