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Software Reference
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This chapter provides information about the software components used in the
Librem 5 stack and includes links to useful external resources.

The Librem 5 will be an i.MX8 phone running PureOS, a Debian derivative. The
kernel will be the 4.18 mainline kernel with some additional drivers. For the
graphical windowing system, it will make use of a Wayland compositor together
with a shell named phosh. The graphical environment will be based on the GNOME
platform with a variety of modifications. Below you can find a diagram on the
overall software architecture stack.

.. image:: images/L5-stack.png
   :width: 700px
   :height: 500px
   :align: center

.. toctree::

   Software_Reference/Environments
   Software_Reference/Wayland