jeremiah foster – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:05:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png jeremiah foster – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 To Byzantium and Beyond https://puri.sm/posts/to-byzantium-and-beyond/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:59:57 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73762 PureOS has had some major changes in 2021 PureOS 10, codename: Byzantium, is the new stable release of PureOS. PureOS 10 is likely not a newcomer to everyone, it’s been around for a while as a rolling release or a “testing” release. It has been shipping on Purism’s new hardware. We’ve moved our kernel forward. […]

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]]> What’s new in PureOS 10 https://puri.sm/posts/whats-new-in-pureos-10/ Mon, 24 May 2021 15:57:41 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71380  The Librem 14 comes with new software — here’s some of the new things coming your way PureOS 10 is going to be our new release for the Librem 14, Librem 5, and Librem Mini. You may already be familiar with its code name “Byzantium” but what happens next is that it moves to our […]

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]]> 2019 Year in Review: PureOS https://puri.sm/posts/2019-year-in-review-pureos/ Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:01:04 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=66822 The PureOS team are proud to have created a brand new stable release of PureOS and delivered it to lots of users in 2019, so much in fact we had to add download mirrors to keep up with the demand. If that wasn’t enough we also created a new rolling release and are very close […]

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]]> An Epiphany regarding Purebrowser https://puri.sm/posts/an-epiphany-regarding-purebrowser/ Fri, 13 Dec 2019 01:51:05 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=66095 Purebrowser and the “the power of defaults” As most folks know, PureOS has a customized browser known as Purebrowser. Purebrowser is a great example of what Todd Weaver calls, “the power of defaults”. What I’ve understood that to mean is that default settings are a powerful way to provide users with privacy protecting safeguards and […]

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]]> Mirrors for Speedier Downloads https://puri.sm/posts/mirrors-for-speedier-downloads/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:33:33 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65680 To put it briefly, PureOS provides ISO images and packages for download. Recently, we’ve seen increased traffic on our download site, and we expect that traffic to grow. We’re hoping to address increased traffic with mirrors for both package updates and downloads. We’re very happy to announce that Sonic, a highly-ranked and privacy-respecting ISP, has […]

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]]> PureOS Rolls On as Stable https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-rolls-on-as-stable/ Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:04:11 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65438 PureOS was originally conceived as a rolling release. A rolling release receives periodic updates in a “rolling” fashion–they just keep rolling in. This is good, as you get the latest cutting edge changes to applications and system libraries. But unfortunately there is a side effect to rolling releases: they are bad for stability, because the […]

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]]> Converging on Convergence PureOS is Convergent, Welcome to the Future https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-convergent-welcome-to-the-future/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:00:36 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=62271 Many Devices, One OS The two big mobile OS vendors have been dreaming of convergence between laptop OS and mobile OS for a long time; dreaming of being able to make the same application code execute, and operate, both on mobile phones and laptops – adapting the applications to screen size and input devices. Purism […]

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]]> Music Player Lollypop added to PureOS Store for Librem 5 Phone and Laptops https://puri.sm/posts/music-player-lollypop-added-to-pureos-store-for-librem-5-phone-and-laptops/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 23:13:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=62001 Let us introduce you to our very first application: A Music Player Last week, you might have noticed we announced the creation of an application ecosystem – a rich, secure and free ecosystem of desktop and mobile apps for our Librem products. More details will be revealed as soon as we come to some key […]

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]]> Purism announces PureOS Store https://puri.sm/posts/purism-announces-pureos-store/ Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:06:33 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=62073 Purism is pleased to announce PureOS Store, a secure alternative to proprietary app stores that respects your privacy and freedom. While there is much to do before we go live, we are well into building the infrastructure and refining the policy. PureOS Store will be a vibrant hub for both mobile and desktop apps. We […]

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