Giving and contributing back – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.28 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png Giving and contributing back – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 The Case for Free/Libre and Open-Source Software: Enhancing Security and Privacy in the Digital Age https://puri.sm/posts/the-case-for-free-libre-and-open-source-software-enhancing-security-and-privacy-in-the-digital-age/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:23:39 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=82548 Given the 21st century world’s reliance on digital technology, it should go without saying that privacy and security are pressing concerns — for individuals as well as federal and corporate entities. With an abundance of tools at our disposal, however, how do we make informed decisions about which to use to best ensure sensitive information is safe from prying eyes? At Purism, we advocate for the use of Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS / OSS) as a cornerstone of any secure and private digital environment.

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]]> Repo stats https://puri.sm/posts/repo-stats/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:14:18 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77432 It’s no secret that I will take any opportunity to look in the warped mirror of statistics to glean insights on myself. I did it before for squeekboard, and I dug into the prehistory of my browser tabs. Recently, a new tool appeared, called Git-Heat-Map, and I asked the statistical crystal ball some questions. Which […]

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]]> Conversation with Kyle Rankin, President, Purism and Matthias Kirschner, President at Free Software Foundation Europe. https://puri.sm/posts/kyle-and-matthias/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 08:44:16 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77561 Matthias Kirschner, President at Free Software Foundation Europe, recently launched Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream. This children’s book is delightfully illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter. The book is published under CC-BY-SA and can be purchased online at FSFE or here. Kyle Rankin, President caught up with Matthias Kirschner to […]

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]]> Purism at “Le Capitole du Libre” in France https://puri.sm/posts/purism-at-le-capitole-du-libre-in-france/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:53:35 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76536 On the 16th and 20th of November, Adrien Plazas and I had a booth at the French Free Software event “Le Capitole du Libre” in the city of Toulouse. It was the first time the event was taking place since 2019. As for the previous years, this edition was a success and we have met […]

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]]> Thank You For Joining Us https://puri.sm/posts/thank-you-for-joining-us/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:34:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75897 It has been a long and difficult journey to build a freedom- and privacy-respecting phone like the Librem 5. While the end of this journey is in sight, we aren’t quite there yet, and I wanted to take some time to do something we should do more often: acknowledge and thank all of you who […]

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]]> Google Ads, Apple Ads, while Purism Adds https://puri.sm/posts/google-ads-apple-ads-while-purism-adds/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:12:00 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75724 Google has long abused digital rights through its tracking, privacy invasion, and ads business. Apple—while inaccurately claiming they care about privacy—has seen significant growth in its own ads business. Most recently this was highlighted how Apple utilizes anti-competitive language to promote their own ads business over third parties. Apple uses a loophole in the ATT […]

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]]> Purism at Berlin Mini GUADEC https://puri.sm/posts/purism-at-berlin-mini-guadec/ Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:26:32 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75603 GUADEC is the main yearly GNOME conference, where developers, designers, and other community members gather in one place to watch talks, hack on new features, and plan for the future. Given Purism’s close involvement with GNOME development we used to attend GUADEC as a team before COVID, but of course in the past two years […]

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]]> Why I Support Purism, A Tech Company that Respects Digital Rights https://puri.sm/posts/why-i-support-purism-a-tech-company-that-respects-digital-rights/ Wed, 04 May 2022 17:54:46 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74913 I started working with personal computers over 40 years ago, back when an IBM desktop computer with 64KB of RAM and two 360KB floppy disks cost almost CAD$10,000. I bought the first Macintosh computer sold in Canada from the Hudson’s Bay Company in Montreal. I bought the first iPhone in Buffalo on the day the […]

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]]> Purism Cares about Environmental Impact https://puri.sm/posts/purism-cares-about-environmental-impact/ Tue, 12 Apr 2022 20:46:36 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74608 Earth Matters Everyday. Longevity of tech products reduces waste. As a Social Purpose Corporation one of the areas we work toward is longevity of product along with right to repair, this allows us to be a largely different global manufacturer of digitally-responsible electronic products. Founder and CEO, Todd Weaver, enshrined in the articles of incorporation […]

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]]> Video Editing on Linux Featuring Librem 14 https://puri.sm/posts/video-editing-on-linux-featuring-librem-14/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 01:02:46 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73887 Video editing is a complex topic with a wide-range of software to choose from. In this series, produced with Gardiner Bryant, we will cover some of the common video editing suites available for Linux. We will then jump into some of the other software that you can choose when producing multimedia content on Linux. Instead of just […]

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]]> 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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]]> Throwback to 2021, More from Librem 5 in 2022 https://puri.sm/posts/throwback-to-2021-more-from-librem-5-in-2022/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:51:23 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73719 We’ve had an excellent year of adding more functionality for the phone to the mainline Linux kernel. As a result, the Librem 5 phone has become quite usable in 2021 and will further improve in 2022. We have also increased shipping throughput, and our estimated shipping times are more accurate than ever. Here is a […]

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]]> 2021 Year in Review: Design https://puri.sm/posts/2021-year-in-review-design/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:00:31 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73566 This year, just like the previous years, the Purism design team has been focusing on improving the overall Librem products experience. We took this opportunity to contribute to some amazing upstream projects like Libadwaita for the world to benefit from those modern and respectful technologies. Our goal is to make each Librem product simple and […]

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]]> Year End Update for 2021, Looking Forward to 2022 https://puri.sm/posts/year-end-update-for-2021-looking-forward-to-2022/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 22:13:44 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73455 2021 was a year of transformation and growth for Purism, amidst real challenges. Thank you for all your support and contribution! This has been a particularly daunting year for the supply chain. Really, the global pandemic has made supply chains less reliable, and lead times and shipping times for various parts incredibly unpredictable. In midst […]

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]]> How Purism Funds Free Software https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-funds-free-software/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:41:23 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72740 Free software isn’t free. Free software geeks love to correct people by saying that the “free” in “free software” refers to freedom (libre), not cost (gratis). We even join in this word play at Purism by naming our laptops Librem–a combination of the words libre (freedom) and librum (book). Whether free software is written as […]

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]]> Proud to Be Top Contributor to GTK4 https://puri.sm/posts/proud-to-be-top-contributor-to-gtk4/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:44:32 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72478 With the immense support from our customers, backers, and users, Purism was able to commit tremendous development effort upstream. According to gtk.org, out of all Employers who have committed to advance GTK 4.0, Purism is ranked #5 by commits, and #5 by changes. Behind only RedHat, GNOME Foundation, GNOME, and all unattributed commits; while being […]

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]]> Software Updates that Respects Civil Liberties https://puri.sm/posts/software-updates-that-respects-civil-liberties/ Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:59:00 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72247 Yet-another reminder of how disrespectful Apple, Google, and Microsoft are with their software update process was highlighted to Android phones that were in Massachusets, USA. The unintentionally descriptively named “MassNotify” application was installed to all Android phones in Mass.—en masse—without consent. Mass Upgrade, Without Consent From a forced album install by Apple, to the forced […]

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]]> Making a Platform Adaptive for Everyone https://puri.sm/posts/making-a-platform-adaptive-for-everyone/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:13:00 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72145 A Mobile Platform When we announced the Librem 5, we knew we would have to invest in and build a mobile operating system and applications to run on it — by “mobile” understand “for smartphones”. To avoid reinventing the wheel, we decided to base that system on an existing environment. Librem laptops ship with our […]

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]]> Phosh Overview https://puri.sm/posts/phosh-overview/ Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:44:44 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70682 phosh is graphical shell for mobile, touch based devices like smart phones. It's the default graphical shell on Purism's Librem 5 (and that's where it came to life) but projects like Postmarket OS, Mobian and Debian have picked it up putting it into use on other devices as well and contributing patches.

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]]> Purism Adds Affiliate Program https://puri.sm/posts/purism-adds-affiliate-program/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 01:20:01 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69844 Purism recently added an affiliate program, where people and businesses can sign up, get an affiliate id, and link to products on the Purism Store and get paid.

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]]> Fund Your App to Vote for the Future https://puri.sm/posts/fund-your-app-to-vote-for-the-future/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:28:58 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69632 Fund Your App is available for app selection and donation from https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/. A common question asked about the Librem 5 phone is “How many apps are available?” This can be answered simply by “Many thousands, asterisk.” What most people desire is a dozen or so applications they may need and a handful more they want, […]

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]]> Purism & Linux 5.3 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-linux-5-3/ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:09:29 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65721 Following up on our report for Linux 5.2, here’s a list of Purism’s contributions for the 5.3 cycle Linux kernel. We contributed 12 patches, which include the Librem 5 devkit device tree and a driver for the i.MX8MQs D-PHY. Librem 5 devkit device tree Besides the kernel sources, the Linux git repository contains device tree […]

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]]> Nicole Faerber nominated for “CTO of the Year” by Women in IT Awards https://puri.sm/posts/nicole-faerber-nominated-for-cto-of-the-year-by-women-in-it-awards/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 13:56:51 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65032 Our very own Nicole Faerber has made it to the short-list for “CTO of the Year” by the Women in IT Awards! Congratulations are in order–we are so proud to say that Nicole Faerber just got nominated to the short-list of such a meaningful award. Nicole’s nomination means a lot to Purism, and we are […]

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]]> The New Generation of Tech and Stronger Privacy Laws https://puri.sm/posts/the-new-generation-of-tech-and-stronger-privacy-laws/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 08:23:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=64296 Read all about how Todd Weaver and Brendan Eich reject Big Tech’s efforts to weaken California’s privacy law. In a nutshell, what you can read in The Mercury News is how every Big Tech company seems to care about privacy now—while quietly attempting to dismantle the California Consumer Privacy Act before it even goes into […]

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]]> Opt-IN, No Ads, and No Tracking Solve a Lot of Problems in Society https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/ Wed, 01 May 2019 23:21:45 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63390 There are a lot of issues with social giants and we are hearing about them daily, from Cambridge Analytica manipulating people through social media feeds, through silicon valley social companies censoring people, to algorithms that discriminate you and the content you see based on your friends or posts or likes. It’s also a common question […]

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]]> How Purism Works Upstream and Gives Back https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-works-upstream-and-gives-back/ Wed, 01 May 2019 17:06:57 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63466 One aspect in free software (and its copyleft licensing) is the benefit of releasing software for others to use as long as the same licensing terms are used. Purism has a long history of giving back and working with upstreams and continues to release everything Purism authors under free software licenses in accordance to Purism’s […]

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]]> Librem 5 general development report — September 6th, 2018 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-20/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:10:27 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=57997 Conferences Some of the Purism team members attended Akademy 2018 in Vienna. This conference facilitated further discussions with KDE developers and it was nice to meet everyone in person! We would like to express our gratitude to @Puri_sm, not only for sponsoring #Akademy2018, but also for working with our developers so we can have a […]

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]]> Let’s get Chatty! (updated August 30th, 2018) https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-19/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:21:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=57183 Today we provide a technical update and demonstration of SMS and—additionally—end-to-end encrypted XMPP messages on the chat application we’re developing, “Chatty”. But first, a bit of historical context… The rise and fall of instant messengers In today’s rapidly changing world, new proprietary products appear every fifteen minutes. Some of them attract quite a lot of […]

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]]> An overview of this summer’s community conferences https://puri.sm/posts/2018-summer-conferences/ Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:00:13 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=56296 This summer, we have been kept busy with a number of things. As you can see with the many blog posts from the Librem 5 phone development team (many more are scheduled to be published in the coming days and weeks), we have been heavily focused on preparing the software platform for the phone, as […]

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]]> Librem 5 general development report — June 11, 2018 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-14/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:38:53 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=53690 There has been some exciting work done on the Librem 5 project and while there is still plenty of work left, we would like to highlight the accomplishments the team has achieved over the last couple of weeks. So here please enjoy a brief update on our recent efforts and victories. Software Work There is […]

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