Company PURISM, developing smartphone Librem 5 and a series of laptops supplied with Linux and Coreboot, servers and mini-pc, announced about the release of the distribution kit PureOS 10 built on a batch base Debian and includes only free applications, including supplied with the GNU Linux-Libre core, purified from non-free elements of binary firmware. Pureos is recognized as a free software fund as completely free and placed in List Recommended Distributions. Installation size ISO image supporting download in Live mode, 2 GB.
Distribution is scrupulously refer to the preservation of privacy, offering a number of opportunities to protect the privacy of users. For example, a complete set of data encryption on the disk is available, the delivery includes Tor Browser, DuckduckGo is invited as a search engine, to protect the user’s actions in the Web pre-installed Privacy Badger supplement, and for automatic forwarding on HTTPS – HTTPS Everywhere. The default browser is used by PureBrowser (Firefox Rebel). The desktop is based on GNOME 3 running over Wayland.
The most notable innovation in the new version was the support of the “Convergence” mode, which offers an adaptive user environment for mobile and desktop devices. The key goal of developing is to provide the ability to work with the same GNOME applications both on the smartphone touch screen and on large laptop screens and PCs in combination with the keyboard and mouse. The application interface varies dynamically depending on the size of the screen and the available input devices. For example, when using PureOS on the smartphone, when the device is connected to the monitor, you can turn your smartphone into a portable workstation.
The new release is delivered by default on all PURISM products, including the Librem 5 smartphone, Librem 14 laptop and Librem Mini miniature PC. To align in one application interface for mobile and stationary screens, the libhandy , allowing you to adapt GTK / GNOME applications for mobile devices ( is provided A set of adaptive widgets and objects).
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