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PureOS
Purism's Debian-based, privacy- and free-software-focused distribution, developed as the default OS for its Librem laptops and phones and also FSF-endorsed.
Specialty & NichedesktopDebian-basedfree-softwareFSF-endorsedprivacyDownload ↗Official site ↗Docs / Wiki ↗
Based on
Debian
First released
2017
Package manager
APT (.deb)
Desktop environments
GNOME
PureOS is developed by Purism, a company that builds privacy-and-security-focused hardware (the Librem line of laptops and the Librem 5 phone), and it's built to match that hardware's philosophy: a Debian base with all proprietary software and non-free firmware removed, privacy-respecting defaults, and GNOME as its desktop, adapted to work across both PureOS's desktop and mobile (Librem 5 phone) targets from a shared codebase. Like Trisquel, it's one of the distributions formally endorsed by the Free Software Foundation for containing no non-free software in its official repositories. Its tight coupling with Purism's own hardware makes it somewhat unusual among general-purpose distributions, though it installs and runs on other x86 hardware as well.
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