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PureOS for Creatives Part 3: Studio and System Set Up with JACK
[This is part three of a three part series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton: PureOS for Creatives – covering music creation. If you hadn’t read part one covering music production with LMMS but would...
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Making a 3D graphics video for the Librem 5
At Purism, we do all our videos and other promotional material internally, with Librem hardware and free software only. This is part of our policy and I think it’s important, when I believe in...
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Video Editing with KDenLive and the Librem Mini
[This is part of a series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton covering video creation on the Librem Mini.] Video content is one of the most popular forms of media for communication on and off the...
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Video Editing with KDenLive and the Librem Mini part 2: Keyframe Animations
[This is part of a series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton covering video creation on the Librem Mini. To read part 1, covering transposing content over your media and using chroma key – click here]...
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Video Editing with KDenLive and the Librem Mini part 3: Transitions
This is part of a series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton covering video creation on the Librem Mini. To read part 2, covering keyframe animations – click here] In the third and final video of our...
View ArticlePurism Launches Fund Your App Page
SAN FRANCISCO, October 8, 2020 — Purism, a Social Purpose Company (SPC) focusing on security and privacy with its hardware and software, has launched a Fund Your App campaign to allow people to vote...
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Hand Drawn 2D Animation with PureOS and Librem Laptops
Professional animation is not just possible but ideal with free software, this story shares what is possible running PureOS, Librem laptops, and accessories. I have been using free software for 6 years...
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The General Purpose Computer In Your Pocket
Computers have us surrounded. Just about every piece of consumer electronics these days puts “smart” in front of the name, which means they embedded a computer that runs specialized software. The...
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Librem 5 Screenshots Snapshot 2020-11-15
With the Librem 5 mass production beginning to ship imminently, we are publishing some image screenshots to snapshot this momentous occasion. Taken from a Librem 5 Evergreen (mass production) release...
View ArticleWhy FSF Endorsing PureOS Matters
It was three years ago today, December 21, 2017, that the Free Software Foundation announced it had endorsed PureOS. Getting FSF endorsement is not an easy task and involves a lot of rigorous...
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Phosh Overview
This article is a repost from https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/phosh_overview.html phosh is graphical shell for mobile, touch based devices like smart phones. It’s the default graphical shell on Purism’s...
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Snitching on Phones That Snitch On You
Our phones are our most personal computers, and the most vulnerable to privacy abuses. They carry personal files and photos, our contact list, and our email and private chat messages. They also are...
View ArticleThe Simplicity of Making Librem 5 Apps
Getting started with developing applications for a mobile platform can be a challenging task, especially when it comes to building and testing the application on the mobile device itself. The Librem 5...
View ArticleAudacity Telemetry and Why Free Software Means Better Privacy
Many people accept that free software tends to protect your privacy better than proprietary alternatives, but they may not understand why that is. This week’s news about the Audacity project adding...
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What’s new in PureOS 10
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...
View ArticleMaking a Platform Adaptive for Everyone
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...
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Software Updates that Respects Civil Liberties
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...
View ArticleQubes Now A Preinstall Option for Librem 14 and Mini
While we default to our own PureOS on our hardware, we have also supported the high-security QubesOS on Purism hardware ever since the Librem 13 v1 became the first hardware officially supported by the...
View ArticleAnnouncing a New Video Series: Video Editing with Linux
When we were designing the Librem 14, we wanted it to be our dream laptop in all possible respects. This meant squeezing the most resources we could fit in there that could run coreboot and PureBoot....
View ArticleHow Purism Funds Free Software
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...
View ArticleI (Finally) Fired Google
While I have been working for many years to remove all aspects of Google from my personal life, it was only this past week that I replaced the final piece. As of this week I have finally fired Google....
View ArticleFreedom From Coercion
This past week, as part of escalating sanctions between the West and Russia because of the war in Ukraine, the FCC added the security company Kaspersky (creator of the popular Kaspersky Anti-Virus...
View ArticleAnimating Pepper & Carrot with a respectful laptop
I made a 2D traditional animation as part of a project I am working on for Purism, with a goal to demonstrate the power of the Librem 14 as a creative platform. Therefore, as a follow up to my previous...
View ArticleWhy I Support Purism, A Tech Company that Respects Digital Rights
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...
View ArticleCameras: It’s Complicated
Two years before I started working on cameras for the Librem 5, I thought the work would go something like this: first, write a driver, then maybe calibrate the colors, connect to the camera support...
View ArticleFree Software Support Is Critical to Its Success
I’ve been in many “Linux on the Desktop” debates over the years and my stance today is largely the same as two decades ago: if you want free software to succeed, it must be pre-installed on hardware...
View ArticlePrivacy in Depth
In the security world there is a concept called “Defense in Depth” that refers to setting up layers of defense so that if an attacker bypasses one layer there are other layers they must contend with....
View ArticlePurism at Berlin Mini GUADEC
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...
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View ArticleSwinging Back to Open Standards
History is a series of pendulum swings between opposite extremes. A generation moves in a certain direction, and the next generation reacts based on the consequences (often rejecting it). Eventually a...
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