PureOS


PureOS is a GNU/Linux distribution focusing on privacy and security, using the GNOME desktop environment. It is maintained by Purism for use in the company's Librem laptop computers as well as the Librem 5 smartphone.
PureOS is designed to include only free/libre and open-source software, and is included in the list of Free GNU/Linux distributions published by the Free Software Foundation.
PureOS is a Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution, merging open-source software packages from the Debian “testing” main archive using a rolling release model. The default web browser in PureOS is called PureBrowser, a variant of Firefox focusing on privacy. The default search engine in PureBrowser is DuckDuckGo.
The PureOS version released in September 2019 is called PureOS 9.0 Hephaestus.
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