Purism’s Librem Linux laptop

Purism is seeking crowd-sourced funding for its 15-inch Linux laptop. The Librem laptop is designed to run on truly free software only, there will be no closed-source software included with it (even for drivers).

Chris Hoffman at PC World reports on Purism’s free software only laptop:

Purism, which launched a drive on Crowd Supply on Wednesday, is seeking at least $250,000 to make a high-end Linux laptop that only runs free, or open-source, software. This means no annoying closed-source drivers—or “binary blobs”—necessary to make the hardware work.

Purism claims the laptop’s hardware has been “meticulously designed chip by chip to work with free and open source software,” saying it’s the “first laptop to reinstate your rights to freedom and privacy.”

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