PureOS is maintained by Purism, a company that builds privacy-focused laptops and phones, but the operating system stands on its own as a fully free distribution derived from Debian. It has earned endorsement from the Free Software Foundation, a status that requires excluding proprietary drivers, firmware, and applications entirely, so it runs best on hardware chosen with that constraint in mind. The default desktop is GNOME with privacy-respecting settings, and packages arrive as debs through APT from PureOS's own archive, which filters Debian for freedom. The same system spans form factors, since Purism has shipped PureOS on both its laptops and its Librem 5 phone with convergence as a design goal. It suits people whose first requirement is software freedom rather than maximum hardware compatibility. Because firmware limitations can make bare-metal installs fiddly, an OpenFactory browser VM is a friction-free way to look around PureOS.
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Need PureOS for more than a quick browser preview?
The buttons above launch an ephemeral browser VM, perfect for kicking the tires. Paid plans unlock the things you'd actually use it for:
- ✓Persistent VMs you can SSH into and customize
- ✓Snapshots, your own packages, a downloadable ISO
- ✓Fleet deployment to your own machines (on-prem or cloud)