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24-452: In 2014, Purism launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowd Supply to fund the creation and production of the Librem 15 laptop, conceived as a modern alternative to existing open-source hardware laptops, all of which used older hardware. The 15 in the name refers to its 15-inch screen size. The campaign succeeded after extending the original campaign, and the laptops were shipped to backers. In

48-469: A 1.5 GB live DVD image. Triskel is another alternative to mainline Trisquel using the KDE graphical interface, available as a 2.3 GB ISO DVD live image. Sugar is a free and open source desktop environment designed with the goal of being used by children for interactive learning. Sugar replaces the standard MATE desktop environment available with Trisquel. NetInstall consists of a 25MB CD iso image with just

72-518: A collection of these six components, involved in the boot process, as PureBoot: PureBoot protects the users from various attacks like theft, BIOS malware and kernel rootkits, vulnerabilities and malicious code in the Intel Management Engine, and interdiction . Crowd Supply Crowd Supply is a crowdfunding platform based in Portland, Oregon. The platform has claimed "over twice

96-534: A downloadable 1.2-gigabyte DVD image. Source code for the full Trisquel 11 installation is also available in a downloadable of about 8.8 or 9.4-gigabyte tar file. The source code can also be obtained with a torrent file. The project began in 2004 with sponsorship of the University of Vigo for Galician language support in education software and was officially presented in April 2005 with Richard Stallman , founder of

120-512: A fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a version of Ubuntu's modified kernel, with the non-free code ( binary blobs ) removed. Trisquel relies on user donations. Its logo is a triskelion , a Celtic symbol. Trisquel is listed by the Free Software Foundation as a distribution that contains only free software. Four basic versions are available. The standard Trisquel distribution includes

144-587: A second revision of the laptop, hardware kill switches for the camera, microphone, Wi-Fi , and Bluetooth were added. After the successful launch of the Librem 15, Purism created another campaign on Crowd Supply for a 13-inch laptop called the Librem 13, which also came with hardware kill switches similar to those on the Librem 15v2. The campaign was again successful and the laptops were shipped to customers. Purism announced in December 2016 that it would start shipping from inventory rather than building to order with

168-539: The Free Software Foundation 's Free JavaScript campaign and was endorsed as the FSF's preferred crowdfunding platform. This article about an online company of the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Trisquel Trisquel (full name Trisquel GNU/Linux ) is a computer operating system , a Linux distribution , derived from another distribution, Ubuntu . The project aims for

192-686: The GNU Project , as a special guest. According to project director Rubén Rodríguez, the support for Galician has created interest in South American and Mexican communities of emigrants from the Province of Ourense . By December 2008, Trisquel was included by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in its list of Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. The releases that use GNOME 3.x use GNOME Classic/Flashback , rather than

216-690: The Linux-libre kernel found in Trisquel impedes functionality of proprietary wireless devices. They argued that the distribution was targeting power users and that new users should use a different distribution. Richard Stallman has mentioned that he is using Trisquel on a Thinkpad X200 with Libreboot as of 2022, and has previously used the Lemote Yeeloong . IA-32 and x86-64 CPU architectures were supported since Trisquel 5.5, which includes free software compatible chipsets . However, IA-32 support

240-653: The MATE desktop environment and graphical user interface (GUI), and English , Spanish and 48 other localizations, 50 in total, on a 2.6 GB live DVD image. Other translations can be downloaded if an internet connection is present during installation. Trisquel Mini is an alternative to mainline Trisquel, designed to run well on netbooks and older hardware . It uses the low-resource environment LXDE and lightweight GTK+ and X Window System alternatives to GNOME and Qt - KDE applications. The LXDE desktop only includes English and Spanish localizations, and can install from

264-480: The Trisquel operating system, Purism eventually moved off the Trisquel platform to Debian for the 2.0 release of its PureOS Linux operating system. As an alternative to PureOS, Librem laptops are purchasable with Qubes OS preinstalled. In December 2017, the Free Software Foundation added PureOS to its list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions. In 2015, Purism began research to port the Librem 13 to coreboot but

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288-412: The 5.5 release, Brigantia, and described it as "well-ordered and well developed" and recommended it to users whether they care about only using free software or not. Lynch stated that the release was suitable for beginners and advanced users. Chris Fisher and Matt Hartley of The Linux Action Show! praised the design, ease of use, and hardware support of Trisquel 5.5 and Trisquel 5.5 Mini, but found that

312-515: The Librem 5 has been postponed several times. In September 2018, Purism announced that the launch date of Librem 5 would be moved from January to April 2019, because of two hardware bugs and the holiday season in Europe and North America. The Librem 5's DevKits for software developers were shipped in December 2018. The launch date was later postponed to the third quarter because of the necessity of further CPU tests. On September 24, 2019, Purism announced that

336-573: The Librem laptop Basic Input/Output System ( BIOS ) was not maliciously altered since the last laptop launch. The Librem Key also features one-time password storage with 3x HMAC-based One-time Password algorithm (HOTP) (RFC 4226) and 15 x Time-based One-time Password algorithm (TOTP) (RFC 6238) and an integrated password manager (16 entries), 40 kbit/s true random number generator, and a tamper-resistant smart card. The key supports type A USB 2.0, has dimensions of 48 x 19 x 7 mm, and weighs 6 g. Initially planning to preload its Librem laptops with

360-619: The default GNOME Shell . All Trisquel releases starting with version 6 are only based on Ubuntu LTS releases . Current versions include this common software: Prior editions: Jesse Smith of DistroWatch reviewed the 4.0 release, Taranis, and described it as refined and dependable. He portrayed difficulty with removing software as his main problem with the release. He complimented it as an operating system that showcased utility instead of mere compliance with free software criteria. Jesse Smith also reviewed Trisquel 7.0 in 2014, writing "Whenever I boot up Trisquel I find myself wondering whether

384-508: The effort was initially stalled. By the end of the year, a coreboot developer completed an initial port of the Librem 13 and submitted it for review. In December 2016, hardware enablement developer Youness Alaoui joined Purism and was tasked to complete the coreboot port for the original Librem 13 and prepare a port for the second revision of the device. Since summer 2017, new Librem laptops are shipped with coreboot as their standard BIOS, and updates are available for all older models. Purism calls

408-485: The first batch of Librem 5 phones had started shipping. The finished version of the Librem 5, known as "Evergreen", was finally shipped on November 18, 2020. The Librem server is a rack mounted server , released to the public in December 2019. Announced on 20 September 2018, the Librem Key is a hardware USB security token with multiple features, including integration with a tamper-evident Heads BIOS, which ensures that

432-522: The free Gnash player, but otherwise Trisquel appears to be every bit as functional as other mainstream Linux distributions. The software Trisquel ships with appears to be stable, functional and user friendly. The distribution is easy to install, I found it pleasant to use and I didn't encounter any problems. People who value or wish to promote free software should definitely try running Trisquel, it's an excellent example of what can be accomplished with free software." Jim Lynch of Desktop Linux Reviews reviewed

456-473: The free software only distribution will be able to hold its own when it comes to hardware drivers, multimedia support and productivity software. The answer I came to when running Trisquel 7.0 is that, yes, the distribution appears to be nearly as capable as operating systems that do not stick to the FSF's definition of free software. Some people who use hardware that requires binary blobs or non-free drivers may face problems and Flash support isn't perfect when using

480-879: The minimal amount of software to start the installation via a text based network installer and fetch the remaining packages over the Internet. The full installation includes 51 languages ( Albanian , Arabic , Aranese , Asturian , Basque , Bulgarian , Catalan , Central Khmer , Simplified Chinese , Traditional Chinese , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dutch , English , Esperanto , Estonian , Finnish , French , Galician , German , Greek , Hebrew , Hindi , Hungarian , Indonesian , Irish , Italian , Japanese , Korean , Latvian , Lithuanian , Low German , Norwegian Bokmål , Norwegian Nynorsk , Occitan , Punjabi , Polish , Portuguese , Romanian , Russian , Serbian , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish , Swedish , Tamil , Thai , Turkish , Valencian and Vietnamese ) pre-installed in

504-568: The new batches of Librem 15 and 13. As of January 2023, Purism has one laptop model in production, the Librem 14 (version 1, US$ 1,370). The Librem Mini is a small form factor desktop computer , which began shipping in June 2020. On August 24, 2017, Purism started a crowdfunding campaign for the Librem 5 , a smartphone aimed to run 100% free software , which would "[focus] on security by design and privacy protection by default". Purism claimed that

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528-548: The phone would become "the world's first ever IP-native mobile handset, using end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication." Purism cooperated with KDE and GNOME in its development of Librem 5. Security features of the Librem 5 include separation of the CPU from the baseband processor , which, according to Linux Magazine , makes the Librem 5 unique in comparison to other mobile phones. The Librem 5 also features hardware kill switches for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication and

552-404: The phone's camera , microphone , and baseband processor. The default operating system for the Librem 5 is Purism's PureOS , a Debian derivative. The operating system uses a new user interface called Phosh , based on Wayland , wlroots, GTK and GNOME middleware. It is planned that Phosh/ Plasma Mobile , Ubuntu Touch , and postmarketOS can also be installed on the phone. The release of

576-515: The success rate of Kickstarter and Indiegogo ", and partners with creators who use it, providing mentorship resembling a business incubator . Some see Crowd Supply's close management of projects as the solution to the fulfillment failure rate of other crowdfunding platforms. The site also serves as an online store for the inventories of successful campaigns. Notable projects from the platform include Andrew Huang 's Novena , an open-source laptop. In 2015, Crowd Supply became compliant with

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