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Converging on Convergence PureOS is Convergent, Welcome to the Future

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 7th of March 2019 02:11:42 AM Filed under
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  • Converging on Convergence
    PureOS is Convergent, Welcome to the Future

    The two big mobile OS vendors have been dreaming of convergence between laptop OS and mobile OS for a long time; dreaming of being able to make the same application code execute, and operate, both on mobile phones and laptops – adapting the applications to screen size and input devices.

    Purism is beating the duopoly to that dream, with PureOS: we are now announcing that Purism’s PureOS is convergent, and has laid the foundation for all future applications to run on both the Librem 5 phone and Librem laptops, from the same PureOS release.

  • Purism Announces Convergence for Its Linux Phones and Laptops

    Following on Canonical's convergence dream for Ubuntu Linux, Purism made the convergence dream a reality for its PureOS Linux operating system that ships pre-installed with all Librem laptops, as well as the upcoming Librem 5 Linux phone, allowing users to use a single set of apps on both mobile phones and laptops.

    "If you’ve ever had an app on your phone that you wanted on your laptop, you’ve wanted convergence," said Jeremiah Foster, Director PureOS at Purism. "Purism's PureOS is convergent, and has laid the foundation for all future applications to run on both the Librem 5 phone and Librem laptops, from the same PureOS release."

  • Purism's PureOS Proclaims Convergence Success For Mobile & Desktop Support

    Purism announced this morning that their PureOS Linux distribution for their Librem laptops and forthcoming Librem 5 platform has achieved the goal of "convergence".

    Purism is announcing today their OS is convergent. "Purism is beating the duopoly to that dream, with PureOS: we are now announcing that Purism’s PureOS is convergent, and has laid the foundation for all future applications to run on both the Librem 5 phone and Librem laptops, from the same PureOS release...Purism has one convergent operating system, PureOS. Google has two separate ones, ChromeOS and Android; Apple has two separate ones too, macOS and iOS."

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Purism Announces PureOS Is Now Convergent

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 7th of March 2019 03:28:18 AM.

PureOS: One Linux for both PCs and smartphones

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 8th of March 2019 12:14:10 AM.
  • PureOS: One Linux for both PCs and smartphones

    There are quite a few people out there who want the same Linux on both their smartphone and their PC. Perhaps the best known of them is Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth. He tried for years to ignite a market for Ubuntu Linux running on tablets, smartphones, and PCs. It didn't work. After years of effort, Canonical gave up on its one operating system for all platforms plans. Dreams don't die. Now, Purism, the open-source laptop and smartphone vendor, is bringing the idea back to life with future releases of its PureOS Linux distribution.

    Jeremiah Foster, the PureOS director, announced: "Purism's PureOS is convergent, and has laid the foundation for all future applications to run on both the Librem 5 phone and Librem laptops, from the same PureOS release."

Purism’s CEO Todd Weaver Testifies at State Senate

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 8th of March 2019 12:16:33 AM.
  • Purism’s CEO Todd Weaver Testifies at State Senate

    My name is Todd Weaver, and I think you’ll find both Gabriel and I are quite unusual witnesses from the tech sector here today. This is because we are here as the CEOs of growing technology companies that protect privacy rather than exploit it. I am calling for much stronger consumer privacy protections here in California and around the world, not weaker ones.

    I believe the default approach in California should be the right to opt in, rather than requiring all of us to have to inconveniently opt out, of the exploitation of our most personal data across all software, each service and every site we use. As Mr. Mactaggart, whom I’d like to take a moment to thank for his tireless years of effort on AB 375, appropriately stated, a do-not-track browser extension backed by law is helpful for protection on websites, but misses on the widely popular applications and services; this is one of many reasons we need to protect personal privacy by default.

    I also strongly support holding companies, like mine, accountable in court if we violate a person’s privacy rights – rights which are guaranteed in the state’s Constitution, but that I believe our laws do not yet fully respect when it comes to the Internet.

    I am here to tell you it’s time for California’s extraordinary tech industry to stop harvesting and “sharing” our most personal private data without our meaningful consent and knowledge. You all have the power to make this happen, and I believe the time is long overdue.

    Now you have heard some business and tech communities suggesting California’s new privacy law–if not substantially amended (which of course means weakened) before it is allowed to go into effect–is going to cause extraordinary business hardship and confusion. These are of course the same arguments that were made by many of these same companies regarding Europe’s GDPR – but since the GDPR went into effect, these companies have continued just fine, and in most cases have grown profits. That is real evidence that California’s new privacy law is not going to destroy Internet commerce as we know it.

    I am here to tell you that AB 375 (or stronger) protections – just like those in the GDPR – are not going to be hard to implement. The key is whether we, companies, are willing to simply begin to honor our customer’s privacy rights by designing our services to be privacy-protecting by default, rather than privacy-exploiting by default.

Purism's PureOS is convergent

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 8th of March 2019 03:00:58 AM.
  • Purism's PureOS is convergent

    Three years ago on April 2, 2016, I wrote an article about A brief history of user interfaces. In that article, I followed up on another essay of mine about visual brand and user experience, where I introduced the concept of breaking down a user interface into component parts, as a way to identify the distinctive features that create a "visual brand."

    At the end of my article, I made a comment that desktop and mobile operating systems were converging...

"PC-Mobile Convergence, Purism Claims"

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 9th of March 2019 02:15:14 AM.
  • Linux-based PureOS Achieves PC-Mobile Convergence, Purism Claims

    In an official blog post, the Linux-powered hardware maker Purism announced that they’ve achieved convergence between mobile OS and desktop OS. This news comes as a pleasant surprise after the (failed) efforts made by Canonical to create a convergent Ubuntu OS for mobile and desktop.

    Purism details convergence as a term used to describe “similar functioning of an app across different platforms.” It basically involves creating such operating systems for phones and desktops which share the same core. As a result, developers can easily port apps from one platform to another with little effort.

Jim Hall: Purism's PureOS is convergent

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 9th of March 2019 11:11:37 AM.
  • Jim Hall: Purism's PureOS is convergent

    Well, the future is now. The convergence of mobile devices and laptops is happening. Jeremiah Foster, Director PureOS at Purism, writes in Many Devices, One OS that "Purism’s PureOS is convergent, and has laid the foundation for all future applications to run on both the Librem 5 phone and Librem laptops, from the same PureOS release."

    PureOS (which is really GNOME apps on top of the Linux kernel) now sports an Adaptive Design. That means the application can rearrange the user interface to suit the display device it is run from. Take a web browser, for example. On a desktop, you might place UI controls at the top - typical for most desktop UI designs. But on a mobile device, such as a phone, it may be better to move the UI controls elsewhere, such as to the bottom.

    Think of Adaptive Design as the application equivalent to Responsive Web Design. A website that uses Responsive Web Design might collapse a list of navigation links to a menu when viewed on a narrow display device, such as a phone. Or the website might rearrange or resize some content (such as images) to better suit a smaller display. Almost every modern website leverages Responsive Web Design.

Purism’s PureOS Linux will Run on Both Mobile and PC

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 9th of March 2019 05:34:22 PM.
  • Purism’s PureOS Linux will Run on Both Mobile and PC

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    Purism’s PureOS Linux will Run on Both Mobile and PC
    Last updated March 9, 2019 By John Paul Leave a Comment
    According to their latest announcement, Purism is working to create a unified operating system for their laptops and upcoming mobile device. Will Purism be able to succeed where others have failed?

    Purism is a rather young tech company dedicated to freedom, privacy, and security. Their goal is to produce software and hardware that keeps the user’s information safe, instead of leaking it to the world. Purism currently produces a couple of laptops and is working on developing a Linux-based smartphone.

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