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title: "Great news, everyone!  Kudo's to the Purism team! "Purism, the maker…"
date: 2019-09-27
source: facebook
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# Great news, everyone!  Kudo's to the Purism team! "Purism, the maker…

*September 27, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-phone-starts-shipping-a-fully-open-gnulinux-phone/](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-phone-starts-shipping-a-fully-open-gnulinux-phone/){target="_blank"}
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Great news, everyone! Kudo\'s to the Purism team!\
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\"Purism, the maker of a line of built-for-Linux laptops, is now shipping a built-for-Linux smartphone. The company announced this week that the Librem 5 smartphone is now shipping to early backers of the crowdsourced, \$699 smartphone project.\
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The Librem 5 is unlike anything else on the market. Not only is it one of the only smartphones on Earth that doesn\'t ship with Android, a fork of Android, or iOS---Purism\'s commitment to 100% open software, with no binary blobs, puts severe restrictions on what hardware it can use. Android\'s core might be open source, but it was always built for wide adoption above all else, with provisions for manufacturers to include as much proprietary code as they want.\"\
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[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-phone-starts-shipping-a-fully-open-gnulinux-phone/](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-phone-starts-shipping-a-fully-open-gnulinux-phone/){target="_blank"}
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