I considered numerous laptops from many companies, but making my laptop choice came down to two things, safety, and convenience. Purism’s Librem 13v1 laptop was the first laptop to be certified as officially supported by Qubes in 2015. Since then we treat Qubes as a first class citizen, like PureOS, and have provided Qubes as an alternative to PureOS on all of our laptops. I bought a Librem 13 for my 12 year-old daughter and couldn’t be happier about it. She wanted a new computer; and I, like a lot of parents, wanted to get something that is the best for her, but also offers some safety features, security from all these hacking threats, and that would give me peace of mind that my daughter was as safe as possible online. All the hardware and chipsets in the Librem 14 are hand selected to run completely free software, with all the source code released, offering reproducing code, limiting exploit points, and offering the best in security top-to-bottom.

Opening the Librem 14 laptop box and booting the latest coreboot fully supported by Purism means you have complete peace-of-mind that the lowest level of firmware on a computer is also the most secure and lightweight. Get the best security with complete hardware, boot firmware, software, and custom development from Purism. PureBoot, includes Coreboot, Heads, and Made in USA Librem Key offering best practices in securing your laptop. What drew me to the Librem 13 laptop was simple; it allowed me to have a computer that I felt was least likely to fall victim to ransomware, that offered the camera to be disabled, and that had a browser with privacy protection built-in. Other libraries include a three-dimensional acceleration library (for devices with accelerometers) and a Web browser library. Gradle runs on the JVM with several supporting libraries that require an initialization time. If you desire a high quality laptop that runs coreboot direct from the manufacturer, the Librem 14 is the best coreboot laptop for you. They failed. The book became a best seller, and public backlash eventually prompted the ban on DDT.

This combination of hardware manufacturing and expertise in developing coreboot on our hardware ensures you are getting the best coreboot experience available today. We provide technical support for Qubes on our hardware just like PureOS. Each Librem 13 and Librem 15 hardware update has been tested not only for PureOS compatibility but also for Qubes compatibility to ensure our hardware fully supports Qubes’s virtualization needs. After receiving the Librem 13 laptop, my daughter has been happy to have a computer of her own that works for what she needs, I am happy it was easy for her to use, but most importantly I am happy that it gave me peace of mind that she is as safe as can be. The Librem 14 is custom built by Purism and is designed from the schematics on up with security in mind. The combination of the high security features of the Librem 14, our PureBoot firmware, free and auditable Embedded Controller Firmware, and Qubes makes the Librem 14 the most secure laptop you can buy. Android is free and open source, meaning that anyone can gain access to the source code, making development for it much easier than for a closed operating system like Apple iOS or Microsoft Windows.

Since few vendors apart from Purism test Qubes on their hardware, much less support it, if you want to run Qubes on your own laptop, you are often on your own. You also don’t want a lousy choice damaging your laptop. We love the ability to access your laptop from the back zipper or through the main compartment of the backpack. To get to the battery, you’d have to pry apart the front and back halves of the Kindle Fire’s case — a sure way to void your warranty. As soon as a security bug is discovered in TrueCrypt (all software contains bugs), it will never get fixed. The Librem 14 by Purism is the most secure laptop available in part because it offers all the source code to the entire operating system and software with PureOS where all the security and testing can be verified. PureOS-endorsed by the Free Software Foundation-releases all the source code of the entire operating system. Fully free software, with the source code available, means that every line of code can be verified to be the most secure. It means that you are accessing some methods in an object which is null.