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Universal Blue is a manufacturing process that focuses on community-driven sharing of best practices via automation to make awesome desktop and server operating systems. That's nerdspeak for the ultimate Linux client : the reliability of a Chromebook, but with the flexibility and power of a traditional Linux desktop. We produce a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using bootc.

This is a tool that allows cloud infrastructure people to use their skills to help the Linux desktop. There are millions of cloud native system administrators who are passionate about Linux and keep the modern world running. It's not a distribution, but a new way to consume existing distributions, put together by these same people. We are your desktop devops team.

We also provide tools for users to build their own image using our templates and processes, which can be used to ship custom configurations to all of your machines, or finally make the Linux distribution you've long wished for, but never had the tools to create.

At long last, we've ascended.

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Aurora is a clean and reliable desktop operating system for every type of user. Many batteries included.

Simply delightful.

Aurora features a lightly customized KDE Plasma 6 desktop experience that can be customized indefinitely. Super smooth and delightful.

Zero Maintenance

Install the system once and forget about maintenance. Updates are automatic. Upgrade your system in one-click, including all your apps.

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The next generation of Linux Gaming for all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.

Play Your Favorites

Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris pre-installed, Steam Game Mode, HDR support for AMD GPUs, and numerous community-developed tools for your gaming needs.

Expanded Hardware Support

Support for handhelds PCs, Nvidia drivers and the latest Mesa for AMD & Intel pre-installed, and numerous tweaks applied as needed to ensure your games just work.

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The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.

For You

Bluefin is an operating system featuring the best of both worlds: The reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook and the power of a GNOME desktop.

For Developers

Container focused workflows to get you started depending on where you're coming from, or bring your own. Wield the industry's leading tools at your fingertips.

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An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included; a lightweight server image including most used services or the building blocks to host them.

Server-grade

Ready for running containerized workloads on either bare metal or virtual machines, with tools like wireguard, firewalld, cockpit, tailscale, ZFS support, and more.

Compute-ready

Optional support for Nvidia hardware, including containerized CUDA workloads.

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Base Images

Universal Blue maintains a set of base images built from Fedora Atomic Desktops and then enhanced with additional hardware support and fixes. Note that these images are lightweight by design, and do not ship with many of the enhancements of our other images.

Universal Blue images are endlessly customizable and may be derived into new images through the use of a Containerfile and our GitHub build actions. We look forward to seeing what you create from them!

Create a custom image

Direct usage Instructions<br>View all images on GitHub.

Advantages over traditional Linux systems

Reliable, atomic updates with built in rollback<br>Built using industry standard OCI compliant images

Hosted on ghcr.io<br>Ninety (90) days of image archives allowing for flexible rollback options

Globally distributed via CDN for fast image downloads

Images signed with industry standard sigstore tools

Known-good State and Fewer Failures

Installation designed to last for the life of the hardware with minimal maintenance

Significantly reduced configuration drift

Kernel mods preinstalled on the image - including Nvidia drivers

Clean separation of the base system from applications and your data

Powerful Developer Features

Container-focused development for clean and reproduceable environments

Develop locally with the same tools and patterns used to deploy in production

Community Maintained

Shared maintenance of our desktops leads to better desktops, we strongly value fixing things for everyone so they can do the least amount of work possible

Focuses expertise where it is needed the most so we can concentrate on our work instead of our operating system

The project is maintained by a community of cloud native contributors with an explicit mission

Unbridled customization

Craft your perfect image from scratch or derive from others

Rebase back to Fedora without...