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Fig. 01 — Overview

Polished.
No excess.
Pure GNOME.

Rubin-OS is a desktop-first immutable Linux built on vanilla GNOME — no bloat, no extra apps, no modifications. Just a clean, fast GNOME shell with Ghostty as your terminal and Bazzar for flatpaks. Powered by Fedora and bootc.

Download → View on GitHub
ghostty — rubin-os
rubin@localhost:~$ uname -a
Linux rubin-os 6.12.0-ferret #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
rubin@localhost:~$ rpm -q rubin-os
rubin-os-1.0.0-1.ferret.x86_64
rubin@localhost:~$ █
Fig. 02 — Technical Specification

What's in the box.

Vanilla GNOME, nothing added that wasn't asked for. Everything you need to start building your desktop from scratch.

BASE
Fedora + bootc — atomic, image-based, OCI-native
INCLUDED
DESKTOP
Vanilla GNOME — unmodified, barebones, no extensions or theming
INCLUDED
EXTRA GNOME APPS
None — no Rhythmbox, no Maps, no Weather, no clutter
NOT PRESENT
TERMINAL
Ghostty — fast, GPU-accelerated, native feel
INCLUDED
APP STORE
Bazzar — flatpak-native store, clean and minimal
INCLUDED
NON-FREE CODECS
Built in — H.264, H.265, AAC, and friends, no manual setup
INCLUDED
OUT-OF-TREE KMODS
Ferret kmod repo layered in — broad hardware support out of the box
INCLUDED
V4L2LOOPBACK
Built in — virtual video device support, no manual DKMS needed
INCLUDED
ZFS
OpenZFS support baked in — ready to use, no post-install steps
INCLUDED
NVIDIA VARIANT
Separate image with proprietary NVIDIA drivers pre-layered
SEPARATE IMAGE
Fig. 03 — Desktop Preview

See it in action.

Rubin-OS desktop preview
Fig. 04 — Download

Pick your image.

Two variants. Same clean GNOME core. Choose based on your hardware.

01

Rubin-OS Standard

Mesa · open drivers · universal

STABLE
VERSION1.0.0
ARCHx86_64
SIZE~1.8 GB
FORMAT.iso
SHA256
— placeholder — checksum will appear here on release —
Download Standard →
02

Rubin-OS NVIDIA

Proprietary NVIDIA drivers pre-layered

NVIDIA
VERSION1.0.0
ARCHx86_64
SIZE~2.2 GB
FORMAT.iso
SHA256
— placeholder — checksum will appear here on release —
Download NVIDIA →
Fig. 03a — Verify your download
you@host:~/Downloads$ sha256sum rubin-os-1.0.0-x86_64.iso
# compare output against the SHA256 above