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Dakota

Dakota

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The Final Form. Bluefin Perfected.

A freedesktop.org and GNOME OS image, designed from the ground up to be the most modern raptor in the pack. The familiar Bluefin desktop and developer experience in a whole new streamlined package — built from the best OS tech from the CNCF, Apache Foundation, and the UAPI Group.

GNOMEDesktop
BuildStreamBuilt with
freedesktop-sdk / GNOME OSBase
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GNOME OS

The latest stable release of GNOME, no delays. Built from source on the same pipelines as GNOME OS itself.

Freedesktop SDK

Same battle-tested libraries as Flathub. Continuously upgraded, always up to date.

Modern Userspace

bootc, brew, uutils, systemd-boot, container-first, and legacy-free.

Designed for Contributors

Your path to contributing to some of the coolest projects in desktop Linux. Start here, then level up and become part of the upstream teams.

BuildStream & BuildGrid

Hermetic sandbox builds with distributed execution, reproducible and fully auditable.

⚠️ Alpha. Take appropriate precautions.

Features

GNOME on freedesktop-sdk

The reference BuildStream desktop — GNOME OS patterns, Bluefin experience, built from source with BuildStream.

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Built-in feedback loop

ujust report, ujust confirm, ujust verify — structured hardware diagnostics that flow back to upstream.

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Reproducible

BuildStream pipelines. Same inputs, same image — every time. Fully auditable.

Part of the BuildStream desktop family

Dakota is built with BuildStream on freedesktop-sdk — the same foundation as GNOME OS. These sibling projects share the same build system and base:

TromsøAurora KDE Plasma 6 — built from source on freedesktop-sdk.🖥️XFCE LinuxLightweight XFCE Wayland on the same freedesktop-sdk base.🌺Zirconium HawaiiNiri compositor on freedesktop-sdk — 100% reproducible from source.

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