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Albacore (AlmaLinux)

Visual overview

Prefer a visual tour? See the Albacore overview → landing page.

Based on: AlmaLinux 10.0

Albacore is the flagship stable variant of TunaOS, providing a rock-solid enterprise-grade desktop experience built on the AlmaLinux foundation.

Features​

  • 🖥️ GNOME 50 available: The latest GNOME, backported to Enterprise Linux via the gnome50 image (see Downloads) — alongside the stable distro GNOME.
  • 🍺 Baked-in Homebrew: Access thousands of CLI tools and fonts immediately.
  • ✨ Microarchitecture Support: Optimized builds for x86_64_v2 (older CPUs).
  • 🚀 HWE Variant: Hardware Enablement kernel for the latest laptops and workstations.
  • 🏢 10-Year Lifecycle: Benefit from the long-term support of AlmaLinux 10.

Downloads​

Pre-built ISOs are published every two weeks for GNOME flavors. Other flavors are available as container images only.

GNOME (Standard)​

The standard experience for most users.

Image: ghcr.io/tuna-os/albacore:gnome

ISOs: albacore-gnome-latest.iso

GNOME (HWE — Hardware Enablement)​

Features a newer kernel and drivers for recent hardware.

Image: ghcr.io/tuna-os/albacore:gnome-hwe

ISOs: albacore-gnome-hwe-latest.iso

KDE Plasma​

Image: ghcr.io/tuna-os/albacore:kde

COSMIC​

Image: ghcr.io/tuna-os/albacore:cosmic

Niri​

Image: ghcr.io/tuna-os/albacore:niri

GNOME 50​

Image: ghcr.io/tuna-os/albacore:gnome50

DX (Developer Experience)​

Image: ghcr.io/tuna-os/albacore:gnome-dx

NVIDIA (NVIDIA drivers + CUDA)​

Adds NVIDIA drivers and CUDA for AI, graphics, and VFX workloads. (Formerly "GDX".)

Image: ghcr.io/tuna-os/albacore:gnome-nvidia

Installation​

We recommend using the Justfile in the TunaOS repository for building your own images.

Using Container Image​

podman pull ghcr.io/tuna-os/albacore:latest

Building ISO with Just​

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/tuna-os/tunaOS.git
cd tunaOS

# Build Albacore ISO
just build-iso albacore

Community Support​