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Yellowfin (AlmaLinux Kitten)

Visual overview

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Based on: AlmaLinux Kitten 10

Yellowfin is the "developer's daily drive" variant of TunaOS. It tracks AlmaLinux Kitten, the more experimental branch of AlmaLinux that follows upstream more closely. This variant is closest to the experience of upstream Bluefin LTS.

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).
  • 🐱 Kitten Base: Enjoy newer packages and features before they land in stable EL.
  • 🚀 Lead Developer's Choice: The variant used for daily development of TunaOS.

Downloads​

TunaOS publishes its pre-built ISOs for the GNOME flavors every two weeks. Other flavors are available as container images only.

GNOME (Standard)​

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

ISOs: yellowfin-gnome-latest.iso

GNOME (HWE — Hardware Enablement)​

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

ISOs: yellowfin-gnome-hwe-latest.iso

KDE Plasma​

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

COSMIC​

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

Niri​

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

GNOME 50​

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

DX (Developer Experience)​

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

NVIDIA (NVIDIA drivers + CUDA)​

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

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

Installation​

Using Container Image​

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

Building ISO with Just​

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

# Build Yellowfin ISO
just build-iso yellowfin

Community Support​