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Yellowfin (AlmaLinux Kitten)

Based on: AlmaLinux Kitten 10

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

Features​

  • 🖥️ GNOME 48.3: Modern desktop backported to Enterprise Linux.
  • 🍺 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​

Pre-built ISOs are published every two weeks for GNOME flavors. 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

GDX (Graphical Developer Experience)​

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

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​