One base, every desktop
Each Gurnard flavor ships a different desktop on the same Ubuntu 24.04 foundation.
Pantheon
elementary OS's elegant, minimal desktop — GNOME apps, own shell.
:pantheonSee the desktops
Real screenshots, captured automatically each week by booting every desktop in a VM.
Why Gurnard
Atomic & rollback-safe
Built on bootc: image-based updates that apply in one transaction and roll back just as cleanly.
Homebrew baked in
Thousands of CLI tools and fonts a `brew install` away — no layering, no rebuilds.
Flathub by default
Full Flathub access out of the box. Install any Flatpak on the net, instantly.
Pantheon desktop
The elegant, minimal elementary OS desktop on the most familiar LTS base in Linux.
Images & flavors
Pull any flavor directly, or grab a live ISO where one's published.
ghcr.io/tuna-os/gurnard:baseghcr.io/tuna-os/gurnard:pantheonsudo bootc switch ghcr.io/tuna-os/gurnard:basePrefer a different cadence?
Same desktops, same tooling — pick the base that fits you.
Dive into Gurnard
Grab a live ISO, or rebase an existing bootc system in one command.