KDE Plasma 6
A Wayland Plasma desktop built from source with BuildStream.
freedesktop-sdk base
The image uses freedesktop-sdk as its BuildStream foundation.
Independent TunaOS image
Tromsø has its own BuildStream graph and bootc OCI output, separate from TunaOS’s distro × desktop builds.
⚠️ Alpha. Take appropriate precautions.
Original desktop artwork
Features
Built from source
BuildStream builds the KDE desktop stack on freedesktop-sdk.
BuildStream pipeline
The project maintains its own pinned build graph and CI checks.
Original Tromsø artwork
The mountain-and-aurora mark, wordmark, and wallpaper are TunaOS artwork, not Aurora Linux branding.
bootc OCI image
The project publishes a bootc OCI image at ghcr.io/tuna-os/tromso.
BuildStream family
Tromsø, XFCE Linux (Brussels), and Athens are separately built TunaOS image projects with different desktops and runtimes.
Get started
Build from source
git clone https://github.com/tuna-os/tromso.git
cd tromso
just buildBoot in a VM
just generate-bootable-image
just boot-vmMove an existing bootc system (bootc-migrate)
sudo bootc-migrate --target-image ghcr.io/tuna-os/tromso:latestRelated projects
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