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XFCE Linux

XFCE Linux

Alpha

Brussels: XFCE Wayland, built with BuildStream.

XFCE Linux, codenamed Brussels, is an independent TunaOS bootc image with XFCE Wayland. It shares a freedesktop-sdk base with Tromsø but has its own BuildStream project and build pipeline.

XFCE WaylandDesktop
BuildStreamBuilt with
freedesktop-sdkBase
BrusselsCodename
DocumentationGitHub

Original desktop artwork

Original Brussels wallpaper: a city at dusk framed by warm art-nouveau arches.
Original Brussels wallpaper: a city at dusk framed by warm art-nouveau arches.

Features

XFCE on Wayland

A Wayland session with the XFCE desktop.

freedesktop-sdk base

The same SDK base family used by Tromsø, built in a separate BuildStream repository.

Pinned BuildStream graph

The project maintains its own source pins and build pipeline.

bootc OCI image

The project publishes a bootc OCI image at ghcr.io/tuna-os/xfce-linux.

Brussels artwork

The Brussels arch-and-sun mark, XFCE Linux wordmark, and wallpaper are original TunaOS artwork.

Get started

Build from source
git clone https://github.com/tuna-os/xfce-linux.git
cd xfce-linux
just build
Move an existing bootc system (bootc-migrate)
sudo bootc-migrate --target-image ghcr.io/tuna-os/xfce-linux:latest

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