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Yellowfin

Based on AlmaLinux Kitten 10

Yellowfin tracks AlmaLinux Kitten — the upstream-tracking branch of AlmaLinux. Newer packages and features land here first, on a base that's still almost enterprise-stable. The lead developer's daily driver.

Kitten 10Base
Fresh + stableCadence
x86_64_v2 buildsMicroarch

One base, every desktop

Each Yellowfin flavor ships a different desktop on the same AlmaLinux Kitten 10 foundation.

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GNOME

The polished default — latest GNOME, backported to Enterprise Linux.

:gnome

KDE Plasma

Endlessly customizable, feature-rich Plasma desktop.

:kde

COSMIC

System76's Rust-built next-gen desktop.

:cosmic

Niri

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for keyboard-driven flow.

:niri

See the desktops

Real screenshots, captured automatically each week by booting every desktop in a VM.

GNOME desktop on yellowfin
GNOME
KDE Plasma desktop on yellowfin
KDE Plasma
COSMIC desktop on yellowfin
COSMIC
Niri desktop on yellowfin
Niri

Why Yellowfin

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Atomic & rollback-safe

Built on bootc: image-based updates that apply in one transaction and roll back just as cleanly.

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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.

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Hardware Enablement

An -hwe kernel stack for newer laptops and desktops, layered on the same userspace.

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NVIDIA + CUDA option

A dedicated -nvidia flavor ships the proprietary driver and CUDA for gaming and AI workloads.

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Kitten freshness

Newer GNOME, kernels, and toolchains before they reach stable EL — without leaving the EL ecosystem.

Images & flavors

Pull any flavor directly, or grab a live ISO where one's published.

GNOMELive ISO publishedghcr.io/tuna-os/yellowfin:gnome
GNOME (HWE)Live ISO publishedghcr.io/tuna-os/yellowfin:gnome-hwe
KDE Plasmaghcr.io/tuna-os/yellowfin:kde
COSMICghcr.io/tuna-os/yellowfin:cosmic
Nirighcr.io/tuna-os/yellowfin:niri
GNOME (NVIDIA)ghcr.io/tuna-os/yellowfin:gnome-nvidia
Rebase an existing bootc system
sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/tuna-os/yellowfin:gnome
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Dive into Yellowfin

Grab a live ISO, or rebase an existing bootc system in one command.