elementary OS
A calm, carefully designed desktop on Ubuntu LTS with its own Pantheon desktop and app store. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- elementary, Inc.
- Created by
- Daniel Foré
- First release
- 2011
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://elementary.io
- Family
- Debian
- Based on
- Ubuntu LTS
- Package manager
- APT, Flatpak
- Package format
- deb
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- Follows Ubuntu LTS
- Support lifetime
- As long as its Ubuntu LTS base
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- Pantheon
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Desktop
- Backed by
- A company
- Beginner friendliness
- 5 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64