Qubes OS
A security-by-isolation desktop that runs every task in its own Xen virtual machine. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Qubes OS Project (Invisible Things Lab)
- Created by
- Joanna Rutkowska
- First release
- 2012
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.qubes-os.org
- Family
- Independent
- Based on
- Xen, with Fedora (dom0) and Fedora or Debian templates
- Package manager
- DNF, APT in templates
- Package format
- rpm
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- About every 1 to 2 years
- Support lifetime
- Until 6 months after the next release
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- Xfce
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Desktop, Privacy
- Backed by
- A community
- Beginner friendliness
- 1 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64