Operating systems

Qubes OS

A reasonably secure operating system

Technologies
ClinuxPythonRubyshellxen
Topics
operating systemsprivacysecurityvirtualization
Total projects
7
Years participating
4
Most recent
2026

Participation history

4 program years
Projects by participation year 2017: 2 projects, 2020: 1 projects, 2021: 1 projects, 2026: 3 projects 2 2017 1 2020 1 2021 3 2026

Historical projects

2026 3 projects

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Graphical package manager support in templates

Contributor: I'mSofia

I believe Qubes is an easy and intuitive tool to achieve “reasonable” security, as it relies on explicit compartmentalization and force users to...

Generalise the Qubes PDF Converter to Other Types of Files

Contributor: Jayant Saxena

The Qubes PDF converter safely sanitises untrusted PDFs by rendering them inside a disposable VM. However, other risky file types (documents,...

Automate template version upgrade

Contributor: nihalxkumar

Qubes OS uses TemplateVMs as the base for most application qubes. These templates track upstream operating system releases such as Fedora and Debian,...