Ascendos 6 pre-release developer builds available for testers

Meet Ascendos!

Ascendos is a free, community-supported, and professional-grade Linux platform. Build a platform for success with access to the latest new capabilities, support for the latest hardware innovations and technologies, and more!

Powerful Anywhere

Workstations, Servers, Clusters, and even in the cloud, Ascendos is enterprise strength without the enterprise price. It's secure, more reliable, interoperable, and completely free!

Open for Business

At Ascendos, we encourage participation. Support Ascendos by contributing documentation, bug reports, support, and more! Only you can make Ascendos better.

Latest news

Firing up

Work on our first public preview release is currently under way. We are currently doing internal testing of some of the first installable builds of the distribution, and things are looking pretty good so far. We will don't have a timetable on when there will be a public release, but don't worry,. We're preparing other stuff too, like the mirror infrastructure.

Get Ascendos

Be patient, we're getting there. We will release our first public release of Ascendos 6 later this spring. If you're a developer, we have developer alpha release candidates available. Jump on the developer mailing list for more information.