Linux on VasakOS

35 years of Linux: the hobby that changed the world

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today, 25 August 2026, marks 35 years since a 21-year-old student in Helsinki posted to comp.os.minix:

Hello everybody out there using minix-

Vendefoul Linux Vasak Version

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The people behind Vendefoul Linux decided to make a version of their distribution with our desktop. It is in an experimental state for now, because at the moment vasak-desktop does not have broad compatibility with other non-systemd inits; we will work together anyway to make the desktop integration easier.

We published the User Data plugin for Tauri

Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today we published our second plugin for Tauri. It is a simple abstraction of something we had been doing in our applications. We managed to extract the code and publish it as a plugin so that any developer can use it. It is called tauri-plugin-user-data and it lets you use user data quickly and easily in your applications. It is completely free and open source, so any developer can use it.

We published the Vicons plugin for Tauri

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today we published our first plugin for Tauri. It is a simple abstraction of something we had been doing in our applications. We managed to extract the code and publish it as a plugin so that any developer can use it. It is called tauri-plugin-vicons and it lets you use icons quickly and easily in your applications. It is completely free and open source, so any developer can use it.

Downloads

Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This is an Alpha release. It installs and runs, but some features are incomplete and things change between builds. Before replacing your main system, read the state of the project .