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Welcome to the Qubes OS Project

Qubes is an open-source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing using Security by Compartmentalization approach. Qubes is based on Xen, the X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. Qubes Release 1 was released in September 2012 and Release 2 in September 2014. Qubes also supports Windows-based AppVMs beginning with Release 2 (currently in "Beta"). Qubes Release 3 is coming soon and will introduce Hypervisor Abstraction Layer (HAL), allowing easy porting to alternative virtualization systems.

• A Simple Introduction to Qubes
• Getting Started
• ​Qubes OS Tutorial slides by ITL (LinuxCon October 2014)
• Screenshots
• Architecture Overview, and also the more recent: ​Why Qubes OS is more than a bunch of VMs?
• Qubes Security Goals
• FAQ
• User Documentation
• ​How is Qubes OS different from...?
• Beyond Qubes R2 -- the ​Qubes Odyssey Framework

Recent News

• Mar 21, 2013 Introducing Qubes Odyssey Framework ​article
• Jun 21, 2013 Qubes OS R3 Alpha preview: Odyssey HAL in action! ​announcement
• Nov 26, 2013 Windows 7 seamless GUI integration coming to Qubes OS! ​article
• Dec 11, 2013 Qubes OS R2 Beta 3 has been released! ​announcement
• Feb 16, 2014 Qubes OS selected as a finalist of Access Innovation Prize 2014 for Endpoint Security Solution ​announcement
• Mar 28, 2014 ​Article about Qubes OS in The Economist
• Apr 12, 2014 ​Article about Qubes OS by the ​Freedom of the Press Foundation
• Apr 21, 2014 Qubes OS R2 rc1 has been released! ​announcement
• Jul 03, 2014 ITL to present on Qubes OS at LinuxCon Europe: a keynote by Joanna Rutkowska and hands-on training by the core dev team! ​conference website
• Jul 16, 2014 Qubes Wiki now uses a CA-signed SSL cert (but you might also want to ​read also why this is mostly irrelevant)
• Aug 06, 2014 Qubes OS R2 rc2 has been released! ​announcement
• Sep 26, 2014 Qubes OS R2 has been released! ​announcement
• Oct 19, 2014 LinuxCon EU 2014 slides: ​keynote and ​tutorial
• Nov 20, 2014 ​Article about Qubes OS in Wired