Version 1.0.0 · released 27 October 2026

Digital sovereignty starts on your desktop.

amadeOS is a free, European desktop operating system. Debian and Linux underneath, and on top a calm, classic desktop written entirely in Java, with its own applications and games. Open source from the login screen to the text editor, under the EU's own licence.

Get amadeOS Why amadeOS?
amadeOS · Workspace One
The amadeOS desktop with the Front Panel at the bottom and the File Manager, the Text Editor and the Calendar open

Free, open and European

Everything in amadeOS is free software under the EUPL-1.2, a licence published by the European Commission. No account, no telemetry, no advertising: your computer works for you.

A classic desktop, made new

Front Panel, workspaces and Motif windows in the tradition of CDE, written in Java.

Applications for every day

Files, documents, mail, calendar, contacts, books, pictures and music, plus LibreOffice and Firefox.

Seventeen games

From Mines and Solitaire to real-time strategy, city building and an adventure, all included.

Three handbooks

For users, for application developers and for game makers, online and on every amadeOS computer.
Debian 13 trixieLinuxXorg / X11 OpenJDK 25BIOS + UEFIEUPL-1.2