Donations

Sustainability is a key focus of Universal Blue, the project focuses on efficiency and long term health. Donations are appreciated, especially those that benefit the Linux application ecosystem. Donations cover the cost of the GitHub runners, sponsoring Paleoart for the OS, and hardware expenses.

Teams

Bluefin Team

Complete with actual job titles:

• Brian Ketelsen - Lead Developer Experience, Architect of The Final Shape (Emeritus)
• Benjamin Sherman - CTO
• m2Giles - Lead Architect
• Jorge Castro - Product Development and Dinosaur Guy
• Tulip Blossom Large Maniraptoran Specialist and co-maintainer
• Robert Sturla - "Hold onto your butts" guy and Lead DevOps
• Chandeleer - Art Director and Telescope Connoisseur
• James Reilly - LTS Specialist and shameless AI enjoyer

and esteemed special guests:

• Madonuko (Fyra Labs) - Readymade installation experience
• kolumni - App store experience (Bazaar)

Universal Blue Team

Note that all Universal Blue image sources are kept in bash and Python in order to encourage contributions. Organizations that see value in our work can consider hiring any one of the millions of developers in the world with these skills to help out, we could always use the help. Get in touch with us if you'd be interested in trying that.

• Benjamin Sherman
• HikariKnight
• Jorge Castro
• Kyle Gospodnetich
• m2Giles
• Tulip Blossom

Projects

Upstream Projects included in Bluefin

If your software is included in Bluefin and missing from this list, please send a pull request to add it!

• Atuin - Magical shell history tool with sync and search capabilities

• Blur My Shell - GNOME Shell extension that adds blur effects to the UI

• Clapper - Modern media player built with GTK4 and GStreamer

• Deja Dup - Simple backup utility for GNOME

• Distroshelf - Native Linux app store and software center

• Extensions Manager - Native GNOME Shell extensions manager

• eza - Modern replacement for ls with colors and icons

• fastfetch - Fast system information tool like neofetch

• fd: David Peter and Tavian Barnes - Fast and user-friendly alternative to find

• Flatpak: Currently migrating fiscal hosts - Universal application distribution framework

• fzf - Command-line fuzzy finder for files and history

• GNOME - Modern desktop environment and development platform

• Homebrew - Package manager for Linux and macOS

• Logo Menu - GNOME Shell extension for application launcher

• Mozilla - Organization behind Firefox browser and web technologies

• Pika Backup - Simple backup application designed for GNOME

• Thunderbird - Open-source email client with modern features

• Warehouse - Flatpak application manager with intuitive interface

• yq - Command-line YAML processor and editor

• Borg Backup - Secure backup program (package: borgbackup)

• fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell (package: fish)

• Glow - Terminal based markdown reader (package: glow)

• Gum - Tool for glamorous shell scripts (package: gum)

• Podman Compose - Docker compose implementation for Podman (package: podman-compose)

• PowerTOP - Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption (package: powertop)

• rclone - Cloud storage synchronization tool (package: rclone)

• restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program (package: restic)

• Tailscale - VPN service for secure networking (package: tailscale)

• tmux - Terminal multiplexer (package: tmux)