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Qubes OS

A reasonably secure operating system

7
Projects
4
Years accepted
3
In 2026

Projects by year

7

2026

3 acceptedShow
  • Graphical package manager support in templates

    Accepted project · by I'mSofia

    I believe Qubes is an easy and intuitive tool to achieve “reasonable” security, as it relies on explicit compartmentalization and force users to...

  • Generalise the Qubes PDF Converter to Other Types of Files

    Accepted project · by Jayant Saxena

    The Qubes PDF converter safely sanitises untrusted PDFs by rendering them inside a disposable VM. However, other risky file types (documents,...

  • Automate template version upgrade

    Accepted project · by nihalxkumar

    Qubes OS uses TemplateVMs as the base for most application qubes. These templates track upstream operating system releases such as Fedora and Debian,...

2021

1 acceptedShow
  • Simplified external port forwarding and automatic NAT traversal

    Accepted project · by giulio

    Currently, Qubes OS lacks a centralized an easy way to forward ports to virtual machines. Although it is possible to forward ports by issuing...

2020

1 acceptedShow

2017

2 acceptedShow