Installation media
The Long Term Support release codenamed 'Centaurus' gives you five years of security patches and updates, it will be supported until July 2024 at least.
- Q4OS Centaurus, Plasma, live - 64bit / x64 ... 870 MBytes ... setup guide
- Q4OS Centaurus, Trinity, live - 64bit / x64 ... 639 MBytes ... setup guide
- Q4OS Centaurus, Trinity, install-cd - 64bit / x64 ... 472 MBytes ... setup guide
- Q4OS Centaurus, Trinity, install-cd - 32bit / i386 ... 433 MBytes ... setup guide
You can download either a lightweight efficient Trinity desktop, or more advanced Plasma desktop edition. Live media allow users to get a quick Q4OS experience, or try it out on a real hardware without installation. If satisfied, an optional installer is available. Use the install-cd media for older 64bit as well as 32bit machines.
The minimal hardware requirements are defined as follows:
Plasma desktop - 1GHz CPU / 1GB RAM / 5GB disk
Trinity desktop - 300MHz CPU / 128MB RAM / 3GB disk
Installer for Windows
The easiest way to put Q4OS alongside Windows. Just run the setup guide from within Windows and install Q4OS as easily as any other application. Windows 10/8/7 compatible.
- Q4OS Centaurus, WinSetup.exe - 64bit / x64 ... 20 MBytes ... video guide, setup guide
Specific hardware - Raspberry Pi, Pinebook
Download images below to get a poweful desktop optimized for the Raspberry Pi, or Pine64 hardware family.
- Q4OS Scorpion - Raspberry Pi / armhf ... 440 MBytes ... setup guide
- Q4OS Scorpion - Pinebook-1080p / arm64 ... 425 MBytes ... setup guide
- Q4OS Scorpion - Pinebook legacy / arm64 ... 425 MBytes ... setup guide
ARM port
Q4OS for ARM devices runs on wide variety of hardware equipped with 32/64bit ARM processors, including Chromebooks, tablets, single board computers, embedded devices and more.
Other downloads
If you are looking for older supported Q4OS releases, you can download from the Legacy releases page.
Files details
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