Live CD
The Long Term Support release codenamed 'Scorpion' gives you five years of security patches and updates, it will be supported until October 2022 at least.
- Q4OS Scorpion, Plasma - 64bit / x64 ... 817 MBytes ... setup guide
- Q4OS Scorpion, Trinity - 64bit / x64 ... 574 MBytes ... setup guide
- Q4OS Scorpion, Trinity - 32bit / i686-pae ... 580 MBytes ... setup guide
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. You can download either a lightweight and efficient Trinity desktop, or more advanced Plasma desktop edition. The minimal hardware requirements are defined as follows:
Trinity desktop - 300MHz CPU / 128MB RAM / 3GB disk
Plasma desktop - 1GHz CPU / 1GB RAM / 5GB disk
Installation CD
If you are looking for pure installation media for personal computers, even for older i386 systems without PAE extension, download the installation CD below.
- Q4OS Scorpion, install CD - 64bit / x64 ... 332 MBytes ... setup guide
- Q4OS Scorpion, install CD - 32bit / i386 ... 360 MBytes ... setup guide
Installer for Windows
Windows installer puts Q4OS alongside Windows in an easy way, you will not have to modify your existing Windows installation. The installer is Windows 10/8/7 compatible.
- Q4OS Scorpion, WinSetup.exe - 64bit / x64 ... 6 MBytes ... 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 ... 437 MBytes ... setup guide
- Q4OS Scorpion - Pinebook-1080p / arm64 ... 427 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.
Software downloads
Get Q4OS applications from this section. Installation is pretty easy, download and save installer, doubleclick it from filemanager and follow setup instructions.
- Synaptic ... manage and install applications from repositories.
- Google Chrome ... web browser by Google.
- Mozilla Firefox ... web browser by Mozilla.
- Mozilla Thunderbird ... advanced mail and messaging client.
- Libre Office ... professional quality office suite.
- VLC player ... multimedia player and streamer.
- Update Manager ... software updates notifier and manager.
- Look Switcher ... switch between modern and classical user interface.
- Multimedia codecs ... high quality video and audio codecs.
- GParted ... partition editor formats various types of disks.
- Wine ... install and use native Windows applications.
- Network Manager ... comfortable wireless networks manager.
- NVidia drivers ... proprietary drivers for NVidia video cards.
- Application Server / Client ... accelerated remote desktop server and client.
- Development Pack ... develop software for Q4OS.
Other downloads
If you are looking for older supported Q4OS releases, you can download from Legacy releases page. For the newest Q4OS testing images, check the dedicated Testing releases page.
Files details
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