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Dispatches from the project, written by DHH.
- Omacom Foundation accelerates spending goalsThis is the big chance for Linux. The desktop is up for grabs in a way it hasn’t been in decades. The agents have made the operating system malleable. The hardware has never been better. And the competition has never…
- Omacom Foundation hires kernel developer Krzysztof WilczyńskiThe Omacom Foundation just made its first full-time hire! Krzysztof Wilczyński is joining to lead our work on the Omarchy Kernel. This is exactly what the foundation was set up to do: pay great people to work on hard…
- Omarchy Patronage is now open to everyoneThe reception of the Omacom Foundation has been nothing short of amazing. Twelve Founding Patrons, four Distinguished Patrons, two Distinguished Corporate Patrons, and $13 million committed to the mission in under two…
- Omacom Foundation reaches $13M with four Distinguished PatronsThe Omacom Foundation just crossed $13 million! Our first four Distinguished Patrons have pledged $100,000 each to the mission:
- Omarchy Quattro crosses 200,000 ISO downloadsTwo hundred thousand ISO downloads of Omarchy Quattro in just 18 days! On average, someone has pulled a fresh Omarchy every 8 seconds since Quattro shipped. At the peak, we shipped 1,165 ISOs in a single hour. One every…
- 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate PatronsThe Omacom Foundation has its first two Distinguished Corporate Patrons! 1Password and 37signals are each contributing $100,000 a year for the next three years, which takes the foundation’s funding to $12.6 million.
- Omacom Foundation welcomes Brian Armstrong and Yunjie DaiThe Omacom Foundation keeps compounding! Two more Founding Patrons have joined our mission with $1 million each, taking our treasury chest to $12 million: Brian Armstrong and Yunjie Dai.
- Omarchy tops 100,000 downloads in a weekOne hundred thousand downloads of the Omarchy ISO in the past week! One hundred thousand people who decided that this was the week they’d finally try Linux (or come back to it). What a bunch of bosses!
- Introducing Omarchy AIROmarchy insists that a computer should be as beautiful as it is productive. That premise has been carried by the theme makers and other Omarchy artists since day one. Building whole palettes, on their own time, for…
- The first plugin competition winnersThe votes are in! Omarchy Core went through the submissions, voted, and we have a podium for the first plugin competition.
- Introducing Omarchy RangersOmarchy has grown so fast that thousands of people are arriving at once, and most of them are arriving from macOS or Windows. That’s a lot of first installations, a lot of “where do I even start”, and a lot of questions…
- Omacom Foundation to be premier mise sponsorThird sponsorship out the door! The Omacom Foundation is becoming a premier sponsor of mise, and thereby of jdx, who has spent years building the tool that quietly makes managing different versions of Ruby, Node, Go a…
- Omacom Foundation funding hits $10mThe Omacom Foundation’s funding has just hit $10 million with two new Founding Patrons joining the mission: Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox, and Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw.
- Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsorMore money in, more money out! Our second major sponsorship from the Omacom Foundation is going to outfoxxed for his superb work on Quickshell. It’s only been part of the public release for a week, but it’s already…
- Omarchy meetups around the worldOmarchy has grown into a global community, with ~35,000 members on the Discord, and now it’s time we started meeting face to face. So we’re launching Omarchy Meetups with a shared calendar for gatherings around the…
- Omacom Foundation launches with $13 millionIt’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future…
- Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsorWhat better way to start spending some of the treasure we just raised for the Omacom Foundation than on the most cracked Linux kid in Poland: Vaxry!
- The first plugin competitionThe Omarchy Plugin Marketplace is already home to over 500 plugins and growing very fast. We have a million ideas for how we can improve this setup, including with automated agent-powered security reviews, but let’s not…
- The Omarchy Core TeamOmarchy’s explosive growth demands structured teams in response, and we’re going to get started by incorporating The Omarchy Core Team. This group will share the responsibility of driving the direction of our distro,…