Support the forge
FoundryOS is free and always will be. Donations don't buy features — they buy verification, so the Freshness catalog can grow deeper and stay proven against every base update.
Donation accounts aren't open yet. Until they are, the best ways to help are good bug reports and testing the stable release on hardware we don't have.
Where your support goes
A richer Freshness catalog means more packages that are both newer and proven safe on the FoundryOS base. Proving that takes automated testing — clean-VM installs, snapshots, boot-health checks, and rollbacks — and increasingly AI tooling to triage the results. That work has a real, ongoing cost. Donations offset it directly.
Catalog verification
VM time + AI tokens to install, snapshot, boot-health-check, and roll back each candidate package.
Hardware test matrix
Real-machine runs for the curated hardware-enablement overlay (Mesa, kernel, NVIDIA).
Release infrastructure
Build, signing, and bandwidth for ISOs and the apt repository.
Transparency matters: as this grows, spend will be reported publicly so you can see exactly how contributions turn into catalog coverage.
Ways to help
One-time
Fund a round of catalog tests. Every contribution maps directly to compute + AI tokens spent verifying fresher packages.
Donate once · soonMonthly
Keep the verification pipeline running. Recurring support is what lets us re-test the catalog on every base update, not just at release.
Sponsor monthly · soonOrg / sponsor
Deploy FoundryOS in your organization and want the catalog to cover your stack? Sponsor a lane and help shape what gets verified.
Get in touch · soonNot able to donate? Filing good bug reports and testing the stable release is just as valuable — and costs you nothing.