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 — they go live with the 1.0 release. Until then the best ways to help are good bug reports and testing release candidates.
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 release candidates are just as valuable. The source opens up publicly alongside the 1.0 release.