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RuscaLinux ships 2 727 carefully selected packages on a single hybrid ISO. No app store hunt, no codec chase, no missing language pack — just a desktop that's complete the moment it boots.

The essentials

Six ideas, one system.

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Complete out of the box

Office suite, multimedia editors, a browser, an email client, image and audio tools — all installed and configured before you ever touch a terminal. The first boot is the finished product, not a starting point.

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Multilingual

40+ languages bundled in the base image, from the boot menu to LibreOffice and Firefox.

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Debian-based

Built on the rock-solid Debian 13 foundation, with Linux 6.12 and decades of packaging discipline underneath.

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Independent from the update treadmill

RuscaLinux ships with no active repositories. Your system stays exactly as you installed and tested it — no surprise breakages, no nightly churn. When a new version is ready, you move forward with a clean install. Stability is a feature, not an accident.

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Modern GNOME 48 desktop

A Wayland session running Mutter, dressed in the custom Adwaita-Prugna icon set, a bespoke Plymouth boot splash, and the Syne wordmark throughout. The whole experience is in one consistent hand.

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Live & installable

The hybrid ISO runs as a full live system and carries its own installer — including a speech-synthesis option for accessibility. Try it from a USB stick, then install it when you're ready.

What's installed

A curated software set.

A selection of the headline applications you'll find on first boot. Every version below ships on the 1.99 ISO.

Office & productivity02 suites

LibreOffice 25.2 Apostrophe 3.2 Evince 48.1 GNOME Text Editor 48.3

Multimedia & creativity07 apps

VLC 3.0.23 Audacious 4.4 Audacity 3.7 OBS Studio 30.2 GIMP 3.0 Brasero 3.12 EasyTAG 2.4 FFmpeg 7.1

Internet & communication03 apps

Firefox ESR 140 Thunderbird 140 qBittorrent 5.1

System & utilitiesGNOME 48

Files (Nautilus) 48.3 Terminal 3.56 Simple Scan 46 Disks 46.1 System Monitor 48.1 Calculator 48.1 Maps 48.7 Weather 48 Clocks 48 Tweaks 46.1 Fastfetch 2.40

… and 2 700+ more packages underneath: codecs, fonts, printing (CUPS), networking (NetworkManager), AppArmor hardening, and the full GNOME 48 stack.

Under the hood
Debian 13

Base system & package policy

Linux 6.12

Long-term kernel branch

GNOME 48.7

Wayland · Mutter

amd64

64-bit architecture

AppArmor

Mandatory access control, enabled

Hybrid ISO

Live + installer in one image

Complete means complete.
See it for yourself.

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