About
Why we’re building Orus.
Orus is a small, open desktop operating system. We want a system you can understand, change and build on, without first learning a pile of new tools.
What we believe
Small enough to understand
A short list of parts, each easy to explain. Fewer parts means more of them make sense.
Apps are web apps
You build for the platform you already know, with no new toolkit to learn first.
See what an app will do
Permissions are shown in plain English before anything installs, and an install that asks for more than it showed is stopped.
Open source, with one exception
The shell, installer and tools are open source. The runtime uses the Business Source License 1.1, and we say so openly.
What Orus is made of
Debian 13 underneath. The labwc compositor on Wayland. A shell, login screen and system apps written in Rust. GPU-accelerated 2D drawing through wgpu. Chromium and Cerlus for the web. The full picture →
Who makes it
Orus OS is made by Splenta Inc. This is version 0.1.0, the first early release.