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Shadowfetch Linux 4.1.0 «Umbra»

Documentation

21 guides, covering installation, verification, hardware and Secure Boot, project workspaces, the security model, the known issues and the release history. Each page separates what the system does today from what is planned.

Get it running

From nothing installed to a working desktop.

  • Mission Control/mission-control

    Create scoped code, source-report and media missions; inspect activity, files, changes and recovery.

  • Grok Bot/grok-bot

    Featured official native desktop setup, verified installation and cloud account sign-in.

  • Overview/

    What Shadowfetch Linux is: a private, AI-ready creative workstation built on Debian testing with KDE Plasma 6.

  • Screenshots/screenshots

    The desktop, the first-boot Welcome app, agent workflows and Control Center, as they ship.

  • Download/download

    The ISO, its exact size, the checksum and signature, resuming a large download, and how to write it to a USB stick.

  • Verify/verify

    Confirm the SHA-256 checksum and the GPG signature on Linux, macOS or Windows before you install.

  • Install/install

    Boot the ISO, review Calamares partitioning and encryption, reboot, and follow the first-boot notes.

  • APT repository/apt

    The signed repository (suite umbra, component main, amd64) for adding Shadowfetch packages to an existing Debian system.

  • Workspaces/workspaces

    Project folders, connected coding agents and offline media workflows.

  • Local AI release scope/local-ai

    The on-device provider that ships in 4.1.0, why an installation reports installed-unavailable until you supply a model service, and which offline workflows need no provider at all.

  • Historical local AI benchmarks/benchmarks

    Measured tokens-per-second and VRAM fit on the studio RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB).

Hardware and boot

What it runs on, and the one firmware setting that stops it.

  • Hardware notes/hardware

    64-bit Intel and AMD requirements, RAM and disk headroom, NVIDIA and hybrid laptops, peripherals and virtual machines.

  • Secure Boot/secure-boot

    The installer is not signed by a Microsoft-trusted shim, so Secure Boot must be off. What that costs and how to do it safely.

Know the limits

Read this before installing on a machine you depend on.

  • Security model/security

    What is inherited from Debian, what Shadowfetch adds, what it does not collect, and the current caveats.

  • 4.1.0 release notes/preview

    What passed on the signed 4.1.0 ISO, which cases are waived and why, and where the GitHub release, evidence bundle and Archive.org copy live.

  • Known issues/known-issues

    Current release caveats: unsigned Secure Boot, Debian testing, VM graphics limits, the breaking changes in this release, cloud-agent sign-in, Fireproof recovery boundaries, and the acceptance cases still open.

  • Roadmap/roadmap

    What is shipping now versus what is planned, in stages. Dates are targets, not promises.

Reference

Answers, history, licensing.

  • FAQ/faq

    Direct answers on the Debian relationship, who it suits, NVIDIA, which workflows need online access, and verifying the ISO.

  • Changelog/changelog

    The release history, and what changed in each one.

  • Licensing & source/licensing

    Upstream licenses, the license Shadowfetch's own components carry, and the written offer for corresponding source.

  • Support the project/donate

    Shadowfetch Linux is free and stays free. There is a tip jar, with no tiers, perks or gated features.