The Zonbu team believes in the open source model and wants to strongly support it. Our image is built from the excellent Gentoo distribution. Here is a list of packages that we include:

We do not provide source code for individual applications as the sources are freely available on the web. Select a package above and click "Go" to find the sources for a given package. If you have trouble locating individual components, please do not hesitate to ask us and we will provide a tarball.

Our patches are publicly available under the terms of the GPL in this archive. It contains additional files required by the system to install applications. Once the contents of the archive are extracted, you will find our latest patches in home/pcor/pcor/trunk.

A free version of the Zonbu OS is available to open source developers. You will need an x86 compatible machine with IDE storage, plus an Amazon S3 account and some Linux technical knowledge. The kernel is fully optimized for our hardware platform so we strongly recommend the Zonbu device. Read the installation instructions. You can remove the root privilege restriction and bypass the login screen as explained in the documentation.

It is possible to buy a Zonbu Desktop Mini ($299) or a Zonbu Notebook ($479) without any subscription plan and use it with the opensource edition or the developer edition of the OS.

Our bug database is publicly accessible. You can browse it at http://bugzilla.zonbu.com. If you find a bug, please register an account and file it. We will be happy to take a look at it.

The list of our releases and the associated changelogs are published on this page.

This includes Gentoo, Xfce (including Thunar), Gnome, OpenOffice.org, Evolution, OpenChrome, MPlayer, Gnome-MPlayer, Banshee, F-Spot, and Pigdin. We have sponsored some of those projects in the past few months and we welcome your participation in their further development.

If you think that we should include in our image any other useful application, please email us at developer@zonbu.com.

We have listed credits for all the packages and applications used in Zonbu on our legal page. If you notice any missing credits, please send an email to developer@zonbu.com so we can update this page.