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.
Where the eddies go
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
Buy a round of catalog tests. Every contribution maps directly to compute + AI tokens spent verifying fresher packages.
Donate onceMonthly
Keep the verification pipeline running. Recurring support is what lets us re-test the catalog on every base update, not just at release.
Sponsor monthlyOrg / 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 touchNot 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.