FOUNDRYLINUX
Forged for game makers, level designers, and digital artists of every kind — an Ubuntu LTS desktop with the tools of the trade struck into it from the first boot.
Struck into the iron.
Every Foundry install ships with the working tools of game development and digital art — preconfigured, signed, and updated through the same apt channels as the OS.
World Foundry GDK
Cross-platform engine and scripting toolchain. Author once; ship to 6502, 68k, ARM, x86 — and the modern desktop.
Blender
Full pipeline preconfigured with Wacom drivers, EEVEE Next, and the Foundry preset library for game-asset workflows.
MAME
Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator — reference hardware, debugger, and dev rig for nearly every arcade board ever made.
f9dasm
Free 6800 / 6809 / 6309 / 68HC11 disassembler. Annotated output, symbol tables, and Motorola S-record support.
65ax
Cross-assembler for 6502, 65C02, 65816, and the W65C02 family. Macros, conditional assembly, listing output.
libvgm
Video Game Music library — emulators for YM2612, SN76489, NES APU, SID, and dozens more vintage sound chips.
vgmstream
Plays and extracts streamed audio from hundreds of game container formats. Plugin support for foobar, Audacious, deadbeef.
Krita, Aseprite, Godot, Tiled,
ScummVM, OpenMSX, OpenTTD,
Audacity, ffmpeg, ImageMagick...
Add the forge
to your sources.
Already running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS or any apt-compatible derivative? Add our signed repository and pull the Foundry kit piece by piece.
① Trust the keyringcurl -fsSL https://apt.foundrylinux.org/keyring.gpg \ | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/foundry.gpg > /dev/null② Wire up the repositoryecho "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/foundry.gpg] \ https://apt.foundrylinux.org stable main" \ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/foundry.list③ Update and installsudo apt update && sudo apt install foundry-base# or pick à la carte:sudo apt install world-foundry blender-foundry mame 65ax libvgm
Signed by the smith.
Every package in the Foundry archive is signed with our long-term maintainer key. Verify the fingerprint before adding the keyring to a production machine.
F0D9 7E1A · C5B2 4A87 · 6E3F 218D · 9C04 BB31System requirements
The full ISO is 4.8 GB.
- CPUx86_64 · ARM64
- Memory4 GB minimum · 8 GB recommended
- Storage20 GB free
- GPUVulkan 1.2 capable
- BaseUbuntu 26.04 LTS
Three
marks.
One distribution, three casts. Same kernel, same archive — different sets of tools struck in from the first boot.
Anvil
The full kit. World Foundry GDK, Blender, MAME, the assembler suite, the audio libraries — everything ready on first boot.
Sprite
Retro-first. 65ax, f9dasm, libvgm, vgmstream, MAME, Aseprite, Tiled, ScummVM. For the 8-bit and 16-bit homebrew scene.
Atelier
Artist-leaning. Blender, Krita, GIMP, Inkscape, Natron, OpenToonz, Wacom tuning, color-managed pipeline. Light on engines.