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FOUNDRY 26.04 · "ANVIL" · LTS
a linux distribution · est. 2026

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.

$sudo apt install foundry-anvil
№ 01 · The Forge

Struck into the iron.

We package the retro, game-dev, reverse-engineering, and authoring tools Ubuntu doesn’t ship — and push the ones worth shipping upstream into Debian. Built for Ubuntu 26.04. Resigned, rebuilt, and re-tested on every push.

Game Development Kit

World Foundry GDK

Cross-platform engine and 10 CLI authoring tools — cdpack, iffcomp, iffdump, levcomp, lvldump, oaddump, oas2oad, prep, textile, blender-asset-finder-cli. Plus the engine build-deps (build-essential, cmake, libx11-dev, libgl) via worldfoundry-development.

sudo apt install worldfoundry21 pkgs · 208 MiB
3D · Animation · WF

Blender

Blender preconfigured with the WorldFoundry add-ons (editor exporter + level importer/exporter) and the blender-asset-finder.

sudo apt install worldfoundry-blender-addons3 pkgs · 156 MiB
Disassembly · RE · audio

Retro toolkit

Retro-porting and reverse-engineering toolchain. MAME, Ghidra, radare2, binwalk, and the 6502 / Z80 / m68k / 6800-family assemblers and disassemblers — the bench for getting old code running again.

sudo apt install foundry-retro-tools15 pkgs · 1.3 GiB
Arcade · console · vintage

Emulators

MAME plus a four-way split — light console (mednafen, fceux, stella), heavy console (dolphin-emu, pcsx2, yuzu, retroarch), vintage home computers (dosbox-x, hatari, fs-uae, openmsx), and multiverse vintage (vice, atari800).

sudo apt install foundry-emulators23 pkgs · 597 MiB
DAW · trackers · chiptune

Audio & trackers

Audio production stack — Ardour, Audacity, LMMS, Rosegarden, Hydrogen, Qtractor, Mixxx — and the tracker suite (MilkyTracker, Schism, Furnace, openmpt123).

sudo apt install foundry-daw11 pkgs · 179 MiB
FOSS engines · free games

Games & reimplementations

Free games (0 A.D., SuperTuxKart, Widelands, Warzone 2100, OpenTTD, Freeciv, Freedoom, Hedgewars) and FOSS engine reimplementations (VCMI, OpenRCT2, Fheroes2, Exult, Sauerbraten — bring your own data).

sudo apt install foundry-free-games35 pkgs · 9.4 GiB
4 vendored  · 0 open Debian ITPs  · 106 already in Ubuntu universe/multiverseBrowse the full catalogue
№ 02 · Install

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.

shell · root
① Add the Foundry archivecurl -fsSL https://foundrylinux.org/setup.sh | bash② Installsudo apt install foundry-anvil# or pick a different edition:sudo apt install foundry-sprite     # + heavy graphics + audiosudo apt install foundry-atelier    # + everything (~10 GB)

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.

archive key · ed25519F0D9 7E1A · C5B2 4A87 · 6E3F 218D · 9C04 BB31

System 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
№ 03 · Editions

Three
marks.

One distribution, three nested casts. Atelier pulls in Sprite, which pulls in Anvil. Pick the largest one whose tools you actually want struck in from first boot.

Edition · 26.04

Anvil

Base edition — full WorldFoundry stack, retro toolkit, light emulators, game frameworks, image tools. The Distrobox devbox image installs this and nothing else.

foundry-anvil745 pkgs · 3.7 GiB
Edition · 26.04

Sprite

Anvil + heavy graphics and audio production: Krita, GIMP, Inkscape, MyPaint, mtPaint, GrafX2, Tux Paint, the DAW stack, and trackers.

foundry-sprite1061 pkgs · 5.0 GiB
Edition · 26.04

Atelier

Sprite + everything else: ROM-bundled vintage emulators, heavy console emulators, FOSS engine reimplementations, free games, mobile development, cross-repo dev deps. Around 10 GB on top of bare Ubuntu.

foundry-atelier1281 pkgs · 18.3 GiB