LinuxGratis steps up. We rebuilt the entire site on Astro, keeping the CRT terminal aesthetic that defines us —phosphor green, the IBM Plex Mono typeface and that unmistakable eighties console vibe— while gaining speed, search visibility and maintainability. It is the same directory you already know, only leaner and ready to grow.
If you drop by daily to check which release of your distribution is still supported, you will feel the difference right away: pages show up instantly and the information is better organised. And if this is your first visit, welcome to the most complete directory of free operating systems, available in Spanish, English and Catalan.
Why we chose Astro
Astro is a web framework built for content-driven sites, which is exactly what LinuxGratis is. Its core philosophy is to ship zero JavaScript by default: every page is rendered as fast, static HTML, and interactivity is only added where it is genuinely needed. That idea —known as islands architecture— is what keeps the site lightweight without giving up modern features.
Another key piece is content collections, which organise and validate Markdown content with full type safety. Thanks to them, articles like the one you are reading are structured consistently, and all three languages live side by side without trouble. We build on Astro 7, the framework’s latest version: it brings a faster development server, quicker builds and security hardening that are perfect for keeping the project healthy over the long run.
What changes for you
- 100% static: every page is generated at build time, so it loads almost instantly and copes far better with traffic spikes.
- Fresh data on every build: each system’s releases, launch dates and end-of-life (EOL) dates are pulled from endoflife.date whenever we rebuild the site.
- Individual pages per system: every distribution gets its own page with its version history and support status at a glance.
- Categories, search and filters: finding what you are after is now far more direct.
- A brand new articles section: news, blog posts and release announcements, in Spanish, English and Catalan.
Data that updates itself
The heart of the directory is still endoflife.date, an open project under the MIT licence that documents the lifecycle of more than 450 products: Linux distributions, languages, databases and, of course, operating systems. We consume that data on every build, so when a release falls out of support or a new one ships, the matching page reflects it without us touching anything by hand.
This matters a lot when it comes to security. Knowing whether your Ubuntu or Debian still receive updates, or when extended support for RHEL expires, can be the difference between a maintainable system and an exposed one.
Where LinuxGratis is hosted
A fast site also needs solid ground underneath. LinuxGratis runs on Stackscale’s private cloud infrastructure, a European bare-metal and private-cloud provider with data centres in Spain and the Netherlands. Unlike shared hosting or generic public cloud, a private cloud gives you dedicated resources, real control over the environment and predictable performance, with no noisy neighbours fighting over the same CPU.
For a project like this one —traffic that ebbs and flows, data rebuilt daily— that stability shows: low response times and high availability, no surprises.
Over 100 operating systems
We still cover more than a hundred systems. You will find the most popular Linux distributions —Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch or Linux Mint— but also the BSD world with FreeBSD and OpenBSD, privacy-focused distros such as Tails or Qubes OS, security-oriented options like Kali, and historic gems like AmigaOS, BeOS/Haiku or CP/M.
Whether you are hunting for a lightweight distribution to revive an old machine or comparing support dates before migrating a server, the idea is that you find the answer in just a few clicks.
The goal hasn’t changed: help you find the free operating system you need and always know which version is current.
This is only the beginning
Moving to Astro is not a finish line but a foundation to build on. Ahead of us are more articles, more systems covered and better navigation. If a system you care about is missing, or you spot a figure that does not add up, let us know: this directory grows, in large part, thanks to the people who use it.
Thanks for sticking around. This is only the beginning.
Part of a family of projects
LinuxGratis isn’t the only thing we build with Astro. If you like our approach —fast, useful and to the point—, take a look at the other projects we run, also built with Astro: Mbox Viewer and Online Mbox Viewer for opening and reading email archives, plus FlarePurge, iSkitch and Cloud Privado. They all share the same philosophy: fast, lightweight, no-nonsense websites.