On July 22, 2026, NØNOS reaches 1.0.
It is a sovereign operating system built from scratch in Rust, on one rule: nothing runs on trust alone. Every program is a signed, attested capsule that proves what it is before a single instruction of it executes. Drivers are confined in userland instead of trusted in the kernel. Authority is a capability that has to be granted and is checked on every call. The system is RAM-resident and zero-state by default, so nothing persists unless you choose it.
Every mainstream OS makes three assumptions that are fine for a laptop and a liability for the machine that holds a key, signs a transaction, or runs an agent that spends money: drivers are trusted, authority is ambient, and you cannot prove what runs. NØNOS inverts all three, and 1.0 is the first stable release where you can hold it to that claim.
What ships with 1.0
- A signature-verified disk image with SHA-256 and BLAKE3 checksums and a
reproducible build, so you can confirm exactly what you boot.
- A live in-browser boot. A real, throwaway NØNOS guest streamed to your
browser from the download page. No install, no trust required.
- The complete documentation. Every subsystem and every capsule in the
userland is documented against the source with file and line references, from the bootloader and the capability system to each driver and network capsule. If a page says the system does something, the code does it at the line it cites.
- The verification tooling. The Lean, Verus, and Kani proofs, the trust-chain
checker, and the reproducible-build comparison, all runnable from a clean checkout. The verification page states exactly what is proven and, just as clearly, what is not.
Prove it yourself
The whole point of NØNOS is that you do not have to take this on faith. The source and the documentation are public now. The best way to mark the launch is to boot it live the day it lands, read the verification page, and check a claim against the code it cites.
- Boot it live: nonos.software/download
- Read the docs: nonos.software/docs
- Everything else, and the community: nonos.dev
- Follow along: @nonossystems on X,
nonosPortal on Telegram, and GitHub
A sovereign base layer is public-goods infrastructure the whole ecosystem gets to keep. It stays AGPL, it takes no equity, and it is built and funded in the open. See how to support it on the fund page.