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OutOS

( outos / pre-release / catalogue of what exists )

An operating system should ask first.

OutOS is being built around that sentence. It is not finished, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What follows is a catalogue of what actually exists today. The artifact is item 05 ↓

inventory
2026 / 06

Four items. One is honest about its absence.

01 A guided installer for Windows. real - downloadable below
02 A write gate that refuses. proven on hardware
03 A direction: Fedora Atomic / bootc. decided - not built
04 An operating system. not yet
figures
measured, not styled

The numbers are real or they are dashes.

Two figures describe the artifact: the version of the live system it writes, and the size of the download itself. Beneath them, the download's full SHA-256 - fetched from the same sidecar file the server publishes, never typed by hand.

26.04 ubuntu lts - what the installer writes to your usb stick
— bytes - the complete download, measured from the server
loading the proof from the sidecar… sha-256 of the artifact - verify it; do not trust this page
the gate
format specimen

It won't write a byte until you type this.

The destructive step demands the exact disk number and serial of the USB stick, typed by hand. Non-USB targets are refused. Boot and system disks are refused. Internal disks are never touched. The machine is never restarted for you.

3:A1B2C3D4E5F6 

Format specimen, not an input. The real gate lives in the installer, on your machine, with your disk's real identity.

WRITEnever without the exact DiskNumber:Serial confirmation you type - wrong serial, wrong bus, boot disk, oversize: refused.
REBOOTnever restarts the machine - it prepares the restart and asks; you perform it.
FIRMWAREboot order, BCD, Secure Boot, BitLocker: read-only. Enumerated, never edited.
NETWORKno auto-update, no telemetry. The download is the whole program.
item 05
the artifact

Unsigned. Unhidden. There is no EXE and no signing certificate yet - SmartScreen will warn you, and it should. In exchange, the entire installer is plain text: open every script in an editor before you run it.

outos-easy-installer-mvp1.cmd
Download for Windows ↓

Windows 10 / 11 · PowerShell · a USB stick you are willing to erase. Open the downloaded file to start the guided installer.

checking the artifact…

direction
planned, not promised

Mile one of a longer road.

today The guided installer - this page's only product. shipping as pre-release
it writes Ubuntu 26.04 live USB - proven, bootable ground. the compatibility lane
it is headed for An image-based OutOS on Fedora Atomic / bootc. decided - not built
eventually An assistant that asks before it acts - every privileged action behind explicit approval. vision - hard-gated

When OutOS itself ships, this page will say so. Until then it says this.

colophon

Set in your system's own type - no fonts were fetched to render this page, and nothing on it phones home. Built by outlabs; the company is Armatheus. Internal script names still read aw-os for compatibility.

the installer page (the tool) how the procedure works the published sha-256 sidecar
This is OutOS.