CyberOS
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 CyberOS Project Logo | |
| Release Status | Discontinued |
|---|---|
| Release Model | Rolling/Stable Release |
| Package Manager | pacman, apt |
| Default Desktops | CyberDE |
| Usage Type | Mainly desktop |
| Architectures | aarch64, x86_64 |
| Website | getcyberos.org |
CyberOS, also known as CutefishOS, was a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux, shipping with a custom desktop environment named CyberDE. It was created in 2020 by Reven Martin[1][2][3] and was discontinued in around 2022 to 2023[4].
The source code for CyberOS and CyberDE was deleted by the author in around April 2021, with all commit histories wiped[5] and moved from the CyberOS organisation to the CutefishOS organisation on GitHub.
History
CyberOS was created as a successor to PandaOS by Reven Martin (who was later renamed to Reion Wong) in around August, 2020.[6] Wong initially created the desktop environment and named it Cyber. As work progressed, a team of 6 was formed[7]. The team decided that a proper environment was needed to test and possibly distribute the DE, and Arch Linux was chosen. Thus, CyberOS was born.
The Purge
In early 2021, Wong attempted to register the trademark for CyberOS in mainland China, but failed, since it was deemed too close to another registered trademark “Syber”. Later, Wong kicked out all other team members from the GitHub organisation and created CutefishOS, which was rebased to Ubuntu. Shortly after, the GitHub handle was renamed to reionwong. The source code in the original organisation was either made private or deleted entirely, and the code in the new organisation left no trace of the old commits; and credits were remove and not given to the other team members.
One of the core team members, omame, held the ownership to the website, which is why it remained for a few more months, as seen in the web archives, even after the ungraceful code purge by Wong.
Some members tried to maintain CyberOS, but the light was shortly stolen due to Manjaro's announcement of CutefishOS's adoption as a new edition.[8] Even though omame maintained a fork[9][10], the project was announced discontinued, mainly due to lack of manpower.
The new CutefishOS team which was rebased to Sichuan also did not live long due to lack of Western support, and silently died out between mid-2021 and 2022.
CutefishOS Reborn
CutefishOS Reborn was a Western community's attempt to revive CutefishOS's development. It gauged some interest but very quickly died off in mid-2022.
LingmoOS
LingmoOS is an active revive[11] of CutefishOS, but it has not received major attention from the media.
CyberDE
The desktop environment that came with CyberOS, usually referred to as Cyber or CyberDE, was made using Qt5 and was commonly said to resemble the look and feel of Mac OS X.[13] cyber-launcher came with the dock at the bottom, which had a button that opens the launcher, and a status line bar with embedded global context menus at the top. Many parts of the interface were also partially transparent. Window controls were at the top right corner and resembles Microsoft Windows, while titles were centred.
See Also
References
- ↑ cyber-launcher/src/main.cpp at 05b9e5702c0e5b0ee6c4546298434a2567187c92 · madonuko/cyber-launcher, CyberOS Team, 2020 (Accessed: 2025-08-10)
- ↑ cyber-launcher/src/main.cpp at 05b9e5702c0e5b0ee6c4546298434a2567187c92 · madonuko/cyber-launcher, CyberOS Team, 2020 (Accessed: 2025-08-10)
- ↑ CyberOS, CyberOS Team, 2021 (Accessed: 2021-06-03)
- ↑ CyberOS, CyberOS Team, 2022 (Accessed: 2022-05-14)
- ↑ init · cutefishos/launcher@13932e9, CutefishOS Team, 2021 (Accessed: 2025-08-11)
- ↑ reionwong (Reion Wong), GitHub (Accessed: 2025-08-10)
- ↑ About: Initial design · madonuko/cyberos.github.io@75229a3, CyberOS Team, 2021 (Accessed: 2025-08-11)
- ↑ Manjaro CutefishDE Spin v0.2 (2021-06-06 Build) released - Announcements / Releases, Manjaro Linux Forum, 2021 (Accessed: 2025-08-11)
- ↑ CyberOS, omame git, 2021 (Accessed: 2021-05-27)
- ↑ CyberOS, omame git, 2021 (Accessed: 2021-12-22)
- ↑ Is this project dead or still in development? · cutefishos · Discussion #22, GitHub, 2023 (Accessed: 2025-08-11)
- ↑ CutefishOS, Cutefish Team, 2025 (Accessed: 2025-08-11)
- ↑ Cutefish, ArchWiki (Accessed: 2025-08-11)