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Igalia Developing Moonforge As New Linux Distribution

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 12 March 2026 at 06:14 AM EDT. 10 Comments
Linux consulting firm Igalia announced this week Moonforge, a new in-house Linux distribution by them based on Yocto and OpenEmbedded.

Moonforge is a new Linux distribution designed to provide a production-ready foundation for embedded and device operating systems. Moonforge is designed around long-term maintainability, flexibility, and extensibility. Moonforge consists as a set of Yocto layers and configuration files for building out immutable, maintainable, and easily updated OS images.

The stated design goals of Moonforge is around three core principles of balance, separation, and best practices. Moonforge is engineered to support over-the-air update bundles, SBOM metadata handling, and other modern embedded/device OS needs.

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Those wanting to learn more about Moonforge can do so via the Igalia blog or head straight to the open-source code on GitHub.

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