The Furcate Foundation publishes the distribution, the frameworks and the open-source tools that make sovereign infrastructure something you can actually operate — on one machine, or on a cluster. Nothing is withheld from the free version, because withholding it would defeat the point.
Furcate is a Linux distribution built on Ubuntu, shipping the operational layer already put together, so an operator never has to assemble one by hand. Install it on new hardware, or adopt a machine that is already running without a reinstall.
Turn an operating Ubuntu machine into a Furcate node in place — workloads, identity and data intact, one file changed and one layer added. Every step reverses independently.
A declared, versioned, atomically updated composition. System
extensions merged into /usr, the base untouched, and a
single furcate command for the console, updates and
adoption.
The distribution runs in production on the machines that serve these three websites. It is young: some parts are measured but not yet fixed, and some are built but not yet proven on a second operator's hardware. Where that is true, the documentation says so on the page it appears.
A control plane is only trustworthy where it declines. Each of these is built around a refusal as much as a capability.
Alongside the distribution, the Foundation continues to publish open-source tools, frameworks and software built toward the same end. Each release is another piece somebody can assemble for themselves.
Running it yourself means standing up the gateway, the overlay, the mirroring and the certificates. That is a real afternoon's work, and it is all documented. If you would rather not, the Foundation operates it for you.
The boundary is assembly, never capability. Nothing is held back from the distribution to make the paid option necessary — which means the price is capped by something outside our control: you can always leave, and we ship the instructions.