HidayahOS
1.0.0 “Nur” · LEGACY ARCHIVERECOMMENDED OF 1.0

XFCE Edition.

The light of Linux, tuned for speed. Our recommended edition — fast on old hardware, light on RAM, and every Hidayah tool included.

ISO size4.3 GB
DesktopXFCE 4.20
BaseDebian 13 "Trixie"
RAM min.2 GB
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XFCE desktop of Hidayah OS 1.0 Nur with the Hidayah night wallpaper and Emerald & Gold theming
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Minimum requirements

CPU64-bit Dual Core
RAM2 GB
Storage8 GB (Live Mode)
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What's inside.

Prayer Times

Automatic prayer times with adhan notifications, calculated for your exact location.

Quran Reader

The full Mushaf with search, bookmarks and translations — offline, right on the desktop.

Hijri Calendar

The Islamic calendar integrated into the system clock and taskbar.

Sovereign Shield

A local DNS filter (127.0.0.1:53) with a community blocklist — haram and tracker domains blocked at OS level.

Zero Telemetry

Nothing phones home. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking — verified by hidayah-doctor.

Calamares Installer

Boot the live session, click “Install Hidayah OS” on the desktop and follow the wizard.

Real screenshots

See it running.

Genuine captures of the shipped 1.0.0 ISO booting in QEMU — unretouched.

Hidayah OS boot splash showing the golden-dome mosque artwork at 640x480
Boot splash — BIOS/UEFI
Early Linux kernel console output scrolling during the Hidayah OS 1.0.0 live boot
Kernel console — live boot
XFCE terminal opened on the Hidayah night wallpaper with the hidayah@hidayah live prompt
Terminal — hidayah@hidayah
hidayah-doctor self-test output inside the live session showing PASS=31 FAIL=0 and HIDAYAH_DOCTOR_ALL_OK
hidayah-doctor — 31/0 ALL OK
Sovereign Shield status output showing the DNS filter daemon active with a 132-domain seed blocklist
Sovereign Shield — dnsd active
XFCE applications menu open over the Hidayah night wallpaper
Applications menu

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1.1 Ihsan Beta — XFCE pre-release

The next release in testing (3.1 GiB). Try it early and report bugs — hosted on the pre-release GitLab project.

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