Tech. By Developers, For Developers.

You can't be the best OS without the best tech to back it up. Built on the rock solid foundation of Linux and fueled by millions of developers world wide, elementary proudly ships the best tools that open source has to offer.

PolicyKit

Keep users safe while allowing them access to administrative tasks. PolicyKit centrally defines and handles privileges.

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users’ activities and events and makes this information readily available for other applications to use.

D-Bus

D-Bus is a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition, D-Bus makes it simple to launch applications and daemons on demand.

Folks

Folks is a library that aggregates people from multiple sources (eg, Telepathy connection managers, Facebook, etc.) to create metacontacts.

Contractor

Contractor is an app-to-app data sharing service designed to make applications automatically extensible without adding extra work.

GeoClue

Use location information to provide helpful results and build more contextual apps.

GStreamer

Working multimedia into your apps is a piece of cake. We provide the playback, you provide controls.

WebKit

The industry standard used in iOS and Chrome OS is at your disposal for displaying web content in your apps.

Telepathy

Integrate messaging and data sharing into your apps for the ultimate social desktop experience.

SQLHeavy

Powerful SQLite object-relational-mapper designed for Vala.

GIO

The filesystem is at your command. Move, Delete, Rename, Open, Edit, Save and more.

Granite

Granite is an application framework designed with the intent to build better apps with less effort.