Framework sponsorships
Updated at 3:30pm PT March 25th, 2026
In October, we shared the open source organization sponsorships we made to date. We’re now happy to share the latest batch of donations, bringing our total commitment to over $260,000. We focus on supporting projects that create the open source software that makes our products work, and the latest group includes a number of incredible distros.
First, we’re sponsoring KDE, one of the most vibrant free software communities in the desktop ecosystem and the home of projects like KDE Plasma. As a long-standing hub for collaborative development around Qt-based applications and frameworks, KDE brings together developers and contributors from around the world to build software that is not only powerful but deeply customizable and respectful of users’ freedom.
Another desktop we’re sponsoring is Xfce, a classic, lightweight free and open source desktop environment designed around speed, simplicity, and modularity to deliver a fast and efficient user experience that runs well on a wide range of hardware and respects user choice.
Then there’s the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) which plays a central role in the modern open source cloud landscape by stewarding a broad set of projects from Kubernetes and Prometheus to bootc and containerd. As part of the Linux Foundation, CNCF fosters collaboration across companies and individual contributors alike under a vendor-neutral umbrella dedicated to making cloud native computing ubiquitous.
You can see our full set of our sponsorships in the table below. As always, let us know of any other organizations you believe we should sponsor!
Updated at 1:30pm PT December 3rd, 2025
In October, we shared the open source organization sponsorships we made to date in 2025. We’re now happy to share the latest batch of donations, bringing our total for the year to over $225,000. We focus on supporting projects that create the open source software that makes our products work, and the latest group includes a number of incredible distros.
First, we’re sponsoring Arch Linux, which is consistently in the top three most popular distros for Framework Laptop and Framework Desktop owners. This is an awesome power user choice with a very broad community and a deep knowledgebase in its wiki.
Downstream of that, we’re also supporting CachyOS, which is an Arch Linux based distro specifically focused on performance. CachyOS consistently comes up on top in performance benchmarks, like this recent one done by Phoronix on a Framework Desktop.
Next up, we have Debian, which is actually the first distro I used when I started my Linux journey in 2003. This is one of the more popular choices for Framework Laptop users, and it’s also the distro that Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and many other major distros are rooted in.
Next, we’re supporting Bazzite, which is one of the fastest growing Linux distros, and a very popular choice for Framework Desktop users interested in gaming. Bazzite is some of the clearest proof that the year of the Linux Desktop is here, enabling a range of games platforms with ease of use that relatively recently required Windows.
The last Linux distro in this batch of sponsorships is NixOS, which is a community supported distro across each of our products. In addition to being popular in the Framework Community, NixOS is also the distro of choice for one of our firmware engineers, making it one of the first distros we test new hardware with.
Finally, we’re sponsoring both FreeBSD and NetBSD. We’ve been working with FreeBSD throughout the year as part of their Laptop Support and Usability Project, and we’re happy to support the foundation with funding as well. While NetBSD doesn’t work on our products yet (as far as we know), we love their mission of extreme portability and keeping older computers from turning into e-waste.
You can see our full set of 2025 sponsorships in the table below. We have a few more currently in progress that we’ll announce in the next batch. As always, let us know of any other organizations you believe we should sponsor!
Original blog post
Both to get Framework products and our mission in front of more people and to support organizations that are working to scale people-and-planet-friendly hardware and open source software to more of the world, we make a number of sponsorships each year. This is in the form of both monetary donations and product donations. The list below covers our sponsorships since the start of 2025, and we’ll continue to keep this up to date over time. Note that this list does not include products sent for marketing use (e.g. press units and marketing activations at events) or R&D use (e.g. pre-release units sent under NDA or production units sent to open source software developers and maintainers at Linux distros and other open source software organizations and hardware developers in the Framework community).
We’re sharing this not just for visibility, but also because we want your help in identifying other organizations we can sponsor to help support open source software and hardware development among a broader base of developers and makers and to amplify our mission. If you have recommendations, please let us know by nominating the organization through this form. We can’t promise that we’ll be able to fund each one, but we will explore every nomination.
