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ZOTHOS
Debian 13 + KDE Plasma 6 OS for AI agents and security
ZOTHOS is a Debian 13 (trixie) Linux desktop with a gold KDE Plasma 6 theme, built for people who run AI coding agents. It ships Ollama, Aider and other agent CLIs, a Rust secrets vault that injects keys into RAM, Cockpit Pro and security tooling.
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Neal, a creative technologist in Virginia Beach.
ZOTHOS is the Linux desktop I wanted for working with AI coding agents without leaking keys everywhere. It's Debian 13 (trixie) with KDE Plasma 6, built from a live-build config you can read and rebuild yourself.
What's in it today:
• Agent CLIs ready to launch: Aider (works offline with Ollama), Claude Code, Codex, Cline, Antigravity, Hermes, plus Cursor
• zoth-vault: a small Rust daemon (Argon2id + ChaCha20-Poly1305) that injects secrets into a child process's environment, so `zoth-vault run -- aider` gets your API key without it sitting in a dotfile
• Cockpit Pro: an Electron dashboard (with a curses fallback) for CPU/RAM, network, processes and the local daemons
• Four desktop profiles you switch with one command, including a Tor "ghost" mode
• A Calamares installer with optional LUKS
Honest status: this is an early release. Over the last week I fixed the ISO build on trixie, BIOS + UEFI boot, the lock screen and 7 broken desktop launchers, and the build log is public on X (@NealFrazierTech). Expect rough edges, especially on real hardware with hybrid GPUs.
What I'd love from you: boot it in a VM or on a spare machine and tell me the first thing that breaks or confuses you. Issues welcome on GitHub.
Companion project: Zoth Studio (zoth.nullai.tech), local-first AI dev tools in the browser.
About ZOTHOS on Product Hunt
“Debian 13 + KDE Plasma 6 OS for AI agents and security”
ZOTHOS was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 13 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #66 on the daily leaderboard. ZOTHOS is a Debian 13 (trixie) Linux desktop with a gold KDE Plasma 6 theme, built for people who run AI coding agents. It ships Ollama, Aider and other agent CLIs, a Rust secrets vault that injects keys into RAM, Cockpit Pro and security tooling.
On the analytics side, ZOTHOS competes within Linux, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 639.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how ZOTHOS performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted ZOTHOS?
ZOTHOS was hunted by Neal Frazier. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of ZOTHOS including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Neal Frazier