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en	Tails is based on [[Debian|https://www.debian.org/]] 13 (Trixie).

en	Included software

en	[GNOME](http://www.gnome.org), an intuitive and attractive desktop environment ([[More...|doc/first_steps/desktop]])

en	Networking

en	[Tor](https://www.torproject.org) with:

en	[[stream isolation|contribute/design/stream_isolation]]

en	the Onion Circuits graphical frontend ([[More...|doc/anonymous_internet/tor/circuits]])

en	[NetworkManager](https://networkmanager.dev/) for easy network configuration ([[More...|doc/anonymous_internet/networkmanager]])

en	[Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org) ([[More...|doc/anonymous_internet/Tor_Browser]]), a web browser based on [Mozilla Firefox](https://www.firefox.com/) and modified to protect your anonymity with:

en	[NoScript](http://noscript.net/), to have even more control over JavaScript

en	[uBlock Origin](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/), to remove advertisements

en	[Pidgin](https://pidgin.im/) preconfigured with [OTR](https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/index.php) for Off-the-Record Messaging ([[More...|doc/anonymous_internet/pidgin]])

en	[OnionShare](https://onionshare.org/) for anonymous file sharing

en	[Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/) email client with support for OpenPGP and RSS and Atom news feeds ([[More...|doc/anonymous_internet/thunderbird]])

en	[Electrum](https://electrum.org/), an easy-to-use bitcoin client ([[More...|doc/anonymous_internet/electrum]])

en	[Wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) and [curl](https://curl.se)

en	Desktop edition

en	[LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org/) ([[More...|doc/sensitive_documents/office_suite]])

en	[GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/) and [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/) to edit images ([[More...|doc/sensitive_documents/graphics]])

en	[GNOME Sound Recorder](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundRecorder) for recording sound

en	[Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/) for recording and editing sounds ([[More...|doc/sensitive_documents/sound_and_video]])

en	[Document Scanner](https://apps.gnome.org/SimpleScan/) to scan documents

en	[Brasero](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Brasero) to burn CD/DVDs

en	[Sound Juicer](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundJuicer) to rip audio CDs

en	[BookletImposer](http://kjo.herbesfolles.org/bookletimposer/) to convert linear PDF documents into booklets, and vice-versa

en	Encryption and privacy

en	Support for both [[!wikipedia Linux_Unified_Key_Setup desc="LUKS"]] and [VeraCrypt](https://veracrypt.fr) encrypted volumes (like USB sticks) ([[More...|doc/encryption_and_privacy/encrypted_volumes]])

en	[GnuPG](http://gnupg.org/), the GNU implementation of OpenPGP for email and data encryption and signing

en	[Kleopatra](https://apps.kde.org/kleopatra/) provides a graphical interface to manage and use GnuPG on text and files

en	[Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/) has an integrated OpenPGP feature for encrypted emails

en	[GNOME Screen Keyboard](https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-osk.html.en) for accessibility and protection against hardware [[!wikipedia Keystroke logging desc="keyloggers"]] ([[More...|doc/first_steps/accessibility#keyboard]])

en	[Metadata Cleaner](https://gitlab.com/rmnvgr/metadata-cleaner) and [mat2](https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2) to remove metadata from files ([[More...|doc/sensitive_documents/metadata]])

en	[KeePassXC](https://keepassxc.org/) password manager ([[More...|doc/encryption_and_privacy/manage_passwords]])

en	[Tesseract OCR](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/) to convert images containing text into a text document

en	[FFmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/) to record and convert audio and video

en	Additional software

en	Additionally, you can install in Tails any other software available in Debian.

en	To install additional software automatically when starting Tails, use the [[Additional Software|persistent_storage/additional_software]] feature of the Persistent Storage.

en	Additional features

en	Automatic mechanism to [[upgrade a USB stick|doc/upgrade]] to newer versions

en	64-bit PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit and SMP support on hardware that supports it

en	Some basic [[doc/first_steps/accessibility]] features

en	Some [[contribute/design/application_isolation]] with AppArmor

en	To prevent cold boot attacks and various memory forensics, Tails erases most memory on shutdown and when the boot media is physically removed.

en	Multilingual support

en	When starting Tails, you can choose between a large number of languages, including Arabic, English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, and more.

en	If you find an issue using one of these languages, please [[tell us about it|support]].

en	To make it easier to use Tails in your own language, you can [[help with translations|contribute/how/translate]].