parabola gnu linux,Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

A fully free, simple, and lightweight operating system

You've reached the website of Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.

The Parabola project is a community-driven, "labour-of-love" effort to maintain a 100% free

(as in: freedom) operating

system distribution that is lean, clean, and hackable.

Based on the Arch distribution, Parabola is a complete, user-friendly operating system,

suitable for general "everyday" use, while retaining Arch's "power-user" charm.

Parabola adheres to the

GNU Free

System Distribution Guidelines (FSDG); which requires source code for every part of

the system to be freely available, modifyable, and re-distributable. All Parabola packages

are built from source, in clean chroots, and with networking disabled, in order to replace

any software and artworks in the standard Arch system which fall outside the GNU guidelines.

LiveISOs, installers, and packages are provided for the armv7h, i686, and x86_64 CPU architectures.

Our community is friendly and helpful. Feel free to hop on the

IRC channel, subscribe to the

mailing lists, or join the

web forum

to get your feet wet. Once you are ready to begin your adventures through Fosstopia, the

wiki will guide you well

toward learning to install and use Parabola comfortably and confidently.