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Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

In 2009 we started a project to offer the Free Software community the chance of using an Arch system completely freed from non-Free software.

Today we have repositories and installable images of this wonderful GNU/Linux distribution from which we have eliminated the non-Free software contained in its official repositories and which we have replaced with Free alternatives whenever we could.

The first example is Linux-libre, the kernel without blobs nor non-Free firmware. Followed by GNU IceCat, the Free fork of Mozilla Firefox that doesn’t recommend non-Free addons, and that in our case neither recommends services that spy on you like the Google search engine.

Why you should use Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

Parabola GNU/Linux-libre equals software freedom plus all power to the users. GNU plus ArchWay. With a continuosly updated system, simple to manage, simple to package, you can build your own operating system in the way you want and learn a lot along the way.

Free the GNU/Linux distribution of Arch

Following the minimalist, KISS, spirit of Arch, we have managed to achieve its freedom in a simple way. To Free your Arch installation, just install our Free repositories list and update your system.

Participate

Boring tasks are always available. We want to start new projects. We want to help people have servers of their own, with services of their own, with Parabola Social. We want people to remix their own Arch system and share it with the rest of the world.

We want Free Software with a social utility for a Free society.

But we need your help. If all of us share a little of the boring work, we’ll have more time to do the really fun stuff.

• Audit repositories. If you find a non-Free package, or a package with non-Free parts, report it as a bug.
• Host repositories. Mirrors are not abundant.
• Take a look at our TODO list

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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, join the web forum, or subscribe to the mailing lists, 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.

Latest News

OpenBLAS >= 0.3.23-2 update requires manual intervention

The openblas package prior to version 0.3.23-2 doesn’t ship optimized LAPACK routine and CBLAS/LAPACKE interfaces for compatibility. This decision has been reverted now, and the ability to choose a different default system BLAS/LAPACK implementation while keeping openblas installed is now provided to allow future co-installation of BLIS, ATLAS, etc.

The default BLAS implementation will be used for most packages like NumPy or R. Please install «blas-openblas» and «blas64-openblas» to make OpenBLAS the default BLAS implementation, just like the old behavior.

Unfortunately you will get errors on updating if you currently have OpenBLAS installed as the default BLAS implementation:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: installing openblas (0.3.23-2) breaks dependency ‘blas’ required by cblas :: installing openblas (0.3.23-2) breaks dependency ‘blas’ required by lapack

Please append your preferred default BLAS implementation to the regular -Syu command line to get around it. For example:

[From Arch] Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

The base-devel package group has recently been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
People that had the base-devel package group installed (meaning people that installed base-devel before February 2nd) have to explicitly re-install it to get the new base-devel package installed on their system:

systemd encrypted boot may be broken by upgrade to openssl v3 (systemd-cryptsetup), and various libcrypto.so.1.1 errors — suggest to postpone upgrading

until https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/76440 is resolved

FS#76440 : systemd-cryptsetup still refers to libcrypto.so.1.1 after upgrading to openssl3

UPDATE 2022-11-08: fixed in cryptsetup 2.5.0-4

[From Arch] Removing python2 from the repositories

Python 2 went end of life January 2020. Since then Arch has been actively cutting down the number of projects depending on python2 in their repositories, and they have finally been able to drop it from our distribution, making it disappear from Parabola too. If you still have python2 installed on your system consider removing it and any python2 package.

If you still require the python2 package you can keep it around, but please be aware that there will be no security updates.

Grub bootloader upgrade and configuration incompatibilities

2022-08-30 — Christian Hesse

Recent changes in grub added a new command option to fwsetup and changed the way the command is invoked in the generated boot configuration. Depending on your system hardware and setup this could cause an unbootable system due to incompatibilities between the installed bootloader and configuration. After a grub package update it is advised to run both, installation and regeneration of configuration:

grub-install . grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg 

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xdg-desktop-portal-xapp 1.0.2-1.0	i686
kustomize 5.1.0-1.0	i686
bacon	armv7h/i686
php-legacy 8.1.21-1.0	i686
perl-log-any 1.716-1.0	i686
cimg 3.2.6-1.0	i686
glibmm-2.68 2.76.0-1.0	i686
zsh-theme-powerlevel10k 1.19.0-1.0	i686
lpeg 1.1.0-1.0	i686
php 8.2.8-1.0	i686
fbset 2.1-10.0	i686
qalculate-gtk 4.7.0-1.0	i686
leiningen 2.10.0-2.0	i686
libqalculate 4.7.0-1.0	i686
rustypaste 0.11.1-1.0	i686

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For a list of articles in this wiki check the Table of Contents.

1 What is Parabola?

Parabola is a Free Software and Free Culture project aiming to provide a fully freedom-respecting GNU+Linux distribution called Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.

Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is based on packages from Arch Linux (Arch Linux is in fact a GNU/Linux distribution) and possibly other Arch-based systems, with packages available for i686, x86_64, and armv7h CPUs. Parabola aims to keep its package and management tools simple. The primary goal is to give the user complete control over their system with 100% Free Software and Free Culture. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is listed by the Free Software Foundation as a fully Free Software distribution.

Development focuses on a balance of simplicity, elegance, code-correctness and bleeding edge Free Software.

Its lightweight and simple design makes it easy to extend and mold into whatever kind of system you’re building.

You can find us on IRC, on the web forum, or on the mailing lists.

1.1 General documentation

The Installation Guide will walk you through the process of downloading an ISO and installing Parabola GNU/Linux-libre on your system. We have separate installation instructions for the armv7h and mips64el architectures.

If you are running Arch or some other Arch-based system, migrating to Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is as simple as reconfiguring pacman to use our repositories. See the Migration Guide for instructions.

Be sure to take a look at the Parabola Social Contract, it guides us in all we do.

In addition we have a How does Parabola protects users against nonfree software page to explain what Parabola protects against and what it doesn’t protect against.

1.2 FAQ

Our frequently asked questions are there to provide answers to questions often asked by users who moved to Parabola from Arch or some other non-Free operating system. It discusses issues caused by making the system completely Free. For an explanation on technical details of the system look at Arch FAQ.

2 How to help

Parabola is made by volunteers.

See our How to help page for things you can do.

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