Parabola GNU/Linux-libre Parabola GNU/Linux-libre Home Packages Wiki Forum Issues Projects Download 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. Learn more... Latest News iptables-legacy 2026-04-06 From Arch: The old iptables-nft package name is replaced by iptables, and the legacy backend is available as iptables-legacy. When switching packages (among iptables-nft, iptables, iptables-legacy), check for .pacsave files in /etc/iptables/ and restore your rules if needed: /etc/iptables/iptables.rules.pacsave /etc/iptables/ip6tables.rules.pacsave Most setups should work unchanged, but users relying on uncommon xtables extensions or legacy-only behavior should test carefully and use iptables-legacy if required. dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention 2025-11-01 From Arch: The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file. Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the configuration file was migrated, requiring manual intervention. For guidance on the 2.3-to-2.4 migration, please refer to the following upstream documentation: Upgrading Dovecot CE from 2.3 to 2.4 Furthermore, the dovecot 2.4 branch no longer supports their replication feature, it was removed. For users relying on the replication feature or who are unable to perform the 2.4 … 'zabbix' users: manual intervention may be required 2025-08-04 From Arch: Starting with 7.4.1-2, the following Zabbix system user accounts (previously shipped by their related packages) will no longer be used. Instead, all Zabbix components will now rely on a shared zabbix user account (as originally intended by upstream and done by other distributions): zabbix-server zabbix-proxy zabbix-agent (also used by the zabbix-agent2 package) zabbix-web-service This shared zabbix user account is provided by the newly introduced zabbix-common split package, which is now a dependency for all relevant zabbix-* packages. The switch to the new user account is handled automatically for the corresponding main configuration files and systemd service … Manual intervention required for OpenRC 2025-07-15 OpenRC now requires services local, localmount and netmount to be added to runlevel default. This can be done with commands: rc-update add local default rc-update add localmount default rc-update add netmount default The update brings experimental user services support. Our wiki page has been updated to include information about it. i686 users - manual intervention required 2024-11-28 i686 users will probably be unable to upgrade, due to a problem with the latest archlinux32-keyring 20241114-1 the solution is posted on the bug tracker https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/3679 Older News 2024-10-24 manual intervention required for local pacman repositories 2024-07-01 restart sshd immediately after upgrade 2024-05-24 pacman.conf and makepkg.conf changes 2024-03-29 [arch-announce] The xz package has been backdoored 2023-08-11 [From Arch]: budgie-desktop >= 10.7.2-6 update requires manual intervention 2023-06-19 OpenBLAS >= 0.3.23-2 update requires manual intervention 2023-02-12 [From Arch] Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention 2022-11-06 systemd encrypted boot may be broken by upgrade to openssl v3 (systemd-cryptsetup), and various libcrypto.so.1.1 errors - suggest to postpone upgrading 2022-09-25 [From Arch] Removing python2 from the repositories 2022-08-30 Grub bootloader upgrade and configuration incompatibilities Package Search: Recent Updates (more) licenses 20240728-1.parabola2 armv7h/i686/x86_64 python-strawberry-graphql 0.323.1-1 x86_64 postfix 3.11.5-4 x86_64 matrix-synapse 1.156.0-1 x86_64 apparmor 5.0.2-1 x86_64 xwayland-satellite 0.8.2-1 x86_64 wezterm 20240203.110809.5046fc22.r869.g76b606ec5-2 x86_64 virt-firmware 26.7.2-1 x86_64 turbo 2.9.16-2 x86_64 sonic-visualiser 5.2.1-5 x86_64 sequoia-sq 1.4.0-2 x86_64 sentry-native 0.15.4-1 x86_64 python-virtualenv 21.7.0-1 x86_64 python-ulid 4.0.1-1 x86_64 python-sentry_sdk 2.66.1-1 x86_64 Documentation Wiki Installation Guide ARM Installation Guide Migration from other distros Support Bug Tracker Assist Mailing List IRC Channels Community Community Forum Reddit forum Free Culture Multimedia Comics Wallpapers Development Donate Development Mailing List Projects in Git Package Groups Todo Lists ISO Release List Visualizations Differences Reports People Hackers Support Staff Hacker Fellows Artists Signing Master Keys Mirror Network Mirror Status Mirrorlist Updater Mirror List More Resources Press Coverage News Archives RSS Feeds Friends of Freedom Copyright © 2009-2026 Parabola Project. 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