Nomenclature
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Parabola
- Parabola
- The name of the project. Frequently used as shorthand for the current Parabola operating system.
- Parabola GNU/Linux
- The former Parabola operating system; used a patched version of the "Linux" kernel.
- Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
- The current Parabola operating system; uses the "Linux-libre" kernel.
Arch
- Arch Linux
- The operating system that Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is based on. The name is a misnomer; it is a GNU/Linux distribution, but lacks GNU in the name. Not to be rendered as "ArchLinux"; there's a space in there.
- Arch
- Acceptable shorthand for "Arch Linux".
Policies
- (GNU) FSDG
- (GNU) Free System Distribution Guidelines, the set of guidelines that Parabola follows.
- DFSG
- Debian Free Software Guidelines, the set of guidelines that Debian follows. It is mostly equivalent, but is neither a superset nor a subset of the FSDG.
Packages
Package name suffixes:
- -libre
- "X-libre" is a fork of "X" created for the purpose of complying with FSDG. They are created by the Parabola project (such as "Iceweasel-libre"). For information about creating -libre packages see Creating -libre packages.
- -dfsg
- "X-dfsg" is a fork of "X" created for the purpose of complying with DFSG; these packages are developed/maintained by the Debian project. For example, isdnutils-dfsg is Debian's fork of isdnutils (known to Arch Linux users as "isdn4k-utils"). Because of the similarity between FSDG and DFSG, it also addresses Parabola's policy problems with isdnutils.1 See Building packages from Debian.
Footnotes
- ^ However, at the time of this writing, Parabola still lacks the isdnutils-dfsg package. This is because of technical issues with compiling the package on Parabola, we are trying to add it.