The Hyperbola Project is a community driven effort to provide a fully free (as in freedom) operating system that is stable, secure, simple, lightweight that tries to Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) under a Long Term Support (LTS) way.
Hyperbola is an independent, free and libre system built from scratch using the package-management from Arch Linux and especially patchsets for security from Debian providing packages that meet the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines. Packages are provided for the i686 and x86_64 architectures.
However, Hyperbola is not based on any other system distribution. While they use pacman for package-management, their packages are completely done from scratch, based on their own repositories.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | - |
| Init Software: | OpenRC |
| Package Management: | Pacman |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | i686, x86_64 |
| Home Page: | www.hyperbola.info |
| Developer: | Hyperbola |
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