The light on Linux®

# What?

Copacabana Linux is an independent Linux® distribution focused on sanity, modularity and liberty (as in Enlightenment).
It aims to be a complete, malleable and yet simple operating system solution for use in diverse environments, such as workstations, laptops and servers.
We, since the first day of development, drew inspiration from paradigms used for many years for designing stable operating systems, therefore, even though many of the utilities that are present on Copacabana being new/newly maintained, all of it are being made aiming for trustability.

For distribution, we use a *BSD-inspired model — based on stages, not on the "everything is a package" paradigm — for some general parts (e.g.: base system), since it's fairly simpler to package, distribute and maintain.
For other packages, a new approach based on the SVR4 packaging model is being currently developed.

# How?

Copacabana is made following the same building model that Linux from Scratch/Musl-LFS follows, that is building the distribution in three parts: a cross-compiler; a set of basic tools and the final system, explaining it in a much more simplified form.
But, while Linux from Scratch don't in fact have a build consolidation, Copacabana makes use of a complete, but yet rather simple and hackable, build system.
If you're interested in building from scratch and/or porting Copacabana for other architecture, please read "Porting Copacabana to other architectures".

# Download a copy

The newest release is , released on .

Currently, we don't own any servers, so you may have to keep an eye at the Downloads page.
In any case, the GitHub release page is a safe bet:

                
                https://github.com/Projeto-Pindorama/copacabana/releases/tag/X.X

Do you have a server and want to mirror Copacabana releases? See the "Chip in!" section and send us a issue.
Of course, you can also clone the git repository and build it from source using the build system scripts — please, take a read at "Porting Copacabana to other architectures". 

        $ git clone -b [X.X|master] https://github.com/Projeto-Pindorama/copacabana.git

# Chip in!

We can't do this alone. Here are ways of how can you chip in.

## Translate our content

Speaks something besides the King's English? Português? Español? Català? Français? Italiano? Suomi? 日本語? 繁體字? أَنْدَلُسِيّ؟ עברית?
Chip in to internationalize our software and documentation!
Everything is public in our repositories. Yeah, that's right: no closed groups, sub-projects nor mailing lists.
It's just a matter of translating and pull-requesting it.

## Porting Copacabana to other architectures

Copacabana main focus is to be a multi-purpose Linux®-based and UNIX®-compatible operating system and, after all, to be running in multiple places over the World.
And you can help us to achieve this porting Copacabana to other architectures.
Currently, Copacabana is getting binary releases for x64; our current goal is to get binary releases for ARM and i386 (x86) architectures.

Recompiling Copacabana for another host isn't something extremely hard, since, besides all the scripts and patches are open at the git repository, the process itself is being described in more depth at the Copacabana tabula, with additional sidenotes and troubleshooting.
If you've made a port, you can announce it at the Pindorama mailing list at FreeLists.org or, preferably, via an issue at the Copacabana development repository using the "port" label.

## Spread the word around!

We strongly encourage that you use these badges freely, both in the 'net or in the real life.

Put them in your website, stick them on your workstation or laptop, use it freely within the bounds of good taste and common sense.

If you're going to use these in your website, you may wish to take 110x35px badges to embed in the footer, or, if you're going to put in some article, the 256 colours version, which is far smaller than the full version and don't have a significant loss.

[Full] [256 colours] [Badge (110x35px)]
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Have you been using some of them? Tell us about.

(Still likes the oldies, old sock? We still have 'em around here)

# On the media!

Sometimes we get media coverage, take a look.

## January 2024

## December 2023

## February 2022

  • O Paradoxo do Navio de Teseu no mundo open source, Toca do Tux (Blogspot), 4th February 2022

    • Prof. Silveira, inspired by the interview revolving Copacabana — and the Pindorama project per se —, wrote an article about forks and copyrights issues in open source, with the approach of drawing a parallel amid the Ship of Theseus paradox and some cases in software projects that made use of forked code. It's a very interesting article.

## January 2022

  • Conheça o projeto #Pindorama, Toca do Tux, 23th January 2022

    • The professor and systems administrator Gabriel Silveira interviews Luiz Antônio about the Pindorama project, the Copacabana distribution and his views on licenses, competition and alternatives currently being used in the distribution.