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Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre

Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre is a dormant as of 2025-12-03 15:28 UTC or discontinued Argentine Linux distribution written from scratch sharing some similarities with Slackware. It has a simple packaging system that allows installing, removing, upgrading, and creating packages, although the system may be challenging to new users. As it only packages free software and uses the Linux-libre kernel, the Free Software Foundation endorses Dragora. Dragora is considered to be based on the "Keep it simple, stupid" (KISS) principle, believed by the authors to be a strength. In the past, Dragora could be downloaded from its website or purchased on CD

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Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre
Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre with Xfce
DeveloperMatías A. Fonzo
OS familyUnix-like (Linux kernel)
Working stateDormant as of 2025-12-03 15:28 UTC1 or Discontinued
Initial releaseMarch 13, 2009 (2009-03-13)
Latest release3.0-beta22 Edit this on Wikidata / 26 April 2023 (26 April 2023)
Repositoryrepo = https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/dragora.git for source code https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragora/ for iso files
Package managerQi 345
Supported platformsi586, x86-64
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux-libre)
UserlandGNU
Default
user interface		Xfce
LicenseExclusively free licenses per GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG),6 GPLv3 or later
Official websitehttp://www.dragora.org/ Archived July 27, 2024, at the Wayback Machine

Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre is a dormant as of 2025-12-03 15:28 UTC7 or discontinued8 Argentine Linux distribution9 written from scratch10 sharing some similarities with Slackware. It has a simple packaging system that allows installing, removing, upgrading, and creating packages, although the system may be challenging to new users.11 As it only packages free software and uses the Linux-libre kernel, the Free Software Foundation endorses Dragora.6 Dragora is considered to be based on the "Keep it simple, stupid" (KISS) principle, believed by the authors to be a strength.12 In the past, Dragora could be downloaded from its website or purchased on CD1314

Dragora uses the SysV init system as of 3.0 Beta 2.15

Release dates

The following list of releases includes the release date and the code name used by the project.16

  • Dragora 1.0 Beta 1: June 13, 2008 - "hell".
  • Dragora 1.0 Beta 2: September 18, 2008.
  • Dragora 1.0 Release Candidate 1: February 12, 2009.
  • Dragora 1.0 Stable: March 13, 2009 - "starlight".
  • Dragora 1.1 Release Candidate 1: August 25, 2009.
  • Dragora 1.1 Stable: October 8, 2009 - "stargazer".
  • Dragora 2.0 Release Candidate 1: January 24, 2010.
  • Dragora 2.0 Release Candidate 2: March 28, 2010.
  • Dragora 2.0 Stable: April 13, 2010 - "ardi".
  • Dragora 2.1 Release Candidate 1: December 4, 2010.
  • Dragora 2.1 Stable: December 31, 2010 - "dio".
  • Dragora 2.2 Release Candidate 1: March 2, 2012.
  • Dragora 2.2 Stable: April 21, 2012 - "rafaela".
  • Dragora 3.0 Alpha 1: December 31, 2017.
  • Dragora 3.0 Alpha 2: September 28, 2018.
  • Dragora 3.0 Beta 1: October 16, 2019.
  • Dragora 3.0 Beta 2: April 26, 2023.171810
See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre". Archived from the original on December 16, 2025.
  2. Matías Fonzo (26 April 2023). "Dragora 3.0-beta2 released". Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  3. "[Dragora-users] Qi 2.12 released". Archived from the original on December 16, 2025.
  4. "Re: [Dragora-users] Qipy: Qi helper to query information v0.3 released". Archived from the original on December 16, 2025.
  5. "This Handbook is for Dragora". Archived from the original on June 3, 2025.
  6. "List of Free GNU/Linux Distributions - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)". Gnu.org. Retrieved 2010-06-11.
  7. "Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre". Archived from the original on December 16, 2025.
  8. dragora. "dragora/dragora". notabug.org. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
  9. "Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre Project Goals: What are the goals of the project?". Archived from the original on August 14, 2013.
  10. "Dragora 3.0 Beta 2 OS Released: 10+ Years In Development, FSF Backed & Using SysV Init". phoronix.com. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  11. "Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre 1.0 – Una distribución sólo para usuarios avanzados". Zona Linux. 2009-03-19. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18.
  12. "FAQ". dragora.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07.
  13. "OSDisc.com - Buy Dragora CDs and DVDs - New Releases. Low Prices". osdisc.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
  14. "Welcome to Linux Cd.org - Dragora". LinuxCD.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-04.
  15. "Dragora 3.0 Beta 2 OS Released: 10+ Years In Development, FSF Backed & Using SysV Init". www.phoronix.com. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  16. "faq:general [Dragora Wiki]". Archived from the original on 2016-01-28.
  17. "Dragora 3.0-beta2". dragora.org. 2023-04-26. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  18. "Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre". distrowatch.com. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
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