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Familiar Linux
{{Infobox_OS
| name = Familiar Linux
| logo = 
| website = http://familiar.handhelds.org/
| family = [[Linux]]
| source_model = [[Open source]], [[Free Software]]
| latest_release_version = v0.8.4
| latest_release_date = August, 2006 <!--http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/FamiliarDistribution#install-->
| kernel_type = [[Monolithic kernel]], [[Linux kernel|Linux]]
| ui = [[OPIE user interface|OPIE]], [[GPE Palmtop Environment|GPE]]
| license = 
| supported_platforms = 
| package_manager = 
}}

'''Familiar Linux''' is a [[Linux distribution]] for [[iPAQ]] machines and other [[personal digital assistant]]s (PDAs), intended as a replacement for [[Windows CE]] on these machines. It can use [[OPIE user interface|OPIE]] or [[GPE Palmtop Environment]] as [[graphical user interface]]. Familiar Linux is a complete [[operating system]] with many applications.

== Origin ==
In May of 2000, Alexander Guy took a kernel that had been worked on by [[Compaq]] programmers, built a complete Linux distribution around it, and released the first version of Familiar (v0.1).  The distribution was a lightweight package with [[Python (programming language)|Python]] and [[XFree86]] with anti-aliased fonts, used the [[Blackbox]] window manager, and included a new packaging system created by Carl Worth called "[[ipkg]]", similar to [[Debian]]'s [[dpkg]], allowing user applications to be i(contracted; show full)
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