The PA-RISC Linux development community is proud to be part of the Debian 3.1 (sarge) release. This is the second stable Debian Release which includes support for Hewlett Packard's PA-RISC processor. Kudos to developers from The Debian Project, Hewlett Packard, ESIEE, and of course, parisc-linux.org community.

Before downloading ISOs, first check the FAQ and Supported HW for issues specific to your hardware. Official Install CDs are available from Debian.
The following mirrors have 600+ MB ISOs: nd.edu usc.edu ticklers.org ie.debian.org cdimage.debian.org
Smaller (150MB) network install ISOs are also available from the mirrors.

The PA-RISC project provides a native port of Linux to the PA-RISC architecture. The port is merged into linux-2.6 mainstream kernel tree. PA-RISC linux-2.4 is stable but not fully merged into the mainline tree nor well maintained these days. PA-RISC Linux Project History tells how the project got started and the first steps. Use the Contact Information if the FAQ or Mailing List aren't helpful.

Want to volunteer your time? Not listed in the Hall of Fame?! Those folks brought you the 0.9x Releases and Debian 3.0 Release (replaced by Debian 3.1, links above). That includes boot loader, kernel, documentation, user space programs, packaging, testing, debugging, and pulling everything together into an ISO.

Finally, we are proud to say that this website is hosted on a Debian HPPA powered machine.

• April 2007 - Debian 4.0!
• July 2006 - James fixes (mostly) parisc-linux on PA8800! w00t!
• March 2006 - Fixed stifb on 64-bit machines. X now works with a 64-bit kernel!
• Dec 2005 - Fixed framebuffer console on 32bit HCRX graphic cards
• Dec 2005 - PCMCIA support added (e.g. used in Tadpole PA-RISC laptops)
• Nov 2005 - See info on our git repository here.
• Sep 2005 - Etch release certification starts. You can help!
• Jun 2005 - Debian 3.1!
• Mar 2005 - The parisc-linux patch set is less than 200K for the first time ever! Thanks to willy for doing such a great job pushing patches upstream!
• Jun 2004 - Support for PA8800/zx1 committed!

• Is my hardware supported?
   
• How do I install PA-RISC?
   
• Where do I find the project todo list?
   
• My kernel {crashed|hung}, how do I submit a useful bug report?
   
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