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Canaima may refer to:
- Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1994) characterized by its rivers and lagoons in southeastern Venezuela
- Canaima (novel) (1935), a 1935 influential novel by Venezuelan author and former President Rómulo Gallegos
- Canaima (operating system), a Debian-based Linux distribution from Venezuela
- Canaima, a legendary cacique in what is now Venezuela
- Canaima, a genus of Pholicidae spiders
Canaima GNU/Linux is a computer operating system based on Debian. It originated as a solution to cover the needs of the Venezuelan Government as a response to presidential decree 3,390 that prioritizes the use of free technologies in the public administration. On March 14, 2011, Canaima was officially established as the default operating system for the Venezuelan public administration.
The operating system has gained a strong foothold and is one of the most used Linux distributions in Venezuela, largely because of its incorporation in public schools. It is being used in large scale projects as "Canaima Educativo", a project aimed at providing school children with a basic laptop computer with educational software. nicknamed Magallanes. Use of Canaima has been presented on international congresses about the use of open standards, Despite being a young development, it has been used on the Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre (FLISOL).
In February 2013 DistroWatch ranked it the 185th most popular Linux distribution among 319 for the last 12 months. Official Venezuelan news outlets report several installations, but the majority of computers in the country still run pirated versions of Microsoft Windows, unless Windows is preinstalled with new computers.
Canaima is a Venezuelan novel. It was written by Rómulo Gallegos and published in 1935.