[FSFLA] Hiperbola: A fully free, stable, secure, simple, lightweight and long-term distribution

[André Silva]

On 06/02/2017 11:35 AM, hellekin wrote:
> On 05/25/2017 05:24 PM, Tomás Solar Castro wrote:
>>
>> Hey! this sounds good! But the first thing I thought is what happened
>> with Parabola? How is Hyperbola different from Parabola? I mean, what
>> is the motivation to create yet another distro instead of colaborate
>> with an existing (and already FSF approved) one?
>>
> 
> I second these questions, but I'd like André's reply since he knows best
> about these.  It's important to understand how Hyperbola and Parabola
> will collaborate (or not), and what diverse objectives they pursue.

Hyperbola is a long-term distro based on Arch plus stability and
security from Debian. We aren't a rolling release distro like Parabola
because we are using a Arch snapshot (2017-05-08) for our first version
and Parabola's blacklist as base for our version [0] to keep it 100%
libre. Also, since our distro is using Debian's patches, we are
stabilizing all packages with improvements in the development, see our
packaging guidelines for further details [1]

Otherwise, we will have different versions like Debian development such
as "Testing", "Stable" and "Old-Stable", and it will have a LTS period
(1~2 years) like a lot of free software projects.

To summarize, Parabola is a rolling release distro and Hyperbola is a
long-term support one; for users who loves use a fully free distro with
Arch design will have 2 different options:

1) Parabola: a distro with the concept of a updated system to get the
latest features and improvements added in the latest version applications.

2) Hyperbola: a distro designed to be supported for a longer than normal
period to alters the type and frequency of software updates (patches) to
reduce the risk, expense, and disruption of software deployment.

> A first look at the H site seems that the distro is limited to the Intel
> platform.

For now, we are focused to stabilize x86 platform, but we have plans to
support another ones such as ARM, MIPS, PowerPC since we are using
Debian patches which contains those compatibilities.

> P.S.: I understood that out of this thread someone decided to quit the
> list.  I'm the least concerned with this, I'm interested in the
> relationship between P and H, nothing else.

For now, there are some Parabola devs using our development as base to
solve issues inside Parabola [2] in the same way as we are doing to
migrate the libre packages liberated by them to complete our system for
the first stable version [3] :)

[0]:https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/software/blacklist.git/tree/blacklist.txt
[1]:https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/main/packaging-guidelines.git/tree/Hyperbola_Packaging_Guidelines.md
[2]:https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/commit/?id=49dd6cb51055e59c9a7bfb4bc3f28d2486d53d08
[3]:https://www.hyperbola.info/news/hyperbola-is-finally-here/

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