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

[willi uebelherr]

Dear Andre and Hellekin and all,

many thanks for your explanation and to Hellekin for his concentrated 
question.

But from a point of the users, not involved in this specific terms, how 
you will it explain?

If we know about some errors, some instabilities, some important 
extension, immediatly we want to update this parts. Or not?

Is the difference more to concentrate to some pictures?

In our working as users we go slowly. Always. Our way of using some 
application act in long-time spheres. The same for us as developers. 
Never we use the permanent changeover. Therefore, i don't see an 
important difference.

many greetings, willi


Am 2/6/2017 um 08:51 schrieb 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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