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

[Tomás Solar Castro]

El vie, 02-06-2017 a las 12:51 +0000, André Silva escribió:
> 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.
> 

Very good and satisfying answer, André. Thank you very much! :D