https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-roadmap/

Announcing HyperbolaBSD Roadmap

2019-12-21 - Luke R.

Due to the Linux kernel rapidly proceeding down an unstable path, we are planning on implementing a completely new OS derived from several BSD implementations.

This was not an easy decision to make, but we wish to use our time and resources to create a viable alternative to the current operating system trends which are actively seeking to undermine user choice and freedom.

This will not be a "distro", but a hard fork of the OpenBSD kernel and userspace including new code written under GPLv3 and LGPLv3 to replace GPL-incompatible parts and non-free ones.

Reasons for this include:

Linux kernel forcing adaption of DRM, including HDCP.
Linux kernel proposed usage of Rust (which contains freedom flaws and a centralized code repository that is more prone to cyber attack and generally requires internet access to use.)
Linux kernel being written without security and in mind. (KSPP is basically a dead project and Grsec is no longer free software)
Many GNU userspace and core utils are all forcing adaption of features without build time options to disable them. E.g. (PulseAudio / SystemD / Rust / Java as forced dependencies)

As such, we will continue to support the Milky Way branch until 2022 when our legacy Linux-libre kernel reaches End of Life.

Future versions of Hyperbola will be using HyperbolaBSD which will have the new kernel, userspace and not be ABI compatible with previous versions.

HyperbolaBSD is intended to be modular and minimalist so other projects will be able to re-use the code under free license.

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Why not, but without my audio RME multiface II firmware, BSD it's not for tomorrow for me .
I just tried BSD on a real machine and mounting of external devices is such a drag :/
A whole distro switching over is probably good for exactly that reason though, more active developers can work on more things.
Brave move.
I think a lot of projects have made that move that way, not for the same reasons, although the sysd/pulse/gnome gangsters had something to do with it. The reverse is really unique, as far as I read, and trident moving to void seems to be the first.

Wishful deduction, OpenBSD/FreeBSD is better than linux, void is better than BSDs :)
8 days later
I am absolutely in love with this distribution as it puts user security/privacy and freedom on first place...
Xorg replaced with Xenocara and OpenSSL replaced with LibreSSL

it uses some kind of stable packages, so if i want to play some game online that requries newer version i need to compile everything by myself... But it's fun!!!!
I have decided to sell my old laptop with old proprietary bios on which i used to distrohop all the time!!!! I bought librebooted machine to find out what Hyperbola is and i don't know what distro hopping is anymore.
I find not being able to run non-free package not an issue but something really cool... For me this is how the real linux distro should be like... About user freedom not being enslaved to corporate proprietary software!!!

Apparently the linux kernel everyday/every week/every year becomes dependent on the bloated libs that mostly need systemd to function... <- I am not sure if that statement is true but i have decided to stick with Hyperbola now and will gladly migrate to the *BSD family as i am not sure if being linux user is a positive thing these days... You say you use gnu/linux, people who never have had anything to do with it gonna associate you with these ubuntu/manjaro/debian/arch folks who use proprietary software like steam, spotify etc. on daily basis... These distros use systemd, but why would you try to explain anything to somebody who has never used linux before what's systemd and free as in speech software??

edit: i think that hyperbola abandons linux kernel which is not arch itself??
2 months later
Hail to yee all!

Lately, I get more and more interested by technologies developped by OpenBSD and, maybe even more, by its "spirit" (its principles of code-correctness, mitigation, etc). Unfortunately, I cannot afford trying them yet, whether by installing 1. OpenBSD itself or 2. Hyperbola, whose team seem to have already taken much inspiration from OpenBSD, even before choosing it as a future base.

(If you have some time, see this very long post o' mine. If you do not have the time necessary to read it all quietly all along, jump to the paragraph titled "How revive old hardware now?")

Hence, I'm getting quite curious…
Mounerje wroteI am absolutely in love with this distribution as it puts user security/privacy and freedom on first place...
Xorg replaced with Xenocara and OpenSSL replaced with LibreSSL
Before reading this, I didn't know that Hyperbola had already made the step to Xenocara, although it's explicitely mentioned here.

Now, my questions @ Mounerje are:
  • How does using Xenocara translate in your day-to-day use?
  • Is package-management as easy as on main Linux distros?
  • Are the repos crowded enough to satisfy the main needs of office-tasks?
Thanks in advance for any further experience feedback!

Regards
(Sorry if ever be this a bit off-topic)

@ Mounerje (again)

Do I have to conclude from this post (that I've just seen) that you actually run vanilla NetBSD on real hardware?
oops.... accidental double post :~)
Oneirosopher wrote Now, my questions @ Mounerje are:
  • How does using Xenocara translate in your day-to-day use?
  • Is package-management as easy as on main Linux distros?
  • Are the repos crowded enough to satisfy the main needs of office-tasks?
Thanks in advance for any further experience feedback!

Regards
1. Well it seems to be okay... It is quite more lightweigh than xorg edit: you can use wayland as well (https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:application:display_servers:wayland)
2. It is pacman like Arch Linux is, but packages aren't rolling release but more like stable version (Debian Stability)
3. Well you can have a look for yourself https://www.hyperbola.info/packages/
;)
Do I have to conclude from this post (that I've just seen) that you actually run vanilla NetBSD on real hardware?
For some time i have yeah... But since last year i made this decision to sell quite modern (but not so much) intel i5 4 core cpu with nvidia gpu and 12GB ram just to get some old thinkpad with libreboot bios replacement (www.libreboot.org) i can run Hyperbola just easy, because machine i use as well as HB is 100% free as in freedom libre software, i mean it has hardware that supports 100% free open source drivers.
I only would like to say that the reason i am back to Hyperbola now (after not using it for few months cuz of trying several distributions) is IceWeasel-UXP web browser that with noscript addon makes amazing security/privacy oriented web browsing experience... Firefox or chromium based distributions is just not the same... Even no script suite for firefox sucks, cuz it doesn't necessarily blocks stuff like google analitycs...

Here it looks like this (for example going on some mainstream website slashdot.com)


Since i have got this libreboot machine and can run Hyperbola, for stuff like Linux gaming or web browsing there is no reason for me to use anything else :). I have got Obarun on other partition though just in case i need to run some non-free stuff or fancy playing some windows game that needs non libre winetricks libs to run properly

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