Re: (Really) Free Software future in the light of systemd

[Jean Louis]

* Dmitry Alexandrov <address@hidden> [2019-10-21 22:44]:
> While Linux® is indeed might be a very relevant example.  It’s a way
> more widespread; has software more critical that DE, like Wayland,
> that targets it exclusively; and since the advent of LLVM is
> basically the only effectively irreplaceable part of GNU left.

Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre project is preparing HyperbolaBSD. According
to: https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:main:nomenclatures --
It is planned to be based on the OpenBSD operating system with
implementations from different BSD systems and modularized like the
GNU operating system by using the hyperman utility for package
management and HyperRC as its default init system. Its kernel is
called as “HyperBK” and library C as “HyperBLibC”.

hyperman is the name chosen for the version of pacman while HyperRC is
the name chosen for the version of OpenRC. Both are planned to be a
framework (not a fork) to host local modifications and try to push
back Hyperbola changes whenever they are good for upstreams too.

The Hyper Berkeley Kernel (HyperBK) is a kernel which is being
developed and maintained by Hyperbola. It is a kernel planned to be
based on OpenBSD kernel, however with implementations from different
BSD kernels and deblobbed by Hyperbola.

The Hyper Berkeley C Library (HyperBLibC) is a C library which is
being developed and maintained by Hyperbola. It is a C library planned
to be based on OpenBSD C library, however with implementations from
different BSD C libraries.

While this may not be GNU system, Hyperbola team is planning to make
fully free OpenBSD based system after liberating that kernel from
blobs.

That is all good news!

Jean