https://wiki.hyperbola.info/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:53:19 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/ttps://wiki.hyperbola.info/lib/tpl/hyperwiki/images/favicon.ico https://wiki.hyperbola.info/ https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:against_enforced_digitalization&rev=1718707922&do=diff Digitization compulsion and enforcement By definition, digitized processes are better suited for working with modern computers than analogous and therefore have advantages, common said. Within this article we want to explain Hyperbola's stance about enforced digitization and why we have no interest to enforce so-called anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:52:02 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:bluetooth&rev=1669719278&do=diff Bluetooth and its problems Within Hyperbola bluetooth is not included since the release of Milky Way v0.4. As technology standard for short-range wireless connection there are too many risks for stability and security, besides that there are no real community-driven implementations for GNU/Linux available and the support for our own anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:54:38 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:chromium_flaws&rev=1743429370&do=diff Chromium's Flaws As free software activists, we all enjoy using the latest and greatest in free software, but we need to make sure that the software we are using really does respect our freedom. Many users have expressed to us their desire to run Chromium web browser anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:56:10 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:commercialization&rev=1718827286&do=diff Hyperbola and Commercialization Commercialization is always a sensible topic within the spheres of free, libre software and culture. Without any doubt we are all part of the capitalism, we are participants and we are active in rejecting alternative ideas or even discussions how we can treat capitalism towards ethics and moral, giving those two words more important stances. The big failure of free, libre software was and is to reject deeper analysis about its own nature including altruistic moti… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:01:26 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:community_software&rev=1745197242&do=diff Community-oriented software On-going in different articles we have mentioned community-oriented and -driven software. So within this article we want to give an overview what and how we understand this phrase. We understand the mentioned phrase and wording to be used for free, libre and permissive licensed software-projects being most time only developed within a community of people, not with any kind of company and / or corporation behind. A trademark included is under these conditions most ti… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:00:42 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:cooperation_worktogether&rev=1718148623&do=diff Cooperation and working together Hyperbola was and is meant to be as a complete new paradigm within free, libre software and culture. Generic historical seen most projects act with the difference between maintainers, developers and users. The maintaining and developing persons act furthermore on behalf of a roadmap or when users report problems. But there is a residing problem within this as many users do not get more deep into their system and just demand it should work. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:30:23 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:cryptocurrencies&rev=1733878302&do=diff Cryptocurrencies Even though Hyperbola is positioning for security, privacy and emancipation, we have a clear reasoning to decline every cryptocurrency now and in the future. We don't and won't recognize and include any kind of those as they generate only false hope and more technological failures. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:51:42 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:dbus_failure&rev=1705241459&do=diff Failure of D-Bus With HyperbolaBSD, D-bus and related Linux specific frameworks will eventually be deprecated, according to our Roadmap. With release of version 0.4, the end of support for D-Bus was marked among other inovations. Introduction D-Bus is over-engineered and orphaned, ussually on critical systems which prioritize privacy, security and freedom like anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:10:59 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages&rev=1774231319&do=diff Incompatible Packages and Projects As project oriented on free, permissive licensed software Hyperbola has a strict way to integrate different software-projects and packages based on them. Followed up the possible reasonings for us to decline packages for building or remove them from our repositories: anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:01:59 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:java_downfalls&rev=1733759928&do=diff Java's Language Downfalls As free software activists, we all enjoy using the latest and greatest in free software, but we need to make sure that the software we are using really does respect our freedom. A lot of software relies and depends on Java, since it appears to be fully free software, nontheless we have many concerns with anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:58:48 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:logic_failures&rev=1731675683&do=diff Free software and its current logic failures Within this article we want to describe the logic failures many projects from the sphere of free and libre software are following and especially why Hyperbola do not and will not include or even mention further projects. Aside of we do not include a list of projects as this article is meant as generic description of fallacies. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:01:23 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:nonfree_services&rev=1732905489&do=diff Non-free services Within a separate article the FSF tries to make clear that “network services are not free or non-free, but raise other issues”. To first make clear Hyperbola's stance on this effort: We decline those nitpicking definitions as they do not fit the reality. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:38:09 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:nonfunctional_data&rev=1718835600&do=diff Non-functional data With the Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG as shortform) the Free Software Foundation has defined so-called “non-functional data” as following (quoting excerpt): (...) Data that isn't functional, that doesn't do a practical job, is more of an adornment to the system's software than a part of it. Thus, we don't insist on the free license criteria for non-functional data. It can be included in a free system distribution as long as its license gives you permiss… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:20:00 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:php_trademark&rev=1705446644&do=diff Trademark Concerns and Problems with PHP PHP is as general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development and often used in those contexts. Nevertheless it is not common known that the licensing behind the software is more out of a problem and making it more than only a lightweight issue packaging this for a free and libre operating-system. To be clear: anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:10:44 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:python_problems&rev=1751323101&do=diff Python's problems and concerns The progamming-language Python is often used in the sphere of free, libre software and is therefore also part of Hyperbola as operating-system. But besides all positive aspects we want to list within this article here why our perspective on anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Tue, 01 Jul 2025 01:38:21 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:rust_issues&rev=1745019155&do=diff Rust's problems and concerns As free software users, we all enjoy using the latest and greatest in free software, but we need to make sure that the software we are using really does respect our freedom. The desire to run Rust and build software with that programming-language anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:32:35 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:stable_system&rev=1729255853&do=diff Why does "newest release" not always mean "stable" for Hyperbola? And why comparisons don't help! Hyperbola was, is and will be always oriented on long-term support resulting in a most stable system. For this goal (please refer on the packaging guidelines also) we explicit do not want to package always the newest releases of free, libre software-projects. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:50:53 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:start&rev=1691795044&do=diff anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Sat, 12 Aug 2023 02:04:04 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:sudo_complexity&rev=1667477301&do=diff The complexity of "sudo" Starting with the release of Milky Way v0.3 we have been using foremost opendoas as direct replacement for using administrative rights with an unprivileged user-account. With the release of Milky Way v0.4 we have therefore now concluded this step as anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:08:21 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:sustainability&rev=1738678450&do=diff Hyperbola and Sustainability Within this article we want to give insights and a generic overview about Hyperbola's stance as project towards sustainability. But before we need for sure to define the word clear as what it is and also what is included. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:14:10 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:systemd_denial&rev=1668767820&do=diff systemd: Denial or just alternative ways? We are surely aware about the criticism towards systemd as project. But this article should not only be focussed onto that and be therefore more oriented towards our reasoning for a system beyond using only bloated packages and frameworks. So we could now list for sure many reasons why we stay critical towards the adaption for systemd as basic init-framework, but we want to provide a complete picture. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:37:00 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:technical_feudalism&rev=1757809817&do=diff Technical Feudalism Within this article we want to give insights in a very dangerous development all around soft- and hardware. But before we are going deeper into the details, first some generic notes about our choice for this exactly very strong phrase: The anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:30:17 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:trademarks&rev=1744409968&do=diff Trademarks, patents and copyrights in free, libre software There is the on-going question how trademarks, patents and copyrights can bring free, libre software into trouble and issues. So first to summarize the worst points: * trademarks could affect the redistribution freedom anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Sat, 12 Apr 2025 01:19:28 +0000 https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:wording_phrases&rev=1747126607&do=diff Wording and phrases for Hyperbola There are many words and phrases like “freedom” used around free, libre software and culture. But within their exact meaning many of them stay vague and not clear defined. For example the word “freedom” is referenced on multiple ways, each of in different relations: The freedom of speech, the freedom of expression and others. Within this article we want to give an overview and clear meaning for the wording and phrases used around Hyperbola as project, also in r… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) en:philosophy Tue, 13 May 2025 11:56:47 +0000