On 30/12/14 07:29, Michał Masłowski wrote: >>> I wonder if there is an advantage to work with the people of >>> NuBSD [0] instead of starting another free BSD? >> >> I hadn't heard of them. It seems that they're system is based on >> FreeBSD, though. In any case, since I've already finished making >> LibertyBSD, I don't see any point in not releasing it. > > All NuBSD work that I know about is the wiki and an incomplete > deblobbing script. (All that I currently do for NuBSD is wiki > hosting.) > > In my experience, every person interested in FSDG-freeing a BSD > distro prefers a different BSD distro, so due to limited time of a > single contributor no such project has enough work done to be > posted on this list. Yours might change this.
That's exactly what I hope. But I need the help of the free software community for this to become a reality. You can: 1. Make a donation to 1BFQEqzhxTbvfjZ3f9eoTbeEBgJdkVcj4m 2. Buy a pre-release copy. I've already had one order, so contact me for more details. 3. Help my submission to Slashdot be accepted: http://slashdot.org/submission/4088331/openbsd-forked-to-remove-non-free-firmware >> I already strongly recommend against using the ports tree. >> However, the BSDs being what they are, a ports tree fetched two >> weeks from now may not work on a release downloaded today. > > It's the same if you mix repos for different versions of a > GNU/Linux distro. From OpenBSD's FAQ, it seems to be a lot worse: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#NoFun >> For this reason, I would like to provide the tarball of a working >> ports tree, such that people can work on deblobbing it if they >> wish to do so. Otherwise, there is no hope of ever having a free >> ports tree. > > Deblobbing can be done incrementally, with scripts that adapt a > current revision of the upstream ports tree into one compliant with > the FSDG. This might be similar to how Parabola or Trisquel removes > some packages and modifies the rest (with nice scripts editing > source packages in Trisquel). That's a good idea. But let's see if we can at least get the base released first. :) _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
