This checklist is on the page: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Hyperbola and it looks as nice way to evaluate those incoming distros.
** FSDG Checklist for Hyperbola [/] - [ ] Complete Distro - [ ] No name confusion - [ ] No other trademark issues - [ ] Actively maintained - [ ] Commitment to correct mistakes - [ ] Avoids repeating propaganda or creating confusion - [ ] Programs commonly known to have freedom issues are liberated or excluded - [ ] No non-free firmware or binary blobs - [ ] All software under a free license with source code provided - [ ] Documentation under a free license - [ ] Other "Information for practical use" under a free license - [ ] All "non-functional" data must be freely distributable - [ ] Does not encourage users to use or install non-free software - [ ] No Malware ** Then: 1. Hyperbola, have the full checklist completed, it should be evaluated. 2. Freenix, I cannot see it is actively maintained, I cannot find bug handling page (I believe there is), and there is no much movement on the forum There is issue of using Slackware and promoting itself as expansion pack for Slackware. Quote: "The project's primary goals are to document all non-free software in Slackware distribution, and to make it easy for users to maintain a fully free OS based on Slackware." from: https://freenix.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start That I do not go into lengthy details, in my opinion, the checklist is not done for Freenix. And I wish it would be. 3. LibertyBSD, contains only scripts to deblob OpenBSD, on its source website: https://notabug.org/libertybsd/ and it is promoting OpenBSD as first word on their website: https://libertybsd.net/ quoting: "OpenBSD is universally known as an operating system designed with security in mind, proudly being able to say that it has had “Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!” However, OpenBSD ships with several pieces of non-free, binary only firmware in the base system, and depending on the hardware detected, by default a script will download more at first boot, without informing the user of this. With a default installation, you might end up using some of this non-free firmware without even knowing it– and, if you try to install additional software, you might end up unwittingly installing non-free programs. LibertyBSD is a “deblobbed” version of OpenBSD. You can get all of the benefits of OpenBSD, while being sure that there is nothing non-free lurking in the depths of your system." Further, I cannot see it is actively maintained, and I cannot download sources. That I don't go into lengthy more explanations, I stop here. In general out of those 3 incoming distros, Hyperbola have got that checklist well done. Jean
