Rubén does still work in the project, from time to time, but he does. He told me on IRC, and probably told here also, that he does reserve a day to work on the project.
Besides, people tend to think that maintaining or even making a free/libre system distribution is such an easy task such as to diminish the work already done by asking "the real difference". When, in fact, free/libre system distributions have, administratively speaking, not only technical variables to care for, but also philosophical ones. Once you read the GNU FSDG and start realizing that "I would have to do this to 45.000 packages or so, manually???", you start to see how big the difference is. ZFS is free software, but the copyright holders choose a license that complicates things. You can redistribute ZFS but only in source code form, not compiled/built. However, one must note that ZFS was announced to be included as a *kernel module* only near the release of Ubuntu 16.04, and Trisquel 8 is based on Ubuntu 14.04, see: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/16/zfs-is-the-fs-for-containers-in-ubuntu-16-04/ There are some packages such as "zfs-fuse" that make ZFS available, but they are made so as to work on *user level*, not built in combination with the kernel, these *user level* packages allow one to use ZFS with part of the license conflicts solved, at the expense of speed while using it): http://packages.trisquel.info/belenos/zfs-fuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Linux_FUSE As for Chromium, it seems more like open source right now, since there's no known free/libre system distribution that includes it, or because there's no approved entry on the Free Software Directory, see: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Chromium https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?sort=&q=chromium&maintainer=&flagged= http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/pool/main/c/ (try looking for it here with your browser's "search" function) https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=chromium&fdpage=1&page_id=0 (getChromium is different from Chromium) Also, it seems that there's a GNU FSDG issue involving Chromium: https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/140 However, you can use Iridium instead: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Iridium
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