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Develop HyperBK (Hyper Berkeley Kernel), a BSD descendant kernel with GPL-compatible licenses preserved, non-compatible ones removed, and new code written under GPL-3 for HyperbolaBSD.

TODO:

• Download OpenBSD kernel source code from OpenBSD site → DONE

• Download LibertyBSD scripts to deblob and rebrand kernel from their scripts. → DONE

• Create a new project in Hyperbola Git called hyperbk. → DONE

• Push source to HyperBK’s project. → DONE

• Rebrand OpenBSD kernel to HyperbolaBSD with LibertyBSD scripts. → DONE

• Rebrand entire code (functions, variable, pointers, etc) under HyperbolaBSD → DONE

• Remove files under non GPL-compatible licenses → DONE

• Import code from another BSD systems under GPL-compatible licenses → IN PROGRESS

• Remove remaining nonfree files don't found from LibertyBSD scripts → IN PROGRESS

• Write new code under GPL-3 → IN PROGRESS

• Package HyperBK for HyperbolaBSD.

PATCHING NOTE

When the check concerns kernel, we obviously want to match with HyperbolaBSD.

Example of triplet check:	hyperbolabsd)
Example of uname -s check:	HyperbolaBSD)
Example of uname -r check:	0.1)
Example of C macro check:	defined(__HyperbolaBSD__)

The unfortunate reality is that x86 computers come encumbered with built-in low-level backdoors like the Intel Management Engine , as well as nonfree boot firmware. This means that users can’t gain full control over their computers, even if they install a free operating system such as Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre .

Hyperbola is working hard to fix these issues and getting closer every day, but for the time being, this is why many current Respects Your Freedom (RYF) offerings are refurbished older devices.

For the future of free computing, we need support architectures that do not come with such malware pre-installed, and the Power9-based Talos II promises to be a great architecture example for workstations and servers environments where Hyperbola is focused since is a fully free long-term support distribution.

Devices like this are the future of computing that Respects Your Freedom and for that reason it’s a high priority for Hyperbola port all packages for the POWER architecture (power64le).

NOTE: POWER porting is focused only for Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre .

The unfortunate reality is that x86 computers come encumbered with built-in low-level backdoors like the Intel Management Engine , as well as nonfree boot firmware. This means that users can’t gain full control over their computers, even if they install a free operating system such as Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre .

Hyperbola is working hard to fix these issues and getting closer every day, but for the time being, this is why many current Respects Your Freedom (RYF) offerings are refurbished older devices.

For the future of free computing, we need support architectures that do not come with such malware pre-installed, and ARM A7/A53 promises to be a great architecture example for low-power computers, laptops and embedded systems.

NOTE: ARM porting is focused only for HyperbolaBSD .

Within the concurrent version of xenocara for version 0.4 there is a problem in vesa, generating the error-message "V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range". It is a known old bug that was fixed when D-Bus arrived by default.

This issue is oriented onto to document the steps to test further solutions and rework the x-server.

Description:

• The Arch version of Erlang (headless version) from the snapshot used by Hyperbola comes with systemd support. Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign , systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

Repository      : community
Name            : erlang-nox
Version         : 19.3-3
Description     : General-purpose concurrent functional programming language developed by Ericsson (headless version)
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.erlang.org/
Licenses        : Apache
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : ncurses  openssl
Optional Deps   : erlang-unixodbc: database support
                  java-environment: for Java support
                  lksctp-tools: for SCTP support
Conflicts With  : erlang
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 39.01 MiB
Installed Size  : 106.73 MiB
Packager        : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Fri 28 Apr 2017 08:44:33 AM -03
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

/usr/lib/systemd/system/epmd.service is owned by erlang-nox 19.3-3
/usr/lib/systemd/system/epmd.socket is owned by erlang-nox 19.3-3

Steps to reproduce:

• Install package.

Description:

• The Arch version of Motion from the snapshot used by Hyperbola comes with systemd support. Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign , systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

Repository      : community
Name            : motion
Version         : 4.0.1-2
Description     : A software motion detector which grabs images from video4linux devices and/or from webcams
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libjpeg  v4l-utils  ffmpeg
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 235.61 KiB
Installed Size  : 923.00 KiB
Packager        : Sergej Pupykin <pupykin.s+arch@gmail.com>
Build Date      : Mon 14 Nov 2016 02:17:55 PM -03
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

/usr/lib/systemd/system/motion.service is owned by motion 4.0.1-2

Steps to reproduce:

• Install package.

Description:

• The Arch version of tinc from the snapshot used by Hyperbola comes with systemd support. Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign , systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

Repository      : community
Name            : tinc
Version         : 1.0.31-2
Description     : VPN (Virtual Private Network) daemon
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.tinc-vpn.org/
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : lzo  openssl  zlib
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 107.42 KiB
Installed Size  : 194.00 KiB
Packager        : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date      : Mon 13 Mar 2017 01:06:11 AM -03
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

/usr/lib/systemd/system/tinc.service is owned by tinc 1.0.31-2
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tinc@.service is owned by tinc 1.0.31-2

Steps to reproduce:

• Install package.

Description:

Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign, systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

community/backuppc 4.1.2-1 [installed]

   Enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, Windows and MacOS PCs

* config and/or log files etc.

Additional info:

Steps to reproduce: install it

Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign, systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

extra/gpsd 3.16-3 [installed]

   GPS daemon and library to support USB/serial GPS devices

* config and/or log files etc.

Additional info:

Steps to reproduce: install it

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script

Additional info:

• onioncat 0.2.2.r578-1

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script and contains systemd files

Additional info:

• unrealircd 4.0.11-2

unrealircd /usr/lib/systemd/system/unrealircd.service
unrealircd /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/unrealircd.conf

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script and contains systemd file

Additional info:

• mcelog 1:148-1

mcelog /usr/lib/systemd/system/mcelog.service

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script (bzr serve), like [git] (git-daemon) and [subversion] (svnserve)

Additional info:

• bzr 2.7.0-2

Note: needs a provide: bazaar

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init scripts (hg serve and chg server), like [git] (git-daemon) and [subversion] (svnserve)

Additional info:

• mercurial 4.2-1

Note: needs a provide: hg

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• Add new a Murmur package capable of working without a graphical user interface. It’s common on servers and embedded devices that requires only interfaces like network (eg. SSH) or serial port to handle services.

Additional info:

• based on murmur 1.2.19-5

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• Add an Asterisk package capable of working without a graphical user interface. It’s common on servers and embedded devices that requires only interfaces like network (eg. SSH) or serial port to handle services.

Additional info:

• based on asterisk 14.4.0-1

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• add new package

Additional info:

• https://github.com/coturn/coturn

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• add GNU MediaGoblin package

Additional info:

• none

Steps to reproduce:

• none

/sbin/openrc-run: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I get this error whenever I try to start dhcpcd with sv /etc/runit/

And for sndiod I get this doing the same guide,

warning: sndiod: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

Although rather ironically, If I type sndiod or dhcpcd into root, it works just fine.

Maybe its an FHS issue or possibly, I am screwing up? I am not sure. Feedback is welcome.

This is what I did:

=⇒ Add a service:

ln -s /etc/sv/<service> /var/service
==> Start/stop/restart a service:
sv <start/stop/restart> <service>

more or less, I used this guide.

Some forum display errors:

1. preview button with the orange border.

1. Error message when logging in gray color making it difficult to read

There are issues with the current sndio-package as it seems not possible to get this to work with ALSA.

The actual behavior is to create mount points if mountpoint exits with exit status 1, however it may also exit with code 32 and thus creating a real mess:

$ sudo chroot-nspawn
Spawning container megver83 on /var/lib/archbuild/chroot1/megver83
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
mount: /sys/fs/cgroup: mount point does not exist.
mkdir: cannot create directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/devices': No such file or directory  
mkdir: cannot create directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/freezer': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/memory': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/sys/fs/cgroup/net_prio': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/pids': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory '/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd': No such file or directory
mount: /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio: mount point does not exist.
mount: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset: mount point does not exist.
mount: /sys/fs/cgroup/devices: mount point does not exist.
mount: /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer: mount point does not exist.
mount: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory: mount point does not exist.
mount: /sys/fs/cgroup/pids: mount point does not exist.

So I created a patch to fix this.

P.S.: although I can git clone the repo with ssh access, whenever I do a push I get:

error: remote unpack failed: unable to create temporary object directory
To ssh://git.hyperbola.info:51100/~git/software/chroot-nspawn.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (unpacker error)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://git.hyperbola.info:51100/~git/software/chroot-nspawn.git'

Do I have the permission to write in this repo? If not, I’d like it, as I’m planning to improve this great script

As proposed in a separate thread (https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewtopic.php?id=573): The navigation-bar needs a rework when accessing the website about the onion-protocol.

With the newest package-update the xserver xenocara has missing dependencies towards adobe-fonts and twm.

Add Hyperbola branding to HyperTask such as HyperWiki and HyperForum for prolixity reasons.

I don’t know if this is the best place for this, but I get stuck on the hardening the grub guide from libreboot,

https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/grub_hardening.html

I wondered if there is anything different that needs to be done to get this part done:

gpg –homedir keys –detach-sign my.initramfs
gpg –homedir keys –detach-sign my.kernel
gpg –homedir keys –detach-sign libreboot_grub.cfg
gpg –homedir keys –detach-sign my.grubtest.cfg

it gives me a bunch of weird errors

Remove “cinepaint” package since it’s unmaintained and unsupportable. Also, it doesn’t contains any file format support in the latest version (previous version supported multiple file formats).

I suggest use Krita (or Gimp 2.10) to edit 16bit and 32bit file formats or convert with imagemagick/graphicsmagick.

$ pacman -Si cinepaint
Repository      : community
Name            : cinepaint
Version         : 1:1.0.4-5
Description     : Sophisticated graphics manipulation programm supporting > 8bit pictures
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.cinepaint.org
Licenses        : LGPL  GPL  MIT
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gtk2  openexr  lcms  libxpm  fltk  ftgl  libxxf86vm
Optional Deps   : python2: for python plug-ins
                  gutenprint: for print plug-ins
                  ghostscript: for pdf plug-ins
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 3.75 MiB
Installed Size  : 13.91 MiB
Packager        : Christian Hesse <arch@eworm.de>
Build Date      : Thu 28 Apr 2016 05:17:05 AM -03
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

Add “uzem” emulator and “uzebox” firmware packages[0][1].

It’s a emulator and firmware for fully free 8bit game console.

[0]:http://belogic.com/uzebox/index.asp (no https found)
[1]:https://github.com/Uzebox/uzebox

Hi André, you could make an init for the searx search engine, it happens that
I want to launch it from local to avoid being in searx.me or
searx.riseup.net.

I have seen that there is a PKGBUILD in AUR [0]. I think it is necessary to make one with the init Openrc

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/searx-py3/

If you do a command line rc-status on urxvt terminal, the name of the column of services are hidden. You will only see the status columns. Example:

Runlevel: default
  started  ]
  started  ]
  started  ]
  started  ]
  started 00:36:20 (0) ]
  started 00:36:20 (0) ]
  started 00:36:20 (0) ]
  started 00:36:20 (0) ]
Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged
Dynamic Runlevel: needed/wanted
  started  ]
  started  ]
  started  ]d
Dynamic Runlevel: manual

Please restore the hidden setting (which can be enabled via dconf-editor) to disable JavaScript, which was removed last year (see here for details: https://github.com/GNOME/epiphany/blob/master/NEWS ).
Please do not remove the browser from the repos, as it renders this website correctly, unlike Mozlla based browsers (see here for more info: https://issues.hyperbola.info/index.php?do=details&task_id=131). The browser also provides other functions currently unavailable in Mozilla browsers, such as accessing LibreCMC router’s non-SSL web interface.

http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/

«Unlike most chess engines, Stockfish is open source (GPL license). That means you can read the code, modify it, contribute back, and even use it in your own projects.» I do not know if it is libre. If it is, together with Scid, Hyperbola is one step closer for every chess lover out there who also loves freedom!
https://stockfishchess.org/

PyBitmessage is a secure p2p e-mail alternative. It could be useful to package it.

https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/releases https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pybitmessage/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pybitmessage-git/ (contains a firejail profile)

The Knock patches for linux-libre maintained by you at https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/kernels/knock.git/ have support up to linux-libre 4.13 only (and I think it didn’t work for it when I tried it, compilation failed) but from all of those supported versions, the newest maintained generation by the upstream is 4.9.x

However, since newer kernel generations might require reprogramming the patch, I want to request it only for the latest LTS generation which is 4.14. As you know, LTS software are supported for a long time, so it’s worth to make it for linux-libre 4.14.x

This might not be really important for Hyperbola in the short term, but you are the maintainers of the TCP Stealth implementation for Linux-libre and I and maybe other people would like to use it in their projects for newer versions.

Plus, it would be great since while 4.9 kernels can use the GRSec+Knock combination like linux-libre-lts-unofficial-grsec-knock, with support for 4.14 anyone would be able to use a combination of newer patches such as Linux-hardened+Knock (Linux-hardened supports 4.14 and 4.15 as of now) which is what I’d like to do.
https://github.com/copperhead/linux-hardened/releases

Hi guys, I have ever run into a Brother brand printer model DCPT500W[0], and I have seen that the source code for the drivers under GPLv3 license is available.

I also see that there is a file brother_dcpt500w_printer_en.ppd, which is important for cups, which is why it may be necessary to integrate it into the cups, as long as the drivers are Libre.

[0]:https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101963/dcpt500w_cupswrapper_GPL_source_3.0.2-0.tar.gz

Hello,

I recently acquired a T400 Thinkpad with 1440×900 panel.
On this T400, I installed Hyperbola, just like on my x200 Thinkpad with 1280×800 panel.

Both Thinkpad are running the same Hyperbola installation :

Full disk encryption (with Libreboot) so both Thinkpad are using early KMS (MODULES=”i915” in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf)
Same kernel : linux-libre-lts (4.9.99 at the moment I’m writing this message)
video driver : modesetting
DE : xfce4 with xfwm4

On the Thinkpad x200, everything works great, no issue to report.

On the T400 though, the linux-libre-lts kernel, I’m getting random display freezes, when it happens, this message appears in dmesg :

hpd interrupt storm detected on connector hdmi-a-1

And the display (and sound) freezes for 10 seconds (sometimes more !)

As Hyperbola proposes linux-libre-lts kernel only, I installed latest linux-libre-lts (4.14.40) and linux-libre (4.16.8) from Parabola GNU/Linux repo.

Results :

With 4.14.40 : Same issue as with 4.9.99 kernel from Hyperbola repo.
With 4.16.8 : Issue is not present ! No more freeze !

I’m not sure how to proceed though. Would you be kind enough helping me to find which commit in i915 driver improved the situation ? If we find it, maybe it could be added as a patch to 4.9.x kernel series.
Or maybe it is something else.. I don’t have much experience, I can provide logs if needed.

Thanks for your help

I have installed Hyperbola on two laptops. And I have noticed that after running sway and exiting out of sway, GNU emacs crushers on console. It is easy to repeat it:

1. Run sway
2. Exit sway or killall sway
3. Try running emacs on console, there will be crush
4. log out, log in, and emacs will work on console again

Yet it should not crush.

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/aiksaurus 1.2.1-5
    A cross-platform, open-source thesaurus

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

A cross-platform, free-software thesaurus

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/gstreamer 1.12.0-1
    GStreamer open-source multimedia framework core library

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

GStreamer free-software multimedia framework core library

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/java-openjfx-src 8.u121-1
    Java OpenJFX 8 client application platform (open-source implementation of JavaFX) - sources

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

Java OpenJFX 8 client application platform (free-software implementation of JavaFX) - sources

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/libgdiplus 4.2-1
    An Open Source Implementation of the GDI+ API

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

A Free Software Implementation of the GDI+ API

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/libical 2.0.0-2
    An open source reference implementation of the icalendar data type and serialization format

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

A free software reference implementation of the icalendar data type and serialization format

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/liblouis 3.0.0-2
    Open-source braille translator and back-translator

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

Free-software braille translator and back-translator

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/libofa 0.9.3-6
    An open-source audio fingerprint by MusicIP

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

A free-software audio fingerprint by MusicIP

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/libomxil-bellagio 0.9.3-1
    An opensource implementation of the OpenMAX Integration Layer API

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

A free software implementation of the OpenMAX Integration Layer API

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/libupnp 1.6.21-1
    Portable Open Source UPnP Development Kit

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

Portable Free Software UPnP Development Kit

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/mlt-python-bindings 6.4.1-6
    An open source multimedia framework

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

A free software multimedia framework

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/opencore-amr 0.1.5-1
    Open source implementation of the Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) speech codec

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

extra/opencore-amr 0.1.5-1
    Free software implementation of the Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) speech codec

This package contains vague terminology “Open Source”:

extra/openjpeg 1.5.2-1
    An open source JPEG 2000 codec

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Open Source”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Open Source”.

eg.

A free software JPEG 2000 codec