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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 .

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 RISC-V promises to be a great architecture example for low-power computers, laptops and embedded systems, also as ARM architecture replacement.

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 RISC-V architecture (riscv64) with multilib support.

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

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__)

Create hypertools to replace libretools package for HyperbolaBSD and GNU/Linux

It’s long period to develop this package.
For now, a systemd-nspawn wrapper is being developed for “libretools”[0]

[0]:https://issues.hyperbola.info/index.php?do=details&task_id=86

Description:
Historically, Swiftdove was a Thunderbird-based application built on XUL platform around 2007 and abandoned in 2010. It was optimized for several architectures using the following methods such as the Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) and binary code optimization for computers with limited resources.

Since FossaMail may potentially be revived on UXP in the future [0] and Swiftdove contains non-trademarked graphics and logos, we could port Swiftdove to UXP platform as theme for Icedove-UXP.

Description:
Historically, Swiftweasel was a Firefox-based application built on XUL platform around 2007 and abandoned in 2010. It was optimized for several architectures using the following methods such as the Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) and binary code optimization for computers with limited resources.

Since there are users encouraging us develop a Palemoon-based application , and Swiftweasel contains non-trademarked graphics and logos, we could port Swiftweasel to UXP platform as theme for Iceweasel-UXP.

Name: New Tab Tools
Version: 81 (compatible Firefox version 52)
Source code: Github
Description: Customize Firefox’s. Tabs Page

https://github.com/darktrojan/newtabtools

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/

Name: FireGestures
Version: 1.11.1 (compatible Firefox version 52)
Source code: Github
Description: A customizable mouse gestures extension which enables to execute various commands and user scripts with six types of gestures.

https://github.com/gomita/firegestures/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegestures/

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

So avatar uploading is not working well, and picture is getting minimized to nothing.

When I was adding this task, I put some long tags on it (html form allowed that) and got an error concerning too long tags field to fit in an sql datatype (max is 40 chars). Task got added anyway (just without tags). I didn’t know that and created it again.

After confirming the newly created account (typing the confirmation code, the passwoard and its confirmation, and clicking the button to continue), the following error appears:

  Notice: crypt(): No salt parameter was specified. You must use a randomly generated salt and a strong hash function to produce a secure hash. in /srv/http/flyspray/includes/class.flyspray.php on line 656 

The account login seems to work normaly.

I could not find any regarding using arch or other branded themes. Parabola apparently rebrands some stuff in their libre repository, eg. they have their own parabola-themes-slim package for slim based themes.

https://issues.hyperbola.info/index.php?do=details&task_id=1213&opened=24&status[0]=

The Mailling list don't work : https://lists.hyperbola.info//mailman/listinfo/

Seems deleted items reappearing in the Hyperbola feeds since it gives its feed items empty ID string.

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

This would ease their usage on other distros.

Hi,

My email server (riseup.net) fails to deliver emails to hyperbola.info. Here’s the error message coming in the returned email:

Reporting-MTA: dns; mx1.riseup.net
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 49vvwD4xQnzFf2F
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; xxxxx@riseup.net
Arrival-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 08:40:44 -0700 (PDT)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; xxxxx@hyperbola.info
Original-Recipient: rfc822;xxxxx@hyperbola.info
Action: failed
Status: 4.7.5
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Server certificate not verified

This problem did not occur last time I sent emails to a hyperbola.info account (December 2019).
It does not happen with any other destination email server. My guess is that something isn’t properly configured in your server.
If you conclude that this is a riseup.net problem, let me know and I’ll open a bug report with them.

The requirement for TLS 1.2 in email effectively isolated us from internet, and yelling for change isn’t working even in communications with other free/libre system distributions and mailing lists related to free/libre software (both for software and for discussions related to the movement itself). :)

Many mailing lists at gnu.org, fsf.org, fsfla.org, libreplanet.org, and also in other free/libre system distributions aren’t accessible (e.g.: Trisquel).

Some forum display errors:

1. preview button with the orange border.

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

After talking to Emulatorman, we think this would be a nice feature to add to our Hyperwiki to be able to subscribe to the original page in English to help tracking changing to the translated pages.
This implies to add the email notifications to the dokuwiki system

The wiki pages look really too narrow and not readable on even half a screen of the laptop.

“appmenu-qt4”[0][2] is a deprecated package (release in 2012)[1] and use qt4 unsupported/non-lts software[3], but “appmenu-qt5” not contains any release source code[2]

$ pacman -Si appmenu-qt4
Repository : community
Name : appmenu-qt4
Version : 0.2.6-1
Description : Export Qt4 applications menus over D-Bus
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt Licenses : GPL Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : libdbusmenu-qt4
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : appmenu-qt
Replaces : appmenu-qt
Download Size : 16.55 KiB
Installed Size : 48.00 KiB
Packager : Antonio Rojas arojas@archlinux.org Build Date : Tue 28 Feb 2017 05:59:31 AM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

[0]:https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt (qt4)
[1]:https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt/+download [2]:https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt5 [3]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_5.6_LTS

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 “3proxy”[0] package

Useful for tor on ftp proxy[1]

[0]:https://github.com/z3APA3A/3proxy [1]:https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/FTP

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

PKGBUILD

# $Id: PKGBUILD 187611 2016-08-26 15:44:01Z bisson $
# Contributor: lp76 <l.peduto@gmail.com>
# Contributor: Daenyth <Daenyth+Arch AT gmail DOT com>
# Maintainer: Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org>

pkgname=ncdu
pkgver=1.12
pkgrel=1.hyperbola1
pkgdesc='Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface'
url='https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu'
license=('custom:MIT')
depends=('ncurses')
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
validpgpkeys=('74460D32B80810EBA9AFA2E962394C698C2739FA')
source=("https://dev.yorhel.nl/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"{,.asc})
sha512sums=('20620dd79d2af878442769e097f13806f64f23875dcb85ebccd573a3de43aba5663d496049b64015d13f9a79d624298032c008ef61dfb6f61d8b12902b8dca12'
            'SKIP')

build() {
    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make
}

package() {
    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
    install -Dm644 COPYING "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
}

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/

We already have i3lock, this version is an enhanced version available in Arch AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i3lock-color https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i3lock-color-git/

Iosevka wins a poll about most beautiful fonts on reddit (/r/linux). This font is very similar than Droid Sans (Official Google Font) with many advantages:

1 - Has 5 types modes (lightest, light, normal, bold, super bold)
2 - Condensed and big sizes (perfect for visual impairments users)
3 - Very Legible on i3-wm, Sway, Conky bar
4 - OTF license (Freedom license)

Iosevka is already on AUR, but create a official package prevent bug or proprietary third parties apps (Yaourt, etc) be installed by beginners Hyperbola users.

Official Site:
https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

On AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-iosevka

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

Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.

Please implement plymouth as an optional package.

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.

Hello,

Could it be possible to add this package :

multipath-tools

“Multipath tools for Linux (including kpartx)”

License : GPL2

to the repo ?

Thank you

Could it be possible to add this package :

thinkfan

“A minimalist fan control program. Supports the sysfs hwmon interface and thinkpad_acpi”

License : GPL

to the repo ?

Thanks

Add “nut” package.

Useful for uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, solar controllers and servers power supply units.

This is a GnuPG-like unix program for encryption and signing that uses only quantum-computer-resistant algorithms:

  McEliece cryptosystem (compact QC-MDPC variant) for encryption
  Hash-based Merkle tree algorithm (FMTSeq variant) for digital signatures

Codecrypt is free software. The code is licensed under terms of LGPL3 in a good hope that it will make combinations with other tools easier.

Could it be possible to add :

fsearch

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

License : GPL

Could it be possible to add :

flowblade

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/pcr/any/flowblade/

“a multitrack non-linear video editor for GNU/Linux”

License : GPL3

Thanks

Could it be possible to add :

whipper

“A Unix CD ripper aiming for accuracy over speed – forked from morituri”

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/any/whipper/ https://github.com/JoeLametta/whipper

License : GPL3

Thanks

Could it be possible to add :

sacd-extract

“Extract DSD files from an SACD image”

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/pcr/x86_64/sacd-extract/ https://sourceforge.net/p/sacd-ripper/

License : GPL2

Thanks

Hello,

Could it be possible to add :

radiotray

“An online radio streaming player that runs on a Linux system tray.”

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/radiotray/

License : GPL

Thanks

I use Nextcloud for syncing, although, I would normally not ask for this, due to Nextcloud’s appimage being available, but for some reason the latest version doesn’t work on hyperbola. So... yeah.

Usually Nextcloud’s appimage works regardless of what packages you have, so I guess in essence... add Nextcloud-client package to this system is my request.

Could it be possible to add :

ttf-font-awesome

to the repo ?

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/any/ttf-font-awesome/ http://fontawesome.io/

Thanks

Could it be possible to add :

awesome-terminal-fonts

to the repo please ?

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/any/awesome-terminal-fonts/ https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts

Thanks

Hello,

Could it be possible to add this package :

w_scan

“Universal ATSC and DVB blind scanner”

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/w_scan/

License : GPL

Thanks

Hello,

Could it be possible to add this package :

qpdfview

“A tabbed PDF viewer using the poppler library.”

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/x86_64/qpdfview/

License : GPL2

Thanks

Hello,

Could it be possible to add this package :

menulibre

“An advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface. All without GNOME dependencies”

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/menulibre/

License : GPL3

Thanks

Hello,

Could it be possible to add this package :

crunch

“A wordlist generator where you can specify a standard character set or a character set you specify and generate all possible combinations and permutations.”

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/crunch/

License : GPL2

Thanks