Would someone give more context to this submission? All I see is a short page with claims about a piece of software defending against technofeudalism. What makes this interesting?
Would someone give more context to this submission? All I see is a short page with claims about a piece of software defending against technofeudalism. What makes this interesting?
Hyperbola is basically a fork of Arch Linux. The original link posted by @kjw is a news post by one of their team members, announcing a new (or newly revamped) page on the project's wiki about...
Hyperbola is basically a fork of Arch Linux. The original link posted by @kjw is a news post by one of their team members, announcing a new (or newly revamped) page on the project's wiki about "technical feudalism", hence the link at the end of the news post:
That's not exactly a unique set of criteria. There's probably 50 distros out there that have the exact same philosophy. I don't understand what the pitch is for this post.
That's not exactly a unique set of criteria. There's probably 50 distros out there that have the exact same philosophy. I don't understand what the pitch is for this post.
Would someone give more context to this submission? All I see is a short page with claims about a piece of software defending against technofeudalism. What makes this interesting?
Hyperbola is basically a fork of Arch Linux. The original link posted by @kjw is a news post by one of their team members, announcing a new (or newly revamped) page on the project's wiki about "technical feudalism", hence the link at the end of the news post:
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:technical_feudalism
Wikipedia article on Hyperbola:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbola_GNU/Linux-libre
Honestly, their hearts seem to be in the right place, but the english on that wiki page is pretty rough.
Damn, I've put wrong link. This is the one I was about to post: https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:technical_feudalism
Fixed!
After a little readup, it is a new Linux distro.
It claims to be independent, fully free, and not to use systemd.
That's not exactly a unique set of criteria. There's probably 50 distros out there that have the exact same philosophy. I don't understand what the pitch is for this post.