Trisquel OpenBSD edition?

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amtrakuk
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Iscritto: 11/25/2019

Hearing some compelling reasons to the continuing demose of Linux from Lunduke, could it be a good time to think about moving Trisquel to OpenBSD or another open platform?

PublicLewdness
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Iscritto: 03/15/2020

Not sure if there is manpower to spare and it would take a while regardless. You may want to check out the Hyperbola project who is attmepting the same thing.

https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-roadmap/

Has been ongoing since the tail end of 2019.

lanun
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Iscritto: 04/01/2021

I have always believed that, should the question arise, Trisquel would be rebased on GNU/Hurd.

"The mission of the GNU Hurd project is to create a general-purpose kernel suitable for the GNU operating system, which is viable for everyday use, and gives users and programs as much control over their computing environment as possible."

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/a-hello-world-virtual-machine-running-the-hurd
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/childhurds-and-substitutes

Legimet
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Iscritto: 12/10/2013

Unlikely that the hardware support will be good enough any time soon: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.html. Only supports x86 (32-bit) and no support for USB or sound.

lanun
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Iscritto: 04/01/2021

The page you linked to says: "Last edited 2014-05-12 02:02:13 UTC"

Compare with:

"Some of the real work that needs to be done and which is being discussed and is in progress right now includes:

  • user-space driver/modern hardware support
  • audio support (this is sponsored by NLnet, thanks!),
  • SMP support,
  • 64-bit/ x86_64 support (!), as well as porting to non-Intel CPUs."
Legimet
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Iscritto: 12/10/2013

Sure they are working on those things, but they are far behind. Given the lack of developers (especially those working on drivers) I find it hard to see how Hurd will ever be usable for a desktop user.