Hyperbola

We hereby announce a new revision of Hyperbola live image and HyperTalking for Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre. This revision contains bugfixes such as the hack to enable Radeon R600 evergreen GPUs in Linux-libre, so users who use it will get the right resolution in the process of installation.

Download information can be found here.

Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is a modified version of the GNU operating system along with the Linux-libre kernel distributed by Hyperbola Project. We are now listed by the Free Software Foundation as meeting their guidelines for a fully free software OS.

From the official FSF announcement:

"In a world where proprietary operating systems continually up the ante in terms of the abuse they heap on their users, adding another distribution to the list of fully free systems is a welcome development. Hyperbola represents another safe home for users looking for complete control over their own computing," said John Sullivan, FSF's ...

All UXP-Hardened-Preferences packages also known as iceweasel-uxp-hardened-preferences and icedove-uxp-hardened-preferences are being removed as we have added custom firejail profiles for each UXP application.

The about:config options were useful prior to our transition to UXP, when we did not have control over upstream (Mozilla) sources.

As we have been implementing the features directly into our applications, these left-over hacks are no longer needed.

After several weeks of work and testing, we hearby announce the first stable release of Iceape-UXP, a classic suite based on SeaMonkey. While our primary focus remains Icedove-UXP, and Iceweasel-UXP, users that have requested a stable suite may now enjoy using it.

Several long-standing SeaMonkey bugs have been patched in this release including some security and crash fixes.

We would also like to thank the Unified XUL Platform development team for their diligent development of the Goanna engine, which makes Iceape-UXP possible.

Some of the new application features:

• New internal web engine with regular security updates, courtesy UXP.
• Security fixes ...

We hereby announce a new revision of Hyperbola live image and HyperTalking for Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre. This revision contains the latest hyperbola-keyring with our build server public GPG key and bugfixes such as the speakup software synthesizer module and HyperTalking audio intro made by belette.

Download information can be found here.