After 7 years we are giving Iceweasel-UXP its final callout for a "Goodbye". Within our testing-repositories the package is already removed and so it will also be no longer part in the next upcoming version 0.4.5. We are very thankful for this fine webbrowser created as hard fork from original Basilisk and done from our founding member Luke (Gaming4JC). Time goes by nevertheless and we have no further maintainer for Iceweasel-UXP, so we are sending it with many thankful wishes to the deserved rest.
Thank you for being a companion on the web for such a long period of time, Iceweasel-UXP. And thanks for its creation and further maintenance.
It is now time for a rest towards this package. If people are interested to take over, surely get in touch with us.
We want to add also here that the on-going process to add more and more dependencies towards JavaScript-based implementations is to be seen very critical and also dangerous.
The world wide web was created as foremost barrier free place to get people into touch and direct, free transfer of information. This is for a long period of time not longer possible: Crawler bots and more have ruined the idea of exchanging information without barriers as every action will cause also a reaction.
So the reaction of administrators for websites and further services was and is to react with even more JavaScript-implementation to stop the immense outgrowing data traffic caused from the mentioned crawler bots. Is this the fitting reaction? Surely not. But was the intense usage of those bots also correct as they are acting without any question. Who is behind them? Many acting persons and companies. They act without any permission, without asking for their own advantage crawling data and information, causing much damage and ...
The year 2024 is running towards its ending and Hyperbola as project has made steady progress to its next release and also forming up our own BSD-descendant operating-system HyperbolaBSD.
Nevertheless we see the need to make a statement also about issues we all should be aware off: Free, libre software needs clear principles and values. Integration of problematic and non-free defined services for examples is no point for any discussion. Also the on-going debate about "machine learning" is not really promising in its current direction.
The newer the hardware itself, the more restrictive it is and the lesser it is ...
Since some time now several system-projects have removed the support for systems only capable in supporting the 32bit-architecture.
First to state that this is a perspective out of ignorance as not all people around the planet have access towards computer-hardware with clear support for 64bit-architecture. So those decisions leave all the people outside USA and Europe generic outside!
Hyperbola is not following this path as we do not plan to remove the support for Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre and also HyperbolaBSD. As our generic statement is the long-term stable oriented support for our system(s) we also do not want to ...
As to be read within their statement from October 22, 2024 the FSF is considering the announcement for further steps into the development of software with the focus on machine learning.
Within their statement the FSF called out the difference between free and non-free implementations. Hyperbola as project is not recognizing this current statement as a step forward within and in our perspective we hope the FSF takes into perspective the tremendous consequences of that technology itself. And we are not afraid to say that we have serious concerns about those consequences, we like to explain more into detail. Before ...
In the perspective of Hyperbola as project we are living in times of technical feudalism, a very dangerous development as free, libre software is part of pragmatism and misusage of people, their data and essential information. Hyperbola as project and system is opposing that for sure.
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