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Reader supplied reviews for Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre
Average rating
7.0 from 3 review(s)
Version: 0.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-10-21
Votes: 3
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The last time I reviewed this, I was glad I decided to use this distro I was glad, but it keeps getting better!
OpenSSL has been ripped out in favor of LibreSSL due to OpenSSL's security issues and being bloated.
Xorg has been replaced with Xenocara for similiar reasons.
LibreSSL, Xenocara are made by OpenBSD for those who don't know, same as Sndio.
And yes, Hyperbola has plans to use sndio as the default sound system instead of that bloated pulseaudio.
If you want to avoid anything poettering and have a lightweight, secure system but with a K.I.S.S approach, Aka, keeping it simple stupid xD. This is the distro for you.
This distro is also fully free software and heavily security focused.
Caution though, if you want an easy to install distro that has non-free software such as chromium, or webextensions firefox, then this distro is not for you.
Also, NetworkManager will be removed in the future in favor of dhcpcd-ui as the wifi interface.
Both are currently within the repository but NetworkManager as many know is bloated and a poettering toy.
If anyone has read this far and still wants to use it or has something to say, please use it first before making a review and be detailed as to why you like or dislike it.
Again, my distro hopping is done with thanks to this distro. :)
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Version: 0.2.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-04-29
Votes: 0
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It didn't work when I loaded it and there is no firefox or chrome.
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Version: 0.2.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-07-02
Votes: 103
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This is the distro that stopped my distro-hopping days for good. At least on x86_64 so far.
(I don't use x86 32 bit.)
Hyperbola is lightweight, stable, secure, and has hardened packages, for iceweasel (firefox fork) icedove, (thunderbird fork)
and network manager plus the kernel is even hardened.
It does take some know how to get encryption done, unless you have libreboot. :)
But yeah, that guide is more for advanced users, if you don't need encryption, it is easy as cake in my opinion.
It does require freedom compatible hardware though, but it has no backdoors in it whatsoever, especially if you use libreboot.
I give it a 10 mostly because once everything is set up, it will almost never have any issues. Breakages are extremely, extremely, rare and kernel panics I have never had before.
:)
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