But maybe with the push to Mailman 3 suite, and fo activuty in mailman developement if reported that might improve, who knows.
Cheers.

But maybe with the push to Mailman 3 suite, and fo activuty in mailman developement if reported that might improve, who knows.
Cheers.

Emulatorman is too busy to reply to people who want to contribute to hyperbola. His actions convert every supporter of hyperbola against it.

I guess he is really busy right now... I wouldn't give up on him just yet, but yeah, he has a lot of work to do.

What I do say though is, just try to be patient.  He is working his butt off alot lately. the git page tells the story best.

https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/

You might be better off sending an email/contacting a different dev of Hyperbola. I am sorry I didn't realize this sooner.

But yeah, ask Emulatorman what he would need to have help for this, I assume C programming would be of help to him though.

I've ordered several textbooks on architecture, OpenBSD, and development, but I was hoping to see if anyone here had recommendations on what resources would best prepare me for the kind of work that you are doing. I'd love to be able to help keep freedom at the center of technology!

Besides that I'd like to leave some annotation about the newest addition to the news. Meaning therefore the interview with "It's FOSS": Seriously that's your decision but I'd like to note also that exactly those platforms are part of the reasoning for some really serious issues coming up for free, libre software these days. People tend to use the easiest way at all and who is there to condemn this? Exactly, but strict principles are needed and what I have learned is that "It's FOSS" or others just give nothing about clear ideals.

Some examples to follow:

• Just having a look onto the website in a whole as it is full with external content to proprietary services from Google and others.

• Some articles are more or less a bad joke, a look into this as they talk about the "best modern open-source text-editors for coding" in Linux and guess what? They mention "Visual Studio Code".

Those portals are not interested in free, libre software from my point of view. Even worse they mention just some distributions very often and after that people wonder why exactly "Ubuntu" is taken as "Linux" in common sense. Well here we have some reasoning for that! Besides the article is shared throughout proprietary services like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit or LinkedIn. And mixing "Open-Source" with "Free Software" is never a good idea as in the long run the pragmatic viewing is destroying all idealism and principle. Yes, HyperbolaBSD needs support. But speaking for myself: I think it is better to callout from free decentralized systems in general when needed. Portals like "It's FOSS" just keep on with buzzwords instead of looking into deep, not even talking about idealism or clear, strict principles as Hyperbola has for the time being. The article itself is tagged with "Hyperbola" and it is the only news about the distribution and the project itself. News about Trisquel? Parabola? Dragora? Nothing to be found. As I've said: No REAL interest, just buzzwords. The comments show exactly the main problem: People don't want to understand and furthermore the first and newest comment just starts with smear wordings like "HypocriticalBSD" because the licensing is again the problem. The information about major freedom flaws for the sources? Ignored. The major points why exactly GPL-licensing and the idealism behind? Again ignored. People "have to give code back"? Oh, problems ahead because this is "enforced". The reasoning why we have the concurrent situation: Personal freedom above freedom for everyone. Instead HyperbolaBSD has the chance to do this other way around. But the criticism is well known as LibertyBSD had the same echo in mailing-lists back the days and that's the problem I had and have with some people from BSD as they don't want to see the technical flaws coming up, just the interest for their own.

To summarize: I don't think this "interview" was a very good idea, but as noted before ... your decision. The echo does in fact reflect the problems I have noted. More interest about personal pragmatism above security and freedom as people just give in with "Steam" or DRM (also to be found within the comment-section). And that's the reasoning why exactly we have such small community, even further interests in security and freedom for everyone is the point. Idealism, clear and strict principles - yet one can make already some exceptions on a personal level - is not well-noted in the capitalistic and neoliberal world where only progress is common sense, with ignoring the "costs". And in the end cheap excuses come up, but driving environment, society and the world in general literally to the wall is fun until that point. *sigh* No that's not "fun", but seems ignorance and arrogance gives a "good feeling" for many people, also up on those "portals and platforms" full with proprietary content and with laughing up on free, libre software and clear idealism. And I don't write this without knowledge or prejudices as I've got this myself as answer from those pragmatic people from "Linux" (without GNU): They just disdain idealism and clear prinicples!

Yes, there is not that much interest, of course. Same with Replicant, which also was called "dead" many times and is getting another release coming up with version 9. The problem with Coreboot is the proprietary stack of firmware-blobs needed getting to run. Yes, it is more "free" as the complete UEFI-implementation you'll get on those machines these days. But is it really "better"? Questionable and open for discussion as everybody could have another point of view on that.

Regarding the topic itself: I'm interested in running OpenBSD on a machine with Libreboot and it "should" run when having a look onto the official site: https://libreboot.org/docs/bsd/openbsd.html

But perhaps it is better to have closer look on a personal compiled version of Libreboot, directly from the repository?

CPU Microcode (even though you should include it for general stability on these old Core2)
VBT (Video Bios Table) probably not needed anyway, not sure about the usefulness of it. I run a R400 without it just fine.

At this point, Libreboot is a dead project which received no update in 3 years. I switched all my machines to upstream coreboot to get all fixes and performance improvement.

Is there any need for a native English speaker with no formal IT training and a few hours of extra time?

I wish I could contribute funds, but nobody has much of those right now and I am no exception.