GNU is failing its mission-statement nevertheless: Going further and enhancing it ... is a bad joke and not working. Let's look where this has gone: Acceptance and inclusion of more bloated frameworks, partwise even making them mandatory and it gets harder and harder to remove those like systemd-inclusion from version to version. There is in fact no need to use buzzwords besides that GNU Hurd is not finalized in all parts. Yes, it is possible to build dreamcastles but GNU as said is failing as there are enough projects not even calling it GNU/Linux. So repeating that sentence does not hit the point (Linux is only the kernel). Free software is not even used often to be called. Too many people use wrong phrases and that is also based on the pragmatic choices GNU has done and ignorance has been driven from within the GNU-project. In fact the so-called enhancement is just a nice phrase, nothing more.

Or GNU Hurd for example taking part at "Google Summer of Code", another questionable and pragmatic choice. But yeah, in a way somewhat open and whatever kind of free. So free, that users do not really support and the way GNU Hurd gets support is also not really seen from within the community but than Google coming into. Interesting choices, yes ... and the latest stable release is from 2016 with version 0.9. So to underline: That is not working and failure. The FSF is not even really supporting the original kernel mean for a GNU-system therefore. But well, exactly out of that reasoning Hyperbola has NO interest in this. We package and include working, efficient and small oriented parts of GNU-applications. The rest is kept outside and therefore Hyperbola has also no generic interest to work further with or into this. We just call our system HyperbolaBSD out of the reasoning and this is NOT just the kernel but a complete BSD-descendant operating-system. There won't be a GNU-system with HyperBK kernel. This is not the way this was announced and not the way the project is oriented. If others want to use the HyperBK-kernel for a GNU-based system? Their choice as it is free and libre software. But as said: Not here in the context of HyperbolaBSD. HyperbolaBSD will be a non-GNU system! And there is no real other system around besides GNU/Linux as GNU/Hurd is not really there beyond Debian done. And that as said is another illusion: "Linux is just the kernel!" ... yes, but without it GNU never would be  possible then and now. That's part of the story!

Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is called that way as we include the glibc and GNU/Linux-libre. Hyperbola itself will leave this for sure as HyperbolaBSD is not using glibc and also not GNU/Linux-libre. So this thread is about the reasonings and to make exactly those misunderstanding clear. Again: HyperbolaBSD is HyperbolaBSD and a complete own project with using parts of some GNU-applications we see fitting. The rest is NOT GNU and will stay also that. Repeating the wishful thought that GNU would be different and make it different sounds nice, but does not hit this project and also not the current reality. And no, we are NOT "just the kernel" as this is failing the description of our project. Besides that "Linux is just the / a kernel": Undercomplex answers to complex questions have never really helped anyone and solved nothing. But we can surely repeat that, just this does not get more near the reality then.