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authorbill-auger <mr.j.spam.me@gmail.com>2018-09-14 16:23:03 +0000
committerbill-auger <mr.j.spam.me@gmail.com>2018-10-02 19:02:25 -0400
commitb4ec730abb1dafde977ed88225fcd1627a6ab4ee (patch)
tree2474f313ac5ec0f9bb785268b53b999888816bce
parentdf72b0ecd56396e9acc3bb23f661cc7c4deb78be (diff)
add more factoids
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-rw-r--r--info/chromium1
-rw-r--r--info/dev-mailing-list1
-rw-r--r--info/drm2
-rw-r--r--info/floss2
-rw-r--r--info/foss2
-rw-r--r--info/four-freedoms1
-rw-r--r--info/free-software2
-rw-r--r--info/fsdg-distros3
-rw-r--r--info/h-node2
-rw-r--r--info/kernels1
-rw-r--r--info/kiss3
-rw-r--r--info/open-source3
l---------[-rw-r--r--]info/opensource2
-rw-r--r--info/pacman-rosetta2
-rw-r--r--info/proprietary1
l---------info/rosetta1
-rw-r--r--info/set-clock1
-rw-r--r--info/social-contract1
l---------info/time1
-rw-r--r--info/tzag3
-rw-r--r--info/xtreme1
22 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/info/4-freedoms b/info/4-freedoms
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+four-freedoms \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/info/chromium b/info/chromium
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+unfortunately, a mess at this time (along with electron and qt5-webengine) - see https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/1167
diff --git a/info/dev-mailing-list b/info/dev-mailing-list
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+the best venue for important notices and on-going discussions regarding parabola development - https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
diff --git a/info/drm b/info/drm
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+a security mechanism to restrict the usage of proprietary media (see http://defectivebydesign.org/)
+one of the FSF's recommended "words to avoid" (see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalRightsManagement)
diff --git a/info/floss b/info/floss
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+an acronym for "Free and Open-Source Software" - it is a variation of 'FOSS'
+one of the FSF's recommended "words to avoid" https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FLOSS
diff --git a/info/foss b/info/foss
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+an acronym for "Free and Open-Source Software"
+one of the FSF's recommended "words to avoid" (see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FOSS)
diff --git a/info/four-freedoms b/info/four-freedoms
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+the FSF's famous "Four Essential Freedoms" which qualify a program as "Free Software" - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
diff --git a/info/free-software b/info/free-software
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+software that provides it's users with the "Four Essential Freedoms" - see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
+not to be confused with "Freeware"
diff --git a/info/fsdg-distros b/info/fsdg-distros
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+the operating system distributions (such as Parabola) that are endoresed by the FSF for following the Free Software Distribution Guidelines (see the 'dsfg' factoid)
+separated between GNU systems listed on this web page: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html and non-GNU systems listed on this web page: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.html
+evaluated by the community on the 'gnu-libux-libre' mailing list - please do get involved if you are interested - the evaluation protocol and criteria, as well as the current status and results of the prospective distros currently in the queue can be seen on this web page: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Incoming_distros
diff --git a/info/h-node b/info/h-node
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+a website where to lookup your hardware to see if it is compatible with parabola https://h-node.org/hardware/catalogue/en
+easily accessile with the 'h-client' desktop program, which can assist with identifying your computer's hardware and searching the h-node database for suggestions
diff --git a/info/kernels b/info/kernels
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+the "governor" of an operating system - it is the first program that is started when booting and remains running until shutdown - it supervises and mediates most all important actions on the system - parabola has several different kernels you can use by default: linux-libre, linux-libre-lts, linux-libre-hardened - if you enable the [kernels] repo there are several others you can use: linux-libre-rt, linux-libre-xtreme, linux-libre-lts-xtreme
diff --git a/info/kiss b/info/kiss
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+the "KISS Principle" which says (among other things it implies) that a computer system and it's software should be no more complicated that what is absolutely necessary to carry out it's functionality correctly
+the underlying assumption that simpler things have fewer (or no) inherent flaws and their flaws (if any) are more easily found and repaired than with more complicated things
+on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_it_Simple,_Stupid
diff --git a/info/open-source b/info/open-source
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+++ b/info/open-source
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+a concept similar to Free Software, that defines software freedom but does not actually value it
+one of the FSF's recommended "words to avoid" (see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open)
+
diff --git a/info/opensource b/info/opensource
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+++ b/info/opensource
@@ -1 +1 @@
-a concept similar to Free Software, that defines software freedom but does not actually value it
+open-source \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/info/pacman-rosetta b/info/pacman-rosetta
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+is a cheat-sheet for people who are familiar with package management tool of other distros (currently apt, dnf, zypper, and emerge) to learn the equivalent pacman commands - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta
+
diff --git a/info/proprietary b/info/proprietary
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+what, in the context of software, means that the software's source-code is not freely licensed - it is essentially the opposite of "open-source" or "free-software"
diff --git a/info/rosetta b/info/rosetta
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+pacman-rosetta \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/info/set-clock b/info/set-clock
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+- setting the computer's clock on a parabola system is explained on the wiki --> https://wiki.parabola.nu/Time
diff --git a/info/social-contract b/info/social-contract
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+the document codifying Parabola's guiding principles https://wiki.parabola.nu/Parabola_Social_Contract
diff --git a/info/time b/info/time
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+set-clock \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/info/tzag b/info/tzag
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+++ b/info/tzag
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+an acronym for "Time-Zone Agnostic Greeting"
+explained in more detail on the wiki: https://wiki.parabola.nu/TZAG_-_Time-Zone_Agnostic_Greeting
+defined on some "urban slang" hipster dictionary websites ironically, though unfortunately sincerely, as the nonsensical "Time-Zone Appropriate Greeting"
diff --git a/info/xtreme b/info/xtreme
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+a linux-libre kernel with all standard Linux Security Modules enabled, plus hardened or Knock patches - see https://wiki.parabola.nu/Xtreme