Group: Software/FSDG distributions/DistroUpstreamSupport

Introduction

This wiki page tracks support for various FSDG compliant distributions in various upstream projects.

Having support in these upstream projects can make it easier to try and/or install various FSDG compliant distributions for people that don't use one yet.

Though if FSDG compliant distributions use these programs, they might have to patches them if they are configured to use repositories that have nonfree software in them. See ExternalRepositories instead for tracking the status of external repositories in FSDG distributions and CrossDistroBootstrap for tracking how to bootstrap the installation of an FSDG compliant distribution from another FSDG compliant distribution.

Upstream support

Project			Distributions											Comments
Name	Upstream is FSDG compliant	FSDG compliant version available	Dragora	Dynebolic	Guix	Hyperbola	LibreCMC	Parabola	ProteanOS	PureOS	Replicant	Trisquel	Ututo S
apt (in vendor/)	Not sure		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	N/A	No	N/A
apt-cacher-ng	Not sure		No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	N/A	No	No	apt-cacher-ng seems to work fine with Trisquel without any modification, but in conf/ there are files like backends_debian.default that contains known Debian mirrors or archlx_mirrors that contains known arch mirrors. So it might also be possible to upstream Trisquel, Parabola and PureOS mirror list easily.
consfigurator	Not sure		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	N/A	No	N/A
debian-cd	Not sure		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	N/A	No	N/A
Debootstrap	Probably not	Yes, In Parabola	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	Debootstrap can be used to manually install a distribution, but it's also used by tools like: debuerotype for making reproducible docker images mkosi for making various distribution images
Distro chooser	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	I didn't find where the list of the distribution was in the source code so it might be complicated to add FSDG distros. The FSDG distributions page in the Group:Hardware tracks the audience of FSDG distributions (for instance can it work for users who don't know the command line, for what usage?), but we probably don't have resource dedicated to people wanting to choose an FSDG compliant distribution.
DistroWatch	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes
Libreplanet Distribution contributor userbox	N/A		No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Might not be that important to get done. Though it can be fun.
Libreplanet Distribution user userbox	N/A		No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Might not be that important to get done. Though it can be fun.
Free software Directory package	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	N/A	No	No
Libreplanet DistroPackage template	N/A	N/A	Partial	Partial	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes	Partial	Partial	N/A	Yes	Partial
Neofetch	Seems FSDG compliant	Seems FSDG compliant	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Might not be that important to get done. Though it can be fun.
Osinfo-db	No	No. Parabola patched gnome-boxes and virt-manager not to use that information.	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	osinfo-db is used in: gnome-boxes for downloading and running distribution installers virt-manager for configuring the virtual hardware to fit the distribution
Repology	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	N/A	Yes	No
engine for SearXNG.			No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
UNetbootin	No	Unmaintained	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	I'm not sure if unetbootin is interesting as the distribution versions in the last release look really old. Though it still gets commits. It might also require some work to get an FSDG compliant build system for other OS (by fixing Guix or having an fsdg compliant msys2). Unetbootin has documentation for building custom versions so it might be easy to build FSDG compliant versions.
Ventoy	Not sure: Ventoy uses a lot of source code from different projects, so it might need to be reviewed (For instance for inclusion in the free software directory). It might also depend on (old versions of) non-fsdg distributions for building things.		Yes	?	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	?	Ventoy probably supports most distributions already. It relies on a kernel module that is used by their bootscripts boot scripts to find the iso files needed to boot. These files are probably put in memory by the bootloader (they use a modified version of GRUB). So it works for most distributions with minimal work.
Wikidata: package property	N/A	N/A	No	No	Yes: P6765	No	No	Yes: P9065	No	No	N/A	No	No
Name	Upstream is FSDG compliant	FSDG compliant version available	Dragora	Dynebolic	Guix	Hyperbola	LibreCMC	Parabola	ProteanOS	PureOS	Replicant	Trisquel	Ututo	Comments
Project			Distributions