Group: Software/FSDG distributions/DistroConfiguration

Introduction

This article will look at the configuration system available for various FSDG compliant distributions.

Configuration system	Distribution	Works	Skills	Features
Debian installer preseed	PureOS 10 (byzantium)
Debian installer preseed	Trisquel 10
FAI	PureOS 10 (byzantium)
FAI	Trisquel 10	Yes^[1]
Freedombox	PureOS 10 (byzantium)		Interfaces: Web: Very easy to use No command line interface: users are expected to use the web interface to configure the services otherwise there is a risk of breaking the system. Installation: Trisquel doesn't have freedombox images The installation requires to type 2 commands. Some features (like snapshots) also require specific options during the installation (like to use a btrfs filesystem).	Can deploy many services (wikis, etc) Can configure network services? (DHCP, WiFi, etc?)
Freedombox	Trisquel 10	Too fragile^[2]
Guix configuration language	Guix	Yes^[3]	Require to know lisp	Can configure the whole system
Holo	Guix	Incompatible^[4]
	Parabola	Yes^[5]
	Trisquel 10	Not packaged
UCI	LibreCMC	Yes^[3]	Relatively easy to use: It has 3 interfacesthat work well together: Web Command line Configuration files Require to have some networking notions (what is an IP address, a firewall, etc)	Can configure network services (dhcp, WiFi access point, etc)

↑ It's used by the FSF so it works
↑ Tested with the Debian instructions on Trisquel 10. After installing Trisquel with the default graphical install with the default partitioning or with the textual installation and selecting nothing in "software selection", and installing freedombox, installing Mediawiki broke apt because mysql didn't find its data directory.
↑ ^3.0^3.1 It's the distribution native configuration interface so it works.
↑ Holo use the distribution package manager to handle the configuration, but holo-build only supports deb, pacman and rpm packages formats.
↑ It was added by the distribution so it works.