From 9357f14fa1f4afb31008f6b307601ae27dab4c8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier 'reivilibre Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 18:23:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README for Fred --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7d483af0a8..7a83fe04f8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ +# Fred + +Fred is a soft-fork of the Zed editor, with the following privacy- and security-oriented changes: + +- remove auto-download of Language Servers + - please download them yourself and make them available on your PATH, then Fred will use them. This is the model that Helix uses and that I appreciate. +- remove telemetry upload +- remove crash log upload + +The removed features make me uncomfortable (especially downloading and executing external code), therefore Fred won't support them. + +I don't plan on (m)any other changes at this time. + +Updates will be ad-hoc in order to bring in new functionality and bug fixes from upstream, but likely not every single release. + +----- unmodified Zed readme beneath this line ----- + # Zed [![CI](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/actions/workflows/ci.yml)