Trisquel already comes in three different flavors: standard, edu, and pro.
This is very good, as we already offer a 100% libre distro that covers the
role of general desktop, educational, and professional OS. But I think there
is still room for a couple more specialized flavors of Trisquel:
- How about a lightweight version that is tailored for netbooks and legacy
computers, perhaps called Trisquel Lite? Apparently something like this was
in the works at one time but didn't get off the ground. I do not think it
should run Xfce; Xfce is lightweight, but the problem is that it's not
necessarily lightweight enough to run smoothly on that old Pentium I dinosaur
you have boxed up down in the basement. Let's use LXDE instead, as it has
roughly half the memory footprint of Xfce, and probably half again the
footprint of GNOME. Take the existing Trisquel, replace the default
applications with lightweights, and replace GNOMe with LXDE, and then then
test and debug before releasing. There is no fully-free lightweight distro,
so if we released one, it would be the first. :)
- How about a server edition? For this one, I would suggest just taking
Ubuntu Server Edition, deblobbing the kernel, and removing all the nonfree
packages, and rebranding as Trisquel Server. There is no fully-free server
distro, so if we released one, it would be the first. :)
What does everyone else think? I'll put this up as a feature request after
getting some feedback and after version 4 is released (any time now...).
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