it is a given fact that in the noveau wiki itself they state that the older
Gallium3d driver was replaced nearly a year ago (Feb 2011). Hence I objected
your statement.
There is a newer improved driver (on top of Gallium3D). But the older one,
available in Trisquel, also enables 3D acceleration (you have even
experienced it). That is all I stated! Nothing more.
From my observation in aptosid the newer driver works faster, more stable and
with less glitches.
If another Debian-based distribution has a better working open-source driver
for a rather common NVidia card as my 9800 I can hardly see a point why this
version isn't included in Trisquel.
Trisquel reuses the work of Ubuntu (which, itself, reuses the work of
Debian). The Trisquel project, in its current state, is far from being able
to build an entire GNU/Linux distribution directly from the upstream sources.
Actually, the main developer, Rúben (alias quidam), can hardly make a
living. You can help: beyond donations, you can become a member:
https://trisquel.info/member
