Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 missed another deadline. Is this project dead?

[myself600]

Usually, there is a common bug under all STS releases, that said, when you  
uncheck the "Source code" checkbox under "Software Sources" in order not to  
add the "deb-src" line when adding a new repository with add-apt-repository,  
nothing really changes and the apt is happily creating this annoying  
duplicate line which I doesn't require and I need to manually remove it  
everytime I'll add a new repository. Other than that, there were just small  
things like audio problems, wifi turns off randomly (on Realtek RTL8187,  
still happening to today), things not worth to mention.

Brigantia was and still is a totally different story. When I finally repaired  
my broken Dagda system on my main computer after 8-9 months of malfunction  
(kernel panic, broken chroot, no GRUB), I found out that Dadga was an  
unsupported system at the time and there were some missing kernel packages  
and I cannot properly update the system. So I decided to upgrade to Brigantia  
and then the nightmare began. The upgrade process went as usual, with no  
issues. At the end I restarted the computer as required, but when I logged  
into my account I was really shocked. All my desktop customizations was gone;  
no sound; a full KDE stack installed (WTF?!); multi-arch self-enabled (this  
caused that the installed packages was conflicted with itself); bunch of  
:i386 packages installed (when I purged these the system does not started  
anymore); system was "daaarrrnnn" slow (it is still slow compared to Gnome2  
but thanks to a special script I wrote which automanages all my installed  
packages and suggest changes when some are missing or not required anymore,  
and maybe by cleaning the registers with gconf-cleaner, the system is now  
only slow during startup with the "Intel drivers"); screen flickering(3x),  
then gnome-panel disappears and the opengl rendering is broken (i bet this is  
a Intel GPU driver/Mesa bug on my Intel Ironlake integrated graphic chip  
because nVidia's proprietary graphic driver just works fine except there is  
no brightness control); nautilus crashing (suddenly, all my desktop  
files/folders and nautilus windows dissappears) or hides existing files (this  
happened just today when I created the screenshots for the bug report); a  
beautiful vertical red & blue lines on the screen appears whenthe graphic  
stack crashes and I switches between different video output modes; some weird  
file/folder shifting on the desktop (?!.) There are really way too much of  
them to write about here.