I've used Trisquel on and off. I liked Trisquel 4 very much. Not so sure
about Trisquel 7 though. The LXDE version at least doesn't seem as polished
as it used to be but I see that I can use Trisquel 6 for a long time yet and
I'll give it a go.
I've been using Debian Wheezy and enjoyed this distro very much. I installed
it on several computers for friends.
Now I installed Debian Jessie but I suspect Systemd is still not very mature.
I hate that both computers running Jessie take ages to shutdown while Wheezy
shut down in a breeze. After a Systemd update, at least the desktop computer
shuts down completely without me having to press the button on the case —
that reminded me of a Pentium II running a release of Puppy some years ago…
Well, image your Windows friends looking at your GNU/Linux computer never
really shutting down, and even now taking almost a Windows time to shut down.
As far as freedom is concerned, I was wondering what the difference is
between Linux Libre and the Linux kernel delivered by Debian by default.
You know that Debian is shipped without any nonfree stuff and the original
sources.list is free from the nonfree-contrib repos.
When I run vrms, I can't find any non free stuff. But is vrms reliable?
Is it possible or reasonable to instal Linux Libre on Debian from jxself's
repository?
Now I have a question which is no troll at all and which I don't find the
answer to on my own. So I hope you can enlighten me. Here goes:
I know that Trisquel started as a university project and that it's run by one
brave guy (hello Rodriguez) and I understand the need for a totally free
distro, yet aren't there some drawbacks or difficulties to make a distro from
Ubuntu?
In other words, would Trisquel and Debian devs and users benefit from working
together to make a totally free Debian? Or a fork if the Debian team can't,
for some reason or other, shift the nonfree-contrib packages far away from
its servers and mirrors?
Cheers
