I loaded up a live CD of Trisquel 7 the other day to test out MATE without
hurting my system and ran into a few issues. I have an Nvidia GTX 970 video
card and as you may or may not know, the 900 series hasn't received decent
support within the kernel until the 3.19 release. I'm talking native
detection and basic support without installing the non-free Nvidia drivers.
So this got me thinking. Most other major distributions offer point releases
of their major releases to keep their ISOs fresh. Ubuntu does it (14.04.2),
Debian does it (8.1), Linux Mint does it (17.2), and of course CentOS/RedHat
do it (6.3).
Why does Trisquel have to be the exception?
With Trisquel based off of the LTS releases of Ubuntu and having Ubuntu
14.04.3 around the corner, why not release an updated Trisquel ISO (7.1
maybe?) that has the Vivid backport stack incorporating the 3.19 kernel and
newer Xorg? As of today, the linux-generic-lts-vivid kernel is ready, but
xserver-xorg-lts-vivid package is NOT fully integrated. Both will be there as
part of the Ubuntu LTS Enablement Stack this month or at least by August.
I know you can always say "install the kernel after" or "just run netinstall"
but some people want to run a live session off of their CD/DVD/USB drive
first and then install via Ubiquity. Wouldn't it be better if people had a
newer kernel from the start so they run into less issues when testing their
hardware?
So please consider this as an option so the Trisquel ISOs don't grow stale.
Especially since they offer packages that are at least a year too old now.
