Dear Trisquel forum members,
I want to thank everybody for using and assembling such a great GNU/Linux
distribution.
I just joined the forum to ask whether it is time to make an updated version
of trisquel 7 available for the average user and the benefit of free software
on the trisquel website.
I tried to install trisquel 7.0 and trisquel mini 7.0 (each in both versions
i686 and amd64) on various computers over the past weeks. I observed that the
update via command line creates a huge amount of web traffic for the sudo
apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade, sudo apt-get autoremove or the sudo
apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade procedures. The update via the
software updater was not possible in various cases. The sudo apt-get and then
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade results in a question regarding grub2 and whether
the user wants to keep a file or accepts the maintainer's file. Such
questions and the fact that these updates take about 30 minutes are not good
for the spread of Trisquel as the GNU/Linux distribution listed on the FSF
page that respects the freedom of its users.
Besides that I observed that the trisquel 7.0 i686 iso create a strange
shutdown behaviour on various machines (the computer needs more than two
minutes to shutdown). This seems to be the case when the computer was a wifi
card inside that would require a proprietary driver, but an external
wifi-usb-stick running a free driver is used. The trisquel 7.0 i686 install
on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-19 mk1 resulted in a very very slow system. This
could also be the case because of the internal Intel wifi card not used.
Trisquel 4.2 runs super fast on all those machines. If I knew how to do it I
would opt for Trisquel 4.2 on all my machines and securing it but I am not
able to.
When I joined the FSF a few years ago the membership card included Trisquel
(probably Trisquel 4.2). That membership card distribution was amazing. I
wish I could help you updating the various iso images on your website but I
am not able to.
I just think that Trisquel deserves to be installable, updatable in a few
minutes and not in 30 minutes via the graphical updater provided and not via
the command line with a decent startup and shutdown time.
I tried the trisquelizer script as well as an alternative. I first installed
ubuntu server and then ran the script. But afterwards the computer still used
the only card provided as an option during the ubuntu install: the internal
wifi card requiring proprietary drivers. The script did not check whether
there was a proprietary wifi card running at let it still run afterwards.
Thanks to all of you! Keep up the great work.
