[Trisquel-users] Re : Debian and gNewSense

[lcerf]

The last stable release, gNewSense 3.1, is based on Debian 6.0 Squeeze, the  
"old old stable" version of Debian, which was released five years ago. Its  
programs are even older. Fortunately for gNewSense, Squeeze was the first  
version of Debian with an LTS team that stood up to backport security update:  
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00082.html

Those security updates will end next week. As a consequence, even if somebody  
does not care about using 5+ year old software (can Firefox/Iceweasel 3.5  
render all modern websites?), I would not advise gNewSense 3.1.

Then, there is the gNewSense 4, based on Debian 7.0 Wheezy, the "old stable"  
version of Debian, which was released in May 2013 and will receive security  
updates until 2018. gNewSense 4 is not proposed in the download section of  
gNewSense's website. Because only an "Alpha1" version of a NetInstall  
(minimal system) was released 14 months ago. No news of the project since  
then. gNewSense is not dead but it does not look healthy either! Will a  
stable version of gNewSense 4 ever be release? Will the developer jump to a  
gNewSense 5 release based on Debian 8.0, the "stable" version of Debian,  
which was released in April 2015? From an outsider point of view (I stopped  
using gNewSense in 2009), wondering whether there will ever be a new release  
does not look like a stupid question either...