Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

[dguthrie]

Some people have mentioned security updates, or rather seemingly lack of  
them.
As far as I can tell you synchronise the packages with Ubuntu according to  
templates you have created which gets rid of the nonfree packages. However,  
it isn't clear how often this is done. Another concern is that Ubuntu does  
not provide security updates to "universe" repositories, just "main", which  
is made up of some 7000 or so packages. Trisquel does not separate the  
repositories in the same manner as Ubuntu (from what appears in the  
/etc/apt/sources.list file), although in Synaptic Package Manager "universe"  
repositories appear. This is strange and confusing even for someone familiar  
with how Debian apt repositories work. So I cannot tell how up-to-date my  
Trisquel installation is.
I do not use Trisquel now unfortunately although it was for other reasons  
before this. But I feel sad for the project as I like these forums. I hope  
the project does not go the way of BLAG or gNewSense.