Trisquel at FLISOL 2012 Bariloche, Argentina
Submitted by david on 2 May, 2012 - 11:31Tomorrow, on April 28, the Trisquel project will take part in the Latin-American Free Software Installation Fest event at Bariloche, Argentina. Rubén Rodríguez, the project leader, will give a speech through video conference from the "La Galería" café at Vigo, Spain.
The speech/chat will take place at 4 pm local Argentinian time --9 pm in Spain, 19:00 UTC/GMT--, and will be available on streaming. It will also be possible to participate sending questions from the #trisquel-es channel at freenode.
Update at 22:00: The chat has finished, it will be uploaded to the site in the upcoming days.
Trisquel 5.5 STS Brigantia release announcement
Submitted by quidam on 16 April, 2012 - 17:41
Trisquel 5.5 STS "Brigantia" is finally here! This release took us some extra time but it was well worth it, as even if we went through a lot of changes in core components we achieved many improvements while preparing the system for the forthcoming long term support release. As a sort of compensation (many thanks for your patience!), and due to the importance of our next release, we will start hacking on it sooner than usual, in about a month.
This release took our biggest effort in this eight years, and we want to thank all the community, members, donors and specially to everyone who contributed to the development.
Many new technologies, same user experience
This release is our first to be based on GNOME 3, GTK 3 and also Linux-libre 3.0.0. GNOME 3 was a big challenge, because as it is designed by now, it is not usable for our community. The new default interface of GNOME 3 is GNOME Shell, a program that requires 3D acceleration to work, as it relies on graphics composition. Sadly, many graphics cards today still lack a libre driver providing acceleration, so many users who would choose free drivers will be redirected to a fallback desktop environment. We think that this way many users could feel compelled to install non-free drivers to be able to use the new desktop, so we decided to use the fallback environment as default, and improve it when possible. Luckily this fallback is a GTK 3 implementation of GNOME panel 2x, and not only is it very usable, and even more stable than the original, but it is also accessible, something GNOME Shell is currently lacking.
One other advantage of using the fallback as default is that we were able to use it to provide the same desktop layout that many Trisquel users have become attached to. You can of course adapt and customize it with panels and applets as usual.
This release features, among many others:
- Linux-libre 3.0.0
- GNOME 3.2
- Abrowser 11
- LibreOffice 3.4.4
Better accessibility, a better project
Continuing with our commitment to accessibility we have managed to improve the integration with the Orca screen reader and other universal access software. It was not easy, as it was affected by the changes in core libraries underneath, but the results were worth it. If you use the i18n DVD the screen reader will be started by default, allowing visually impaired users to install it by themselves, and the login manager in the installed system will then be accessible. It is still far from perfect, but we will keep working on it.
Another improvement is that many NVIDIA graphic cards are now supported with 3D acceleration using the free Nouveau driver, which was moved from experimental into the preinstalled set of packages. Also, we can announce now that those packages, and all the +300GB of sources and binaries in our archive servers are now accessible through new official mirrors in the Netherlands and India, thanks to Jason Self and the KMEA Engineering college respectively. Many thanks!
Trisquel upcoming events for 5.5 release
Submitted by quidam on 16 March, 2012 - 07:02Trisquel 5.5 Brigantia is almost ready, and we will be showing it in two great events in the following days:
Northeast GNU/Linux festival
We have been invited to the second bianual Northeast GNU/Linux festival in Worcester -Massachusetts, USA- which is organized by Jonathan Nadeau, who helped improve Trisquel's accessibility in the last two releases. Many big names for a big event!
Schedule
March, Saturday 17th:
- 10 a.m. to 10:45 Jon "Maddog" Hall - Executive Director of Linux International
- 11 a.m. to 11:45 Jonathan Nadeau - Frostbite Media
- noon to 12:45 Max Mether - Manager of Training Services for SkySQL
- 1 pm. to 1:45 Ruben Rodriquez - Founder of Trisquel
- 2 p.m. to 2:45 Dru Lavigne - Director of the FreeBSD Foundation
- 3 p.m. to 3:45 John Sullivan - Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation
LibrePlanet
And speaking of big events, we will be announcing the final Trisquel 5.5 Brigantia release during this year's LibrePlanet, the annual FSF conference in Boston.
Update! You can hear Ruben's (almost) full talk on libreplanet here . On the end is the announce of the 5.5 release being delayed 1 week
Schedule
The schedule for Libreplanet is huge, you better read it here. The Trisquel release speech will be at 11:00, Saturday the 24th.
Year end fundraising effort, Mexicali migration and Sugar Camp Lima
Submitted by quidam on 7 November, 2011 - 18:37Since we started our donating program a year and a half ago, and the membership program a year after that, we already demonstrated what an awesome community we have. We currently have around 30 members and donations keep going up. Thanks so much!
But still, we are very far from our goal of having 100 supporting members before 2012. If you are still not a member, we compel you to join in and help make this project economically self-sustained. And if you are a member, we ask you to brag about it as much as you can! Tell others about the project, ask fellow users to join, write about it in your blogs and social palatforms, be Trisquel ambassadors.
By the way, we will soon be adding a new benefit to the membership, a XMPP/Jabber account matching the alias email address.
