Trisquel GNU/Linux

Since 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.

In what we can now call it a tradition, we celebrate the Software Freedom Day by publishing our latest release: Trisquel GNU/Linux 5.0 STS, codename Dagda.

Today we publish both the standard GNOME based, and the lightweight, LXDE based Trisquel Mini editions. Current Trisquel 4.5 users can upgrade using the update-manager application, without the need for reinstallation. Advanced installations -server, RAID/LVM, encrypted, etc- can be done using the netinstall images. Two more editions, one based on KDE and other using the educational environment Sugar are on the way.

The standard edition includes, among many others, the following packages:

• Linux-libre 2.6.38
• GNOME 2.32
• LibreOffice 3.3.3
• Abrowser (our unbranded Mozilla based web browser) 6.0.2

We would like to thank the FSF, and their campaigns intern Jonathan Nadeau for helping us improve this release's accessibility support. Among other changes, our international DVD boots now with a screen reader on by default, allowing blind users to run or even install the system without assistance. This change will also be applied to the system loaded in the FSF membership cards.

Download it now, and spread it around!

And remember, you can help this project continue by donating, buying a gift in our stores, or by becoming a supporting associate member.

After more than ten thousand direct downloads since the 4.5 release two months ago, we now publish an incremental update including all the security and bugfix upgrades applied to date, while also expanding the edition set with Mini and Netinstall flavours.

Some of the improvements include better support for software RAID and 3G modems, fixed clients for online video streaming, support for Atheros USB-802.11N cards, and many other updates and security patches.

The Mini edition is an incremental update on the original 4.0 version, with most of the changes being bugfixes and cosmetic improvements. The Netinstall image -which for now on will be released with every Trisquel version- allows for customized installation -from minimal command line interface systems, to several desktop or server configurations-, and with advanced features like LVM, RAID or full disk encryption among many others.

If you are using 4.5 and you have all the updates applied then you are set, there is no need to reinstall.

Today we launch our new packages database website at http://packages.trisquel.info/

Using the same software as the matching sites at Debian and Ubuntu, it shows the details about all the packages we distribute, including comprehensive descriptions and relationships, categories, list of files, changelogs, and even screenshots. We hope it will not only help navigate our catalogue, but allow to further filter our servers of non-free files and packages.

The steps needed to build the site provided also the databases required for apt-file to work in Trisquel, as well as allowing the upgrader application to show the changes for every update.

And remember, we can provide you with this new site because Trisquel has complete and fully independent repositories, serving you over 300GB of free software packages.