Trisquel GNU/Linux

As you can read at the Free Software Foundation blog, the FSF Member card -a nice 2GB ultraslim USB disk to carry in your wallet- is now loaded with Trisquel 3.0 Dwyn. It is a great honor for us, and we wish you all enjoy your cards. More than 500 were shipped already!

Escuelab es un espacio en el centro de Lima que busca incentivar a creadores, teóricos y activistas jóvenes a proyectar sus ideas, nacidas del presente, para diseñar y construir futuros posibles en los que con imaginación se abordará la brecha entre tecnología y sociedad.

Hoy inician una jornada sobre Sugar con la presencia del coordinador del proyecto, Walter Bender. Un proyecto que ya tiene una fuerte presencia en el país, donde se han distribuido cerca de 200.000 portátiles OLPC XO.

La jornada, en la que se utilizará Trisquel edu ejecutando el entorno Sugar, tendrá lugar en Escuelab Lima Centro, a media cuadra de la plaza San Martín, Jirón de la Unión 1044, piso 5, este jueves 22 a las 7.00 PM, hora local.

El evento se retransmitirá mediante streaming.

The Spanish magazine Todo Linux includes this month an article on our project, and a CD with Trisquel 3. This is what they say about us:

"Trisquel 3.0 STS "Dwyn", free software only
Trisquel GNU/Linux is a version of the Ubuntu operating system which main goal is to develop a fully free system that is easy to use, complete and with a good language support. It looks like they did it already, as they are endorsed by the Free Software Foundation itself."

Thanks to the Todo Linux team you can now get yourself a serigraphed copy of Trisquel in your newsagent! The version included is the Trisquel 3.0 STS "Dwyn" i386 installable Live CD.

We have a new project, a live -and installable- CD/USB image running the latest Sugar learning platform:

"The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software."

This new project will improve the Trisquel Edu system, providing a nice educational environment for first grade students. We hope this will also be the start of a productive relationship with the SugarLabs folks, who helped us a lot to achieve this release. Many thanks to Aleksey Lim and to everyone at the Sugar project for giving us this wonderful software!

We are proud to announce the Trisquel GNU/Linux 3.0 release, codenamed Dwyn. It is the first of a new series of short term support releases that include highly updated software, improved performance and better hardware compatibility, and that will now accompany the long term support 2.x Robur branch. The 3.0 version will be upgraded to 3.5 in six months, and will get updates for another six months. The 2.2 LTS version, released a few days ago, will get security updates until 2013.