Question about Trisquel

I kind of doubt that 4chan is the best place for advice on this. But then, I avoid that dank corner of the interwebs like a cancer.

But yes, Trisquel is fully free, and currently the FSF's preference of OS.

There's a rather high chance that something won't work on your computer, though ... either wifi or 3D accelaration, most likely.

name at domain wrote ..
> I recently watched a video in which Dr. Richard Stallman gave a
lecture about
> the importance of using free and open source software.

I very much doubt that :) He would have given a talk about the
importance of free software, not about the importance of open source.

> I didn't really know
> how, or which distro of GNU/linux to obtain in order to be
considered "Free"
> but I knew that 4chan.org/g/ would probably contain many users
willing to
> help me. A user recommended that I try "trisquel". Now I simply wish
to
> confirm, this operating system, and everything included in the
mini-iso (the
> 500 MB one), is 100% free and open source software, correct?

There is a list at gnu.org/distros and Trisquel is included in there,
so everything in there is free software.

It doesn't matter which free distribution you use. FSF/RMS tends to point people to Trisquel because it is a free software distribution that also is easy to install/use comparatively. Its also kept more up to date and has fewer issues that a less technical user might have to deal with.

Here is a list of good distributions:

http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

Parabola GNU/Linux and Trisquel seem to be the distributions to go with if your a free software user. Both are modern and updated often. Parabola GNU/Linux is definitely for more technical users. Its advantages are it is kept more up to date (bleeding edge) software than Trisquel. It is a rolling release distribution which basically means you get upgrades freequently. The dissadvantage to that is there is a higher risk that things stop working. It is also much harder to install.

I think ?most? of the other free distributions are not terribly good fits. They have various issues including: not getting updated (you might go years- if ever without an update). gNewSense is an example of this. Some may be discontinued or abandoned. The other problem is some of the distributions have no real user base. This is a problem because bugs don't get noticed or fixed. Trisquel has it a little bit better. For example the AR9170 firmware got into Trisquel. That made it possible to use some USB N wireless adapters. Even Fedora doesn't have good support for the AR9170 USB N adapters. So this says a lot.