Brigantia unofficially out!
It seems that the development is finally over. The images can be downloaded from the official download location, here.
Direct links:
Trisquel: 32 bit / 64 bit (ISO) | 32 bit / 64 bit (Torrent)
Trisquel i18n: 32 bit / 64 bit (ISO) | 32 bit / 64 bit (Torrent)
Trisquel Mini: 32 bit / 64 bit (ISO) | 32 bit / 64 bit (Torrent)
NetInstall: 32 bit / 64 bit (ISO) | 32 bit / 64 bit (Torrent)
Sources DVD: download (ISO) | download (Torrent)
MD5 checksums
Other mirrors:
Spain (ftp.rediris.es)
USA (Free Software Foundation)
Spain (GNU Spain)
Netherlands (Jason Self)
Mexico (GNU Mexico)
Chile (University Tarapacá of Arica)
Turkey (Linux Users Association)
When will the upgrade be out? Very soon?
hmmmmm testing
What I meant was upgrading through Upgrade Manager. When should we expect that?
I usually just purge Totem and replace with VLC. One of the big plusses (for me at least) of Totem is the thumbnailing feature of videos in Nautilus, but I install ffmpegthumbnailer and run a script to get them back:
https://github.com/demizer/binfiles/blob/master/fix-thumbnails.sh
EDIT: This worked on Trisquel 5.0 and earlier since they were Gnome 2 based and I cannot replicate on 5.5 or Ubuntu 11.10. I did try this, cleaned out my thumbs, and restarted Nautilus. Now I have thumbnails back in Trisquel 5.5 and Ubuntu 11.10!
Upgrade should be available soon, after the Brigantia will be officially released by quidam (periodically check the home page). If you do not want to wait, you can upgrade now through Terminal with 'update-manager -d'.
Upgrade should be available soon, after the Brigantia will be officially
released by quidam (periodically check the home page). If you do not want to
wait, you can upgrade now through Terminal with 'update-manager -d'.
How can I change the gnome shell theme in 5.5? There's no shell option in
tweak tool.
It is now official, but there are no new images. Anyone who downloaded an
image built between 11/12-Apr-2012, is bearing the final, stable release
(there is no need to download it again). For those who are going to download
Trisquel 5.5 now, help others by downloading and seeding the torrent. Thank
you and happy GNUing! ;)
Around the time of Libre Planet we were doing some testing with it and I wasn't terribly confident in the release. It seemed unstable, ugly, and there was hardware which didn't work (and should have). Rubén knew this, I knew this, and the decision to hold off on the release really paid off.
Until the other day I hadn't taken the time to try it out again. It is amazing.
1. Out of the box support for the hardware that matters (as I would expect)
HP Color laser / Ink Jet printers
- out of the box support for printing
- includes support for scanning on supported models
USB Wireless cards (RTL8187B, RTL8187L, and Carl9170 chipsets)
- just work
USB CSR Bluetooth Cards (warning: not all USB cards with CSR chipsets work)
- just work
Various Atheros PCI chipsets (not all cards necessarily work though)
- just works
USB Audio Chipsets Work (not all cards necessarily work though)
- CM119 just works
Intel's 3d graphics drivers work (can't say all cards work/chipsets work)
- 3d acceleration
- suspend to ram
2. Entertainment
- Supports sites like YouTube out of the box
3. Fast
- Really fast boot times
- Trisquel 5.5 feels much snappier than most distributions based on 11.04
4. Looks good even without a 3D accelerated interface
- Trisquel looks good without 3D acceleration
- There isn't any distractions from unnecessary visual effects
5. Stable
- I haven't been able to get Trisquel 5.5 to crash once
6. A usable interface
- There aren't any "revolutionary" interface changes that would confuse
- Some changes exist although nothing difficult to figure out
7. Fits on CD
Overall I can't say I have seen any blaring negatives. There are some minor things I might have done differently although each might compromise a current advantage such as including OpenShot instead of Pitivi Video Editor, a VLC back-end supported movie player, etc.
I do have one bug to note. Right now the spell checking does not work.
What I meant was upgrading through Upgrade Manager. When should we expect
that?
Based on my brief tour of the I18N edition, issued on the 11th of April,
I'd have to agree, though I don't have the hardware with which there
were recent problems. Moving around on the desktop, menus, and within
the apps I tried is blazing fast. The Orca screen reader did not appear
to miss anything or crash. Startup may have been faster than before,
but I did this tour from a flash drive, so, there's some overhead there.
Shutdown was at least as fast as before. I still can't get the gnash
browser plugin to play audio in multi-media files (can work around with
browser add-ons). Libreoffice Calc 3.4 and Orca still not playing well
(updating to LO 3.5 may fix). Evolution and Orca still not playing well
(maybe recommend Orca users get non-gui mail user agent like Alpine)?
That's it for now; Release worth the wait!
-Dave
On 04/12/2012 09:13 PM, name at domain wrote:
> Around the time of Libre Planet we were doing some testing with it and I
> wasn't terribly confident in the release. It seemed unstable, ugly, and
> there was hardware which didn't work (and should have). Rubén knew this,
> I knew this, and the decision to hold off on the release really paid off.
>
> Until the other day I hadn't taken the time to try it out again. It is
> amazing.
>
> 1. Out of the box support for the hardware that matters (as I would expect)
>
> HP Color laser / Ink Jet printers
> - out of the box support for printing
> - includes support for scanning on supported models
>
> USB Wireless cards (RTL8187B, RTL8187L, and Carl9170 chipsets)
> - just work
>
> USB CSR Bluetooth Cards (warning: not all USB cards with CSR chipsets work)
> - just work
>
> Various Atheros PCI chipsets (not all cards neccessarily work though)
> - just works
>
> USB Audio Chipsets Work (not all cards neccessarily work though)
> - CM119 just works
>
> Intel's 3d graphics drivers work (can't say all cards work/chipsets work)
> - 3d acceleration
> - suspend to ram
>
> 2. Entertainment
> - Supports sites like YouTube out of the box
>
> 3. Fast
> - Really fast boot times
> - Trisquel 5.5 feels much snappier than most distributions based on 11.04
>
> 4. Looks good even without a 3D accelerated interface
> - Trisquel looks good without 3D acceleration
> - There isn't any distractions from unessarry visual effects
>
> 5. Stable
> - I haven't been able to get Trisquel 5.5 to crash once
>
>
>
>
I usually just purge Totem and replace with VLC. One of the big plusses (for me at least) of Totem is the thumbnailing feature of videos in Nautilus, but I install ffmpegthumbnailer and run a script to get them back:
https://github.com/demizer/binfiles/blob/master/fix-thumbnails.sh
EDIT: This worked on Trisquel 5.0 and earlier since they were Gnome 2 based and I cannot replicate on 5.5 or Ubuntu 11.10. I did try this, cleaned out my thumbs, and restarted Nautilus. Now I have thumbnails back in Trisquel 5.5 and Ubuntu 11.10!
How can I change the gnome shell theme in 5.5? There's no shell option in tweak tool.
It is now official, but there are no new images. Anyone who downloaded an image built between 11/12-Apr-2012, is bearing the final, stable release (there is no need to download it again). For those who are going to download Trisquel 5.5 now, help others by downloading and seeding the torrent. Thank you and happy GNUing! ;)