Trisquel forums are dead... full of unexplained weirdness

Here's a list of the most activity generating topics, since I have been a user on these forums,
which since that time, I have tried to start conversations about all manner of subjects...

Topic Replies

Debian 13 Live ISO without nonfree firmware 25

How To Make Trisquel 12 Sexy and Impress Your Girlfriend 31

The first beta ISOs for Trisquel 12 are out, getting closer 23

three topics, that's it, which can literally be summed up, in terms of intellectually valuable content, in the space of three sentences, 1 per active thread.

In other words, trisquel forums, is dead, or a ghost town. It shouldn't be that way either, there
are like hundreds of different gnulinux derivatives, but theyre all using "the kernel" and misdirected to proprietary nonsense, and away from free software... and anyways

like I said, there's no one to talk to here, about anything at all

...

I've been a member here on Trisquel forums, and contributing for 14 days straight 24/7 (two weeks)

and not only that, but I've been a member on many different gnulinux forums, including debian... ubuntu... and have seen the same exact characteristics drive people away, mistreating and abusing them for "alternate" ideas, which translate into alternate means of using computer programming

The first stunning example, which can immediately be verified all over gnulinux land, is the reference to a different gnulinux community, as opposed to the host distribution. Referencing, or drawing an association, in any way, to a different distribution, on a gnulinux web forum immediately
results in new members being condemned, and driven away, as if it's their job to forbid speech, and behavior, which might exist outside of the limited paradigm, of referencing the host distribution.

the second thing that happens, is that in an attempt to please the social order of these "Gnu"linux "communities" the new members attempt to reframe their question, or their observation in the context of the host distribution, in other words: the host operating system. Once they do that, they are in a position, where they inherently can't make observations that may reflect negatively on that host operating system, in order to avoid being punished again. This is an explicit formula of social abuse active across the gnulinux landscape right now (2025) ...but this has been happening in these places, for years.

First: We are punished

Then: We are forbidden, from thinking, and speaking outside the box, we're drawn in line with "the rules"

Afterwards: We're banned by the time we discover there's no alternative but, in effect, disobedience.

If you ever find yourself in a place that resembles the social circumstances I just described, you are in the wrong gnulinux community. That's not gnulinux, or what it's all about.

This is what gnulinux is supposed to be like: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/watch-fight-to-repair-demand-the-right-to-repair

If you find yourself in a place that resembles those circumstances, then you've found gnulinux, that's what it's supposed to be like.

The Trisquel forums seems to be like the purist version of LinuxQuestions. So, it mostly gets focused to the OS itself and other FSF-endorsed OSes.

That's why the first impression about the Trisquel forums seems like a ghost town.

And also, if you mention other distros that are not FSF-endorsed, the few replies that are accepted are mostly to make a Debian installation be main only-branch which is considered in equal conditions like any FSF-endorsed distro (or if you're impatient enough to wait the sucessor of PureOS 10.3 which seems to will have the same fate than gNewSense).

Actually, I tested the Realtek RTL8188CE WiFi chipset since four years ago and it now works on Linux-libre without need to require a dedicated firmware.

So, if you have an H-node account, you can just help to update the info in case that the new versions of linux-libre version brings support of newer hardware without need of propietary drivers and/or firmware.

http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2025-May/023409.html
looks like A.i. is coming to the kernel, which includes the libre-kernel by default...(oops it's already here)
they have a github link but I wouldn't follow it...

"ASIOS is a new AI‑native OS (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base) bringing
deterministic scheduling, NUMA‑GPU optimizations, zero‑copy I/O, and
eBPF telemetry into the Linux kernel.

Key directions—
— Deterministic CPU scheduling for reproducible AI runs
— NUMA‑aware memory placement tuned for GPU DMA
— Zero‑copy GPU I/O via GPUDirect RDMA/Storage
— eBPF‑based telemetry hooks

**Call for contributors:** scheduler/MM, GPU/accelerator integration,
eBPF instrumentation.

ASIOS – Envisioned to Host and Sustain Cognition & Synthetic Intelligence
The world’s first AI-native operating system.

ASIOS is a new class of OS built on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, designed from
first principles for AI workloads. We’re creating the foundational
infrastructure layer to support ever-more sophisticated
intelligence—from today’s deep-learning models to tomorrow’s advanced
cognitive and quantum-ready AI.

Building on our May 3 thread, we’ve landed a resilient config-overlay
and build script for ASIOS on both x86_64 and aarch64. Key artifacts:

asios-config-overlay.sh: idempotent Kconfig overlay that tolerates
missing symbols
build-asios-kernel.sh: automated clone to config to compile workflow
test-asios-config.sh: verifies .config flags post build
Initial perf on Ubuntu 24.04 HWE 6.11:
x86_64: mbw=7.3 GB/s, hackbench=53 ms, fio=1.6 GB/s
arm64: mbw=27.4 GB/s, hackbench=4.8 ms, fio=3.2 GB/s

Areas for review and test:
1. Overlay logic: skipping versus failing on absent Kconfig symbols
2. Build-matrix logic: host-only versus cross-build
3. Test completeness: missing flags
4. Scripting style and robustness

Any pointers or suggestions are highly appreciated before we push to a
formal RFC series."

A.i. is really funny to me, after witnessing decades of *human intelligence* being systematically condemned, abused, forbidden, treated, to absolute denial, we have now suddenly in 2025, a global publicity campaign imposing moral certainty in the value of A.i

Call it the next stage, in replacing human intelligence itself, wherever