Revision of Trisquel 4.5 "Slaine" released from Thu, 03/24/2011 - 15:12

Our latest version is ready for download. It includes a lot of updates, but more so the development process -compilation scripts and build jails- was largely upgraded to simplify automation. This improvements made easier to apply changes to the upstream packages, leading to a much more polished results.

Along with many bugfixes Slaine comes with an new boot manager for the live images, an improved installer which showcases the project highlights, some new preinstalled programs like the Remmina remote desktop client, the social network client Gwibber or the backup manager Deja-dup.

The web browser received several changes to improve speed -enabling http pipelining and other methods-, privacy -blocking third party cookies by default and moving to Duck Duck Go as default search engine-, and usability -the preinstalled FlashVideoReplacer plugin allows to watch videos from YouTube, Vimeo and many others. This improvements were backported to 4.0 LTS.

Based on Ubuntu 10.10, the main packages include:

• Linux-libre 2.6.35
• Xorg 7.5
• GNOME 2.32
• Mozilla based web browser 3.6.15
• OpenOffice.org 3.2

3D support for NVIDIA graphic cards

One of the exciting improvements for this release is the availability of an experimental Nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards which allows for 3D acceleration using fully free software. It is very promising but still a bit unstable on certain cards, so it ships disabled by default. You can enable it by simply clicking here.

Incoming updates

In the following days we will also release the Trisquel mini 4.5 version and an incremental update on the 4.0 LTS branch