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This email might not have a point, please skip it if your short on time.
I stopped using Trisquel about 2 months ago but I'm am back with as of
yesterday.
I stopped because it did not have the Ada programming language package
revisions I needed, specifically a very current gcc I needed a feature from.
I tired to compile gcc from source and failed on Trisquel. I have always
used debian based distros and have always had trouble manually
compiling. I had read that debian uses a slightly non standard folder
layout and that this can cause problems.
I started switching from distro to distro to BSD to distro looking for
just the right combination of packages and revisions. I learned new
things and I am back at Trisquel and was able to compile gcc from
source, amongst other programs.
So if there are any points to this email they are:
I found several other distros to be very buggy. Most work fine for
simple things but if you push they are brittle, this includes ghost BSD.
I have been told that compiling from source is not the "debian way". It
is impossible to be all things to all people and making things easy to
compile from source ought to be a high priority. Perhaps it already is
and there is just too much FUD on the internet.
XFCE on Fedora sucked. I have a dual monitor set up and it was as if
there was a large gap between the two.
I didn't like the icon central desktops that shipped as default on
Debian unstable gnome 3 and their fallback was not great. Frugalware and
Arch might be good for some people but I don't have time for their setups.
Trisquel is very nice. I hope the developers will not feel pressured to
create release after release on a given time frame. It is more import
that each revision works well.
Thanks for all the hard work and thanks for reading a possible pointless
email-Patrick
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If you need newer packages I recommend trying Parabola, which is a free software distro based on Arch. The initial setup is longer than Trisquel, but it is worth it as most packages can be easily upgraded to new versions. Bear in mind that packages occasionally break on Parabola, so I don't advise on updating the system frequently.
I am a translator!
If you need newer packages I recommend trying Parabola, which is a free
software distro based on Arch. The initial setup is longer than Trisquel, but
it is worth it as most packages can be easily upgraded to new versions. Bear
in mind that packages occasionally break on Parabola, so I don't advise on
updating the system frequently.
You can also use PPA's like https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ppa
You can also use PPA's like
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ppa
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I can second the experience of the guy who written the email. After learning a lot about GNU/Linux with other distros, I became a Trisquel user. It is a very good compromise between pre-made choices and possibilities to configure something on your own. Not to mention the huge software base you get with an Ubuntu-based distro and the main advantage of being 100% free software.
And compiling is always hard when the programmers used lots of different libraries that you need to link to during compilation. That's my main problem with compiling: after installing three packages and trying ./configure again and again, suddenly a version of a library is needed, that's not available for my version of the distro. That's when I purge all the bullshit I just installed, delete the source and start shouting angrily at my PC.
I am a translator!
I can second the experience of the guy who written the email. After learning
a lot about GNU/Linux with other distros, I became a Trisquel user. It is a
very good compromise between pre-made choices and possibilities to configure
something on your own. Not to mention the huge software base you get with an
Ubuntu-based distro and the main advantage of being 100% free software.
And compiling is always hard when the programmers used lots of different
libraries that you need to link to during compilation. That's my main problem
with compiling: after installing three packages and trying ./configure again
and again, suddenly a version of a library is needed, that's not available
for my version of the distro. That's when I purge all the bullshit I just
installed, delete the source and start shouting angrily at my PC.
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