Proposal of a new app by default
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I was happy to note that tor is preinstalled in Trisquel but I think it would be even nicer if there was a possibility to find Tor-Browser directly in addition to Trisquel's Abrowser browser.
What are your thoughts on this?
There's the Guix package manager available in Trisquel's repositories under the package name "guix", and Tor Browser is available in Guix's repositories, I like using the Tor Browser from there however I find that configuring the Guix package manager can be a bit hard as Guix won't come preconfigured unless you are using Guix System which is the FSDG-compliant distro specifically made with Guix in mind, also Guix is rolling-release so unless you like getting many updates it might be not be the best choice for you to get Tor Browser, also Guix works independently from apt which might be good but can also be bad. Sorry if this is not the answer you were looking for. As far as I know Guix is the only repository shipping Tor Browser directly, other repositories seem to ship a "Tor Browser Launcher" which instead of being the browser itself is a launcher that downloads the latest version of the browser from upstream. I'm not sure if "Tor Browser Launcher" is free, so don't take this reply as a recommendation for "Tor Browser Launcher", I'm merely stating the fact that I don't know anywhere other than Guix where they ship the browser itself rather than the Launcher.
I have never used GUIX, and at this point I would like to learn more about it.
However, the suggestion arose since I had problems trying to install Tor Browser from Trisquel's “Add/Remove Applications” application. I also didn't quite understand where the repository is so I could try to help keep the app up to date.
However imho it might be a good idea to have Tor Browser pre-installed because then Trisquel can set up the official source of Tor Browser without having to resort to third-party tools (Which in this case is always too dangerous) and so that users who want to approach this world don't necessarily have to arm themselves with a terminal to install Tor Browser (TorProject for Linux kernel-based systems has a tar archive downloaded and an installer launched to manage the Desktop file to enable menu-driven booting of apps).
PS: It would also be nice, in my opinion, to see Trisquel forging some ties (if it is not already there) with other projects that share free software ideals, such as TorProject.
What do you think about it?
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> However, the suggestion arose since I had problems trying to install Tor Browser from Trisquel's “Add/Remove Applications” application. I also didn't quite understand where the repository is so I could try to help keep the app up to date.
For some reason "Add/Remove Applications" (trisquel-app-install) lists Tor Browser Launcher as one of the packages available for me despite the fact that such launcher is not available in Trisquel's repositories, so I'm not sure what's going on
> What do you think about it?
I'm not sure, sorry
Why you need Tor Browser if you already have Abrowser? You already can install tor: sudo apt install tor then in configuration of Abrowser you can enable Tor as proxy with-
Manual configuration
Server SOCKS: localhost
port: 9050
SOCKS: v5
Then install GNU LibreJS y JShelter doing it you start to protect yourself from nonfree software in Javascript.