Why is Trisqual a derivative of Ubuntu?
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Hi everyone, I have recently installed Trisquel on my T460s thinkpad and I am finding myself very well.
I have a question to ask, those who use Trisquel do it mainly for ethical reasons and I think it is a completely respectable choice, but why use Ubuntu as a starting point that refers to a company and that follows the logic of the market?
Let me explain better, Debian also makes questionable choices but is maintained by the community and not by a company.
Thank you
See (in reversed chronological order):
- https://trisquel.info/forum/trisquel-debian-edition
- https://trisquel.info/forum/why-are-we-based-ubuntu-and-not-debian
- https://trisquel.info/forum/why-ubuntu-and-not-debian
- https://trisquel.info/forum/poll-should-trisquel-9-be-based-debian
- https://trisquel.info/forum/trisquel-linux-libre-and-debian-linux
- https://trisquel.info/forum/trisquel-free-based-ubutu
- https://trisquel.info/forum/why-ubuntu-base-trisquel
- https://trisquel.info/forum/will-trisquel-be-based-debain-future
- etc.
If you want my answer, here it is (with a correction below, about the kernel): https://trisquel.info/forum/trisquel-linux-libre-and-debian-linux#comment-71514
All this material will be very useful to me, thank you very much for your answer.
On the DebConf page they do list Canonical, but also Google, Microsft, Amazon, etc. : https://debconf22.debconf.org. Which makes it much lower standards than Ubuntu concerning company support and market logic.
So it seems that you were right to install Trisquel, I hope you will enjoy it as much as we do. Note that it may also be partly funded by companies selling hardware that can be used with fully free distros like Trisquel. Not exactly Microsoft sponsorship, though.
I use Parabola on another thinkpad but Trisquel seems to me a stable system with a very active and prepared community.
I’m happy with my choice.
Thank you for your answer.
One of our Trisquel forum members, @aitor, already makes a completely free version of Devuan, which is Debian done right in my opinion. It's called GNUinOS, and you can find it at gnuinos[dot]org.
Since we already have GNUinOS, there's no reason to have Trisquel change to be a second Debian-based free distro.
And prior to GNUinOS we did have gnewsense for many years, which was an FSF approved free distro based on Debian. It was even Richard Stallman's favorite distro if I recall correctly, but I don't think it was ever as popular as Trisquel, and it eventually died for lack of development work.
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A correction, gNewSense was based on Ubuntu for some years and then came the lemote yeeloong which then they rebased on Debian. I don't how accurate the versions table in the Wikipedia article is.
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