Hello! and let FF practice on a Google video before YouTube.

Hello!
Very nice distro!.

I've been in Linux for about 8 years now and have been looking for a "GNU compliant" distro.

However, I've always had two problems, a) I have to be able to interact with flash based sites in my business and b) the distros were, well, to put the best face on it, not the most appealing visually! :)

So, when I read the review at Distrowatch and then read the fine reviews linked in the information page I thought I'd give trisquel a spin.

This is on an AMD 64 2 gig ram, GeForce 6600 with 256 video ram. Widescreen monitor, wireless mouse and keyboard, external data drive, parallel and usb HP printers.

All of the above was found without even a setup except to click the printers that were automatically found.

The various reviews mentioned that the live cd did not play flash and that is correct.

I installed and there was an automatic update. I attempted to play a youtube video but it would not play.

There was a message at the black bar on top of the video that "an error has occured". This is not the same as other distros which produce a "you must install Flash" if it does not play.

I then went to Google and played one of the new videos that Google now has on the lower right as a default. It played fine.

I returned to YouTube and tested a variety of videos and they played fine.

I then tested FF at several of the websites with which I work and that use flash and they also worked fine.

I attempted to play an audio disc, particularly a Neil Young cd, and it would not play using either Exail or Movie Player, MP gave "error, could not read from source" and Exail said that it needed a .wav plugin. However, when I approached the cd through the file system, an icon appeared on the desktop and when clicked it gave "audio disc/file browser" I could click a track and it did, indeed play.

However, again, after that was done, I was then able to go through Exail to get to the cd and play a track and it did, indeed, again, work! lol.

I attempted a relatively straightforward DVD, but one that does, have a menu system, "Inferno" by Dario Argento and it played very nicely.

I then attempted a very cranky DVD, Pan's Labyrinth, which is marketed in the U.S. but the language is in Spanish and so requires English subtitles, which are, by the way default. It also has a VERY complex menu system for the chapters. I could not get it to play with the same error "An error occured, could not read from resource."

I then attempted to play from the file menu and also was not able to get it to play. Again, this DVD is one of my tests of playing a DVD for distros, so no big deal.

So, my advice, at for this release, is to let the distro "practice" on some "simpler stuff" and it will probably do almost anything that anyone that wants to use a GNU compliant distro would desire! :)

So.. for the distro, I would say BIG THUMB'S UP for the developers! :)

As a secondary comment I find the setup of the forum, with the default entry being through one of the three provided languages to be an interesting twist. The "possibly usual" format is for the forum to be in a default language and then the other languages being in a subsection of the forum. So, again, that is an interesting way to do things. :)

I did notice in the profile section that there are a few terms that are in Spanish such as "personal information" but that is no biggie and I am sure it is just something that hasn't been gotten around to yet. :)

So...for the forum and the distro! GOOD JOB developers! :)

Janus

Janus