Time for Trisquel 7.1? Summary of various trisquel installations on different machines

Dear Trisquel forum members,

I want to thank everybody for using and assembling such a great GNU/Linux distribution.

I just joined the forum to ask whether it is time to make an updated version of trisquel 7 available for the average user and the benefit of free software on the trisquel website.

I tried to install trisquel 7.0 and trisquel mini 7.0 (each in both versions i686 and amd64) on various computers over the past weeks. I observed that the update via command line creates a huge amount of web traffic for the sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade, sudo apt-get autoremove or the sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade procedures. The update via the software updater was not possible in various cases. The sudo apt-get and then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade results in a question regarding grub2 and whether the user wants to keep a file or accepts the maintainer's file. Such questions and the fact that these updates take about 30 minutes are not good for the spread of Trisquel as the GNU/Linux distribution listed on the FSF page that respects the freedom of its users.

Besides that I observed that the trisquel 7.0 i686 iso create a strange shutdown behaviour on various machines (the computer needs more than two minutes to shutdown). This seems to be the case when the computer was a wifi card inside that would require a proprietary driver, but an external wifi-usb-stick running a free driver is used. The trisquel 7.0 i686 install on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-19 mk1 resulted in a very very slow system. This could also be the case because of the internal Intel wifi card not used. Trisquel 4.2 runs super fast on all those machines. If I knew how to do it I would opt for Trisquel 4.2 on all my machines and securing it but I am not able to.

When I joined the FSF a few years ago the membership card included Trisquel (probably Trisquel 4.2). That membership card distribution was amazing. I wish I could help you updating the various iso images on your website but I am not able to.

I just think that Trisquel deserves to be installable, updatable in a few minutes and not in 30 minutes via the graphical updater provided and not via the command line with a decent startup and shutdown time.

I tried the trisquelizer script as well as an alternative. I first installed ubuntu server and then ran the script. But afterwards the computer still used the only card provided as an option during the ubuntu install: the internal wifi card requiring proprietary drivers. The script did not check whether there was a proprietary wifi card running at let it still run afterwards.

Thanks to all of you! Keep up the great work.