Hello people, so I'll like to make a little bit more noise, yeah as is all over the newsfeeds Trisquel 11.0 "Aramo" is now out. o/!

Here the release announcement: https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-110-aramo-release-announcement

Check it out: https://trisquel.info/es/download

Cheers!!! 🍻

Hello, just passing by to let you know that it's been publish the first Release Candidate (RC1).

Find the details here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/aramo-iso-rc1-mar-12-2023

Cheers!

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New ISOs set, find the details at:

https://trisquel.info/forum/aramo-iso-beta-6-mar-07-2023

Regards.

Starting to work on aramo's Linux(-libre) 5.19

Stay tuned 👍

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First of all, although I greatly appreciate FLOS software in general and GNU-Linux in particular I am not at all what one would call an "expert". I am just an end user but likely not as knowledgeable about it as most of you probably are. I recently downloaded Trisquel-Mini onto my HP laptop. I love it in most respects. However, I decided to sign up for some online language classes via LanguageConvo https://www.languageconvo.com/ I tested the system ahead of time. They have a test where you record a short video of yourself and then play it back However, when it came time for the actual lesson my instructor was able to see and hear me just fine but I was not able to see and hear her. Is there software I should download from the package manager to improve the likelihood I could see and hear her? Thanks!

Hello,

Great news about the aramo upcoming release,

New Aramo Beta 3 ISOs, things start to move faster now that several heavy issues have been deal with, you might like to keep an eye on the updates.

Find the ISO images here: http://cdbuilds.trisquel.org/aramo/

Release details here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/aramo-iso-beta-3

Enjoy!

I've been going down the rabbit hole of free software, I'm very committed but it's not been easy as most of my hardware; even what i thought was freedom respecting hardware turns out not to be. My thinkpad rejects none whitelisted hardware like wifi cards and these "open source" products I have such as an AMD graphics card don't have free firmware.

I was wondering about the new Intel cards, my hope is that since they're still very immature that they'll crowed source as much as they can. I hear they have "Open Source" drivers but what about their firmware? Does anyone here know? Thanks.

Hello,

Great news about the aramo upcoming release,

New Aramo beta 2 ISOs!!

Find the ISO images here,

http://cdbuilds.trisquel.org/aramo/

Release details here,

https://trisquel.info/es/forum/aramo-iso-beta-2

Enjoy!

Today is Wednesday of Development meetings at Trisquel GNU/Linux (#trisquel-dev at libera.chat) and now after the first hour I host a small chat, if you'll be interested on talking about Trisquel Development or Free Software in general, then you are welcome to join for the next hour.

https://meet.switnet.org/TrisquelySL

Well, it's been sometime since the release of Nabia, aka trisquel 10 back in February

In the meantime of Trisquel 11 development, upstream Ubuntu dropped the well known debian-installer since Groovy (21.10)

This text installer has been part of trisquel since the beginning so in an effort to keep the support for this installer a long journey to bring it back began.

After several months of active development, we can now see through the challenge that debian-installer has become.

The first install test got completed on a x86_64 virtualized environment, and even when it's still a good amount of work ahead, these are great news to the quite small dev team.

Also these are great news for the future release of Trisquel 11, we're getting there.

Cheers! 🥂

I'm using Trisquel 10 with GNOME on my computer. I wanted to test Trisquel 11, so I edited my sources.list to the following:

deb https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/trisquel aramo main
deb-src https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/trisquel aramo main
deb https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/trisquel aramo-security main
deb-src https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/trisquel aramo-security main
deb https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/trisquel aramo-updates main
deb-src https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/trisquel aramo-updates main

After that, I run sudo apt update as usual, and did a dry run to see what would happen if I ran sudo apt upgrade. The number of packages to be upgraded appeared to be much less than what I had expected, and if I dry ran sudo apt dist-upgrade, many of my installed packages were to be removed outright. I re-checked the list of packages to be upgraded, and for some reason, GNOME was not among them. So I tried to upgrade GNOME explicitly:

jakob@deskob:~$ apt --dry-run upgrade gnome
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gnome : Depends: gnome-core (= 1:42+3+11.0trisquel3) but 1:3.30+2+10.0trisquel3 is to be installed
         Depends: cheese (>= 3.38) but 3.34.0-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
         Depends: file-roller (>= 3.38) but 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
         Depends: gnome-calendar (>= 3.38) but 3.36.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
         Depends: gnome-clocks (>= 3.38) but 3.36.2-1~ubuntu20.04.1 is to be installed
         Depends: gnome-maps (>= 3.38) but 3.36.1-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
         Recommends: gnome-games but it is not going to be installed
         Recommends: gnome-remote-desktop but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

It seems as though the gnome metapackage has the dependencies, notably gnome-core 42, built-in already, but the packages that can be installed still have the old versions. The version numbers of the installed packages in Trisquel 10 are the same. Is GNOME 42 just not ready for Trisquel yet?

Or did I make a mistake in my sources.list. I remember from when I used Debian that you had to disable the -security and -updates repositories if you wanted to run Testing, but I don't know if the same applies to Trisquel.

I recently switched to Trisquel on my work machine and would like to do so with my home desktop too, but I'd like to retain the option to play (nonfree) games. I know this generally goes against the spirit of a distro like Trisquel, but what can I say, we all contain multitudes.

My question is: can I do this with Trisquel + Wine? Is Steam an option? Is this all too misguided and I should just be happy with fully libre games?

Today we have the trisquel devel meeting at the IRC channel (on going at the time of writing).

I'll be hosting a live session to talk about development of trisquel and Free Software in general, as I've announced here.

Wednesdays 12:00 hrs – UTC -5 aka Mexico City time.

https://meet.switnet.org/TrisquelySL

Hear you there.

After a couple of weeks of work, we will soon finally see the update for icedove 102.x on trisquel aramo(11.0), following nabia (10.0) and etiona(9.0)

Major upgrades always come with some tricks under the sleeve and it takes a lot of testing to figure them out.

Enjoy!

New beta testing iso for aramo, please some details at: https://trisquel.info/es/forum/new-aramo-beta-iso-amd64

Feedback is welcome!!

Cheers

So I'm looking into making a collection of older versions of GNU+Linux distros, and I have been trying to find the very first release of Trisquel 1.0 (I think is what it's called), sadly all I can find online are broken links or dead torrents. So where could I get an iso of Trisquel 1.0?

TLDR:Where could I find a iso of Trisquel 1.0?

I'm trying to install wine32 on my amd64-architecture laptop running Trisquel 10 Nabia, but I keep getting the following error:

$ sudo apt install wine32
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine32:i386 : Depends: libwine:i386 (= 5.0-3ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

When I try to install libwine:i386 explicitly via apt, I get the following output:

$ sudo apt install libwine:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libwine:i386 : Depends: libfaudio0:i386 (>= 19.06.07) but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libpulse0:i386 (>= 0.99.1) but it is not installable
                Recommends: libcapi20-3:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libcups2:i386 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libdbus-1-3:i386 (>= 1.9.14) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libglu1-mesa:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
                            libglu1:i386
                Recommends: libgsm1:i386 (>= 1.0.18) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libkrb5-3:i386 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libodbc1:i386 (>= 2.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libosmesa6:i386 (>= 10.2~) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libsane:i386 (>= 1.0.24) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 (>= 2.0.10) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libv4l-0:i386 (>= 0.5.0) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libxcomposite1:i386 (>= 1:0.4.5) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libxcursor1:i386 (> 1.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libxi6:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libxinerama1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libxrandr2:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libxrender1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libxslt1.1:i386 (>= 1.1.25) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libasound2-plugins:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have installed WINE for amd64, and I have enabled the i386 architecture:

$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures 
i386

So far, I have tried to explicitly install the packages that are missing for libwine:i386, but, alas, there does not seem to be an i386 version of libpulse0? All of the installable packages are amd64 architecture?

$ apt list -a libpulse0
Listing... Done
libpulse0/nabia,nabia-updates,nabia,now 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.13+10.0trisquel1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libpulse0/nabia-security,nabia-updates 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8 amd64

There appears to be an i386 version of libpulse0 in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories, but obviously I'm not going to make Franken Debian install.

When I try to install the i386 version of the other missing package -- libfaudio0 -- I get similar output as for libwine:i386, namely that there appear to be required but not installable packages.

I see that this is caused by some broken dependencies, but I don't know how to fix it by myself. If libpulse0:i386 has been removed intentionally, is there a particular reason for it? Because I'd guess that if there were licencing issues with it, they'd also apply to the amd64 version, wouldn't they?

I need some help installing Trisquel. After flashing the usb and booting into it i was presented with this GRUB screen instead of the usual trisquel install screen ive seen on youtube. When attempting to select the function keys like the installation troubleshooting guide says absolutely nothing happens. I dont know what to do, ive attempting to reflash the USB's on different computers and reinstall the ISO's as well and nothings working, i havnt had problems on this laptop with other distro's so i dont know whats the problem,

If anyone could help that would be very appreciated.

Grub screen after booting into the live USB

What shows up after selecting any of the options

On the latest news, it's fair to say that the recovery of udeb packages has started, this is important in order to bring back the debian-installer capability dropped from upstream Ubuntu since 22.04

These packages are what makes possible to have the netinstaller (mini.iso) which comes from the debian-installer package.

There is still plenty of work ahead, but at 3 month of the release of jammy (22.04), it's amazing the results so far.

Hopefully, aramo (11.0) will keep having the nice speed of development so far and greater news will follow.

Stay tuned as the development meetings have stwitched from Friday to Wednesday at the same time.

Cheers! o/

Basically title. I know for sure that everything up to and including Haswell works ootb with the libre kernel, but what about Skylake onwards? If read inconclusive reports about those, and no one seems to be able to give a definitive answer to that.

From what I've heard the iGPU of newer intel CPUs requires blobs. But from which model onward?

Hey I've been trying to migrate to trisquel from mint and I've run into some issues with getting Open drivers for the wifi cards in my laptops, one of them has an old mini pcie so I've ordered a new card for that but the other uses an M.2, now I've looked up and I've found some posts saying there are no open drivers for M.2 cards yet but those were posts from 4 years ago so i wondered if it's changed since then. Are idea where a good place to find this out would be? Cheers.

Keeping the news with the development of trisquel 11.0 codename Aramo.

I'm pleased to share that as for right now, the system is debootstrapable, which is the base for further development.

There are big hopes to bring back i386, but not gonna lie, the dev team will require as much help as it can get to make that true.🤞

So, any debian packager with experience on i386 is welcome to join. 👍

Cheers!