Trisquel 5.5 Release (100% Free Software)

The latest release of Trisquel has been announced. For those of you who have never heard of Trisquel it is a 100% free (as in freedom) GNU/Linux distro. It is based off Ubuntu version 11.10.

It should also be noted that this release contains significant improvements to accessibility. So if you know anyone who is visually impaired this may be a distro you want to try.

If you want to give it a whirl you can download it and try the liveCD.

cool thanks ill have to download the live cd and try it out=)

Unable to install on vmware player, hangs after file copy of the livecd.

I used Trisquel 4.0 on a machine for a while, was impressed with their adherance to the "libre" philosophy, while just getting things done with open software.

With the inevitable inclusion of Gnome 3, I was happy to see that they decided to use the fallback environment as default, so that users wersn't forced to use proprietary video drivers.

http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-55-sts-brigantia-release-announcement

Hey, it is working, must of been a server overload or something, Why is firefox named abrowser??

spitter3 said:

Hey, it is working, must of been a server overload or something, Why is firefox named abrowser??

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The browser is renamed because of trademark issues. While the firefox source code is free software under the GPL/MPL/LGPL (Tri-licensed) if it is modified the mozilla trademarks say you can't legally call it firefox in that case. The browser is modified so that if you use the add-ons page it points to a page maintained by the project instead of the firefox add-on page because the firefox add-on page recommends proprietary add-ons. So that is why it is called abrowser (a web browser)

Debian had a similar issue. They call their version iceweasel.