Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Freedomware distro

[Michael Dorrington]

On 03/08/17 11:44, Philip Hudson wrote:
> What's the state of play? Is Trisquel still the main/only game in
> town? I'm happiest with an apt/dpkg/.deb-based system.

FSF/GNU maintain a list of what they consider "Free System Distributions":
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

And from what I understand, Trisquel is the "main/only game in town" for
an apt/dpkg/.deb-based "Free System Distribution".  Work is being on
gNewSense but it is far behind.  Even Trisquel is struggling, from what
I hear, feel free to update me.  With the latest Trisquel (7.0) is based
on Ubuntu 14.04:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisquel

Although work is being done on Trisquel 8 (which Wikipedia says will use
MATE) and looks to have been planned for 2016:

https://trisquel.info/en/new-cycle-what-we-achieved-and-whats-come

Personally, I would recommend Debian 'main'.  I consider this to be a
fully free software distribution and use it.  Debian is not on the above
list.

Interestingly, the "Free System Distributions" include non-free
documentation such as the Emacs and GCC manuals, which Debian omits
because they are non-free.

M.

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