Trisquel 9.0 Etiona
Jonni Bidwell is on a brave quest to banish binary blobs from his legendary Eee PC. Will this distro prove helpful, or become more of a hindrance?
IN BRIEF
A distro for those who take software freedom seriously. Featuring the blobless Linuxlibre kernel and only FSFapproved applications. See also: Debian, Fedora, Parabola, Hyperbola.
The world is full of people shouting and clamouring for the latest thing (and the last review pages because we go to press today – Ed). So it’s always reassuring to discover places where things still move slowly.
Nowhere is this more true than Trisquel, the freedom (as in speechdom) -loving, Ubuntubased distro endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. Trisquel used to push out one release a year (based on the corresponding Ubuntu LTS release), but it’s been over 18 months since the previous release. And that one took over three years to come into fruition. This new release is based on Ubuntu 18.04, the second-to-last LTS release, which is supported until 2023.