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| | ===Trisquel 5.5=== | | ===Trisquel 5.5=== |
| − | :Announcement: 16, Apr 2012 | + | [http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-55-sts-brigantia-release-announcement Release announcement] - 16 April 2012 |
| − | :Updated ----[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 17:38, 16 April 2012 (EDT) | + | :-- Rubén Rodríguez, Trisquel project leader |
| | + | ::Updated ----[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 17:38, 16 April 2012 (EDT) |
| | *Download: http://trisquel.info/download | | *Download: http://trisquel.info/download |
| − | Trisquel 5.5 STS "Brigantia" is finally here! This release took us
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| − | some extra time but it was well worth it, as even if we went through a
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| − | lot of changes in core components we achieved many improvements while
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| − | preparing the system for the forthcoming long term support release. As
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| − | a sort of compensation (many thanks for your patience!), and due to the
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| − | importance of our next release, we will start hacking on it sooner than
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| − | usual, in about a month.
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| − | This release took our biggest effort in this eight years, and we want
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| − | to thank all the community, members, donors and specially to everyone
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| − | who contributed to the development. Many new technologies, same user
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| − | experience
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| − | This release is our first to be based on GNOME 3, GTK 3 and also
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| − | Linux-libre 3.0.0. GNOME 3 was a big challenge, because as it is
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| − | designed by now, it is not usable for our community. The new default
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| − | interface of GNOME 3 is GNOME Shell, a program that requires 3D
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| − | acceleration to work, as it relies on graphics composition. Sadly, many
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| − | graphics cards today still lack a libre driver providing acceleration,
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| − | so many users who would choose free drivers will be redirected to a
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| − | fallback desktop environment. We think that this way many users could
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| − | feel compelled to install non-free drivers to be able to use the new
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| − | desktop, so we decided to use the fallback environment as default, and
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| − | improve it when possible. Luckily this fallback is a GTK 3
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| − | implementation of GNOME panel 2x, and not only is it very usable, and
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| − | even more stable than the original, but it is also accessible,
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| − | something GNOME Shell is currently lacking.
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| − | One other advantage of using the fallback as default is that we were
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| − | able to use it to provide the same desktop layout that many Trisquel
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| − | users have become attached to. You can of course adapt and customize it
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| − | with panels and applets as usual.
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| − | This release features, among many others:
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| − | - Linux-libre 3.0.0
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| − | - GNOME 3.2
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| − | - Abrowser 11
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| − | - LibreOffice 3.4.4
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| − | Better accessibility, a better project
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| − | Continuing with our commitment to accessibility we have managed to
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| − | improve the integration with the Orca screen reader and other universal
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| − | access software. It was not easy, as it was affected by the changes in
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| − | core libraries underneath, but the results were worth it. If you use
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| − | the i18n DVD the screen reader will be started by default, allowing
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| − | visually impaired users to install it by themselves, and the login
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| − | manager in the installed system will then be accessible. It is still
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| − | far from perfect, but we will keep working on it.
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| − | Another improvement is that many NVIDIA graphic cards are now supported
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| − | with 3D acceleration using the free Nouveau driver, which was moved
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| − | from experimental into the preinstalled set of packages. Also, we can
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| − | announce now that those packages, and all the +300GB of sources and
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| − | binaries in our archive servers are now accessible through new official
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| − | mirrors in the Netherlands and India, thanks to Jason Self and the KMEA
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| − | Engineering college respectively. Many thanks!
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| − | -- Rubén Rodríguez Trisquel project leader | http://trisquel.info _______________________________________________
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| | *Note: Install to Hard Disk is located in "System Settings" Or use command "ubiquity" from terminal. | | *Note: Install to Hard Disk is located in "System Settings" Or use command "ubiquity" from terminal. |
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