a year after the last release of Published Updating a completely free Linux distribution TRISQUEL 9.0.1 , based on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS batch database and use-oriented in small enterprises, in educational institutions and domestic users. TRISQUEL personally approved by Richard Tsvetna, officially recognized as a free software fund as completely free and placed in List Recommended Foundation for Distributions . To download available installation images, size 2.6 GB, 2 GB and 1.1 GB (x86_64, i686). The release of updates for the distribution will be carried out until April 2023.
Distribution is notable for an exception to the supply of all non-free components, such as binary drivers, Firmware and graphic design elements, distributed under non-free license or using registered trademarks. Despite the full failure of proprietary components, TRISQUEL is compatible with Java (OpenJDK), supports most of the audio and video formats, including work with DVD protected, cycling only completely free implementations of these technologies. As desktops are offered Mate (default), LXDE and KDE.
In the new release, installation images are updated and new versions of packages with fixes from the LTS-Branch of Ubuntu 18.04 are transferred. ABROWSER browser (Firefox with patches) is updated to version 93. In the installation assemblies, the problem with access to repositories and updates is solved due to delivery in the CA-CERTIFICATES package of an outdated root certificate IDENTRUST, which was used to cross the root certificate certificate of the LET’S Encrypt certificate.
The fully free version of the Linux kernel is Linux Libre, which has an additional cleaning of proprietary firmware and drivers containing non-free components.
Also marked Start of testing Pre-assemblies of the TRISQUEL 10 branch translated on the Ubuntu base 20.04.
Basic Requirements To fully free distributions:
- inclusion in the software distribution with FSF approved by licenses;
- Invalid delivery of binary firmware (Firmware) and any binary components of drivers;
- failure to have unchangeable functional components, but the possibility of incorporating non-functional, subject to permission to copy and distribute them in commercial and non-commercial purposes (for example, CC BY-ND cards to the GPL game);
- Inadmissibility of the use of trademarks, the terms of use of which prevent free copying and distribution of the entire distribution or part;
- Compliance with the licensing purity of documentation, the inadmissibility of documentation recommending the installation of proprietary software to solve certain problems.