I am posting this from Dragora GNU/Linux-libre. Hello!
I was wondering, what do you consider to be the strengths and weaknesses of
Trisquel vs gNewSense vs Dragora vs Parabola vs other FSF approved? I am not
trying to start a flame or holy war, just some information that could guide
GNU/Linu
I'll start first.
Parabola is if you like to have the bleeding edge of everything, and want to
configure your environment yourself.
Trisquel is no-nonsense for home & work. Works out of the box, if you're into
that sort of thing.
gNewSense is Trisquel, but more stable and tested. Use this if y
I haven't tested blag neither dragora but I have opinions concerning
Trisquel, gnewsense and Parabola:
Parabola is ideal for a person who needs the latest packages avaliable, and
they are mostly vanilla. Being on the edge have its drawbacks like the fact
that the system is more prone to bra
There is the "ultimate" free GNU/Linux-libre distro, GNU Guix. Try it, it's
great!
Agreed. I used Parabola for a while, but it was an overkill for my machine,
which I use mostly for Emacs and stuff. I now web browse on a Trisquel
desktop and use Dragora without a GUI on my laptop.
I made a mistake, I wrote brake instead fo break... Oh my, sorry english I
didn't mean to.
Seconded. It's not 'complete' (Hence why it's not on the FSF-approved distro
list), but it's still great. Not the most user-friendly distro, so don't hand
a CD out to a friend unfamiliar with GNU/Linux.
(I'm in the dust, sorry- the package manager and the Guix distribution are
fantastic, but
I think another outlook could be:
If you like Ubuntu but want a Libre version then Trisquel is for you, or if
you want newer but not the latest software.
If you want the bleeding edge, or close to it then Parabola.
But, if you do not trust Ubuntu or Canonical, and prefer stability over newer
Emacs is not installed by default, but the plus CD is an iso you can get from
their sourceforge that has Emacs 23.something and other goodies. Dragora
doesn't have an 'official' repository, but there are user ones. I saw that
one repo had the new Emacs, but not for my architecture. I just not
Guix is hackable in Guile/Scheme, versatile (reliable & less prone to package
management problems), etc. I think it was hackability mostly. If your entire
system is configurable in the best programming language in the world (Lisp),
this will encourage people to work on it more. And RMS is/was
In my opinion the bigger difference among fully free distributions is support
(closely related to community size) and release cycle. See also
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technical-advantages-trisquel-over-debian.
Only Trisquel and Parabola seem to have a sizeable community. I think that
Using this thinking, then all of the lesser GNU/Linix distros should abandon
ship and only support the largest 3, 4 or 5 distos?
gNewSense is not deprecated, 4.0 is based on Debian 7, and has backports
etc... When 4.0 is up, then work will start immediately on 5.0 based on Deb.
8.
There
"The strength in GNU/Linix is its diversity, the more projects the stronger
the community becomes. Otherwise we delve into the realms of Microsoft and
Apple and only repeat their mistakes!"
I agree too few options lead to monopoly, but I don't think that more
projects equals stronger commun
exactly - it'll be old from the very beginning. but stable..
:)
gnewsense 4 will be great for servers aslong as it gets security updates
and also i think one of the advantages of gnewsense is it runs on MIPS
computers not something it know alot about but if you have one of those
computers gnewsense may be your only libre option
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