The release candidate images for the 4.5 release of Trisquel, "Slaine" are ready for testing. Note that this images will become the final release if no bugs are found. Minor bugs would be fixed via updates.
The files can be found at http://devel.trisquel.info/slaine/iso/ The full list of features will be published with the press note. The final release date -if everything works well- would be tomorrow, March 19th, as a salute to LibrePlanet 2011. Current Trisquel 4.0 LTS can choose to keep using that release -which will be supported until 2013- or upgrade to 4.5 using the update manager. To make it prompt for this update, configure the "Software Sources" program to show "Normal releases" instead of LTS releases. The updater will not start showing the update as available until the final release is done, but if you are impatient or want to help test the upgrader, run this command (after changing the setting above) update-manager -d If you want to try this release by making a live USB drive, you can use the included usb-creator app. Note that due to a change in the boot manager, Trisquel 4.0 will need to have syslinux 4.x installed in order to make a live USB drive from a 4.5 iso. Syslinux 4.x is now available on Trisquel 4.0 as a regular update. Also, the images are now in isohybrid format, so they can be dumped directly to the usb drive. If you find a serious bug please contact with us to update the images before the release. Minor bugs can be reported as usually to be fixed via regular updates. Users of NVIDIA cards will find that the 3D acceleration support was removed since the beta images, because it is still experimental and prone to make the system freeze while running games, or applications like Gimp or OpenOffice.org. You can easily enable the 3D support with this command: sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental Please someone translate this note into the other forum languages.