Around the time of Libre Planet we were doing some testing with it and I
wasn't terribly confident in the release. It seemed unstable, ugly, and there
was hardware which didn't work (and should have). Rubén knew this, I knew
this, and the decision to hold off on the release really paid off.
Until the other day I hadn't taken the time to try it out again. It is
amazing.
1. Out of the box support for the hardware that matters (as I would expect)
HP Color laser / Ink Jet printers
- out of the box support for printing
- includes support for scanning on supported models
USB Wireless cards (RTL8187B, RTL8187L, and Carl9170 chipsets)
- just work
USB CSR Bluetooth Cards (warning: not all USB cards with CSR chipsets work)
- just work
Various Atheros PCI chipsets (not all cards neccessarily work though)
- just works
USB Audio Chipsets Work (not all cards neccessarily work though)
- CM119 just works
Intel's 3d graphics drivers work (can't say all cards work/chipsets work)
- 3d acceleration
- suspend to ram
2. Entertainment
- Supports sites like YouTube out of the box
3. Fast
- Really fast boot times
- Trisquel 5.5 feels much snappier than most distributions based on 11.04
4. Looks good even without a 3D accelerated interface
- Trisquel looks good without 3D acceleration
- There isn't any distractions from unessarry visual effects
5. Stable
- I haven't been able to get Trisquel 5.5 to crash once
