Re: [Trisquel-users] 3d Acceleration support

[onpon4]

Keep in mind, the timing of the Ubuntu 14.04 release is pretty crucial in  
this case. It sounds like you need a very recent kernel, and it sounds like  
you also need a very recent version of some other software, like X perhaps,  
that Trisquel 6 doesn't have. Basically, you need a bleeding-edge system.  
Ubuntu 14.04 just happens to have been released so recently that it's  
bleeding-edge enough. If you were in the same situation a month earlier,  
Ubuntu probably wouldn't have helped much, if at all. If GdNewHat (which is  
based on Fedora) weren't recent enough, the only alternative I can think of  
would have been to use Parabola (which is based on Arch).

I think this is a general timing problem with releases of new hardware,  
compatible software, and operating systems actually including that new  
compatible software, not a problem with free/libre systems in particular. At  
worst, we might experience the problem more because we simply have fewer  
systems to choose from. One new system by the FSF probably wouldn't fix it.