Re: [Trisquel-users] When will Trisquel 8.0 (Flidas) release?

[dguthrie]

Obviously they are aware that they want feedback otherwise they wouldn't have  
produced that blog post when people demanded news.
They perhaps think that people will say "why don't you wait, do you really  
need newer software" to anyone who asks for news and are content in staying  
without contact because they know that they will always have support of the  
Free Software Foundation. I know it is good to have Trisquel but the fact of  
the matter is that it is still pretty obscure. Even Ubuntu has not got very  
many users in the grand scheme of things, and Canonical could easily go  
bankrupt as it makes little money from Ubuntu. I truly do appreciate the work  
that goes into Trisquel's development and maintenance, and appreciate it must  
be difficult, but the fact of the matter is we need more communication!  
Without communcication development will probably not grow and this will be  
bad for the community.
The thing is, freedom also means that people can easily switch away. Some  
people here vocally talk about their use of Debian, particularly  
Testing/Unstable. So I think that the idea that we are content with older  
software is exaggerated. Older software often doesn't get maintained after a  
while. Even Ubuntu's developers can only do so much. For security and  
performance, newer software is often better. Ubuntu also don't maintain the  
'Universe' repository which Trisquel pulls alongside main into its single  
repository. The fact is old verstions tend to be pretty hard to maintain,  
otherwise large companies would not pay for Red Hat for RHEL and for the  
support and stability that comes with it, over a long period of time.