I think tg3 has a valid point with this, as well as all of his other posts
on this topic. If we're lucky, Trisquel 8 will be released at the same time
as Ubuntu 18.04, which makes its packages outdated by two years. I know that
Trisquel 7 still gets security updates, etc., but I have not found it to be
reliable (it constantly freezes, and only a hard reset will allow me to
continue; also, some of the applications also crash/freeze, like deja-dup,
which is unacceptable for a backup solution, and there is no way to get a
newer version of it on Trisquel 7).
I also understand that Ruben is working a full-time job, and that he can't
put as much time into Trisquel 8 as we would like, so I'm not blaming him; I
think that an honest approach for him would be to either reallocate his
resources to help out another libre OS, and retire Trisquel for good, or else
find a way to get enough developers to help him put out releases in a
reasonable amount of time. I would personally love to help with Trisquel 8,
but I'm not a developer, so I don't believe any contributions that I could
make would help it to be released substantially sooner.
I know that people on this forum seem to hate Purism (for reasons that are,
to me, unclear; in reading both the forums here, as well as everything that
Purism has put out that I can find, there was no outright deception on their
part, but a few instances where they misjudged what they could do, and made
promises that they later couldn't fulfill), but they have been making a lot
of progress on the free software front, even having their own libre
distribution that not only up-to-date, it is also a rolling release, so there
is much less concern that it would go the way of Trisquel 8.
