Trisquel 3.0 STS Linux (Dwyn)
Desktop & Apps
After my last review of moonOS 3, Trisquel is a bit of a let down when it comes to the desktop theme. Frankly, it’s just really boring and blase to look at. Now I know I probably shouldn’t be too critical since moonOS is so unique and beautiful in how it looks but it’s pretty tough to stare at Trisquel’s desktop after experiencing the glory of moonOS 3.
I’d like to see the Trisquel developers give us something gorgeous to start at when we first boot into our Trisquel desktop. There’s nothing better for a distro-hopper like me then to be startled and impressed when first viewing a remastered distro’s theme and wallpaper the way that I was when I first looked at moonOS 3.
Trisquel comes with a respectable amount of software and here’s a sampling of what you’ll find:
Games
Chess
Blackjack
Gnometris
Mines
Nibbles
Sodoku
Graphics
gThumb Image Viewer
GIMP
Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor
XSane Image Scanning
Cheese Webcam Booth
Internet
Web Browser
Evolution Email
Pidgin IM
XChat
Transmission
Multimedia
Audacious
Brasero Disc Burner
Elisa Media Center
Movie Player
Rhythmbox Music Player
TVtime Television Viewer
Office
OpenOffice.Org
Evolution Calendar
Dictionary
More software is available via the Add/Remove Applications tool. Just be sure to refresh it so you make sure you have the most up-to-date list of packages before you begin installing other applications. Additional software available includes Abiword, GBonds, KOffice, KOrganizer, Seamonkey and many other applications.
It's easy to add more software to your Trisquel system.
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wow really superb….i wonder how trisquel was able to play dvd and youtube videos without installing any more softwares…even in ubuntu we have to install restricted extras to play youtube videos(flash) and we have to install libdvd for playing dvds….can you please tell what software trisquel is using for playing youtube videos(flash is a proprietary software) and for playing dvds….really i’m going to try it..
I think it will be great step as now we can implement this in ubuntu and ubuntu will be getting out of the box support for flash and dvds…
Jim, were you able to determine what software libraries and codecs that Trisquel implements in order to play encrypted DVDs and other multimedia without installing non-free or proprietary software? Have there been recent advances in those areas? If so, and they work, sure, using truly free software would be nice.
I’d like to know more about this.
Trisquel includes swfdec for flash, and libdvdcss for encrypted DVD’s. It can also play almost every audio and video file using free codecs.
@quidam Thank you for the information….If trisquel can implement thsese why can’t ubuntu include swfdec and libdivdcss in their distro….i heard about open source gnash project (alternative for adobe flash) also….do you know about it…..can you please tell what is the difference between gnash and swfdec….
Any way Thumbs Up for the great job done by Trisquel developers…
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Frankly, one of the most underrated distros I’ve ever tried and I hope it will stay around for long time
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“Trisquel GNU/Linux is a version of the GNU operating system using the Linux kernel.”
Linux is not GNU. Looks like the Stallmanists invaded that particular Wikipedia article.
Wouldn’t you think for it to be GNU, it would use an actual GNU kernel?
Other than that, great article.
Face it. It’s Linux, not GNU. The operating system layer is Linux, and the distribution is whatever its CREATORS wanna call it. A system distribution and an operating system is NOT defined by the toolchain it uses.
@ Yaro:
The operating system is a lot more than just the kernel. The GNU project built most of the core software in a GNU/Linux distribution, including bash and the programs you use with it. If not for the GNU project, the linux Kernel wouldn’t boot, wouldn’t have a command line, and wouldn’t have a file system to interact with. Linus wouldn’t have even been able to compile the kernel in the first place. (Linus used the GNU C compiler.)
Though, none of that needs to be said since it says “Triquel GNU/Linux” on their website — no one messed with the wikipedia page.
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