Aramo ISO Beta 4 (Dic 24 2022)

What a great gift! This would solve both issues I found earlier. I am going to re-install on my Alder Lake laptop and on a Dell R630 server now. Could you publish SHA256 checksums for the netinst image too? OpenPGP signatures would also be great! I have Talos II Lite machine waiting for the ppc64el images, happy to test them when they become available! What arm-boards will be supported?

Update: trisquel_11.0_amd64.iso beta4 and trisquel-netinst_11.0-20221223_amd64.iso on PV41NZ laptop (Intel 1260P CPU and AR9462 WiFi): No release blocker, everything works fine! I completed graphical and text installations from LiveDVD, and text install from netinst, all via builtin WiFi. Didn't try LVM, but both btrfs and ext4. Keyboard layout works in tty. Minor things: 1) Selecting 'Check disk for defects' on LiveDVD starts a graphical Trisquel but nothing happens. If I look in the syslog, casper-md5check (md5?) has run and said OK but I wouldn't expect most people to look in the syslog for results? 2) During graphic manual partitioning, if there is a swap partition defined, the installer always appears to want to re-format it even though the checkbox for Format? is not checked. Text mode install does not seem to have a Format-button, and also always re-format swap partition. I have other operating systems on this machine (or had... before I mistakenly wiped out my Guix installation, ouch) that mount the swap partition using UUID and I prefer to not re-format the swap partition. Could be an upstream Ubuntu bug, not worthy of fixing in Trisquel. 3) Large part of the installation is removing language packages, but after first boot the abrowser-locale-*, hyphen-*, ice-dove-locale-*, libreoffice-l10n-*, mythes-* packages are still present. Is this intentional? It seems to remove the gimp-help-*, hunspell-*, language-pack-* language sets. This doesn't really matter much, consistency with Ubuntu is more important so this may considered to be an upstream problem, and doing anything Trisquel-specific also doesn't seem necessary.

Hello, there is one problem I had with an earlier Aramo beta. I installed trisquel-mini via the net installer and log in to my "Trisquel-mini" desktop which should be LXDE. That is working without a problem. But if I double click the personal folder on my desktop a window appears that says:"Operation not supported". I checked the file /home/knife/Desktop/home.desktop and there is this line:URL=file:$HOMEI changed that line to URL=file:/home/knife and now a double click on my home folder on the desktop brings to /home/knife as expected. For testing I typed echo $HOME in a terminal, and that works, too. It gives me "/home/knife".

Maybe this can be fixed til the official release

Other Icons on the desktop are working as expected.

I was reading through the various conversations about 32-bit support and it seems like there will be no 32-bit x86 support for Trisquel 11, right?

Good Morning all.
I just installed the Alpha 4... no real issues at this point, I will make note of any glitches and report back.

Question: do you expect this will evolve and not require a reinstall after the Beta?
no big deal, just planning ahead

Peter

Happy GNU year to everyone,
On my machine with Aramo and LXDE installed scrot has to be installed to make screenshots. So I think scrot is missing in default Trisquel-mini install.
sudo apt install scrot

Hello all,

After downloaded Triskel (KDE) Aramo i got these images. Can't past this. Eternal loop?
After waiting something like 10 minutes the image of trisquel logo continues to the black one.

My system:
Sistema Operativo: Debian GNU/Linux 11
Versão do Plasma do KDE: 5.20.5
Versão das Plataformas do KDE: 5.78.0
Versão do Qt: 5.15.2
Versão do 'Kernel': 5.10.0-20-amd64
Tipo de SO: 64-bits
Processadores: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memória: 15,6 GiB de RAM
Processador Gráfico: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2

Seems the ISO must be a bit more polished and booting properly.

Nouveau, which reports the error, is the (free, of course) driver for nVidia's cards. Using the GPU built in your Intel processor instead of the nVidia card should solve the problem. Otherwise, try adding Linux's nomodeset option, and maybe xforcevesa too. I guess the instructions on https://askubuntu.com/tags/nomodeset/info apply to Trisquel too.

Hey guys,

Thanks for the fast reply.
On the advice of iShareFreedom i tried:

1- PUREOS - Version KDE PLASMA- Worked. Just booting in normal conditions and it worked like a charm.
2- Trisquel 10 (MATE) - work as expected but not Triskel (KDE) 11. Need to test Triskel 10 (KDE); Trisquel 11 (MATE) to see if the boot is the same. As on Fedora with just libre software it works under Fedora Workstation but not KDE spin. Maybe it is the same here.
3- I will test what Magic Banana told and i will put later the report here.

Thanks again for the answers guys.
Best regards.

I tried the "something else" option for partionning while using the graphical installation, I cannot see any option to use LVM. Is there any?

Hi,

So, to tell my feedback about this beta release I'm using for a couple of days, I would start by it stability. One of the most satisfying things in Aramo is that it combine stability, and not just a little, with features with only a delay of few months from Ubuntu/Debian.

That I note is that I my CPU usage had drastically reduced since I started used it. To give numbers, I'm standing around 5~25% most of the time as in Trisquel 10 it had much peaks to 100% and was the rest of the time at ~60%. I also note major improvements with my GPU. Indeed this last months I had serious problems with it, becoming more and more difficult to launch some applications, notably games. Now, but of course it's not a miracle, I get fewer hangs from my GPU, even if sometimes I have to reboot, but I believe in futures patches.

About apps, I get less and less problems with Trisquel apps & forks, specially Abrowser which I left while I was using Trisquel 9 because of a lot of problems, for the benefit of Firefox, and now I went back to it it is much usable, even (sometimes) I get sort of "traces" of these problems, but it's not annoying anymore since it's rare. I can also say that KDE now uses less RAM (on Triskel), but it might be independent from Trisquel development.

Last, it might be a good thing to add a checkbox in the LiveUSB installer to choose if we could use other mirrors as archive.trisquel.org, as I was surprised to get an unknown mirror with much keys errors.

So, to conclude, it would be relevant to release Aramo in the next days, it has a perfect "LTS behaviour".