Just as we release Trisquel 8.0, the development of the next version begins! Following the naming suggestions thread I've picked Etiona, which sounds good and has the fewest search results.

We currently do our development in a rented dedicated server in France, and although it is functional it has many performance and setup issues. It has 32 gigs of RAM, which may sound like plenty but stays below the sweet spot where you can create big enough ramdisks to compile large packages without having to ever write to disk during the build process, greatly improving performance. It also has only 8 cores and rather...

Last week (on 12/08/17) we reinstated the Freedom Fridays, a tradition in which we hold periodic development meetings and post updates about the project at the end of each week. These updates were long overdue but since we can now consistently dedicate more time to the project, we hope to make fast progress on all fronts.

The main topic for this meeting was the status of the Trisquel 8 release, which is close to ready but still pending some important tasks. The most visible ones are the outdated Trisquel metapackages (essential for the netinstall and distro-upgrading processes to work) and...

As in previous years, Ruben Rodriguez will be representing Trisquel at this edition of FSF's annual conference LibrePlanet. The event will take place this weekend 21st-22nd of March at the Stata building at MIT in Cambridge, Massachussets. Ruben will give a talk entitled Browse in privacy and freedom with GNU IceCat. Special thanks to FSF for covering the trip expenses with a Scholarship, and to ThinkPenguin for doing so with the accomodation.

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As you may know, Trisquel is sovereign over its infrastructure. This means all of the services offered by Trisquel are managed by us, humans. We only rent the hardware and do everything else ourselves. Until now the git repositories were exported using gitweb and updated using shell accounts on the development box, but that has changed and we will be using gitlab for managing core repositories for the Trisquel project from now on.

These are exciting changes, specially the ability to allow developers to host their git repositories in the Trisquel infrastructure. Gitlab also allows for requesting merges of contributed code (also known as "pull requests" in the github world), so...