[orca-list] Trisquel GNU/Linux 6.0 LTS "Toutatis" has arrived!

[Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>]

I've been using this for a while.  With the exception of at-spi2-core 
fragility with some web sites, it works well!  Might this fragility have 
to do with the fact that I'm running a machine with an Intel Atom 
dual-core processor?  Let's hear of your experiences with this nifty, 
little distro;  lol.  The official announcement is finally out!


Submitted by quidam on 9 March, 2013 - 05:41

This long awaited release is based on Ubuntu Precise, and as usual comes 
full of free software goodness. We continue to provide an easy to use 
classic desktop experience complete with full featured browsing, office, 
communications and social networking utilities. Download it while it is hot!
New Features

    Linux-Libre 3.2
    Xorg
    Abrowser 19
    GNOME 3.4
    LibreOffice 3.5

A better browser

Our web browser without a name (Abrowser, a Firefox derivative that does 
not recommend non-free software) now comes with shiny new features, like 
full html5 video support (webm, h264 and other formats) that allow to 
use sites like Youtube without a flash plugin. This version can also 
show pdf files without a plugin, and implement instant messaging web 
applications based on WebRTC.
Accessible by default

In the quest for an improved experience for disabled users that we 
started some releases ago we used to make an special version (the 
International live DVD) that came with the digital ramps turned on by 
default. In this release we took that idea one step further and now all 
the images are equally accessible for visually impaired users: if while 
booting the live cd you don't touch any key and let the 30 seconds 
countdown finish, the screen reader will be on when the desktop is launched.
Extended support

This release is a Long Term Support one, meaning that bugfix and 
security updates will be published until 2017. Along with this we have 
decided to change our release schedule from this point on: we will no 
longer publish short term support versions every 6 months, but focus on 
giving the best possible support to the LTS release, providing 
backported improvements to core packages like the kernel, the browser 
and the xorg server among others. We will also make it easier for 
volunteers to provide newer versions of extra packages through an 
optional community-backports repository.

We will publish point releases every 6 months including all improvements 
done to the system in that time.
How to update

If you are running Trisquel 4.0 or 5.5, a system upgrade will be 
available in the system updater application (if you run a server use 
"sudo do-release-upgrade"). If you use Trisquel 4.5 or 5.0 you need to 
apply each update step (4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0) or upgrade manually. Ask for 
instructions to an experienced user to do so, in our forums, mailing 
lists or IRC channels.
How to help

With this release we are maintaining enough sources to produce over a 
thousand packages adapted to Trisquel to either improve their freedom, 
user privacy, usability and accessibility among other features. We run 
all our main resources ourselves (compilation, distribution and web 
servers) and all our online services run on our own machines to make us 
completely self contained. This is a big effort, and we would like you 
to take part in it. We are improving our development services to make 
room for volunteer hackers to join in a community effort to improve the 
system, but if you don't know how to debug or maintain packages you can 
still contribute by improving the wiki, help others in the forums, 
translating, or finding and reporting bugs. And if you don't have time 
for it you can help by making donations, joining our membership program, 
or buying gifts in our stores.