The release candidate images for the 4.5 release of Trisquel, "Slaine"

are ready for testing. Note that this images will become the final

release if no bugs are found. Minor bugs would be fixed via updates.

The files can be found at http://devel.trisquel.info/slaine/iso/

The full list of features will be published with the press note. The

final release date -if everything works well- would be tomorrow,

March 19th, as a salute to LibrePlanet 2011.

Current Trisquel 4.0 LTS can choose to keep using that release -which

will be supported until 2013- or upgrade to 4.5 using the update

manager. To make it prompt for this update, configure the "Software

Sources" program to show "Normal releases" instead of LTS releases.

The updater will not start showing the update as available until the

final release is done, but if you are impatient or want to help test

the upgrader, run this command (after changing the setting above)

update-manager -d

If you want to try this release by making a live USB drive, you can use

the included usb-creator app. Note that due to a change in the boot

manager, Trisquel 4.0 will need to have syslinux 4.x installed in order

to make a live USB drive from a 4.5 iso. Syslinux 4.x is now available

on Trisquel 4.0 as a regular update. Also, the images are now in

isohybrid format, so they can be dumped directly to the usb drive.

If you find a serious bug please contact with us to update the images

before the release. Minor bugs can be reported as usually to be fixed

via regular updates.

Users of NVIDIA cards will find that the 3D acceleration support was

removed since the beta images, because it is still experimental and

prone to make the system freeze while running games, or applications

like Gimp or OpenOffice.org. You can easily enable the 3D support with

this command:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental

Please someone translate this note into the other forum languages.