Why is Trisqual a derivative of Ubuntu?

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xome
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A rejoint: 07/27/2023

Hi everyone, I have recently installed Trisquel on my T460s thinkpad and I am finding myself very well.
I have a question to ask, those who use Trisquel do it mainly for ethical reasons and I think it is a completely respectable choice, but why use Ubuntu as a starting point that refers to a company and that follows the logic of the market?
Let me explain better, Debian also makes questionable choices but is maintained by the community and not by a company.
Thank you

Magic Banana

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A rejoint: 07/24/2010
xome
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A rejoint: 07/27/2023

All this material will be very useful to me, thank you very much for your answer.

andyprough
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A rejoint: 02/12/2015

One of our Trisquel forum members, @aitor, already makes a completely free version of Devuan, which is Debian done right in my opinion. It's called GNUinOS, and you can find it at gnuinos[dot]org.

Since we already have GNUinOS, there's no reason to have Trisquel change to be a second Debian-based free distro.

And prior to GNUinOS we did have gnewsense for many years, which was an FSF approved free distro based on Debian. It was even Richard Stallman's favorite distro if I recall correctly, but I don't think it was ever as popular as Trisquel, and it eventually died for lack of development work.

xome
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A rejoint: 07/27/2023

Thank you

eric23
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A rejoint: 06/30/2017

A correction, gNewSense was based on Ubuntu for some years and then came the lemote yeeloong which then they rebased on Debian. I don't how accurate the versions table in the Wikipedia article is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNewSense

xome
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A rejoint: 07/27/2023

Thank you