Hooray! Trisquel 9 development version is available. This is perhaps a great time for me to try it out, contribute to development, and maybe also put together a digital audio workstation version like Ubuntu Studio.
Also, please note that many artists require more up-to-date softwaer than garden variety desktop users, so the long-term support release cycles tend not to match very well with the needs of artists.
20190723/https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-9-ready-development-and-testing
Sadly, I learned that Musix has been removed from the endorsed distributions list at the request of the maintainer, due to lack of update. However, the maintainer is optimistic to do a solo handed update, if only sufficient funds are donated to work one full month without interruptions. We’ll have to wait and see. Unfortunately, I feel that the problem is bigger, that the community of techy musicians has decreased in number. Nowadays to be a musician, you no longer need to be really skilled in tech, so I guess that’s one of the big reasons why the tech musician community is waning.
20190723/https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
20190723/https://musixdistro.wordpress.com/
Wondering why Trisquel has its own repositories and build system, rather than sharing that of Ubuntu? There’s a good answer and explanation in this forum thread.
20190723/https://trisquel.info/en/forum/why-does-trisquel-uses-own-mirrors-bulids-own-packages