I was a free software advocate for a few years. I read Stallman's essays and
other FSF material, and I jumped at the chance to tell those I knew about the
movement. This, unfortunately, turned me into an annoying, pedantic radical
to those around me. And it appears to happen to other people
I can make some allowances for your machine. But they're not relevant in the
face of what I see: the fallback error image, the *dreadful* font
rendering, and SeaMonkey as a browser.
The first and most fundamental purpose of software is to run. A free program
that does not do what the user wants is more restrictive than a proprietary
program that does do what the user wants, because the first does not fulfill
software's fundamental purpose, while the second does.
If you're going to be that uptight about web freedom, you need to stop
browsing the web altogether.
Web pages might not be software. But are they not a work of practical use,
which according to the FSF should carry the same rights as software? Is it
not true that rendering text and UI
Software freedoms apply also to works of practical use. The Web is a work of
practical use. Therefore, software freedoms should apply to the Web.
Yeah, I remember that. I know I used to be one of these radicals. But it all
changed weeks ago when Belenos caused my laptop to look like it was on an LSD
trip, and then I lost my laptop and switched to a newer one. I tried out
Ubuntu and realized just how free it was. The Amazon thing? I
Every single proprietary component is a security and privacy risk. That
doesn't mean it is actually spying on you. Actually, it almost never means it
is spying on you. There are hundreds of thousands of proprietary programs out
there. Admittedly we can't easily know that a given program is
No he doesn't. He does not endorse Debian just because the repository is
hosted on many of the project's main servers, and people can readily learn
about these nonfree packages by browsing Debian's online package database.
He doesn't even want you to tell the user indirectly, that's like
Do you really proprose not allowing the user to load proprietary software?
Because that's no better than Apple's App Store.
Sometimes, free software is not enough. Sometimes, you need proprietary
software to accompany free software and make it work. Surely a system with
mostly free components and a single proprietary component is better than a
fully proprietary system.
But Mr. Stallman thinks the user should
Yeah, your intentions are noble and all, but it's not going to happen.
What about dynamically created web pages? Responsive design? Do those not
require JavaScript? Yet they are not replaceable by installed software.
The web is built on JavaScript, and it is normally used for good and not
I am typing this from my new Debian installation. Which is COMPLETELY
UNUSABLE, because whenever I try to apt-get install anything, I am asked to
insert the disk I used to install the system. I installed the system by
burning a CD image to a USB drive. So I'm coming back to Trisquel, because
Hmm, looking at this from my new Debian installation, it looks like the
screenshot captured everything properly (or rather, didn't, as it doesn't
show the way the screen is displaying). Will be back in several hours with a
photograph.
I have found Debian rather not to my liking, and will be returning to
Trisquel 6.0.1 soon. So, false alarm.
I am fed up with this system.
It's not that I lost all my files the first time I installed Trisquel.
Because that was my fault. I took a risk and overwrote the wrong partition
while I was migrating from Windows. And I panicked and wasted money on
useless HP tech support instead of asking
How do we upgrade from Toutatis, as we upgraded from Brigantia to Toutatis?
When I run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade nothing happens.
It doesn't work! No matter what program I use, PulseAudio Volume Control
shows no level of input in the recording tab, and the resulting files are
blank.
This did not work; it resulted in a blank file.
It does not do the job for me. It results in blank files.
I knew about selecting Monitor of before I made this post. It does not
work.
I installed parec. It does not work.
I want to record whatever audio my computer is playing, and not by
microphone.
Tried VLC. Was too complicated. Probably wouldn't have worked anyway.
Discovered there's an included application for this purpose,
gnome-sound-recorder. It was junk. The World Wide Web agrees that it's junk.
It
As I said in my post, I had tried that before posting this and it did not
work.
The relevant line in the Makefile is
LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lminiupnpc -lrt
-LC:/deps/boost/stage/lib -Lc:/deps/db/build_unix -Lc:/deps/ssl -lssl
-lcrypto -ldb_cxx -lboost_system-mgw46-mt-sd-1_53
-lboost_filesystem-mgw46-mt-sd-1_53
This worked; thank you!
Yes to all.
I'm sorry, how do I change the linker flags?
I'm trying to compile Captcoin, a free software fork of Bitcoin. I installed
the dependencies listed in the ReadMe file and got a good way into the
compilation, but compilation stops with this error:
cd /home/linus/CaptCoin; /bin/sh share/genbuild.sh
/home/linus/CaptCoin/build/build.h
Literally right after I posted this I found the fix. I installed the wrong
version of Boost; you need 1.48.
Okay, new problem. I got almost everything compiled with that library, but
right when it comes to combining the generated binaries, this happens:
g++ -m64 -fstack-protector-all --param ssp-buffer-size=1 -Wl,-O1 -o
CAPTcoin-qt build/bitcoin.o build/bitcoingui.o build/transactiontablemodel.o
Because it's easier. I don't want to code, although I can code; I just want
to study chess. I mean, if it's as simple as finding a C++ lzw implementation
and a couple of copy and pastes, I can't argue with that. But it's probably a
lot easier to delete a single line.
I don't think this is
I'm going with the deletion strategy. I've just deleted the two non-free
files. I can get a good ways into compilation, but then I receive this error
from make:
make: *** No rule to make target `src/egtb/tbindex.cpp', needed by
`src/probe.o'. Stop.
I expected an unresolved inclusion,
Wait! I looked at the options, and it turns out that there's a very simple
solution to all this! After you run ./configure, all you have to do is, on
the line TB = -DSCID_USE_TB -DT41_INCLUDE, delete everything after TB =
and the non-free code won't be included. Yay!
Use gnome-tweak-tool to adjust font size. You will need to do this as both
user and root for it to take effect in applications that you run as root.
Today I tried to download some updates, but both Synaptic and the graphical
Update Manager were unable to connect to the proper server (a 404 not found
error). Thinking it might be some server downtime, I changed my software
source to es.trisquel.info, and suddenly there were no updates to
Someone said this exact thing when Trisquel 6 was being prepared.
I just installed RVM and after a little bit of difficulty I got it working.
But I now have a problem.
I can still run scripts and individual commands on the command line, but I
can't get an interactive shell. The jruby command just waits forever. When I
run jirb, a ton of processes called
Never mind: both have mysteriously started working again. Please disregard
this thread.
On a lark, I compiled a Python program with cxfreeze and ran it through
Valgrind. I'll let the end of the output speak for itself. What's going on
here? Why is this language leaking so much memory?
==15053== HEAP SUMMARY:
==15053== in use at exit: 1,278,276 bytes in 445 blocks
And no, the problem isn't with my program. The program is a simple Hello
World program, and these errors occur even with the command valgrind python
That is great! We've all been worried that SteamOS is a step in the wrong
direction for GNU/Linux, but this shows that it might be exactly the
direction we need.
You could install xbindkeys from Trisquel's repositories, add it to your
startup applications, and then bind some keyboard shortcuts to the diacritics
you need.
I believe nearly everyone else on these forums holds the same viewpoint as in
the second quotation.
Since the Chrome topic is up again: if you don't like the appearance of
Firefox, there's a theme to make it look like Chrome, licensed under MPL 1.1.
Click here to download. Even if you're okay with the appearance of Firefox
this theme is super-cool.
I can't tell if you're saying we shouldn't do this or we don't need to
worry about getting sued, so I'll answer both.
If you're saying I shouldn't risk violating their copyrights by doing this,
you should head over to pretty much every reverse engineering project in
existence and let them
You can do it losslessly!
I happen to have considered this myself, and I've even done it with a few
chess fonts. However, I had obtain permission from the creator of one, who
had licensed it for non-commercial use only.
What you would do is make a drawing in Inkscape using all the font's
It had nothing to do with the laws of Canada. The license restricted
commercial use, so I presumed that would apply to the images created with the
font.
The last the author of FontForge, George Williams, checked, in Canada the
design of fonts can be protected for five years. I believe
Yes, you can do every one of those things, either built-in or via third-party
applications from F-Droid.
On the contrary, most proprietary foundries now offer web embedding.
However, now that I think about it, I think it's more like a video game with
a free engine but proprietary art. You can always use the CSS rules to find
the font file and copy it, and then use FontForge to convert it to a
If there's going to be a future clause to the Firefox licensing where
deriatives will have to use the ad code or else they won't allow you to use
your code, that would make Firefox non-free software, because that's a
restriction on modifications.
I'm not too concerned by this advertising,
I pretty much never click on advertisements, either. But the truth of the
matter is, running websites costs money. You can rely on user donations
(usually unfeasible), make it into a subscription service, or you can
advertise. For this reason, I disable blocking advertisements on any site
Given that fonts are software, should I disable websites' ability to use font
embedding, in case they use non-free fonts?
Debian can be fully free, as long as you don't enable the non-free
repositories.
When my computer first boots, it's using about 250 MB of memory. Then my
daily backup starts automatically, making memory use soar until the backup is
complete. But once it's complete, about 500 MB of memory are in use with no
applications running. The system monitor reveals that the backup
According to Wikipedia, it's not fully developed yet. The Hurd followed an
ambitious design which proved unexpectedly difficult to implement and has
only been marginally usable. (source)
I have no other Bluetooth devices to test, and the Windows computer connected
using the the same Bluetooth transmitter that I'm using.
I'm using MonoDevelop and the C# MonoBrick communication library. Throughout
the site, the author encourages sharing and adaptation.
What am I supposed to be seeing here?
I'm trying to connect a Lego Mindstorms NXT brick to my computer with
Bluetooth. Windows computers I've tested can see and connect to the brick
just fine, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with the brick or the Bluetooth
transmitter.
When I plug the transmitter in, a setup icon with the
I know this is an old thread, but I'm resurrecting it because my sound has
just stopped working again, and this time neither rebooting nor restarting
pulseaudio fixes it. I installed pavucontrol, but it told me nothing.
HEEELP!
I removed all of the other kernels I had and reinstalled the working 3.2.0-38
one. But when I rebooted into GRUB, I couldn't edit the boot options. I
booted anyways.
My system is now unbootable!
Where am I supposed to enter that command? Pressing c in GRUB requires the
username and password, and on the live CD (from which I'm posting this) I get
permission denied for that file.
I proudly post this from my freshly booted system! Your explanation of how to
find the password, combined with help from the users here, allowed me to boot
correctly.
There's a setting there for the background, but not the text.
In any case, I got it solved elsewhere. You can install GTK-Theme-Config
using the instructions on this page.
I no longer want the font Courier 10 Pitch, so I opened a file manager as
root and deleted it from /usr/share/fonts. But now when I try to open a font
in FontForge, the window briefly appears and then quits. When I went to the
terminal from which I'd run gksu thunar, I noticed several
I think I figured it out. There's a file
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/fonts.dir. You need to edit this file, remove all
the lines referring to Courier, and change the number at the top to the
number of lines in the file minus one.
It's not working yet, but I'll reboot and see if that's still
If it's relevant, I installed a new kernel image today and it output this:
cryptsetup: WARNING: found more than one resume device candidate:
cryptswap1
eef1f80a-4268-4214-bc95-2adbdedb9ef3
Perhaps this could be fixed simply by installing a later kernel—I recently
reinstalled Trisquel, and have gone from a 3.8 to a 3.2. How do I do this? I
added jxself's repositories using the instructions on his site, but I can't
figure out how to install the kernel.
Installing the new kernel didn't work. And I can't even edit its boot
options; if I press e it simply asks for a username and password, and then
returns to the main screen.
I took a picture of the output without the quiet splash for 3.2.0-57, and it
is attached. I can see part of the
How can I change the colour of the panel text in XFCE? I suspected it was
somewhere in /usr/share/themes, but couldn't find anything there.
BUMP! This is a serious problem.
If I boot or reboot my laptop, a Trisquel animation logo appears, but does
not go away, no matter how long I wait. I have to force it off with the power
button. When I boot again, a GRUB interface with a Debian background appears,
and asks me if I want to boot a 3.2.0-57 kernel, or Previous
How exactly do I edit the grub line?
It's been an eventful day.
I backed up my home folder (which contains gigabytes of data due to my
involvement with the Replicant project) and reinstalled the system. I used
text mode, but this booted into a textual environment, and even after
installing XFCE nothing worked.
So I
I just tried out XFCE and loved its customizability. But when I tried to add
Compiz to enable window tiling, I lost all capabilities of a window manager.
I was unable to close or move windows I opened; there were no minimize,
maximize, close buttons on the top corner.
I removed the xfce4
That did not work. I received an error that there was no such source package
or build dependencies for it.
I think this was posted in the forums before, and it was found to require
proprietary software for the Wi-Fi to work. And I'm pretty sure it won't use
coreboot.
New libre font!
Gaspar is a condensed slab serif typeface, with only a few true italic
shapes. I found it on FontSquirrel, and it is under the OFL.
My question was to add arguments to make up my mind to decide whether they
are software or not. I believe that means I was asking philosophically.
I haven't really been following the discussion since I was convinced (fonts
are works of practical use and need to carry the freedoms of
You can never be sure of that when purchasing something over the Internet.
But I'm not exactly flying to Toronto to perform the exchange in person; if I
were, I would have asked for a lot more.
I don't believe they own the patent; that expired long ago. In our paper
communications, they
If you can mount the Windows partition of your hard drive from Trisquel, you
should recover all your files from it.
Your comment is blank again.
The way copyright works in the U.S... I'm Canadian, buying from a Canadian
foundry.
Bump! We're really lagging in donations, and can't do this without your help.
It's my campaign. I heard of Indiegogo before I'd heard of Kickstarter, and I
like Indiegogo's site layout better.
I figured it out. There should be a file (more accurately, a link to a file)
/etc/fonts/conf.d/01-trisquel.conf. You will need to edit this file to
include the names of your chosen fonts as highest priority (above the
existing family entries).
This question came to my mind while I was discussing my Free Clarendon
campaign with someone else. When I claimed that fonts are software, because
they are a program designed to draw the outlines, he countered with a
powerful point.
If a font is a program created to draw outlines, and
Remember this thread about setting proprietary typefaces free? And then this
thread?
It's finally happening! My campaign to turn one of the greatest typefaces of
all time into free software is up and live! I aim to collect Canada Type's
fee of $30,000 (I've set the goal higher for the sake
It's one of the oldest and most popular typefaces that survive today. That's
why I chose it over Canada Type's other possibility, Informa Pro.
To change your UI fonts, you can go to Trisquel Menu → System Settings,
select Advanced Settings, on the side menu select Fonts, and click on the
setting for Default Font. You should be able to change your font size
system-wide.
Replicant's minimum criteria for a new port are:
* The device must be supported by CyanogenMod
* Its network type must be GSM and not CDMA (true of this device)
* There must be a way to flash images to the device using a free program
(Samsung devices have a dedicated program, Heimdall, for
It looks like your laptop is supported! http://www.coreboot.org/Chromebooks
Bump!
Replicant developer (more accurately, someone allowed to call myself one)
here. Unfortunately, the Galaxy S and Star are not the same device.
If you want Replicant support for the device, it needs to have CyanogenMod
support first. But the existing CyanogenMod developers don't take device
But it is propagated by Richard Stallman as an attempt to avoid celebrating
the Christian holiday Christmas.
This video is not available. Sorry about that.
I thought vPro was already OS-independent?
This should really be marked [OT]. Grav-mass is an atheistic movement and
not a software-related one, and is therefore not suitable for these forums.
Don't give users terminal commands if there's a graphical way to do it. Go to
Add/Remove Applications, find and install GDebi, download the Brackets .deb
from their website, double-click it, and click Install Package.
To the OP, please don't use the term open-source. Free software is
correct.
I downloaded and installed Brackets. Right now it's usable, but by no means
fully-featured. The live preview feature only works if you have Google Chrome
installed, there's no way to change preferences (indentation
New libre font!
It looks like I caught this one within seconds of its upload on FontSquirrel;
right now it has only 2 downloads! The font is called Clear Sans, and it
was developed by Intel. It is licensed under the Apache License. Click here
to download it.
By default, Trisquel's monospace font is DejaVu Sans Mono. I partially
changed it to Source Code Pro a while ago (a method I've since lost) and now
I'd like to change it to Cousine. Using the graphical settings menu and
gsettings, I've changed most of the system monospaced fonts to Cousine.
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