Re: [Trisquel-users] Android and Possible Alternatives to Free Software?
i vote cyanogenmod. it still uses blobs, but otherwise is free software
Re: [Trisquel-users] One thing that bothers me about Richard Stallman
His politics are for the freedom of people, not for the freedom to enslave people, while others use the same words in opposite meanings. I think it's similar to the GNU vs BSD political difference. pgpymlXSH1MM4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] One thing that bothers me about Richard Stallman
You are being picky with words, but here is the copy of his own page Cellular Phones I see that cellular phones are very convenient. I would have got one, if not for certain reprehensible things about them. Cell phones tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices. In addition, most of them are computers with nonfree software installed. Even if they don't allow the user to replace the software, someone else can replace it remotely. Since the software can be changed, we cannot regard it as equivalent to a circuit. A machine that allows installation of software is a computer, and computers should run free software. Nearly every cell phone has a universal back door that allows remote conversion into a listening device. (See Murder in Samarkand, by Craig Murray, for an example.) This is as nasty as a device can get. From the book Alone Together, by Sherry Turkle, I learned that portable phones make many people's lives oppressive, because they feel compelled to spend all day receiving and responding to text messages which interrupt everything else. Perhaps my decision to reject this convenience for its deep injustice has turned out best in terms of convenience as well. When I need to call someone, I ask someone nearby to let me make a call. If I use someone else's cell phone, that doesn't give Big Brother any information about me. So, you still think he does not borrow a cell phone from someone else??? -.^ If you say that it is not such a big deal, that's one thing. It's your opinion and it's a fine opinion if you truly think that. But to say he does not do it, it's just not reading what he wrote himself.
Re: [Trisquel-users] One thing that bothers me about Richard Stallman
I think Grimlok might be the person here who actually has given it the best thought (even better than mine). By accepting that RMS might not be perfect but still he has done a lot of work for the free software world, Grimlok's reply actually appeal to me as a very sensitive and wise way of looking at things. After all, RMS is not a prophet, he is a man, and we should only take his opinions like we take everyone else's opinions. Take in consideration, but make our own mind. Of course, given the fact that he is a popular person in the computer world, his opinions actually carry some weight (one good or bad statement could help or hurt the way people look at free software for example). In that regard, I think he should probably NOT take advantage of immoral things as long as they don't affect him personally. Again only my opinion, but that's the way I see it. Michał Masłowski comment was also interesting. For me, BSD is actually the most free license because it gives you the freedom to do as you wish. Can it be used for enslaving of other people? Yes, but in the moment it's in your hands you actually have more freedom than with GPL. If we lived in community, instead of society, I would probably accept ONLY the GPL license. But given the fact that we live in society, I think BSD is a more realistic approach. Of course, GPL has done GRAAAT over the many years it has existed, so, maybe I am wrong thinking this way :P I think my like for BSD licenses, come from the fact that I understand the need for a license different from GPL when it comes to free hardware or open source hardware, something that we desperately need, but can only be achieved with a license that allows for commercial use (without hiding any information of course). In the end, I think I look at RMS the same way FSF looks at Debian. He does a lot of good, and thank God he exists, but he is not perfect and I would rather take his thoughts and work on top of them before presenting them to other people, rather than just provide a link to RMS homepage. And maybe it's for the better =) Well, I thank everyone who commented on this thread, I only wanted to really hear other thoughts about this, and it gave me an opportunity to think about some other subjects. The admins might wanna close it now, since I think my original questions have been satisfied. Thanks again ;)
[Trisquel-users] Free software to record phone calls
Hey everyone. I have been looking on F-Droid but found nothing. I need a free software that allows to be installed in android (I am using CM7) to record phone calls. In my country companies can make a lot of deals over the phone, but later they change the rules of the contract and you can never request the original audio of the call (they keep one, but only present it when it suits them). So, I will start asking in the beginning of those calls can I record it? and if they say yes, I will record, if they say no, I will say Contact me by letter, preferably a registered one. Problem is, I can't find any way to do it. The standard audio recorder on CM will not record phone calls :(
Re: [Trisquel-users] small, silent server
The best (in terms of power consumption and features) are in fact the single-board computers. Even though it looks like the FSF does not approve of those, if you read carefully the link Lembas provided, you will notice that most of the time is because the graphics card requires non-free drivers and such... Which is of no problem, since you will only run an email server, you don't need 3d graphics or anything, so you can run those using ONLY free software. I have no experience with those machines, so, I can't really say which one is better. But I remember reading that the beagleboards could run on a really low power consumption. Take a look at the link lembas provided and investigate the ones that the FSF considers can run free software but needs non-free for wifi and graphics. You can add an external wifi later on (thinkpenguin has those that are compatible with free software). Hope it helps. And congratulations on running your own email server =D Wish I could do the same. You are much better off that way.
Re: [Trisquel-users] One thing that bothers me about Richard Stallman
Michał Masłowski comment was also interesting. For me, BSD is actually the most free license because it gives you the freedom to do as you wish. Can it be used for enslaving of other people? Yes, but in the moment it's in your hands you actually have more freedom than with GPL. Unless making a nonfree program, practically the only additional permission is to make derived works including code under some GPL-incompatible licenses like the four clause BSD license. It is useful in some specific projects, like BSD kernels (with much GPL-incompatible code). Copyleft leads to having more free software when other developers use copyleft code instead of reimplementing it to make their works nonfree. This is why its supporters don't consider permissively licensed software more free. I think the support for state regulation in RMS's political notes can be similarly explained with this meaning of freedom. If we lived in community, instead of society, I would probably accept ONLY the GPL license. But given the fact that we live in society, I think BSD is a more realistic approach. What is the difference between a community and a society? I think my like for BSD licenses, come from the fact that I understand the need for a license different from GPL when it comes to free hardware or open source hardware, something that we desperately need, but can only be achieved with a license that allows for commercial use (without hiding any information of course). GPL allows commercial use (like all free software licenses), there are many businesses using, distributing and developing GPLed software commercially. (No need to count the ones preventing users from changing such software on their own devices here.) Are there widely used GPL-incompatible licenses for hardware designs, or is there a different reason for a different license for them? Or are there patent issues? (There are less opportunities for users to reprogram their hardware with modified designs than software; nearly all FPGAs need nonfree tools.) In the end, I think I look at RMS the same way FSF looks at Debian. He does a lot of good, and thank God he exists, but he is not perfect and I would rather take his thoughts and work on top of them before presenting them to other people, rather than just provide a link to RMS homepage. And maybe it's for the better =) I agree with his explanations of some issues and not others (like free culture, works of opinion licensing or the existence of non-capitalist stateless societies). pgp5jxeFBgtKS.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] Home on LVM
Hello to the Trisquel community! I'm trying to mount a partition I have on an lvm vg during boot, but have no idea how to. After investigating a little bit, found out that initramfs scripts are set on /usr/share/initramfs-tools, so I pretend to create a script to do: vgscan vgchange -a y and then mount the filesystem within the init process. The filesystem was set on /etc/fstab, so to let init take care of it. I took 3 days to search on the Ubuntu and Trisquel documentation about initramfs and how it's structure is, but found nothing related to Trisquel specifics. Does anyone know where can I find initramfs documentation for Trisquel, or else can someone explain to me how the initramfs-tool works so I can set my own script?
Re: [Trisquel-users] One thing that bothers me about Richard Stallman
I am in a little hurry right now, but one thing I would like to give you an answer to is the difference between society and community. While this is something that I have been thinking about for some time and have not yet figured the best way to express the whole thing clearly, the fundamental idea is that in a society you have different classes of people (like rich an poor), in a society you have business and commerce as fundamental parts of living. In a community you don't because everyone is equal to everyone and they all contribute something to the whole (that is the community) and they all live from the whole. I know that in a first looking at it, it seems like evil communism but that is not what I am trying to target at here. Of course, a community of equal people is always in danger of one being more equal than other and you have the book Animal Farm to read if you want to take a look at how easy it is to fall for that mental trap but I am trying to think of a community that REALLY works. You don't have to be poor and you don't have to be rich because if one richness comes up, it is freely available to all. And no one is poor because through the work of EVERYONE, everyone is feed and happy. So, of course, if we were to live in a community, there would be no need to be able to sell things, because commerce would not be the same as we have today. But in a society you need to, because you are expected to earn your own living, on your own and not as a part of the whole society. Ofcourse, if you read some newspapers you might think that we live in a good society and that everyone is equal, but truth is, things are not like that. There are people who are privileged and live a rich life by oppressing other people who are poor and enslaved. A politician makes sure that the law says politicians have these and these rights because he himself will get gain from those rights. If those laws mean that other people will have to pay more taxes, he does not care. So, yeah, there are a few good people in society, but for the most part, the system of society is good at making divisions and putting people under the power of other people. That is not good, and we should be able to live in community. That would apply to software too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] One thing that bothers me about Richard Stallman
I know that in a first looking at it, it seems like evil communism but that is not what I am trying to target at here. Why not? You're describing many (sensible) communist ideas and why shouldn't we name it this way? Under the flag of communism a countless number of crimes have been commited but this is true for christianity as well, and I would not hesitate to appreciate many christian ideas. Capitalism is not the worst system on earth but it sure has many negative effects (you described some of them) and we should feel free to think of something better.
[Trisquel-users] New Indian and Telugu libre gnu/linux distribution?
Hi all. Today I found a new Indian and Telugu distribution. Here is their site : http://eswecha.swecha.org/ I don't know if they have English language. The operating system is in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n4ff_Nz15k Does this distrution have a libre kernel?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel project goals and finances
sure need to update https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/roadmap
Re: [Trisquel-users] New Indian and Telugu libre gnu/linux distribution?
Hi all. Today I found a new Indian and Telugu distribution. Here is their site : http://eswecha.swecha.org/ There's an another known as Boss GNU/Linux, which is used in some government offices. I saw it's advertisements on TV some time ago. Does this distrution have a libre kernel? Just the standard Debian kernel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] New Indian and Telugu libre gnu/linux distribution?
I transformed the beta2 to a torrent file for a fast download. http://burnbit.com/torrent/265853/eSwecha_beta02_iso
Re: [Trisquel-users] New Indian and Telugu libre gnu/linux distribution?
In other words a libre kernel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel project goals and finances
Does canonical hire full time developers? We are benifitting from them as trisquel is based on ubuntu, but does not contain any of the spyware whatever A full time developer would probabaly cost at least 30k/year.
Re: [Trisquel-users] maps program
Are you saying that they are stopping unity?
Re: [Trisquel-users] One thing that bothers me about Richard Stallman
Freedom imposed on others is not freedom. Freedom is only freedom if you have a choice in the matter. Freedom to succeed, freedom to fail. So Communism, and Socialism do not lead to freedom, they only lead to oppression, history has proven this time and time again. We are seeing this in the United States. Everyone says that the U.S. is a Capitalist nation, but it isn't. I will agree with Stallman it is a Plutocracy. I disagree with him on the idea that Communistic/Socialistic government oversight fixes this. I say Communistic/Socialist because he holds himself as Progressive, and that is just a friendly way of saying the former. He calls the U.S. a democracy, it was never that. It was founded as a Constitutional Republic. Pure Capitalism is dead in the U.S. we have Crony Capitalism now led by greed, corruption, and want of power. Government in bed with Business. This is NOT what was intended by our framers. So my problem is that he says all the right things about freedom as far as software is concerned, but why not politically? Again, that is a question for him, and not for here. I believe that someone who makes code should be allowed to do with it as they please. I also believe that people need to be informed that using programs that the code is not available, that is kept in secret takes away THEIR freedom. Because people are corrupt and greedy, and by not seeing that code, you don't know what is in the program you are using. For that I believe free software is essential. That is why I use it, tell people about it, and in the future tend on supporting it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel project goals and finances
In essence, my question is, what's the vision for Trisquel? At the moment the project is ticking along at a certain level. Ubuntu has a clear vision, and Mark Shuttleworth has basically funded it out of his own pocket for all this time. Ubuntu is driven by him and his company, with Canonical hiring developers. Debian also has its own vision, not driven by any one company, and is largely driven by volunteers. Both support free software to various degrees, but don't strictly adhere to the FSF's criteria, which is the reason for Trisquel's existence. But I am interested in hearing from the project leaders about their vision. Given sufficient resources, what would Trisquel be? If they worked fulltime on Trisquel, what would they want to achieve? If sufficient volunteers were involved, what would they be working on?
Re: [Trisquel-users] One thing that bothers me about Richard Stallman
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but copyleft doesn't force freedom onto someone else. A user of a GPL-licensed program can run the program the way they don't wish, not take the source code and compile it, not redistribute, etc. The GPL forces people to not force non-freedom onto someone else. Proprietary software developers don't like to think of it this way, but that's what proprietary software does; it forces non-freedom onto someone else. The GPL just says you can't do that.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Think Penguin capable of making a computer that RMS can use?
Isn't the Loongson 3A Notebook reasonabaly good?
Re: [Trisquel-users] The bright brave new future world as Google sees it
Hopefully the microphones are not so deeply embedded that it will take more than 5 minutes to remove them.
Re: [Trisquel-users] The bright brave new future world as Google sees it
В 20:37 +0100 на 11.12.2013 (ср), arielxgbar...@gmail.com написа: Hopefully the microphones are not so deeply embedded that it will take more than 5 minutes to remove them. Remove them? I'm not planning installing them/letting Google install them in the first place. :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] The bright brave new future world as Google sees it
I don't want google even in my browser, much less a google chip in my head... If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. --Eric Schmidt (google CEO)
[Trisquel-users] Free software is getting better...and faster that it seems
Greetings. A little time ago I asked for a Freedom respectful program that can replace most of the Autocad's functionalities; and some of you suggested Librecad. Librecad is very good and I tried first the version 1.0.4 and then the 2.0 and I can say that the improvements raised the bar to a whole new level; now Librecad have nothing to envy Autocad; more the opposite because even if they are on the rc status, the program is rock-solid in comparison to autocad. I could do all my job making plan of buildings and machines without any obstacle and if I needed 3d, there are a lot of Free software that allow me to extrude. What I'm trying to communicate is that you don't need user subjugating software to make your job because free software is getting better and better and the only way to keep it this way is to support these projects. I've already recommended Librecad to some of my companions and some of them are very impressed and I could use the situation for transmit to them why is important to have freedom over the programs (very pragmatic arguments but are better than nothing). I'm sure that you use free software that is improving so ¿Why not use this post to share your experience? It would help newcomers to progressively use more free software
Re: [Trisquel-users] Need help booting the Toutatis image from HDD
I hate replying to my own subjects but just in case anyone else finds
itself in my situation;
the solution looks something like this:
presudo nano /etc/grub.d/40_custom/pre
premenuentry 'Trisquel 6 amd64' {
set isofile=/trisquel_6.0_amd64.iso
loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)$isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper
iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd
}/pre
presudo update-grub/pre
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Re: [Trisquel-users] maps program
If you're looking for a mapping program that can let you do complex spatial analyses, adding various layers, etc., consider QGIS. It is the alternative to the proprietary ArcGIS from ESRI.
Re: [Trisquel-users] maps program
If I install Marble, will it install a lot of the KDE desktop packages too?
Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] free video formats
Hey -- thanks for following up. I got frustrated editing the letter before; I decided to forget about it for a while and try again with a clear head. I did -- here's what it looks like now. I'm going downtown next week; I'm thinking of dropping it off then. As always, I'll appreciate any critique. I am writing to ask the Toronto Police Service to accomodate a few issues related to video disclosure. The issues, in my view, arise because video disclosure arrives in proprietary formats, and as proprietary software. Free formats allow anyone to read the technical specifications, write software to run the format, and use the format. Non-free (proprietary) formats do not. By “free”, I mean those specific freedoms, and not price. The freedoms (and free formats) guarentee interoperability, a competitive commercial market for playback, and also gratis options for playback. Non-free formats are like trade secrets and impose a particular software solution. With non-free formats, interoperatibility and market competition exist at the format-owner's discretion. The format-owner can also decide not to allow gratis playback options; this raises access-to-justice concerns. Prorpietary software is a privacy concern, because lawyers must trust it not to access lawyers' and clients' information on the computer. Disclosure as proprietary software raises this concern. Disclosure in a proprietary format raises the concern as well, because it encourages lawyers to use proprietary software. Free formats allow playback with free software, and also with proprietary software. Free sofware allows public audits. The audits give lawyers a reason to trust free software not to access lawyers' and clients' information on the computer. Here are two examples of free video formats: http://theora.org/ , http://www.webmproject.org/ The Toronto Police Service already provides document disclosure in a free format (PDF). I am hopeful that the Service will adopt a similarly free policy for video disclosure.
Re: [Trisquel-users] maps program
No.
[Trisquel-users] Wifi dongles
I want to switch from Kubuntu to Trisquel, so I booted up a live USB and found that it works great. The only thing that didn't work was my wifi card, a Ralink RT3090. (Actually on the download page for their firmware, it says it's under the gpl, but when opening the archive, you get a binary blob with a nonfree license.) So, I think I should get a dongle. Which dongles are the best with free software?
[Trisquel-users] Having Trouble Installing Trisquel 6.0
I'm trying to install Trisquel 6.0 on my computer, which has Windows 8 on it right now. Every time I press enter to go ahead and install Trisquel: The screen freezes, and about 5 minutes later: Green numbers with a black background appear. Which say: EDD Error 1888 Reading Sector 353663 EDD Error 1888 Reading Sector 353608 And so on. Other than the disc itself having a problem: I'm stumped. I've also gone into the Setup menu and have disabled the SecureBoot(Tyranny) option, and have set the DVD Drive as the first device to boot from. I bought the install disk from OnDisc.com, so there shouldn't be a problem with the disk. Does anyone have an idea what is happening? Thank You
Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
It's a sans font, and you're right it is really nice to look at. Is it the official Ubuntu font? Wikipedia says that the Ubuntu font license is copyleft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28typeface%29#Ubuntu_Font_Licence
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre fonts I've found
Alegreya Sans looks nice. On the fonts-documentation-page; what does it say in the non-English language? Is it Polish?
Re: [Trisquel-users] maps program
I'd say YES... YMMV?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Wifi dongles
The only company that guarantees all its hardware works with Linux-libre (hence the 100% free GNU/Linux distributions such as Trisquel) is ThinkPenguin. By using the following link, 25% of the benefits on your purchase will be donated to the Trisquel project: http://libre.thinkpenguin.com Another solution is to search for second-hand cards whose vendor indicates the actual chipset. As far as I understand (anyone to confirm?), Linux-libre can now drive any ath9k chipset. You may need to update the kernel though. Only consulting
Re: [Trisquel-users] Having Trouble Installing Trisquel 6.0
Hi sorry to hear you having problems. I problably can not help you much but can you try to do a liveUSB from the disc you have? Then change model bios startup accordingly. also, to help others that problably know more than myself understand better your problem please provide the make and model of your computer.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Having Trouble Installing Trisquel 6.0
the domain ondisc.com does not exist. What made it trust worthy?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Having Trouble Installing Trisquel 6.0
There should be an option to check the integrity of the disk.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with File Browser
There has been a bug in Nautilus-share for over a year. I replaced it with PCmanFM, which is faster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMan_File_Manager
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I set up a mail server?
LinuxHomeNetworking.com has simple, useful tutorials on all topics. How to configure mail servers - http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch21_:_Configuring_Linux_Mail_Servers You may prefer Postfix rather than SendMail, for reasons discussed in this Mail Server tutorial - http://www.linux.org/threads/mail-servers.4224/ I use SSL on ports 587 and 993. ISP blocking of port 25 is not an issue.
