Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a laptop
Have you seen this? https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/optimizing-battery-time
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3d acceleration
Free software is (in the sense I'm using in this comment) about Legal Freedom. Freedom 0 is achieved when it's legal to run something (it's legal to hack linux-libre and run proprietary firmware with it), it's legal to study, share, and modify Trisquel. It is, however, illegal to re-release it (or most of it) as something proprietary (it's what copyleft is). It's also illegal to legally apply some freedoms in ATI's proprietary firmware (can you just call RMS and have him modify it?), which is why it's considered nonfree.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a laptop
About the Wi-Fi card: AirForce Broadcoms should also do. I've got a laptop at home with a Broadcom94311 card and OpenfWWF supports it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Latex in trisquel
https://launchpad.net/~texlive-backports/+archive/ppa may be easier for some... Next version of Trisquel will have TeX Live 2013: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/texlive
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3d acceleration
Old ATI firmware is freely licensed (under an MIT-style license like the driver), while there is no source code nor documentation available. We don't know what instructions there are nor what it exactly does, so we cannot study nor modify it as easily as AMD can. New firmware (some for R600, all for Evergreen and newer GPUs) additionally has a nonfree license. I think legal freedom doesn't make it easier to understand. Both technical (lack of source code, lack of documentation, cryptographic restrictions) and legal (copyright, anticircumvention laws, patents, plain censorship) ways are used to restrict user's freedom and give power over them to the developer. A different issue started the thread: software being free doesn't mean that it has all possible features. pgppvQ0a9vmXt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 28 with VP9 support
dadix: t3g most probably uses https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere -- I think you should try it. Speaking of codecs, do anyone here know about Daala? https://xiph.org/daala/' Daala is the code-name for a new video compression technology. The effort is a collaboration between Mozilla Foundation, Xiph.Org Foundation and other contributors. The goal of the project is to provide a free to implement, use and distribute digital media format and reference implementation with technical performance superior to h.265.
Re: [Trisquel-users] R Stallman and Trisquel (google)
Both commands were typed equal.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 28 with VP9 support
We know[1][2]. But the codec will be ready only in 2015~2016[3][4]. [1] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/great-news-regarding-open-codec-daala [2] https://trisquel.info/en/search/node/daala [3] http://gigaom.com/2013/10/15/monty-montgomery-joins-mozilla-for-daala/ [4] http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1grbe8/introducing_daala_the_nextnextgeneration_free/can4eih
Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a laptop
I will look into those computers, and see which one is best for my needs. What is the situation for replacement batteries for Penguin Laptops? That they do not exist?
[Trisquel-users] converting to ogg in mass
Is there an application out there that will allow me to convert flac files to ogg (I do not have enough to effectively compute and have flac on my laptop) but to convert them in mass as my library is a bit vast? I certainly do not want to covert it all by hand, so if anyone would post a tool that would help with this issue it would be great! All war is, but class struggle
Re: [Trisquel-users] converting to ogg in mass
I like dir2ogg. It's a CLI application, good for large collections. For example, to convert all supported audio files in your music folder, to ogg with quality 8: $ dir2ogg -q 8 -n -r --convert-all /path/to/music_folder This preserves the original file. $ man dir2ogg to see all options.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a laptop
But if I update the Kernel then it will work totally perfectly, (i do not care for bluetooth, which might not work)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a laptop
That firmware is experimental. An ath9k card is certainly better since Atheros actually supports it without any nonfree software.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a laptop
Is the one in the x200ca the ath9k? I intend to get that one.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie
Forgot all about this. http://salfordascension.org/ Hadn't noticed before but it isn't https. How do you do that?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie
You might want to try HTTPS Everywhere. And next time, make a new topic.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mini USB wifi adapter recommendation
I ended up buying a TP-LINK TL-WN721N Wireless N150 USB Adapter: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZDQHS4/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8psc=1 and I can't say enough good things about it. The only draw back is that it's not mini but I solved this with an attachment hack to my laptop. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie
But this is the topic I started :(
Re: [Trisquel-users] converting to ogg in mass
Search SoundKonverter, SoundConverter
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mini USB wifi adapter recommendation
Anything with an ar9271 ought to work with trisquel 6.0.1 out of the box, it is what I use and you can buy them on eBay for about 8$, they are rather cheap, the branded card is the netgear wna1100
Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie
Oh, I didn't realize what you were asking. Sorry about that. Just get an SSL certificate from a trusted CA.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Latex in trisquel
Yeah, they finally started including up-to-date TeXLive packages in quantal. And thanks, I didn't know about that PPA. I'll use it in the future. :)
[Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel
Does Trisquel usually install without problems? I have copied the download to disc twice now. On this machine, where I DO NOT want to destroy the gnewsense operating system, the first disc loads the installer but that won't respond to anything but the arrow keys - and they caused my hard drive to go berserk, so I shut it down rapidly. On my other PC, which runs Puppy Linux quite happily, the disc is just spat out of the reader without doing anything. The second disc loads into the 'Puppy' PC and the installer responds to the function keys by showing lists of options that I don't want but it won't do anything else. I won't risk putting it or anything else on this machine until I can be confident it won't corrupt anything. Am I missing something here? I have plenty of memory and hard drive space on both PCs.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel
As long as you don't overwrite any of the existing operating system partition. I've never experienced issues when installing Trisquel. Are you using the text-mode install or the graphical one? The text-mode install, doesn't use a mouse.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a laptop
Chris (Owner of ThinkPenguin) is pretty active on these forums, I am not sure about the answer this this question - but I hope he comes by and provides some insight!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 28 with VP9 support
It's a shame that Daala is taking a long time because the longer it takes, the more H.265 and VP9 become standardized and they gain the majority of support. I do like that VP9 is getting a lot more support than VP8 (from your trustedreviews.com link) and aims to be open source and royalty free. There are worries that VP9 may suffer the same patent problems as VP8. For audio, I really like Opus and it feels like the true successor to Ogg Vorbis. Firefox has supported it for a while and while it has taken Google some time to support it, Chrome/Chromium 33 does seem to support it out of the box I still find it odd that recent versions of Internet Explorer do not support it as they own Skype and Opus uses SILK for the lower bitrates.
[Trisquel-users] Ruby installation messed up; interpreter doesn't work
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 java appear, and although they use a lot of CPU power and memory they don't appear to accomplish anything. When I asked for help elsewhere, it was suggested that I run jruby -rirb -e IRB.start But that spawned about 20 java processes that consumed all the memory on my system, and I had to abort the process. When I run the command jruby -v I get jruby 1.7.2 (1.9.3p327) 2013-01-04 302c706 on OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_30-b30 [linux-amd64] And running rvm info yields: jruby-1.7.2: system: uname: Linux linus-HP-G56-Notebook-PC 3.13.0-gnu #1 SMP Tue Jan 21 16:21:40 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux system: debian/wheezy_sid/x86_64 bash:/bin/bash = GNU bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) zsh: = not installed rvm: version: rvm 1.25.20 (stable) by Wayne E. Seguin , Michal Papis [https://rvm.io/]; updated: 17 hours 49 minutes 12 seconds ago path: /home/linus/.rvm ruby: interpreter: jruby version: 1.7.2 date: jruby 1.7.2 (1.9.3p327) 2013-01-04 302c706 on OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_30-b30 [linux-amd64] platform: linux-amd64 patchlevel: 1.9.3p327 full_version: jruby 1.7.2 (1.9.3p327) 2013-01-04 302c706 on OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_30-b30 [linux-amd64] homes: gem: /home/linus/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.2 ruby: /home/linus/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.2 binaries: ruby: /home/linus/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.2/bin/ruby irb: /home/linus/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.2/bin/irb gem: /home/linus/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.2/bin/gem rake: /home/linus/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.2/bin/rake environment: PATH: /home/linus/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.2/bin:/home/linus/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.2@global/bin:/home/linus/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.2/bin:/home/linus/.rvm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games GEM_HOME: /home/linus/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.2 GEM_PATH: /home/linus/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.2:/home/linus/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.7.2@global MY_RUBY_HOME: /home/linus/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.2 IRBRC:/home/linus/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.7.2/.irbrc RUBYOPT: gemset:
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ruby installation messed up; interpreter doesn't work
Never mind: both have mysteriously started working again. Please disregard this thread.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a laptop
Hi! I was having trouble getting the video on the site you linked to - I tried to upload it twice but it did not seem to go through. So, I uploaded it to an alternate location. http://levlaz.co/media.html#trisqueldemo (Right click and select play) Please check out the short video I made of my using the touch screen on the laptop. As you can see it is surprisingly responsive. It is not the most useful feature since the UI today was really designed for the keyboard and mouse, but it certainly opens up a lot of possibilities for future development! Best, Lev
