Re: [Trisquel-users] I can't figure out how to switch workspaces xD
These can be customized at system settings keyboard shortcuts navigation.
[Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
When I first read about reactos I thought it was a modified linux-based distro, but obviously I was wrong. I'm very confused about this project. What kernel does it use? Will it really be completely free as mentioned in wikipedia? Anyway, it would be great news if we had a non-gnu free software operating system for win xp users.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
While the OS might be free but its purpose is to run non-free software. Hardly something to be inspired by.
[Trisquel-users] Canonical is goint to close Ubuntu One
Hello, everybody, http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/04/02/1355244/canonical-shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services I uploaded some files there. Where else can I upload files ? (I look for sites which are for freedom and free sharing)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is goint to close Ubuntu One
Le 2014-04-03 07:31, ashok.biol...@mailoo.org a écrit : http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/04/02/1355244/canonical-shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services I uploaded some files there. Where else can I upload files ? (I look for sites which are for freedom and free sharing) Check out OwnCloud providers or setup your own: http://owncloud.org/providers/ http://owncloud.org/install/ OwnCloud integration is in Gnome starting with 3.08. I suppose this means Trisquel 7 will include it: http://owncloud.org/gnome-meets-owncloud/ I'd love for the FSF to provide such a service as part of membership perks, like The Document Foundation does. Meanwhile you can use the WebDav backend it provides, that's what I do for now. F. -- Fabián Rodríguez - XMPP/Jabber+OTR: magic...@member.fsf.org http://fsf.magicfab.ca
Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is goint to close Ubuntu One
I'm currently in the process of moving away some files from my MediaFire, and Ubuntu One accounts so I compared dozens of web hosting services. The best free software solution is to use Seafile. You can register for free at https://seacloud.cc/ to get 1GB of free online storage (this is the maximum for any completely free solution available). The upload size is limited to circa 100MB per file (bigger files are rejected with an error message). Other services are listed on this Wikipedia page.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
I hate to start a flame war on my first ever post, but I would like to ask a question relating to lembas' post: Isn't Wine a platform to run non-free software? Who would use Wine, a free program, practically to run free software? GNU/Linux as an OS is where free software is out to play, and the ports of free software to Microsoft's (evil) product Windows is largely ignored. I certainly never heard of LibreOffice before I learned (and come to love) free software in the form of the GNU/Linux operating system. And yet don't you guys refer people who want to play games and miss their Windows gaming to Wine, hence pointing people to compromising their freedom? True, if they valued their freedom they would give up such a thing, but to give up millions of video games of the (very crappy) Windows world is a very hard demand. Just my two cents, and I love GNU/Linux Trisquel :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is goint to close Ubuntu One
Openmailbox has also got a Gb of free space. I suggest that you use omething that doesn't make you scared of moving e-Mail providers, though, and Seacloud doesn't look too bad.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
I don't understand you point. Most of us here wouldn't suggest Wine to people so they can run a non-free programs and games. I seems you are lumping this community with other GNU communities who don't care about the ethical issues which the free software movement is concerned with.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
ReactOS is in development since 1998, so there's no great news about this. Because ReactOS wasn't ready for the time I moved away from Windows in favour for free software, I opted for Trisquel GNU/Linux instead, which I needed to wait 3 years to become usable with the release of version 4.0 in 2010 (that I still use on my older ThinkPad computer). Where the GNU project and Free Software Foundation aimed to develop a fully-free operating system, mimicking the Unix, there is ReactOS and the ReactOS Foundation. Unlike GNU, the goal is to make a free replacement for Windows that's binary compatible with the already available software/drivers. Nowadays, despite many fundraising efforts, ReactOS remains a hobby project lead by some few developers. It's developed by clean-room reverse-engineering, so the developers doesn't use any code or binaries from Microsoft, but some of the source code is shared with the Wine project. The ReactOS uses it's own kernel, compatible with the Windows NT architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
Nowadays, despite many fundraising efforts, ReactOS remains mainly a hobby project lead by some few developers. You mean like trisquel? A huge amount of free software project are like this. there's no great news about this. Well, they started a new fundraising campaign recently, probably because of the end of win xp support. This is why I heard about it. Anyway, thanks for the info.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
I highly disagree; many, many people need a special kind of proprietary software for their job and are used to windows xp. with something like reactos, they could reach like 98% freedom instead of 0%. In my view a huge contribution to free software.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Cannot Upload Photos to Kijiji
I sold something on kijiji once, and I have a vague recollection that their site didn't work with free software (probably flash-related). I think I had to use another computer, or maybe it was a Kubuntu VM :/. They have a help forum, and a Contact link, so maybe you could ask/complain there.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
I've tried to run ReactOS several times in a VM, and it often crashed. It is far to unstable for a productive use. GNU/Linux is much better for the avarage user. However both Wine and ReactOS can be helpful to reverse engineer proprietery software that is only avialable on Windows. Then there is the Linux-Unified-Kernel which allows you to load Windows drivers into the Linux kernel. I recently reverse engineered a proprietery protocol that is used by a USB MIDI keyboard using wine. Sometimes I use Wine to test a MINGW-compiled executable that I have compiled. I stopped using Windows some years ago, and I don't want to buy a Windows license for testing. ReactOS people also talk about Open Source, so it is not better as Ubuntu from the Stallman's philosophical perspective. However Ubuntu is much more stable, and it is easier to migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel. If more PC venders decided to preinstall Ubuntu this would make the transition to free software more easy.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
You mean like trisquel? A huge amount of free software project are like this. The point here is that Trisquel is based on a finished and fully-working operating system, while ReactOS is, despite partially working, more of a proof-of-concept than a fully-fledged OS. It's not that easy to build a complete operating system from scratch without money and paid developers. Well, they started a new fundraising campaign recently There were many of them. I hope that eventually this project will succeed, since I strongly beleive this is the #1 free software project after GNU, that many people don't heard about.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
I think, if ReactOS becomes good enough for real use, it will be a good thing. A binary-compatible replacement for Windows would be helpful for migration to freedom. But don't overestimate its goodness. Firstly, keep in mind that even free/libre software tends to be compiled with Visual Studio. Secondly, as was briefly mentioned before, it's supposed to use already-existing proprietary Windows drivers. It's theoretically possible for these problems to get fixed, but I doubt it; so ReactOS isn't ever going to be a good alternative to GNU/Linux systems.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot Upload Photos to Kijiji
Thanks oysterboy.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Firefox 27 wont play Bandcamp and Soundcloud
I've found that Midori and Epiphany both play Soundcloud. Both installed straight from the repos.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
GameRunner does make a good point. Most people run WINE so they can get a program limited to Windows running on their GNU/Linux machine. The majority of the time it is a non-free video game or program like Microsoft Office. If you have the intention to run a free software/open source program designed for Windows, there's probably a version for GNU/Linux out there already. In a way it reminds me of emulators. The program to do the emulation is free, but has the intention of running non-free programs. Sure, you can run homebrew games on your emulator, but 99% of the time it is used to emulate a proprietary game from the past via a ROM dump.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
It's unto Widnows NT what GNU is unto Unix (OK, not philosophically). If you think it hasn't got any chance, look at GNU's history.
[Trisquel-users] Is anyone else experiencing update troubles?
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 be installed. What's going on here?
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
The average user (business or not) is much better off now using GNU/Linux instead of Windows than they were 10 years ago. Especially if they are using an OS based off of Ubuntu. Here is why. 1.) The web browser is the most used program regardless of operating system. Chrome/Chromium and Abrowser/Firefox on a GNU/Linux distro can access the same sites and playback the same media as their Mac OSX and Windows equivalents. 2.) Want to play audio and video even in the Windows Media and MP4 formats? VLC can play anything you throw at it and of course supported on GNU/Linux. 3.) If local email is a priority, Thunderbird works the same as the Mac OSX and Windows equivalent and has excellent POP3 and IMAP support. There's also Geary, but that project is a little immature. 4.) If your company is tied to Outlook and/or Exchange, you can use the webmail version in the browsers offered in your GNU/Linux distro. You may never need to install Outlook and can access your email anywhere. 5.) For local document editing, corporations are still tied to Office and their formats, but LibreOffice can handle the binary and XML formats well. Since Microsoft didn't support the Strict doctype of their own specification until recently, even the open xml format is not truely open. In an ideal world, these companies would settle on the OpenDocument format so users of Office and LibreOffice could work in harmony, but many are stuck in their old ways or don't know of the alternative(s). 6.) Some companies are moving to the cloud and moving to Google Docs instead of renewing their Office subscription. While it is true that Google Docs is non-free, it will work the same on every browser regardless or platform. A user can edit a document or spreadsheet in real time on IE on Windows at the same time as a user in Ubuntu with Firefox and have no issues. 7.) A little while back there was a demonstration of the Steam client for GNU/Linux being able to use Windows applications and games by streaming from a Windows box. Once again, the Steam client is non-free, but I have seen videos of someone using Photoshop on their Ubuntu machine through Stream. 8.) If Windows XP support (or any Windows) is super critical, they can run a VM in VirtualBox on their GNU/Linux machine and isolate the environment. They can only have the VM run the necessary programs and disconnect from the internet if necessary. This is nice if you have a dual monitor setup and run GNU/Linux in one monitor and Windows in the other. In summary, as more things move to the web (or cloud), the worry about what programs may or may not run is less of an issue. As long as Google and Mozilla keep their GNU/Linux versions of their browsers up to speed with the Mac and Windows ones, the future looks bright.
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
I forgot to mention this: 9.) As WebRTC gains support in the major browsers, the need for a Skype, Microsoft Lync, or GoTo Meeting won't be necessary as it will be handled natively in the browser. There's still some uncertainty with audio and video codec support, but if Apple and Microsoft can play along with Google and Firefox in supporting the same codecs, then we have reached true synergy. Of course that's in an ideal world as Apple and Microsoft strongly push codecs with licensing and royalties.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is anyone else experiencing update troubles?
If you use http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/ instead of en.trisquel.info or es.trisquel.info does that help?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is goint to close Ubuntu One
If you're going to use Seafire, you might be interested in this Nautilus script that now support splitting files to sizes Seafire will accept.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is goint to close Ubuntu One
They're open sourcing the backend code, they say.
[Trisquel-users] Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop
Crowdfunding on this site: https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop From their blog: We’re launching a crowdfunding campaign around our Novena open hardware computing platform. Originally, this started as a hobby project to build a computer just for me and xobs – something that we would use every day, easy to extend and to mod, our very own Swiss Army knife. I’ve posted here a couple of times about our experience building it, and it got a lot of interest. So by popular demand, we’ve prepared a crowdfunding offering and you can finally be a backer. More info here: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3657
Re: [Trisquel-users] ReactOS - informations about free winxp clone?
Not quite. GNU wasn't designed to be binary-compatible with proprietary Unix systems, just compatible with the POSIX specification. There's a difference. GNU is going to run the same shell scripts as the classic Unix, for example, but a GNU/Linux system can't run a C program compiled for a classic Unix system, and the kernel Linux can't just use whatever drivers classic Unix systems used. Keep in mind, too, that GNU wasn't developed specifically to replace Unix; Unix was just what RMS chose to base GNU on, because it seemed like a good design. The goal of GNU was to have an operating system which was entirely free/libre software, not to let Unix users run the same proprietary software on an alternative system.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is goint to close Ubuntu One
mYself, do you still have access to Ruben's Libreplanet 2013 recording? I have it right here: https://cloud.openmailbox.org/public.php?service=filest=8c2af1e0bd8adf6429e0a0c36bc51f6e
Re: [Trisquel-users] Novena - The free notebook
https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop##details-topeeking crowd funding now. Wifi is deblobbed?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Is anyone else experiencing update troubles?
Same problem here. Error when using us.archive.trisquel.info in /etc/apt/sources.list, but everything works fine if changed to es.archive.trisquel.info. Same problem happened not too long ago, so maybe there is a problem in the way the US mirror is updated.
