Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
Absolutely agree with you Freedom. This is the usual pattern and very disappointing. Just means another fork of Firefox will be developed that'll have no DRM, forced ads, etc ... I'm really sick of Adobe trying to muscle in on everything. I wish they'd go away and develop something actually useful, instead of forcing folk to use they're buggy bloated plugins.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Alpha Images
I tested the latest image. Graphics are horrible on the nVidia card im using, and I get a lot of errors from the kernel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
According to this Phoronix article, a new Firefox fork is beign developed under the name of Pale Moon with a goal to resolve the recent disagreement about the project direction. I hope that this will also bring native WebP support to finally deprecate the old JPEG/PNG formats that many people (including me) relies upon for a too long time.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
Pale Moon doesn't seem new. Also, the binaries on the website are nonfree.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
Pale Moon isn't "new", and its goal has nothing to do with the recent direction of Firefox. It's been around for years (since 2009), and it's basically just what someone thinks is practically better in a browser. A developer has said on the Pale Moon forum that Firefox's EME system is never going to be in Pale Moon, so it seems it's an OK fork to recommend at least for now, but keep in mind that the way that Phoronix article portrays it is misleading.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
Hm, I didn't notice this. In fact, the developer of Pale Moon mentions on that page "principles of free software", by which they mean "distributing without charge". Directing people to Pale Moon would be a rather dangerous move.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
If you use it, don't use the binaries. http://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml
[Trisquel-users] Re : Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
Trisquel users have abrowser, so no worry. I would love to be able to advise non-Trisquel users to switch to GNU IceCat, but it lags too far behind Firefox security-wise :(.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!
To my previous comment: I just heard about the existence of the Pale Moon browser, I doesn't even looked at their website up until now. I simply wasn't that much interested (about the project, not the topic). While, as stated above, this project isn't new and that the developers doesn't really care about user's freedom by releasing their binaries under a "stupid" proprietary license, the source code itself is derived from Firefox, which is freely licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Together, this means that there is a readily available fork for people who will not want to wait until the outcome of this debate, and want to quit from using Firefox now.
[Trisquel-users] Abrowser for KDE Users
It's well known that Abrowser and the vanilla Firefox don't integrate very well with KDE, so I've created a here. Of course, the PPA will only contain free software. The patched Abrowser for Belenos will be finished building shortly.
[Trisquel-users] gcc
Welcome gcc is Old Why distribution is still on the old version?
