Re: [Trisquel-users] Julian Assange: Debian Is Owned By The NSA
A bit late in the day, but... If you were going to compromise a distro then Debian and Red Hat would be the obvious ones to go for as they're more or less the root distros of all others (Arch and Slackware aside). Compromise Debian and you compromise Ubuntu and all it's spin offs. Compromise Red Hat and you have the Corporate sector in the palm of your hand. That's a lot of distros and a lot of data that's yours for the taking. Further - given that the current kernel has around 15 million lines of code in it, just how many hundreds of millions of lines of code are in the average distro? And these are all watched? All the time? And everyone watching them is 100% open hearted, honest and uncorruptible? Seems a little unlikely. Particularly given the fact that much of what is in GNU/Linux is Corporately developed or payrolled and the levels of double-mindedness that Corporate employees display are more than well documented. There is the now infamous incident where Linus Torvalds was asked if he had been approached by the NSA and he said no whilst nodding. And it all seems so gentlemanly, as though they said We don't suppose you'd be willing to compromise the kernel? No? We didn't think so, oh well it was worth a try and not if you value your children's lives, you'll do as you're told or, far more likely, they found someone on the kernel dev team who had a weakness, or need of money and as such was turnable. And no one is going to submit a patch with the P.S - I've been approached by the NSA and they asked me to put a back door in this, so be aware... And even if none of this is true, fear and suspicion will destroy a community far more effectively than infiltrating it will. So a whisper here and a carefully crafted blog post there and suddenly everyone's behaving like that scene in the Clint Eastwood movie where we're all standing in a graveyard, eyeing each other warily, hands hovering over guns, waiting for someone to make the first move. Divide and rule has been practiced for millenia and whilst those who practice such methods have millenia of archives and manuals on how to do it, those who resist seem to have to relearn, from the ground up, in each and every generation. That said, it's now known that backdoors are being built into the hardware and are deisnged to be OS agnostic, so it matters little whether Debian has been compromised, if it's running on compromised hardware. And to my mind, the development of OS agnostic backdoors in the hardware is a direct response to OpenSource software. Think you've outsmarted us, just because you use Linux? I read the article and the lengthy debate. It comes down to paranoia (a very healthy attitude considering all we now know) vs trust. All the arguments for trust are based on an appeal to the majority or on a specific lack of evidence of corruption. Neither are valid arguments. So, either I learn all the necessary languages and then audit the code myself (for who else can I really trust?) or I have to 'hope for the best' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The former is impossible and the latter is no choice worth making. I have zero expectations of privacy. Regardless of what software I use, there is no escape from State surveillance. Even if there was a 100% clean OS, my ISP is spying on me anyway. This post I'm typing on my nice 100% libre OS, will still be sent through servers, in a series of packets and it's almost certain that they can be read by those I have not given permission to. So why bother at all then? For me, it's about personal morality. I believe in marriage, but I don't entertain ideas that because I believe in marriage that this will lead to an end to one night stands, or divorce. But neither will I say marriage is going out of fashion so I won't bother either. I tend to regard the majority as unsavable. They are blind, deaf and dumb; deprived of the wherewithall to make informed decisions and programmed to despise those who do. So all we have is our little corner of the world and it's good to find others who feel the same way, albeit in varying degrees. But changing the world for the better? Not going to happen. That doesn't mean don't try, it just means be realistic about our chances and be ruthlessly discerning over who says what and why. If your first reaction to Debian owned by the NSA was anger, then you're almost certainly not thinking straight about the deeper issues. The title was intentionally provocative, to get people to read it, to try to get people to think beyond the badges and sales slogans that we're all familiar with and over which we should, by now, be very questioning, regardless of who states them. When a High Street Bank says the name you can trust anyone who watches the news will fall about laughing. Even the Co-Op bank (here in the UK) has abandoned ethical practices and is now
Re: [Trisquel-users] is parabola down ?
You can get the parabola ISO's from here: https://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/Get_Parabola In july their main repository had extended maintenance, and about a month ago their homepage redirects to the wiki. I have not heard the reasons for doing so.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Removing services not needed - Need advice
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 screenshot
It wasn't removed for no reason. It was removed because GNOME doesn't need it. GNOME uses a floating status bar that appears and disappears as needed. For the record, the exact same thing happened with Firefox. As far as I can tell, Abrowser 30 doesn't have any option to show a constant status bar. The GNOME project removes unneeded features. This is a good policy; after all, you can't leave features in unmaintained (they might break or partially break eventually, and that would just confuse users), and maintaining unneeded features is a waste of time. If either of these builds up, it can become a huge problem; users would be annoyed, or very little development would get done. By the way, this is a free/libre software community, not an open source community. See: https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Keyboard indicator.
Do you mean two keyboards or two keyboard layouts?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 screenshot
Not to mention the waste of screen space! Anyway, it is true that there is, now, no easy (0-click) way to know the space left on a partition. The floating bar only gives the status of selected files.
Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreTrend - My Vision of Free Software
Admirable effort Luis! Good luck and fortune in its next stage.
Re: [Trisquel-users] us.archive.trisquel.info very very slow initially, using es.archive.trisquel.info instead
I know that they are the same, but I've had us.archive.trisquel.info time out on me or was unreachable where the fsf mirror didn't. Just left it at that and went straight to the source.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Keyboard indicator.
I mean two or more keyboard layouts. In trisquel 6, the keyboard indicator would appear automatically on the panel when adding more than one keyboard layout (next to the clock, volume, battery indicator), It would show the initials of the language currently active and could be used to switch the language by left clicking on the indicator and selecting from the available choices.
[Trisquel-users] Is Clear Sans a true free/libre font?
https://01.org/clear-sans Does anyone know if this is considered a true free font? I know its under Apache 2.0, but sometimes a font is not considered fully open unless the font can be built with free software.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Clear Sans a true free/libre font?
Clear Sans can be freely utilized by application, browser and operating system developers. The design has not been open-sourced. Since the source code is unavailable, it's not a free font.
Re: [Trisquel-users] can lxde look nice?
Yes, it can look nice as you can see here: http://tutorfreebr.blogspot.de/2013/07/trisquel-gnulinux-60-uma-distribuicao.html The link shows how Trisquel-Mini looks by default. There are quite some options to customize it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] can lxde look nice?
Those are all screenshots of the default GNOME DE, not Trisquel-Mini.
[Trisquel-users] Fighting surveillance with GnuPG encryption (from FSF)
https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ Pretty good read if you haven't seen it before.
[Trisquel-users] Problems with Trisquel on KVM
Hello. I installed Trisquel in a virtualized environment using KVM using the net installer. When I start up the virtual machine I get a BusyBox prompt, even though I get the graphical loading screen with the blinking Trisquel logo. How can I install a graphical desktop environment like LXDE?. Will I have to reinstall Trisquel from scratch or I can do so from the BusyBox prompt?. Regards.
Re: [Trisquel-users] us.archive.trisquel.info very very slow initially, using es.archive.trisquel.info instead
I had this problem too, so I ran the select best server at the applications sources (sorry if this is not the official translation, as my system is in Portuguese. I switched to fr.archive.trisquel.info and also to ftp instead of html. Maybe we have to use the different servers, to avoid overloading the main server.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Clear Sans a true free/libre font?
Shame really, looks good.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with Trisquel on KVM
It is a fully-featured terminal environment, not BusyBox. You can install LXDE in this way: $ sudo apt-get install lxde However, you may instead want the whole Trisquel Mini experience (based on LXDE): $ sudo apt-get install trisquel-mini trisquel-mini-recommended Or you can only install the base of Trisquel Mini, which includes LXDE, and later choose by yourself the user applications (the Web browser, the office suite, the email client, the PDF viewer, the instant messenger, etc.): $ sudo apt-get install trisquel-mini
[Trisquel-users] GDM
Why GDM is not in the repos of Trisquel 7? Also, I saw gnome shell 3.8 and 3.10. Why is it so?
Re: [Trisquel-users] GDM
GDM is in the repos. Its package name is gdm. The GNOME shell is version 3.10.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GDM
I installed using this ISO trisquel_7.0-20140709_i686.iso. Is it outdated? I am sure I didn't find gdm. When I tried to install gnome-shell 3.10 I got a list of many packages that where not going to be installed. I manually installed many but gdm coz it was not to be found anywhere. I finally used ppa to install it. Also, I found a meta-package for gnome 3.8. Trying to install it gave me a notice for dependency problems.
[Trisquel-users] headless KVM
I would like to install a headless KVM on a Celeron D (64 bit). Is it possible? -- Saludos libres, Quiliro Ordóñez 600 8579 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] GDM
The ISO doesn't matter if you want to install from the repos. gdm is definitely in the repos. Maybe if you run an apt-get update it will show up.
Re: [Trisquel-users] headless KVM
El 13/08/14 a las 21:50, Quiliro Ordóñez Baca escibió: I would like to install a headless KVM on a Celeron D (64 bit). Is it possible? I guess not. grep -E 'svm|vmx' /proc/cpuinfo has no output. So, according to https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/virtualization-using-kvm it will not support virtualization. -- Saludos libres, Quiliro Ordóñez 600 8579 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
