Re: [Trisquel-users] Diaspora*
This my Account alimira...@pod.geraspora.de But I'm thinking about moving to GNU social
Re: [Trisquel-users] Diaspora*
ak...@soical.feder8.ru - it's Friendica instance (Friendia can act as Diaspora* pod too) On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 01:57 +0200, blade.vp2...@gmail.com wrote: > hi > Are Here Any person Have an account on Diaspora*?? > > -- Happy hacking! Ivan Antipenko aka akfio www: https://blog.akifo.pw xmpp: ak...@member.fsf.org GNU social: https://quitter.se/akifo BitMessage: BM-2cUBB2sXo7yKRU1GkjT3ToznBMy5Sj9PCi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help installing Libreboot and dependencies
Alright, that definitely helped. Now i'm stuck on the "How to build "flashrom"" section. Specifically this part: "After you've done that, under ./flashrom/ you will find the following executables: flashrom For flashing while coreboot or libreboot is running. flashrom_lenovobios_sst This is patched for flashing while Lenovo BIOS is running on an X60 or T60 with the SST25VF016B (SST) flash chip. flashrom_lenovobios_macronix This is patched for flashing while Lenovo BIOS is running on an X60 or T60 with the MX25L1605D (Macronix) flash chip." Does this mean that I can only install libreboot if the motherboard has a flash chip installed?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help installing Libreboot and dependencies
Build-essential was apparently already installed.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Diaspora*
В 01:57 +0200 на 04.09.2014 (чт), [nos...@spam.yourself.inste.ad] написа: > hi > Are Here Any person Have an account on Diaspora*?? I'm not on Diaspora* yet, but it is in my TODO list as part of a grander scheme. Don't know when it will happen You can find me on pump.io: valkov at identi dot ca. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] Freeslack (a little off topic)
I suppose this is so people can run a free version based on Slackware without the far more difficult route of a proper fork. As Rubén can attest, there is a lot of work completely freeing a distro. For example, I doubt all references to non-free software are removed from the packages of "FreeSlack". Still, I'll give it a try this weekend. ;-)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help installing Libreboot and dependencies
It's a collection of thing you need for building things, you should install it if you're going to compile stuff.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software
My point was features-convenience do not conflict with freedom-power, if the constraining elements of closed source are removed, and solely the functionality is achieved. The two are not mutually exclusive. I'm not ignoring the trend, which is obvious. My point is these things ARE possible. If a given proprietary program does something unique-useful, and also locks users behind a text wall, as well as siphoning out their personal information for use by 3rd parties; a new program can be created that does nothing but fulfill the basic functionality of said program.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Compilation terminates, likely due to missing library
I'm sorry, how do I change the linker flags?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello from a new user
WOOT!
Re: [Trisquel-users] finding particular pages within PDFs
I get an error message at the end of the run, and there doesn't seem to be a
matches file in my working folder. Maybe 500+ megs of PDFs is too much. I
did a few test runs with a few 10-15 page PDFs, and that seemed to work.
I/O Error: Couldn't open file '/tmp/pdf-page-grep.PHgWDa-1022': Too many open
files.
Syntax Error: Could not merge damaged documents
('/tmp/pdf-page-grep.PHgWDa-1022')
29008 matching pages written to "TERRYMAULDIN226-246-1336-matches.pdf"
adel@adel-W55xEU:~/Desktop/research$
Re: [Trisquel-users] Diaspora*
blade.vp2020 wrote: > hi Are Here Any person Have an account on Diaspora*?? I'm not on Diaspora yet, but I might check it out if I get spare time, especially if there are free software advocates on there. I'm on pump.io which is also used by free software advocates. Pump.io is another federated social network similar to Diaspora. Mine is digitalroffey at pumpit dot info. Andrew.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Compilation terminates, likely due to missing library
That's not the only issue. Boost compiled for different platforms has different names. This project's makefile or whatever is trying to link to the Boost library for MinGW (mgw). If you just change the linker flags, it should be fine.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Diaspora*
Diaspora: coldbloodedfirelizard at diasp dot org I don't know if you use pump.io, but I will share that too. pump.io: coldbloodedfirelizard at pumpbuddy dot us
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello from a new user
Welcome to trisquelgnulinux! Glad you found a great community.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Compilation terminates, likely due to missing library
This is a bit off topic, but why are you interested in CAPTcoin? I don't know much about it, but it may be a scam. (I don't trust Bitcoin forks too much...)
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
That's not slavery at all. It sounds to me like dependence on a commune. The problem with that comparison, though, is proprietary software creates dependence; dependence on a commune for food is caused by nature, not people, so a question of ethics isn't raised. The difficulties of escaping from slavery are caused by laws and efforts against slaves by slave owners, not simple nature. It's true that the comparisons between slavery and proprietary software are only valid within a limited scope. This is what I've said from the beginning (riftyful asked if it's a "loose comparison", and I said yes). That limited scope is the fact that both are exploitative by their very nature. It doesn't matter if someone "agrees" to be exploited; they're still being exploited, and that's unethical. My point is, slavery is always exploitative and therefore never ethical. In modern society (or at least most of it), it's illegal. Voluntary "slavery" is D/s, and that is perfectly fine because it's not exploitative, for the reasons I mentioned. Similarly, proprietary software is always exploitative and therefore never ethical. It should probably eventually be illegal. But choosing not to have the source code to libre programs you use* (you could call it "voluntarily non-libre", in the sense that you the user are deciding not to have control over your computing) is perfectly fine because it's not exploitative, again for the reasons I mentioned. * I was previously talking about choosing not to modify libre programs, but I think choosing to make it so you don't have a copy of the source code at all is a more appropriate comparison, since it simulates what proprietary software is like better.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello from a new user
Welcome to the Trisquel community.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
> " It's just someone choosing to submit to someone else and taking on > the title "slave". Because it's not actual slavery, you can back out > and otherwise assert your right to freedom." > > proprietary software fits perfectly to this description. You _can_ > back out of the "slavery" of a proprietary program anytime, without > being whipped. Once I install microsoft office on my computer, that > doesn't mean I will get punished if I decide to get rid of it - I can > just delete it. For some proprietary programs it might be true that a free replacement will allow you to stop using the proprietary program. For many others, this is not true. If you are use Cisco Packet Tracer to simulate a network, for example, there are probably aren't any free replacements for that program available that can read the proprietary format. Sure, you can just delete the program, but your files effectively become useless. You are essentially a slave to the program for as long as you need that particular function using those particular files. At least that is until you find a free replacement and manually recreate the network simulation, or someone spends the time to build a free replacement that will read your files, both which could take a long time. Andrew.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Manager Not Working
Have better things to do with my time then rant. Yes *I* do have this same problem. I also have that freedom to state my option. Again this is very irritating.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Manager Not Working
I have also experienced this issue for some updates in the past month or so, and have had to use apt-get dist-upgrade from the terminal and reboot when it happens.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
About the closest I can think of is the use of LGPL in software, where as Free software can be distributed simply as a binary in a proprietary program. Even then this is merely a compromise because the additional software isn't Free. The big issue is that the only distinction between proprietary and Free software is the licence and the rules of distribution, beyond that there is nothing else it can gain in terms of functionality. Some have argued that 'closed/proprietary' software is needed in high risk situations like banks, utilities services and security to keep it obscure from attacks but that is a straw man argument. Security through obscurity is not security at all.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello from a new user
Welcome and take a look around, this place is fairly active which is always nice. And don't worry people using "open source" and "Linux" would get a kind reminder about what the terminology means - not that I have seen it.
[Trisquel-users] Re : When is proprietary software bad?
I do not think that using proprietary software (with no interaction with other user) is unethical. Developing such software definitely is. It however is sad that users of proprietary software do not seem to value their own freedoms.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Update Manager Not Working
Do *you* have a problem with "Update Manager" or do you only want to rant? SVTony had a problem but it is not like everybody had. And if you would look at the forums of essentially any distribution, you would find some users having such problems.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Compilation terminates, likely due to missing library
For some reasons, it looks like the linker is searching for the versions 1.53 of those libraries.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help installing Libreboot and dependencies
No, I don't know what that is.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
Just a question : Are there ethical arguments that justify to use proprietary softwares rather than free softwares ?
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
"I'm not sure what you mean here. LibreOffice wasn't offered by Microsoft as an alternative. Microsoft only developed Microsoft Office." No, you got me wrong. I argued that proprietary software resembles D/s more than slavery because - instead of real slavery - it doesn't prevent people from breaking out by force. You replied that people may be hold back since they need certain features of proprietary software. With "offering choices" I meant features offered by proprietary software which a user might desperately need and aren't available elsewhere. If a user needs ms office because of some specific feature, it's comparable to a slave who needs his slave owner in order to get food, but in principle is free to end this relationship - not real slavery, in my view.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help installing Libreboot and dependencies
Easier is to use binaries from release 6. Unbricking guides in the documentation recommend known working recovery tools, they are needed if flashing fails or if you flash a non-working ROM. People on #libreboot on Freenode know more. pgp7a7ZM8bPCD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help installing Libreboot and dependencies
Do you think it would just be easier to use release 6? I forgot to mention that I was trying to use release 5. No, I don't have any recovery tools. What should I be using for that?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help installing Libreboot and dependencies
That documentation refers to release 6, beta 6. Older versions have different scripts. Do you have tools for recovery if your build fails to boot? pgpWnQbu7pOlW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
I think you misunderstood my mention of whipping. I didn't say that it was in any way connected to leaving, and I didn't mean to imply that either. Whipping is sometimes a BDSM activity that people choose to partake in. Slaves don't have a choice in the matter; if their owner decides to whip them, for whatever reason, they get whipped. quantumgravity said: > Offering choices I'm not sure what you mean here. LibreOffice wasn't offered by Microsoft as an alternative. Microsoft only developed Microsoft Office. The choice is only there because someone else decided to develop OpenOffice and people continue to develop it. That someone else worked hard to make it possible for you to do the job without having your freedom attacked doesn't make the program that does attack your freedom any better. quantumgravity said: > You describe a slave owner, telling his slave: > "you are free to go, but then I won't give you food anymore." > I don't think we can actually talk about slavery anymore, even though the > "slave" will have a hard time getting his food elsewhere. > If you disagree, almost every job in an economically bad environment would > be considered to be slavery then. > Do you see where I'm coming from? You misunderstand. That would be the slave owner setting the slave free. I was talking about a slave fleeing from his owner and becoming an outlaw. If he's caught by the authorities, he will be sent right back to his owner. Sometimes a slave can escape, perhaps by seeking asylum somewhere else (as many slaves in the United States did when the fled to the north), or perhaps by hiding from the law. But if such an option isn't available, you have to flee from society altogether, and you're not likely to be able to survive that. Like I said, I think people wishing to move away from proprietary software have more success than slaves did escaping from their masters, probably. But I don't think the comparison is flawed at an abstract level: sometimes you can escape from proprietary software by using a libre replacement or doing without it, and sometimes you realistically can't.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello from a new user
welcome!!
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
"But what if you need Microsoft Office, and LibreOffice can't suit your needs? " You're mixing up things. Offering choices is not the same as using the whip, i.e. actively holding somebody back. You describe a slave owner, telling his slave: "you are free to go, but then I won't give you food anymore." I don't think we can actually talk about slavery anymore, even though the "slave" will have a hard time getting his food elsewhere. If you disagree, almost every job in an economically bad environment would be considered to be slavery then. Do you see where I'm coming from?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Manager Not Working
Now a problem with the update manager! These type of problems will lead people away from Trisquel. Lately this been an on going issue with updates including this recently https://trisquel.info/en/forum/where-are-all-security-updates I'm a patient person but this is starting to get irritating.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help installing Libreboot and dependencies
Have you got the build-essential package installed?
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
quantumgravity said: > Once I install microsoft office on my computer, that doesn't mean I will > get punished if I decide to get rid of it - I can just delete it. But what if you need Microsoft Office, and LibreOffice can't suit your needs? This has been the case for people in the past, and not just for Microsoft Office. As I mentioned, slaves could sometimes do things to set themselves free, ostensibly. They could sometimes ostensibly pay their owners with money they could ostensibly get by working extra-hard, or perhaps they technically had the ability to find an opportune moment and run off to the desert or wilderness, risking death by starvation or being eaten by a predator. None of this ever made slavery acceptable. It wouldn't have done so even if people had willingly chosen to be slaves, rather than forced into slavery due to things like economic circumstances and conquest. I argue that the ability to choose not to use proprietary software is also, often, ostensible. Sometimes it's really a choice you can make, sometimes it isn't; I suppose the success rate is much greater than the success rate of slaves trying to get out of slavery, mostly because of the work of the free/libre software movement and the fact that it doesn't require breaking any laws. But I think focusing on this detail is pedantic, given the point of the analogy.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
To clarify, I don't think slavery is in general similar to proprietary software. I just think some aspects of it are comparable.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello from a new user
Hi! And Welcome!
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
"If we compare proprietary software to slavery, D/s is more like choosing not to assert control over a libre program than choosing to use a proprietary program. " Well, according to your statement about D/s " It's just someone choosing to submit to someone else and taking on the title "slave". Because it's not actual slavery, you can back out and otherwise assert your right to freedom." proprietary software fits perfectly to this description. You _can_ back out of the "slavery" of a proprietary program anytime, without being whipped. Once I install microsoft office on my computer, that doesn't mean I will get punished if I decide to get rid of it - I can just delete it.
[Trisquel-users] Help installing Libreboot and dependencies
I am having the absoulte hardest time installing Libreboot on my Thinkpad X60s. I must be missing something. I downloaded the source and binaries from here: http://libreboot.org/docs/release.html#release5 , and I'm trying to follow the guildlines here: http://libreboot.org/docs/index.html . The instructions talk about a "deps-trisquel" script, but I can't find that in the files. Instead I used "./builddeps", which gave me this: x60s@x60s-ThinkPad-X60s:~/Downloads/libreboot_src$ sudo ./builddeps ./builddeps: line 7: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 11: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 12: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 22: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 23: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 28: make: command not found Importing unicode... Importing libgcrypt... WARNING: grub-core/lib/libgcrypt-grub already exists WARNING: grub-core/lib/libgcrypt-grub/cipher already exists WARNING: grub-core/lib/libgcrypt-grub/mpi already exists WARNING: grub-core/lib/libgcrypt-grub/src already exists Generating Automake input... Saving timestamps... Running autoreconf... ./autogen.sh: line 83: autoreconf: command not found checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no checking for cmp... cmp checking for bison... no configure: error: bison is not found ./builddeps: line 31: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 36: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 37: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 42: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 43: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 46: cd: flashrom: No such file or directory ./builddeps: line 47: make: command not found ./builddeps: line 48: make: command not found After that, I tried to follow the next step, but I don't see a "getall" script either. I am extremely confused and any help would be greatly appriciated.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Systemd
Got sent a link to this today. From Mr Poettering's blog. We want a unified solution that ultimately can cover updates for full systems, OS containers, end user apps, programming ABIs, and more. These updates shall be double-buffered, (at least). This is an absolute necessity if we want to prepare the ground for operating systems that manage themselves, that can update safely without administrator involvement. http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Install TOR Browser
Did it! The download worked now and could followed libredrs recommendations. Thank you all!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Freeslack (a little off topic)
Dragora is brutal. Even more so than Slackware. I got as far as getting everything working on Dragora, except my printer - couldn't find half of what I needed to compile drivers. But the above instructions are for taking a vanilla Slackware install and then cleaning it up. So you get pretty much what you'd get with Slackware, including a sane desktop on first graphical boot. With Dragora I get a 1024x768 blurred mess that requires a manually created and edited xorg.conf. I've always had a thing for Slackware. Back when I first discovered Linux the name Slackware seemed to call to me - sounds silly I know, but there it is. Once I finally discovered libre-software Slackware seemed to be out of bounds, so this discovery is pretty awesome. It still looks like the fonts have been scratched into the screen with a rusty needle though.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Freeslack (a little off topic)
Is it really any better than Dragora? I know that both Slackware and Dragora follow the KISS principle. I've never tried them, though, because KISS seems to be a bad choice for me.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
riftyful said: > Now then, if someone makes the choice to be a slave and they happy with the > way they are treated, is that wrong? If a person enslaves someone who wishes > to be enslaved and is completely okay with it, and they do not force that upon > other people, what is wrong with that? That sounds to me like D/s rather than slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_and_submission I don't think D/s is wrong. The key point to note is that D/s doesn't actually involve slavery, because slavery is illegal. It's just someone choosing to submit to someone else and taking on the title "slave". Because it's not actual slavery, you can back out and otherwise assert your right to freedom. For example, if you're a real slave, your owner might whip you, and there's nothing you can do about it. If you're just practicing D/s, and you don't like to be whipped, you can refuse to be whipped. If we compare proprietary software to slavery, D/s is more like choosing not to assert control over a libre program than choosing to use a proprietary program. If you have a problem with something a proprietary program is doing, such as spyware, you can't do anything about it, unless you can both get away from using the program and learn to live without it, which isn't always possible. If it's a libre program that you're simply choosing not to assert control over, though, you can, at any time, choose to start asserting control over it by e.g. removing the feature you have a problem with.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Freeslack (a little off topic)
Thanks, pretty cool. That's like the first step towards a new fully free distro.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
riftyful said: > But I don't mean to martinet, just making sure this is a loose comparison. It is. But regarding being able to move to freedom, oftentimes slaves could ostensibly move to freedom, e.g. by paying their owners. It just didn't work like that in practice. Though not quite to the same level, while you could move away from proprietary software you depend on, in practice it's not always possible. More specifically, you're forced to make sacrifices to make yourself free. In 1983, it was literally impossible without using obsolete systems or developing a whole system by yourself, because there wasn't any libre software at all. Today, the problem still remains in the sense that a lot of hardware won't work without proprietary software, and a lot of websites won't work without proprietary JavaScript. Further, schools are often requiring the use of proprietary software one way or another. I think you'll agree that dropping out of college to be free is a huge, unreasonable sacrifice! So is having to personally replace every proprietary program the university might require you to use, and make it 100% compatible.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Compilation terminates, likely due to missing library
Yes to all.
[Trisquel-users] Freeslack (a little off topic)
For anyone interested, I found instructions for "sanitising" a Slackware install. http://freeslack.net/
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
But they're not just limiting their own freedom, they're limiting everyone elses too. They are saying, effectively, "it's OK to publish proprietary software and it's OK to limit people's use and freedom through it".
[Trisquel-users] Hello from a new user
I'm a new user and just wanted to say hello to the forum members. I installed Trisquel a couple of days ago and my distro-hopping is now over. Finally, I've found a place, where forum members say GNU/Linux instead of "linux", Free and/or Libre Software instead of "open source" and where people actually value freedom and privacy. I want to thank everyone who created this high quality fully free GNU/Linux distribution and everyone who has contributed to the project.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello from a new user
Greetings and welcome.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
I am pretty sure slavery is worse than proprietary software, seeing as slaves could not stop being slaves and move to freedom. But I don't mean to martinet, just making sure this is a loose comparison. Now then, if someone makes the choice to be a slave and they happy with the way they are treated, is that wrong? If a person enslaves someone who wishes to be enslaved and is completely okay with it, and they do not force that upon other people, what is wrong with that? (Now I am talking in general; things like Skype kind of do force themselves upon other people, in a way)
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
Well, what if someone does smoke, but they do not mind their health being endangered at all? Sure, that does not make smoking good - I suppose that over the time people set a common standard that damaging one's health is bad, so this can apply here. But is it incorrect or unethical? Let's take PhotoShop as example; unlike Skype, it's a tool a person uses by themselves. It does not involve other people and the product created using it can still be free. So in this case, it's only the one person limiting their own freedom when using the software. Can we call this activity unethical? If a person is okay with limiting their own freedom (We assume the person is familiar with proprietary software and it's limitations), is it still wrong of them to use the software? Now, I did not really mean "bad" as in "worse". I meant bad as in "evil" or "ethically wrong". Thank you for reply.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense
These are unknown waters for me. One question: if a device (keyboard or wifi card or webcam) has software (firmware) written inside of it to be able to work, but that firmware doesn't talk to the OS (only the driver makes the connection between computer and device, OS and device) then we should be ok using it without thinking about "freedom issues"? I am asking as I don't get the "free firmware" issue, since firmware runs inside the device it cannot be changed to install a free alternative correct?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense
Well, I think we scared Lep away :P Maybe we diverted from the original thread subject. I think one good place for you to start would be reading the documentation on BackTrack Linux. I am not suggesting you use the distro (which is probably non-free) but just read the documentation, they have a lot of tutorials and such that might be useful. Also, many of the programs they use are free (search for them in the repos) so you can use them in Trisquel. I believe they have now moved to a new project called Kali Linux, so check them both. They also have a forum that might be useful for you to make questions and read others questions.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
Just watched it, not bad. Nothing totally new and amazing, but interesting.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Allow switching between kernels in GRUB
I investigated this, and it seems what you want to do to make GRUB always show up is unset GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET (by commenting out the lines that set them).
[Trisquel-users] Re : Compilation terminates, likely due to missing library
Have you installed "libboost-system1.48.0", "libboost-filesystem1.48.0", libboost-program-options1.48.0" and "libboost-thread1.48.0"?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Allow switching between kernels in GRUB
Physically removing the nVidia cards from desktop computers is not hard and not "putting money into them". I keep on thinking it is the best solution. You would only want to check first whether 'lspci' indicates that there is a "VGA compatible controller" inside the Intel processor. You probably run this command anyway to discover the nVidia card. Your "average folks" will not have any trouble with Intel graphics. On the contrary, having to boot an most outdated kernel (because it has the evil blob) will be troublesome.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Allow switching between kernels in GRUB
As far as I remember, GRUB lists all installed kernels. On Trisquel, the menu is hidden by default and the first (and normally most recent) kernel is booted. That is "unless the system was not properly shutdown". To always see the menu, you must change, in /etc/default/grub (with, e.g., 'gksu gedit /etc/default/grub'), some variables (as far as I understand setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to -1 would make GRUB never boot a kernel by itself) and run 'sudo update-grub' afterwards. For full documentation of the options in /etc/default/grub, see: $ info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
Re: [Trisquel-users] Update Manager Not Working
The fixes reported on this thread work once but then you always have to do it that way because the Update Manager has never gone back to normal for me. If I start the Update Manager, I get the same screen boaz was showing above.
Re: [Trisquel-users] install a full Trisquel on a USB flash drive
many people have been using the live-usb method for years, with distributions like Puppy Linux. I have not had a usb wear out or become unusable so far. I was thinking to try Trisquel using this method, but according to Chris, this is not practical, both in terms of speed and in terms of wear and tear on the usb drive. Does Trisquel run entirely in RAM? If so, how much RAM does it use? (Trisquel is not listed in the Wikipedia page on this topic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM) Note: with Puppy I use a Sandisk Cruzer Fit running in ext2 or 3 (I forget) and just leave it in my eeepc Netbook all the time, so there isn't a question of plugging and unplugging it all the time. But if I want to use it in another computer, I can, and all my settings are saved. For file storage I use Dropbox and Google Drive on the permanent disk, and go over to Windows once in while to sync files. If the distribution supported it better, I could do this without leaving Linux. (I'm aware that I could also use one of the libre cloud systems and may do so in the future.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ruben's talk won't be available via livestream but instead recorded and uploaded.
You know, I really can understand that the upload of the video gets delayed for some kind of reasons, but why in the world is it so hard to drop a little note in this forum or in the blog or somewhere else, like "video takes another two weeks, sorry"?? Why is this so hard? I have no understanding for this at all; honestly, I feel like being treated like an idiot.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When is proprietary software bad?
BBC Horizon 2014-2015 Episode 4: Inside the Dark Web https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjNkbLBEqg Terms and Conditions May Apply (pre snowden) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084953/
