Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software
the majority of flash applications are non-free if pepole set out to make libre software there main platform is not normally flash!
Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software
i loved doom when i was a kid(12 years old+) but not too good for a 4 and 6 year old diddnt see that bit in your post!
Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000
I was pleased to discover that the BLAG GNOME 20 live medium seems to have a complete GNOME 3.10, including orca screen reader. I haven't yet checked the Mate spin. My earlier test was on 14. 20 does not seem to see my Think Penguin USB wifi radio; that's for another topic or forum.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Achieving native 1680x1050 resolution in Syncmaster 2253BW monitor
After trekking through the graphics-card wilderness, I came up with an R92LE-C3S (a.k.a. ATI Radeon 9200SE) which runs on the same generic driver as the HP 6430NX motherboard's built-in graphics. Hence, my desktop looks exactly the same as it did with the motherboard's video output. This is all I could find with a search for graphics cards with Intel chipsets. Ha. Still stuck with proprietary requirements. Blame my ancient motherboard. Turns out that the first graphics card that I got wants a minimum of 450-watt power supply, so it's going back. An MSI GeForce GT610 has a different socket requirement that slipped past my radar. My old GeForce 6200 graphics card is indeed DOA. Is there a straightforward way of acquiring the ATI/Radeon graphics driver so I can get round circles and not egg-shaped ones ? Anything I can get with sudo apt-get install ? Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software
I once asked RMS what he would think of ROM hacking if copyright weren't a factor. He refused to consider it because it's a theoretical scenario that won't happen for several decades, but based on what he did say, I don't think he would consider ROM hacking as it's currently done to be good enough. He suggested that some properly commented assembly code would have to be derived from the binaries for it to be considered libre. I'm not sure if I agree or not.
Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software
I think Batman Doom is OK. It does have blood and violence, but not very much. (Note: it's not libre, but it runs on libre Doom engines; preferably, use PrBoom or PrBoom+.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] What happen to hardware?
i think that it compleatly depends on how many pepole are willing to make it happen.
[Trisquel-users] No picture in guvcview
Guvcview worked brilliantly in Trisquel 6. Cheese works and the video in Jitsi is great in Trisquel 7 but I have no picture in Guvcview. Is anyone else having this problem?
Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000
Parabola('s stable branch) seems to be more cutting than bleeding edge to me.
[Trisquel-users] /etc has a 'firefox' folder with apturl.js
What worries me really is not the 'Firefox' folder name but its contents, ie /etc/firefox/pref/apturl.js, especially the javascript file named apturl.js There are two folders for IceCat and Abrowser both having files named syspref.js, which also resides in /etc path. I am *NOT* against including javascript in programs, if they are free: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html *BUT* from a privacy point of view (as browsers can work on JS, and can be manipulated via an attacker etc.) I feel its my right to understand what is the purpose served by apturl.js(especially do it directs to an embedded URL, can be accessed by an external process etc.) Thank you in advance for input
Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000
I can make some allowances for your machine. But they're not relevant in the face of what I see: the fallback error image, the *dreadful* font rendering, and SeaMonkey as a browser.
[Trisquel-users] Disabling panel animations
Is there any way to disable panel animations that trigger on button click (or frames that appear on tab+alt, for that matter)? I'm using out of the box Trisquel 7 (metacity).
Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000
So, if your car's engine doesn't work, that car is oppressing you? What if the car's engine dies? Or what if a program stops working because you upgraded a dependency? Is the car or program now suddenly oppressing you? I'm sorry, but your logic is insanely flawed. A tool being broken isn't unethical. Being prevented from fixing or modifying your tool, whether it's broken or not, is unethical. As far as accessibility is concerned, it absolutely sucks when, because of the negligence of sighted people, blind people are unable to use certain tools. This is not exclusive to computers. Many, many books are not available either in Braille or as audiobooks. Pretty much nothing you buy at the store includes instructions that can be read without sight. Many jobs are either impossible or extremely dangerous to do without sight. But none of these are examples of oppression, and if a similar good that can be used by blind people is sold, but with restrictions on its use or modification, that is not better than the good that, due to negligence, is more difficult or impossible for blind people to use. I would argue the opposite: such a thing is even worse. It's an exploitation of the lack of support blind people get in a world of mostly sighted people. I also want to point out that I'm very much into video games. I am actually very conscious about trying to make my games as accessible as possible; for example, my most recent game uses colors to differentiate teams, so I included a colorblind mode for colorblind and color-deficient people. But one group in particular I typically cannot include among my games' users is blind people, because there simply aren't a whole lot of interesting ideas for games that can work without visuals. That you apparently think that, because of this, I am oppressing blind people, and worse than a proprietary software developer, is insulting.
Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software
Many of my friends want to play free baseball Unfortunately there is no baseball game free so far
Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000
The first and most fundamental purpose of software is to run. A free program that does not do what the user wants is more restrictive than a proprietary program that does do what the user wants, because the first does not fulfill software's fundamental purpose, while the second does. Freedom is not a fundamental purpose of software. Even if my car's blueprints are freely available, and it is simple to disassemble and reassemble it, **all of that matters nothing if it cannot move under its own power.**
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best Secure AMD Laptop for free software
Choose old Intel systems (i945 and gm45 can work with free boot firmware and without Management Engine firmware which implements AMT). (TPM is just a mostly useless chip, it's harmless.) If you choose AMD, you should decide if their signed blobs are sufficiently harmful. You won't avoid having much writable flash storage (in the chip storing boot firmware), unless you use coreboot and customize it to not write memory training data needed for suspend to RAM and faster booting. (Builtin wifi is in SoCs for routers and some phones, I think no x86 system has it.) Cryptographic code necessarily does much work on the CPU, which means more power being used. It did optimize too well for speed and avoid some unnecessary computations, making it possible to find private keys From the pattern of power usage (and resulting noise from capacitors and inductors). GPG was fixed to prevent guessing private keys from such noise, so you hear only that encryption (or another CPU-intensive operation) occurs, maybe also what key size you use (while everyone now uses 4096-bit RSA keys for GPG). See http://cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ for details. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] Re : new user to linux
Well, the NSA change the firmware on hardware before it is shipped to people they *specifically* target. It is not a common threat. They do that because no application (such as an anti-virus) can detect the malware. The only solution would be to flash that firmware. But, again, you probably have nothing to worry about.
Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software
Thanks Heather and Magic banana! installed Minetest and Celestia. I will show him tonight! He has played Minecraft (installed it on a Rasp) and he loves it so I'm sure he will be pleased. He likes platform games so I showed him Commander Keen. I found Clonekeen as a replacement: http://clonekeen.sourceforge.net/?nav=sshots He also likes to play games from the Lego site, but they are all flash based. On this age they will play what you give them so luckily I still have some influence ;-) My Daughter likes those games where you can dress a doll, but also puzzles and coloring. I think Tux Paint and gcompris will fill that gap nicely 0AD is perhaps a bit too difficult, although now I have a new game to play (loved Ages of Empires when I was young)
Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software
For platformers, I can recommend a few in particular: - Barbie Seahorse Adventures (package seahorse-adventures in Trisquel 7) - Secret Maryo Chronicles (package smc in Trisquel; you probably also want smc-music, for music) - Tux Strikes Back -- a SuperTux Milestone 1 (package supertux-stable in Trisquel) world. Get it here: http://www.christian-schaefers.de - Alex the Allegator 4 (package alex4 in Trisquel) - SuperTux (package supertux for the development version, or supertux-stable for Milestone 1) is pretty good, but it's been in development hell for the past decade, so I'd expect little progress on it in the future.
Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software
Alex the Allegator is really awesome, and so is supertux (and supertux 2 i as far as I remember). Though it is a controversal topic, i want to point out that for people actually make mods and hacks of old snes/nes roms and share them with the community, so they are exercising freedom 2 and 3. Freedom one is a precondition for this anyway. I guess none of those freedoms are really granted by law, but I don't know of anybody who ever got in trouble with those old games. You can play them with a free software emulator. For me, they are acceptable from a freedom perspective but for other people here they are not, so it's your decision. However, I'm fully convinced that they are not the same thing as proprietary software and that's the reason why i mention them here. The Snes and Nes offers the greates game classics ever made. Personally, i think that modern games can't compete.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What happen to hardware?
Thank guys for the answers... In your opinion, How long will it take to have complete free hardware (laptops, mobile phones, eReaders, etc) available to FSF users? What do you think about that future? is it utopic?
Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software
You may hate me for Minetest, but if it wasn't me, it would just be somebody else. That's what this generation does. We don't have a server set up yet and mostly keep Heather Jr. offline, but that could change and undoubtedly will at some point.
