Re: [Trisquel-users] Encrypted offsite backup - a question
I never used it, but attic seems to be an alternative. From its documentation: Attic is a deduplicating backup program written in Python. The main goal of Attic is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes Attic suitable for daily backups since only the changes are stored. https://attic-backup.org/ Available in trisquel repo http://packages.trisquel.info/belenos/attic A tutorial http://www.debian-administration.org/article/712/An_introduction_to_the_attic_backup_program
[Trisquel-users] Re : replace xorg
Furthermore, it looks highly unlikely that Ubuntu will ever move to Wayland, as they are developing their own custom compositor called Mir, which is due to land in a future version. In that sentence, substitute Wayland for systemd and Mir for Upstart and you will see that ever is, at least, a too strong word. It is quite probable, say within eight years, that all major GNU/Linux distributions but Ubuntu will have chosen Wayland and Ubuntu will then abandon its Mir project like it has just done with Upstart.
Re: [Trisquel-users] replace xorg
Yes! Wayland is in the repos.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
Why go through all the trouble when you can get RYF certified systems like the Libreboot X60? Hmm have you checked the whole X60 if it's mistreating you on hardware level? Every circuit, chip? I haven't. And you can't run around with a X60 for the next 20 years; the digital society we live in evolves very quickly, and life will demand more up-to-date specs; Sooner or later, we'll have to buy a new system, and this will be a real problem, as the post of chris shows once again.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't boot NetInstall
Yes when I installed Trisqel maybe a month ago... Weird. What think you about the fact that the USB creator in Tisquel doesn't let me write the .iso file to the USB drive?
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
When I said it wouldn't be worth the trouble I was responding specifically to the suggestion... even if you had to put up with a 10 khz cpu it would beable to run very simple dos like systems and it would be a start Let's say it cost $5 billion to build a fab to produce a top of the line, multicore, x86_64 clone.. or it cost only $900 million to build a fab to produce a completely obsolete chip like a 10 khz chip. No business, bank, investor, or charity alive is going to give you $900 million to make an obsolete chip when you can just go out and buy old chips anyway. You've got a much better chance of getting the $5 billion to make an actual workable chip. Also, no, I haven't checked every circuit and chip of the X60, but somewhere, eventually, you have to trust someone. I trust the FSF's certification process. If you're insisting on building every little part yourself, you'll never get anything done. Because you'll have to use an existing system to build the tools that you're going to use. How do I know the systems you used to build your new systems are trustworthy?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't boot NetInstall
some ways to write a iso file to usb drive dd if=trisquel.iso of=/dev/(usb drive name goes here) unetbootin lets you write a iso file to usb stick: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ http://92.19.232.58:82/code/html/unetbootin_libre.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
I don't think lowering the specs would bring down cost all that much, and it wouldn't achieve any real goal. You're still going to have to buy the machines, the clean rooms, RD, and all of that. Plus a 10 khz cpu would be next to worthless (I know you were picking an absurdly low clock rate on purpose), even a 486 MHz DX chipset is next to worthless now. Why go through all the trouble when you can get RYF certified systems like the Libreboot X60? Those actually have competitive specs and they don't have these problems. What actually makes a difference is using 100% free distros. Refusing to buy hardware that doesn't respect your freedom. Intel and AMD already have the power to make chips that respect your freedom, so either buy old stock, or refuse to upgrade. And learn to reverse engineer this garbage so you can work on projects like libreboot and linux-libre.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
Like rmmmusial said it's close to impossible to make your own semiconductor technology, primarly because the tecnology used to make them is ultra expensive, micro and nano technology is not something you can do even if you win many lotteries, and even if you could make something it probably wouldn't be worth it. However if you are interested in doing it just for fun, I believe that low freq 8-bit processors are achievable.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
dose anyone know if its possible to make your own motherboards, cpu's, gpu's, HDD's, etc Well, “to make” is open to interpretation. There is no single company (let alone individual) which does everything from the extraction of raw materials (I.e: mineral ores, raw petroleum, and so on) and outputs a finished CPU, GPU, hard disk, motherboard, and so on, so in this sense nobody and no company is solely responsible for “making” a chip or motherboard. There is a lot of companies and productive activities involved in the production of semiconductors. I don't know the whole chain. You are likely interested in the last links: The design and manufacturing of integrated circuits (especially CPUs), and the assembly of them into printed circuit boards. As mentioned above, the equipment to manufacture a CPU (whether comparable to an ARM, Intel or AMD CPU) is extremely expensive and takes people and knowledge to operate so it's not feasible for an individual to turn a silicon ingot (and all of the other already highly processed materials it takes) into a CPU. There are however, semiconductor companies that can be hired to manufacture integrated circuits given a design (I don't know how costly it is and what the minimum volumes are). Take a look at the lowRISC project; it seems like they will hire one such company to manufacture the CPU. They use the RISC-V instruction set architecture. RISC-V is a project about developing an instruction set architecture, implementation of it and related software (emulator, compiler, Linux port, etcetera). It seems a promising project. However, unfortunately both have the open source attitude. Manufacturing a motherboard is very different. It's a printed circuit board with macroscopic integrated circuits and connectors. Depending on the sophistication of a PCB it may be possible for an individual to take a blank PCB, etch, cut and drill it (not all are drilled), and solder the components. Through-hole components are easy to solder but most non-power components are
Re: [Trisquel-users] Encrypted offsite backup - a question
xdelta isn't a complete solution, but it may help with deduplication. Note that you may need to change the parameters to increase the deduplication ratio. GPG has built-in compression, but if you want more compression you may want to use an external too; if you do, don't forget to disable the built-in compression because it would just make things slower and likely increase the size slightly. Also, you can encrypt your private key with a symmetric key algorithm and store the encrypted private key along with the backup so that you can recover the backup by knowing the key used for the symmetric encryption.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Can't boot NetInstall
The USB key may be damaged. Can you try with another one?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects
The sourcecode for the Boincserver could be a problem: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/tree/master/rboinc/server. Read the files called *default. The Client isn´t that hard. Some one should upload a projectlist so that I could just change from where Boinc loads.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Encrypted offsite backup - a question
I know that the majority of you would never use a Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive, but what if you upload the files to those services using GnuGPG in a pinch? They would still host your files for free, but the .asc files wouldn't be able to be opened as you have the private key.
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Can't boot NetInstall
I will try another drive in the next days. I don't have a DVD drive but my roommate has an external one... All the other PCs in house are Macs... I'm not shure if they even can boot from suck a stick. But in theory it could work. They are all Intel. Thank you for your advice!
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
If the machines available don't respect human rights and if we can't make our own, then we have to stop using these machines to the extent possible. That's a radical statement but it's logically consistent.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Test and install Trisquel on any laptops without operating system
right. you forgot to say duckduckgo uses amazon servers..another reason why I use exclusively ixquick
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
Though I can't answer your question, i want to add that a tablet running a fully functional version of trisquel would be far superior to a galaxy 2 running replicant. The latter one is barely acceptable... slow 2d graphics, no wifi, no video.
[Trisquel-users] replace xorg
hi Is there a way to replace xorg to Wayland in trisquel 7??
Re: [Trisquel-users] replace xorg
No. Well, technically anything is possible with a free OS, but in reality it is prohibitively difficult. You'd have to rip out so much of the guts of the system that what you'd be left with couldn't genuinely be called Trisquel 7. Trisquel releases are based on an Ubuntu upstream release. Trisquel 7 is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which doesn't have Wayland. Furthermore, it looks highly unlikely that Ubuntu will ever move to Wayland, as they are developing their own custom compositor called Mir, which is due to land in a future version. Mir is being developed as fully free software, so there's no reason not to use it in a future version of Trisquel when the time comes. Personally, I'd rather the GNU/Linux community standardised on a single display server/compositor, and I'd like that to be Wayland, but that's just a convenience argument. Freedom-wise, there's nothing wrong with Mir, so I assume that's the direction we're going in.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
The only Intel Media Accelerator I could find on h-node was Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500, and it says it works with 3d acceleration, but I guess that doesn't means the 600 does to.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
Does anybody knows if 3d acceleration works too on Dell Latitude ST? grimlok mention he would add it's information to h-node but it seems he never did, and it seems it's not possible to contact him on his profile on this forum :(
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
According to the specs I found on the Internet it uses a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 600. Any ideas? xD
Re: [Trisquel-users] Test and install Trisquel on any laptops without operating system
who hosts ixquick?
[Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
So there has been some speculation in the past on the integration of 3G modems in CPUs there is new news that its actually happening and not secretly either. I haven't read up on it much yet either, but I'm imagining this will be pretty obvious once released. Also to note is that the 3G is in the SOC and I'm assuming not on the CPU itself. I'm unsure about the antennas although we'll have to wait and see. In theory it might work without them, but I'm thinking probably not as it would reduce reception. http://hothardware.com/news/intel-announces-first-atom-soc-with-integrated-lte-modem
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
there is a tablet version of the thinkpad x60 and the x60(and therefore x60 tablet) with libreboot installed is compatible with gnu/linux(if you change the wifi card) you can find info here http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_x60_list
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
dose anyone know if its possible to make your own motherboards, cpu's, gpu's, HDD's, etc how would you get the machines to make computer hardware? this seems like the only answer i don’t think we can just trust intel or amd and hope for the best
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
Semiconductor fab shops require ungodly amounts of money. Fabs require many expensive devices to function. Estimates put the cost of building a new fab over one billion U.S. dollars with values as high as $3–4 billion not being uncommon. TSMC invested $9.3 billion in its Fab15 300 mm wafer manufacturing facility in Taiwan.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_fabrication_plant
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
is there any way it could be cheaper if you were willing to have lower spec chips? like the arm cpu's
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
That's great tomlukeywood . Thanks :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
check this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(system_on_chip)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Test and install Trisquel on any laptops without operating system
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Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
true but as Intel's goal is profits and not human rights i think we rely need to fight back with computers made for the benefit of people and not the benefit of the few
Re: [Trisquel-users] 3G modems coming integrated with Next Gen Intel Atom (for real this time)
Honestly, I think it will be enough to respect Human Rights (HR). http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ We don't need more plants, what we need is to enforce the basic rights we are entitled with just because we are humans. I really think the solution will be found when we demand respect to HR. It's up to the citizens of the world to not let HR be just a soaked paper, not just something our grandparents once wrote.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tablets that can run GNU/Linux
just make sure to read the libreboot info here: http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_x60t_list that’s if you installing libreboot i think you could use it without but obviously libreboot would be better
Re: [Trisquel-users] replace xorg
I test it in Fedora its so good
