Re: [Trisquel-users] Playing .swf files
Thanks for your comments, everyone. I thought I could choose which program to use when playing .swf files, as the only option I get is Gnash. I have installed Lightspark but I don't get the option to use it. I tried Shumway but it didn't work.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Playing .swf files
but don’t flash programs use action-script? isn’t this the same as a non-free python, lua orjavascript program that you cant view the source code off?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot get widescreen resolution and use multiple monitors in Trisquel 7, like I could in Trisquel 6
lydell - debian wheezy that is 7.8 stable with only the main repo (without the non free repositories - so no non-free drivers) works great with my new laptop. I see it says on boot error - non free driver for radeon 600 not loaded or something like that but when I enter the xfce session the resolution is the native one and it works really fine. Trisquel and ati video cards are a no go.. cheers!
[Trisquel-users] dual booting trisquel and gnewsense
Hello I would like to ask for some help in dual booting trisquel and gnewsense, I found some guides online but some of them conflict with one another. I would like the partitions to be encrypted but what I don't fully understand is do I need swap partition and if so how big and does it have to be encrypted. Do I need to create a /root partition one guide says yes and the other no, if I do need a /root partition how big should it be and does it need to be encrypted. What about the /home partition. Also I do know I need /boot partition how big should this partition be. hopefully someone can help
Re: [Trisquel-users] Playing .swf files
Yeah, that's what I said.
[Trisquel-users] [Not] including upstream keyrings
We should have a coherent policy for upstream keyrings. Currently we have all of the Debian keyrings in our repository except the debian-edu ones, and all of Ubuntu's keyrings except ubuntu-keyring. We even install ubuntukylin-keyring by default (I'm pretty sure that's a bug). One argument that has been given here for excluding ubuntu-keyring is that it is used to install/verify non-free packages, but you can apply that argument to all of the other upstream keyrings we do include. We should either include all of the upstream keyrings or exclude them all. What do you all think?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Harden Trisquel
Hi Cinnamon, I'm glad I could help. I learned a lot on this website: http://www.insanitybit.com Maybe it can help you in the same way it helped me.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop screen goes black
First, thank you for the time you took to reply to me. I couldn't find anything relevant with that search, but I did find out that the problem seems to occur only when Youtube is loaded.
Re: [Trisquel-users] dual booting trisquel and gnewsense
The only partition you need is one for /. /home in a different partition is a good idea because /home is where you store most of your data, and you can share data across two systems this way. /boot in a different partition is only necessary or even useful if you want to use a filesystem for / that isn't supported by the boot loader. For GRUB, I don't know what filesystems those are, but ext4 isn't one of them. As for swap, you should probably have some swap so running out of RAM won't crash your system. Swap is also needed if you want to hibernate your system. For hibarnate to work properly, you should have at least as much swap as you have RAM. Whether or not you go above that is really up to you. It won't hurt, at any rate. Personally, I have a little more than twice as much swap as RAM. If it is important to ensure that no data in your hard drive can be read by anyone else (e.g. if you need to protect yourself from a government), you must encrypt everything
Re: [Trisquel-users] dual booting trisquel and gnewsense
thanks onpon, so then /home should be fairly large in size to accommodate data right? What about /root do I need it and if so how big. By the way my hard drive is 500g (laptop) thanks
Re: [Trisquel-users] dual booting trisquel and gnewsense
Since partitions have been mentioned, I suggest using LVM, so that you can much more easily resize partitions, take snapshots, and add storage devices transparently. For more information, consult mainly the man pages (“lvm” in section 8 contains links to more man pages) and secondarily, tutorials found in the World Wide Web.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot get widescreen resolution and use multiple monitors in Trisquel 7, like I could in Trisquel 6
I think I can finally sum things up here. Video drivers do something called mode-setting. There are two ways of doing that: User-space mode-setting (UMS) and Kernel mode-setting (KMS). KMS is apparently technically superior over UMS. UMS requires _a lot_ of code in the video driver. Therefore, it is tempting to remove UMS, because then there is no need to maintain lots of code that does things worse than things could be. Between Trisquel 6 and Trisquel 7, UMS support was removed from the radeon driver. Unfortunately, using KMS with newer radeon cards requires proprietary firmware in the kernel (which is of course removed in Trisquel). Between Trisquel 6 and Trisquel 7, many of the dependencies of the radeon driver were updated as well. That required code to be changed in the video driver. That was of course not done for the UMS code, because it was removed (which was the point of removing it). Trying to recompile the Trisquel 6 version of the radeon driver (with UMS support) requires updating all that code. For me, that is to big a task. (Perhaps somebody else feels like doing it, but the best option is of course to make KMS for radeon with free software work.) So, on this computer I'm either going to stay with Trisquel 7 and sub-optimal screen resolution, or I'll switch back to Trisquel 6. When it is not supported any longer this somewhat old laptop will be too old to be used anyway. Luckily I can afford a new computer with hardware that is more free software friendly.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot get widescreen resolution and use multiple monitors in Trisquel 7, like I could in Trisquel 6
According to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xserver-xorg-video-ati, the stable version used in Debian is 1:6.14.4-8 -- that is, basically the same version as Trisquel 6. So it seems like Debian uses older software than Trisquel 7 -- more like Trisquel 6. Then, why not just use Trisquel 6? :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Compiling xserver-xorg-video-vesa from source
The linked guide sure is helpful. I recommend it to anyone attempting to build a radeon driver. I cloned git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati and found a branch called ums. The latest commit was from 2013, even though UMS support was removed in 2012. Wow, that sounded promising! However, the UMS removal removes a lot of code. _A lot._ Since then, it seems like many changes has been done in order to support newer versions of dependencies, such as xorg. When I tried compiling from the latest commit in the ums branch things failed, because that code was of course not updated for newer dependencies. Considering how much code I need to go through, and that I have prior experience with driver programming, or C programming at all, the task feels too big. (I actually managed to solve at least one thing -- but then 10 new problems arose). So I don't think I'll get further with this (at least for now). It was still a fun project that I learned lots from!
Re: [Trisquel-users] dual booting trisquel and gnewsense
I recall that Ubiquity requires LVM if you want to use full disk encryption. Is this an actual requirement of full disk encryption, or just a good practice?
Re: [Trisquel-users] dual booting trisquel and gnewsense
Don't worry about /root, that's just the home directory of the user root. I don't know of any reason to put it in a different partition than /.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternatives to Wikipedia
Enciclopedia Libre Universal (Universal Free Encyclopedia) is up again. Does anyone knows of free as in freedom encyclopedias either universal or dedicated to a big part of knowledge (see my original message) in English, other than Wikipedia and Citizendium?.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop screen goes black
a good search engine is ixquick.com
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop screen goes black
Google Chrome is proprietary software, so I'd recommend using Abrowser or GNU Icecat instead
Re: [Trisquel-users] Playing .swf files
sorry i misinterpreted what you said i interpreted They're just as bad as typical web pages as non-free html+css
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop screen goes black
please stop putting these two words together (gooshit and search). And tell all you friends please stop using gooshit. Now you may ask really.. and why is that? And I would answer everything you type on gooshit gets collected and stored indefintely and sold to third parties, governments included, along with your ip address and other stuff which identifies you uniquely on the net Simply put - gooshit is shit. Shit is not recommendable. Hence: Stop recommending gooshit! p.s - I counted 7 shit in this post of mine about gooshit. I like the number 10 so just one more time - google is shit! ciao!
[Trisquel-users] LIBRE PLANET 2015 is here....!!
Hello all, This year's LIBREPLANET conference is scheduled on March 21-22 at MIT Stata Center, Cambridge, MA. Official site[1] If you plan to participate remotely, please bookmark this link[2] and check back during the conference. [1] https://libreplanet.org/2015/ [2] https://libreplanet.org/2015/live/ Spread the word!!
