Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel as a server os
Doesn't it render Perl automatically. Although there are modules for apache2 thatvcan do that, I think there are, I am assuming so
[Trisquel-users] How to fix usb drive?
I have problems with TS8GJF500 (http://us.transcend-info.com/Products/No-274)- it becomes write protected in the process of writing to it on Windows 7. I'd used it for installation of Trisquel 7. I assume that I messed it up making it live usb many times. Then tried to fix it with fsck instead of fsck.fat, changing starting sector or sth. like that, hah. So after little research I used dd zero bs=4M for complete data erasure. Then format it in FAT32 with gparted and again with disks (tried with disks at first to get an error; only gparted is not enough). Doing that procedure before using it on Windows 8 was enough to copy 1GB file without a problem. But back on Win 7 it's the old story. Today formatting it gave input/output error. Is it even fixable? If so could you give me the clear simple steps how to clean it entirely and format it properly. Obviously I'm doing it wrong now. Sorry for the messy info. I forgot all the things I've done to the drive and I get the feeling that new errors appear all the time. P.S. I attach the details from today's attempt with gparted (leaving 50MB before and after the partition). And that is from disks (partition spanning the whole drive): Error erasing device: Error writing 1048576 bytes to /dev/sdb1: Input/output error (udisks-error-quark, 0) GParted 0.18.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize Libparted 2.3 Format /dev/sdb1 as fat32 00:14:24( ERROR ) calibrate /dev/sdb1 00:00:00( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdb1 start: 102400 end: 15159295 size: 15056896 (7.18 GiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdb1 00:08:07( SUCCESS ) write 68.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 7709126656 00:00:00( SUCCESS ) flush operating system cache of /dev/sdb 00:08:07( SUCCESS ) set partition type on /dev/sdb1 00:00:01( SUCCESS ) new partition type: fat32 create new fat32 file system 00:06:16( ERROR ) mkfs.fat -F32 -v -I -n /dev/sdb1 mkfs.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07) /dev/sdb1 has 241 heads and 62 sectors per track, hidden sectors 0x19000; logical sector size is 512, using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 15056896 sectors; drive number 0x80; filesystem has 2 32-bit FATs and 8 sectors per cluster. FAT size is 14676 sectors, and provides 1878439 clusters. There are 32 reserved sectors. Volume ID is 27f745b4, volume label . mkfs.fat: failed whilst writing FAT libparted messages( INFO ) Input/output error during write on /dev/sdb
Re: [Trisquel-users] simple and powerful software for scrapbook
Try the Amoyshare Photo Collage Maker http://www.amoyshare.com/photo-collage-maker-for-win/scrapbooking-your-childs-growth.html .
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Vimeo run non-free Javascript??
same as ssdclickofdeath
[Trisquel-users] Alternative Display Manager
Hello all, I decided to spank out gdm and replace it with WINGs Display Manager to give my experience a more classic look. The only thing is, for some reason it doesn't seem to be loading automatically. When I boot I get the trisquel splash screen, and then I see a login in a terminal screen, and then it just goes blank. The only way I've found I can get into my desktop is to 'alt+F1' to a new login screen and type in 'sudo service wdm start'. This allows me to login and loads the GUI desktop. Any suggestions? Log files I can look at? Thanks, grimlok
Re: [Trisquel-users] user login:? I cannot Boot, but Install OK. Please Help
Thanks for your help. I performed a wrong step on Manual Installation and, well... not even Graphic environement was installed by mistake. I will make a tutorial about the manual installation menu in case it will be useful for the community in exchange for help. Finally, Trisquel running OK. Some other questions to solve because I m completely new to GNU/Linux, but now my further questions are not so hard. I will ask about them on new comment because this issue is happily SOLVED. so THANKS A MILLION PEOPLE!.
[Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
Hello Community; I m completely new to this OS and to linux and I m taking a look at the add-remove aplications menu. I got many questions about how installing programs and applications on my computer. 1. typing sudo apt-get install package_name on a terminal will be enough to get an app?. How does it works around here?, I mean this command works under this OS, or there´s something different on Trisquel?. 2. I wanted to try a program I cannot see in the add-remove applications menu. I ve seen video editor Openshot, which seems cool to me but I fail to see other linux video editors like Cinelerra. This means that maybe those programs I cannot see are not free software and will be rejected by the OS ?. How could I check if a concrete program is following or not free software principles?. I understand that Trisquel will reject all kind of linux software that does not follow free software principles . Am I right?. How does it works?., installation cancels?, not accepted program will not open up?. It just does not downloads from repositories?. 3. If I want to check if FFmpeg is installed or not on my machine, how could I do it from terminal?. sudo apt-get install ffmpeg would be enough for installing this program in case is not?. Thanks in advance to those who could answer something back!. Help very appreciated. Regards.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternative Display Manager
GDM? Trisquel 7 doesn't use that by default. It uses LightDM. ;)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does Vimeo run non-free Javascript??
i can watch videos on vimeo using onpon4's method here: https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/onpon4/m/tutorial-watching-videos-without-javascript/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternative Display Manager
try: sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm it should come up with a option to chose your dm at least it did when i installed gdm so i assume so
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternative Display Manager
Yeah, I did a direct upgrade from Trisquel 6, so I think it kept gdm from that. I could be wrong though. All I know, is when I booted up after the upgrade I still was running gdm.
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
1. typing sudo apt-get install package_name on a terminal will be enough to get an app?. How does it works around here?, I mean this command works under this OS, or there´s something different on Trisquel?. so most gnu/linux distros such as trisquel have repo's to make it easy to install programs (you can install programs using other methods but this is the easiest) so when you type for example apt-get install pacman you are downloading the program pacman from the repo's and then installing it you can check were your downloading your programs from by typing nano /etc/apt/sources.list there a bit more to it than that buts this is a simple explanation also you can use graphical programs to do the same thing like trisquels add/remove programs program or synaptic package manager 2. i am not sure why this isnt in the repo's maby noone knew about it..? but its under the gpl and i just compiled it sucsessfully so i reccomend compiling it from source: http://cinelerra-cv.org/source_code.php and if you need help doing so just ask 3. type ffmpeg -h or use the synaptic package manager I understand that Trisquel will reject all kind of linux software that does not follow free software principles . Am I right? you can install non-free software on trisquel its just that the hole point of using the distro is its fully free so there a no non-free programs in the repo's
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
The aptitude show command lists information about a package, including whether or not it's installed. For example, aptitude show icecat. Note that FFmpeg is not in the repos. This is because it's been replaced with avconv, a fork of FFmpeg (its package is libav-tools).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Apple is open sourcing Swift. Your thoughts?
Apple: Work for us for free!
[Trisquel-users] Apple is open sourcing Swift. Your thoughts?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/what-does-apple-get-out-of-taking-swift-open-source/ http://readwrite.com/2015/06/09/apple-swift-open-source-wwdc2015 http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/08/swift-open-source/ As you may or may not know, Swift is a new programming language set to replace Objective-C in programming for the Mac and iOS platforms. It is supposed to be easier to program and according to Wikipedia, Swift took language ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list With Apple's recent WWDC, they announced that they would make Swift open source and available for Linux platforms in 2015. If it is the natural evolution of Objective-C and since Objective-C support on GNU/Linux is pretty terrible, maybe this will help some developers in coding without investing in locked down and overpriced Apple hardware and operating systems. Especially if they make all of the language open and don't make important feature only available to Apple platforms (like Cocoa/Objective-C), then this could be a good thing right?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Apple is open sourcing Swift. Your thoughts?
The articles don't mention what is going to be open source (a compiler, a debugger, an IDE, an implementation of the standard library, or what else?). As usual, those who talk about open source don't know what the term means and misapply it. Open source is a property that software may possess, but not programming languages (they have no source to speak of, implementations do). The question should be whether the software is going to be free as in freedom. Article writers in this type of journals are already too sloppy to know what open source is, let alone comprehend the importance of free software. These article writers don't want to see beyond their nose. When a new digital jail is released (traitors devices like computer phones, “iThings” or proprietary software) they are quick to appraise it for what it looks like, without realizing that it is just another way of putting the general public under corporate control. The use I see for any of these journals is to know what some of the latest artifices to deceive and exploit customers are. Apple does occasionally releases software that can be useful in a fully free system like CUPS. However, at a glance, this gives me the impression that they are just looking to provide an open source bait for any developer stupid enough to take it, so that then he develops software that runs within the software framework of Apple; then Apple can subjugate the users of that software and possibly the stupid developer too.
[Trisquel-users] an Open Source Hardware Certification
http://www.oshwa.org/
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
I see that tomlukeywood has answered the orignal questions, in addition: It is not “app get”, it's “apt-get”, as you wrote correctly in the message body. APT stands for “Advanced Packaging Tool”. “app” is ostensibly a shorthand for “application”, but in practice it is a marketing trash word (“buzzword”) roughly synonym with “computer program”; used especially by proprietary software developers. I guess it's also another way of making fun of the ignorant clients who happily surrender their computing rights and hand their personal information to them (the developers). We have been using “computer program” for decades and it works perfectly, it means what it says. On the other hand, “app” is sloppy language, because the speaker doesn't ever bothers to write the full word, which is usually incorrect anyway. In informatics, an application is a generic way in which technology may be put to use, for instance, the world wide web, e-mail, optical character recognition, peer to peer file sharing, and so on are applications. Implementations thereof are not applications but computer programs. According to Wikipedia, “app” is a shorthand for “application software”, which is such as vague concept so as to be nearly useless (There is no clearly boundary between “operating system” and “application software” because any one would be arbitrary).
Re: [Trisquel-users] an Open Source Hardware Certification
RYF already does this right? It may be good to have another certification program, but it depends on the criteria. One of OSHWA's primary goal is to Move towards common expectations of what qualifies as open source hardware, including how non-open elements of putatively open source hardware is handled. So, how will they deal with non-open components? What does open mean? Only time will tell whether the OSHWA advocate for liberty. It's possible that OSHWA will marginalize liberty issues (and RYF) with the media's assistance, like the OSI did to liberty issues (and the FSF) in the 1990s.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Apple is open sourcing Swift. Your thoughts?
GNUstep's position on Swift http://heronsperch.blogspot.com.es/2014/06/gnusteps-position-on-swift.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] an Open Source Hardware Certification
I think this is a very interesting development although it's unfortunate they use the open source lingo [1] and even point to OSI etc... All this wonderful free software we have is useless unless we have machines to run it on. 1 https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternative Display Manager
i was suggesting it as it may come up with a option to select your dm as the default when you start it up as it did for me heres what happens when you run dpkg-reconfigure kdm for example:
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternative Display Manager
Yeah I have run that. That's what lead me to removing gdm all together. I now only have wdm on my laptop, but it still doesn't want to load unless I load it. During startup, I can see that it does try to start, but it never goes through with it.
[Trisquel-users] orca Screen Reader on Sugar?
My friend has been tasked with making Sugar learning environment accessible, by means of the Orca screen reader, on a OLPC machine. I tried running orca on Trisquel Sugar; There must be missing pieces; orca did not talk. I'm not sure where to tell my friend to start but promised I'd ask for some ideas on here. If you can help, please contact my friend, Brandon Werner, directly. am_d...@fastmail.com or me on gnusocial: davehunt@social.2mb.solutions Thanks, Dave
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
I suggest you use sudo aptitude install instead of apt-get because it have been proven to be better at handling flags and dependencies.
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
GNU linux aptitude search is a very useful command too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
Honestly, apt-cache search is more powerful. aptitude search only searches package names, apt-cache search searches everything in the package. (I do find aptitude search useful, but mostly because I tend to already know most of the package name.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] an Open Source Hardware Certification
Yeah, seems like a duplicate to http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom
Re: [Trisquel-users] an Open Source Hardware Certification
I doubt anything is going to change for the better as a result of this effort. They're already showing a willingness to compromise on users freedom from the sounds of it. It's based on a foundation that misses the point (open source). We're already seeing companies like Intel, Atheros, and others taking steps backwards. It's time to start designing hardware from scratch to whatever extent that's possible and figuring out how we can cut corners to bring down the manufacturing costs (not necessarily worse computers- just lower costs- as you can't manufacturing 200,000 of something for a user base of 5,000). Once you've achieved that design then work needs to be done to promote the effort and raise funds for actual manufacturing. Even $250,000 is a lot of money particularly when you don't have numbers to build off. That is if you know you can sell 250 of a given computer then it's easy to formulate a plan to manufacture 250 computers. But when you've been selling x86 systems of three different classes and the most popular class only has 120 computers and contains a 1920x1080 screen, etc. then all of a sudden it's not so clear that the cheaper lower end system you're able to design would have enough demand to meet the 250 you'll need to manufacture. A wrong move here and there goes the business. It's one thing for a business to seed the development, but it's another to take that risk, if the effort fails. So the first thing that would need to happen is that risk needs to be spread out. That could be done through a well-marketed campaign, but still, you need to hit that 250 number. Otherwise it will fail no matter what. Unfortunately I have no idea for a solution on some issues. Like wifi. All next-gen wifi chipsets are dependent on proprietary software and a good chunk of the systems on the market now lock users into these chips so you can't swap them for ones that are free software friendly. You can for the moment skip the wifi as its not designed into the SOC, but what happens when it is? Then it becomes even more difficult. In theory you could just not utilise it maybe. An internal USB port and an older wifi chip might work. However you can't get older wifi chips manufactured due to quantities required and significant increases in manufacturing costs. Do you want to pay $250 for a wifi chip? That's assuming you have demand at $250 a chip for at least 100,000 chips a year, maybe more.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Alternative Display Manager
I have a DM that I would like to use, which is WINGs DM or WDM, the problem isn't that. I want to find out why it's not starting and why I have to start it manually. Thanks though.
