[Trisquel-users] Re : How simple/complex is your installation process?
On the "part about installing software", GNUbahn and I recently wrote https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/cloning-system-or-how-make-copy-installed-packages-one-computer-another I personally only encrypt /home: one box to click in Trisquel's installer. Interesting things (in the worst case passwords) might be found in my swap if my computer is stolen. By curiosity, I have just 'grep'ped my password... and found it. :-S
[Trisquel-users] Re : How to watch youtube live streams through VLC or other media player
It works well here with the default video player, Totem.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to Uninstall Trisquel
Try to understand https://trisquel.info/forum/need-uninstall-trisquel?page=2#comment-104287 The "trisquel" meta-package only defines a set of packages: the default Trisquel system. Same thing for "trisquel-mini". In the Synaptic package manager, you can look at the "Properties" of any package. There is a button for that. Among the properties, one tab deals with the "Installed files". You can see that a meta-package, such as "trisquel" or "trisquel-mini", only installs two documentation files. However, it "depends" on the default system, i.e., all this default system is installed if the meta-package is installed. Those "dependencies" are listed in the eponymous tab. You can install *any* package (e.g., "fluxbox") and it will not remove "trisquel". You can also remove packages from the default system: "trisquel" or "trisquel-mini" will be removed but it only means you do not have the default system anymore.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Does this spying effect ice cat?
To start, show us a first version that displays a Web page
Re: [Trisquel-users] How simple/complex is your installation process?
I don't make a separate boot partition while installing. Instead, I make a root partition, home partition, and swap partition on an encrypted LVM. When the installer tries to install GRUB, it fails. Then I switch to a tty to add GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y to /etc/default/grub, after which the GRUB installation can be tried again and should succeed. The Pavel Kogan link just puts a keyfile in your initramfs so that after GRUB loads the kernel, the kernel will use the keyfile so that you don't have to enter your password twice.
[Trisquel-users] Re : How to install GPT on BIOS & full disk encryption (with boot)?
A partition table is just data that specifies where partitions begin and end. Whatever the type of partition table, the format is well-documented and tools like GNU parted can read/write it. All filesystems in Linux are under the GNU GPL.
[Trisquel-users] How simple/complex is your installation process?
Mine is (to me) complicated, and takes a lot of time. Ideally, I want to automate as much as I can to make it simpler at least. I choose full disk encryption (I don't know if swap is covered, so I might need dmdecrypt or something. Yet another thing to check). Because other partial encryptions are just that, partial. Might as well not other with those. This in itself is long and complicated. I need an additional unencrypted /boot folder, and make GRUB point at it. For the rest, I use Libreboot's guide (which includes swap, so I shouldn't need dm-decrypt in theory). I also need to not make a root user, create a username+passphrase, an encryption passphrase, and maybe I forget one. Then I choose to encrypt /boot, because either I encrypt everything, or I don't. I want to try this, but that's another set of complex manipulations: http://dustymabe.com/2015/07/06/encrypting-more-boot-joins-the-party/ But that would be fine without taking backups into account, like here and here (rather hard to understand): http://linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.html https://debian-administration.org/article/692/Look_before_you_leap_into_Disk_Encryption Then I might want to update the kernel, which seems straightforward. But that's yet another step. Not vital, but not to long. The more extreme aspect would be to compile one with grsecurity. The less complicated aspect would be to set up apparmor and firejail foor every app. I could try an additional bit for not having to type the decryption passphrase twice (again, not easy even to understand): http://www.pavelkogan.com/2015/01/25/linux-mint-encryption/ And then there is the easier/fun part about installing software, which might need a couple of tweaking. Maybe after a month I can finish my install... Else I can encrypt nor backup nothing and live dangerously, but have my system running in half an hour. I might want to setup a VM, just to run a browser with javascript when needed (maybe Firejail/apparmor is enough for this). So grsecurity aside, full disk encryption including /boot+backups seems essential to me, yet very hard and long to do. How do you do it (if you do it), and is there another way (scripts maybe)? It's really a lot of hard work and time, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to watch youtube live streams through VLC or other media player
ViewTube is able to handle it. It can either do this with the VLC plugin if you have it, or otherwise, you can get a link to paste into VLC from the "Get" button on the player. ViewTube is here: http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en
[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to Uninstall Trisquel
Misty :) With Trisquel Mini you can install any other desktop environnements & you will keep ''Trisquel mini""which is in fact 3 desktop environnements = 1/Trisquel Mini 2/LXDE 3/Openbox You will not loose any files either You just have to choose which one you want to use at the loggin prompt ,just click on the Trisquel Logo These manuals here are in french but show all the desktops environnements availlable on Trisquel 7 https://trisquel.info/fr/wiki/syst%C3%A8me-dexploitation
Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel
Hello wonderful techies, I want to try fluxbox, but before I do anything, I have questions. First, I want to be sure if it will install beside Trisquel or over it. If I had installed Trisquel Mini with the sudo apt-get command, would it have replaced it? Magic Banana asked me if that was the command I used, I said yes, but I'm not 100% sure. So I want to be sure I know what I'm doing. Way in back of my mind I remember thinking as I got the command, "this seems different than I expected." Usually I copy this stuff to an editor in case I needed it, which I may still have. A few days ago I looked at my files and saw a command I pasted there, but I didn't write what it was for, so I'm wondering if that was it and if so, explains why Mini came in alongside it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] We are using Linux-libre. Please, change "GNU/Linux" name.
You made me laugh so hard.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Magnifier that follows your mouse around Kmag [solved]
Thank you arielenter. This is a bit overwhelming for me, so many instructions, and I really appreciate it. I already got it so for now I will keep it this way.
[Trisquel-users] How to watch youtube live streams through VLC or other media player
I am unable/unwilling to watch youtube live streams through my browser. It seems like I should be able to do this in VLC, but I cannot figure out how to. Simply copying and pasting the youtube URL into the Network Stream in VLC gives me errors. Anyone know what I may be doing wrong and how to watch live streams hosted on youtube?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does this spying effect ice cat?
Do I need to implement Safe Browsing in my own browser WITHOUT Google (using my own DB).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does this spying effect ice cat?
Do I need to implement Safe Browsing in my own browser WITHOUT Google (using my own DB)?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does this spying effect ice cat?
Do I need to implement Safe Browsing in my own browser WITHOUT Google (using my own DB)?
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install GPT on BIOS & full disk encryption (with boot)?
No, I successfully created full disk encryption without /boot. My first question is how to enable bios_grub without destroying the FS.
Re: [Trisquel-users] We are using Linux-libre. Please, change "GNU/Linux" name.
A typical movie "bad guy" plan, and attitude. This is entertaining.
Re: [Trisquel-users] startx : stuck in a loop
Well it's ok, it gives me an opportunity to learn and get things right. Thanks again for your help btw. If I can get my install process to be faster (install scripts, a few config files here and there, encrypting /boot, setting a few sepcific programs), a new install might take less time than trying to solve a specific problem if it takes, say, more than an hour without results. I don't know what's best, I'm still experimenting here. Thankfully, this problem concerns my secondary PC, so it's annoying, but isn't much of a big deal.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install GPT on BIOS & full disk encryption (with boot)?
> Now I'm going to do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda, then another deleting data function (in install) and reinstall… I assume you already did that before and during the first installation (the one that gave you the zombie fs), so, if the assumption is correct, why in the world would you do that again? My guess is you really enjoy wasting time.
[Trisquel-users] Re : We are using Linux-libre. Please, change "GNU/Linux" name.
It is a script to deblob Linux's source code: https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/package-helpers/raw/d0a3cf57c3712ff54728dc3cdadeb041b9f737d8/helpers/DATA/linux-lts-quantal/deblob-3.5
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install GPT on BIOS & full disk encryption (with boot)?
P. P. S. I used only this parted commands from the first website.
[Trisquel-users] How to install GPT on BIOS & full disk encryption (with boot)?
How to install FULL disk encryption (including /boot) with GPT on BIOS? I used text mode install, created /boot, /, /home and swap partitions on big encrypted bootable LVM, then added encryption option in GRUB, changed LVM partition type (GRUB BIOS) and installed it. After rebooting, GRUB cannot detect cryptodisk and FS is crashed. Now I'm going to do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda, then another deleting data function (in install) and reinstall… In short words: Bootable encrypted LVM with /boot and / partitons. I changed type to bios_grub: $ sudo parted /dev/sda (parted) set 1 bios_grub on (from http://www.wensley.org.uk/gpt) (parted) quit something about fstab Then GRUB install and FS is crashed. P. S. http://www.pavelkogan.com/2014/05/23/luks-full-disk-encryption/
Re: [Trisquel-users] We are using Linux-libre. Please, change "GNU/Linux" name.
For someone who talks about "destroying the Internet" "for freedom", the name of an operating system seems awfully petty.
Re: [Trisquel-users] We are using Linux-libre. Please, change "GNU/Linux" name.
Where is source code of this kernel? P. S. Can I use Hurd/Linux-libre/other kernels in Trisquel?
Re: [Trisquel-users] We are using Linux-libre. Please, change "GNU/Linux" name.
Trisquel does not ship with Linux-libre, instead it uses a deblobbed version of Ubuntu's customized Linux kernel.
Re: [Trisquel-users] We are using Linux-libre. Please, change "GNU/Linux" name.
P. S. Change package names from linux-* to linux-libre-* or linuxlibre-* if needed.
[Trisquel-users] We are using Linux-libre. Please, change "GNU/Linux" name.
We are using Linux-libre. GNU/Linux means "GNU OS and Linux (original?) kernel". Maybe, we need to rename it to "GNU/Linux-libre"? P. S. If not Linux-libre, "Trisquel GNU/Linux-deblobbed".
[Trisquel-users] X60 and high res
Does anyone with a Thinkpad X60(librebooted), know what the highest res you can use on one is? I'm running 1080p but I'm wondering if 4k would work.
