Re: [Trisquel-users] Did Google just make a blobless kernel for the Rasberry Pi 3...?
Unfortunately, the installation instructions reveal on re-reading that there isn't a replacement. Step 5 of https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/docs/targets/rpi3.md#Installing requires downloading a 'bootcode.bin' file from the Raspberry Pi firmware repository on GitHub and copying it to the boot partition. This file is the GPU blob-loader.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Did Google just make a blobless kernel for the Rasberry Pi 3...?
If so, that would be amazing! Let's hope this turns out to be what is needed.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Did Google just make a blobless kernel for the Rasberry Pi 3...?
I'm fairly certain there's a replacement included in Fuchsia. I saw something about a free booting firmware as well. I'm home now with my RPi3 right in front of me, so I'll read the documentation, give it a shot and then post my findings here.
[Trisquel-users] Re : low priced devices which surveillance you
My understanding is that you will not sniff anything if a tiny secret computer (the real master on all peripherals), inside the same box, runs the malware. You need another computer sniffing what is going in/out of the monitored machine.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Did Google just make a blobless kernel for the Rasberry Pi 3...?
It looks promising! Unfortunately, though, the kernel isn't the problem (as far as I know, anyway) that prevents the RPi from even booting with 100% free software: it's the boot-up firmware that has to be loaded before the kernel. This is beyond the OS's control, and as far as I can tell is not being worked on outside of the unfortunately incomplete effort at https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Issues when trying to install tor browser
For the first error, the J needs to come before the f: tar looks at whatever follows the f to find the file to extract, and in the above case that happened to be 'J'. For the second error, is there already a folder called '/opt/tor-browser_en-US'? I'm not entirely sure this is the problem, but if such a folder exists, it has to be moved out of the way before you can copy a new folder in there.
[Trisquel-users] Did Google just make a blobless kernel for the Rasberry Pi 3...?
You may have heard about Google's new kernel, Magenta. I recently saw a blog post about it running on the RPi3, and I was curious to see if it was blobbed to hell like the Linux kernel for the same hardware. To my surprise, it doesn't appear to be, and the only things that aren't working are WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPU acceleration. Link to the Git page (beware, nonfree JavaScript ahead!) I can't look into everything right now, as I'm on mobile, but if someone could look closer at the compiled blobs from the first step in compiling l that would be great. [url=https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/docs/targets/rpi3.md]Git Page[/URL]
Re: [Trisquel-users] Did Google just make a blobless kernel for the Rasberry Pi 3...?
My bad, that's the documentation page... This is what I meant to link: https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta
[Trisquel-users] Issues when trying to install tor browser
I just tried to install tor browser. I downloaded and signature-checked from https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en When running tar -xvfJ tor-browser-linux64-7.0.4_en-US.tar.xz I was met with: tar: J: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Afterwards I decompressed via the file manager. Following this guide: https://cialu.net/install-tor-browser-on-linux-and-set-up-a-launcher/ I want to set-up a launcher. But When entering sudo mv tor-browser_en-US /opt I get mv: inter-device move failed: ‘tor-browser_en-US’ to ‘/opt/tor-browser_en-US’; unable to remove target: Is a directory Any help on problem and/or solution?
[Trisquel-users] Re : low priced devices which surveillance you
Maybe wireshark and other pieces of software I do not know about, are relevant in order to disclose the botnet and surveillance software should it be there. Yes, you can monitor your network with a network sniffer (like with tcpdump) (wireshark)ZenmapE, therApe is a nice friendly gui's. http://www.aboutdebian.com/monitor.htm
Re: [Trisquel-users] low priced devices which surveillance you
My post was about devices to be connected to debian main and other libre gnulinux systems. The argument on this forum is, your best option is to buy hardware devices which run entirely on libre software. The person I mentioned says, criminals and governments may put devices on the market having botnet or surveillance software integrated. They will work with debian main. Disclosing the botnet or surveillance software is difficult. He has not been able to display cases. If you buy a device which supposedly works on libre software, I see no practices in place to counter the mentioned botnet and surveillance software. Likely there are no simple counter measures available to disclose the botnet or surveillance software. Maybe wireshark and other pieces of software I do not know about, are relevant in order to disclose the botnet and surveillance software should it be there.
[Trisquel-users] What is your favorite libre media?
Anything from music to movies and books. Or any other type. Libre or Creative Commons :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] getting newer versions of programs/packages in the repository
Thanks, that was a pretty good summary.
Re: [Trisquel-users] getting newer versions of programs/packages in the repository
You can ask in IRC #guix for someone to upload the stable version. I have no idea how to package so I can't do it :/ Guix is so good you could have both development and stable without interfering one with the other :) To do code blocks you need to use HTML syntax " "
[Trisquel-users] Re : getting newer versions of programs/packages in the repository
Reproducible builds have nothing to do with stability and everything to do with security: being certain that the binary really corresponds to the source code (that the user can study), that it was not altered during the build process. See https://reproducible-builds.org
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I change the boot order so that my libreboot boots first from the USB drive?
Something is disturbing me, though. I've tried two versions of Startup Disk Creator to put Ubuntu on the USB drive, and when both of them finished, they gave the following messages... The gtk version gave: Installation is complete. You may now run Trisquel on other computers by booting them with this drive inserted. And the kde version gave: The installation is complete. You may now reboot your computer with this device inserted to try or install Trisquel. Both of them say Trisquel, not Ubuntu!! But the .iso file I selected was the Ubuntu one... What the hell?
[Trisquel-users] How do I change the boot order so that my libreboot boots first from the USB drive?
So I have a Libreboot with Trisquel on it, but I'd like to put Ubuntu on it instead. I've got a flash drive prepared for this, but I'm not sure how to change the boot order so that the USB is tried before the internal drive. So far, I've discovered that tapping F5 while the machine is booting sends me to a menu with these options: Load Operating System Parse ISOLINUX menu (ahci0) Parse ISOLINUX menu (USB) Parse ISOLINUX menu (CD/DVD) Switch to grubtest.cfg Search for GRUB configuration (grub.cfg) outside of CBFS I've already tried the Parse ISOLINUX menu (USB) option, but this just causes the screen to turn black for a fraction of a second and the cursor to go back up to Load Operating System. What next?
