Re: [Trisquel-users] Dell Wireless Question
It could be useful to have a web page on Trisquel's site with a list of free (or not free) wifi cards for helping trisquel users buying laptops, since in my opinion Wifi drivers and Wifi firmwares are actually the most critical point of hardware compatibility in all the free distributions...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Dell Wireless Question
Ops, sorry, I didn't see the SirGrant's post with the link of FSF's page! Very useful!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware Database?
Me too! But what do you mean for wiki style? Do you mean just some page in wich any user can add a new section or do you mean something made with wikimedia? Because I don't think that the latter will be so "user friendly", in my opinion it would be better to have something done with consecutive questions, like "which version of trisquel do you use" , "do you use a different free kernel from the default?", "what does it work in this device, and what does not", and so on...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware Database?
Yes indeed, it would be easy to add the device page in the "Create content section", and the only work it should be done is to modify the add-on page. It could be useful not only for writing what works with free software and what not, but also for adding information about some particular configuration needed for make some device working.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Taranis release date?
Some news? :-) Sorry, I'm overeager...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Taranis release date?
Great! Thank you very much!
[Trisquel-users] File system and storage space in live-persistent Trisquel
When I wasn't interested to free software, I often wasted my time creating and customizing live-persistent distros with debian live. Today I tried the usb startup disk creator in Trisquel 4.0, and I'm impressed by how much easy and fast it is! However, I noticed that the maximum persistent storage space avaliable is 4 GB, so I was wondering: is it linked to the fact that the file system used, the fat32, support 4 GB files at maximum? And then, is there a way for expanding this space and/or for changing the file system used? Thank you! Fabio
Re: [Trisquel-users] File system and storage space in live-persistent Trisquel
So I suppose It's impossible to change the file system directly from the usb creator... Ok, thank you very much! Maybe I'll try to change the file system using an old guideline for Debian live-helper, if i'll do (succesfully) I will post the procedure...
Re: [Trisquel-users] File system and storage space in live-persistent Trisquel
In fact in any case I don't think that the casper file will recognize the fact that he has a bigger avaliable space, so the only result should be that the system is saved on a different file system on the flash... However, I'll try in any case... Unfortunately I don't have an internet connection in these days, so I'll try in the week end.
Re: [Trisquel-users] File system and storage space in live-persistent Trisquel
I used the article you suggested, it works great! Thank you very much! It would be nice to have an option for doing the casper-rw partition directly from usb-creator! However, I'm sorry I can't help you with your problem, the only thing I have in mind is reinstalling syslinux (maybe mantaining ldlinux.sys) but probably it's a useless operation...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Will Trisquel be based on Debain in the future?
The next gNewSense will be based on Debian, so I think it would be useless to have two free distributions based on the same thing, they would be more or less the same. I also prefer stability rather than newer versions, but I see that my Taranis is very stable, so in my opinion Trisquel is perfect as it is now!
Re: [Trisquel-users] FaceBook page?
@robsanchezjr What's the difference between having an invite and a Diaspora Node?
[Trisquel-users] Tor and Freenet
In these days I'm interested in anonymity on the web. Sometimes I used succesfully Tor on my Taranis, but unfortunately I've seen that it isn't in Slaine repositories anymore :-( . Anyway, i was looking also for some good alternatives, including something for anonymous file sharing, and I've found an interesting project called Freenet: the strange fact is that the software seems to be quite diffused but it doesn't appear in any distribution's repository...I would like to know if someone tried it, and if it is really a free software. Thank you!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tor and Freenet
Thanks for your replies! I think the reason that Mampir said seems reasonable, and actually on tor project's site they suggest the same... I knew about filesharing and tor, indeed I used it just sometimes through firefox for normal navigation (just for trying it) and for reaching piratebay.org (it is censored here in italy)... I'll try freenet one of these days and i'll inform you!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tor and Freenet
Thank you very much and thanks to Ruben also! If it would be icluded again it would be great! About Freenet, I tried it a little bit in these last two days, and I appreciated it very much! Altough it is very slow, not much populated and still in development, it has a wonderful concept and represents a completely alternative network with respect to internet... It is completely decentralized (each user is a node and share a fraction of his hard disk for the community), and it could represent a very good instrument for people who lives in not-democratic places.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian language
The flag will appear when most of the italian translations will be completed! At the moment we're having some troubles with the home page translations, as discussed in the devel mailing list http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-devel/2011-October/thread.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Does making a persistent liveUSB work for you?
Up to 4.5 it worked for me, i've not tried with 5.0 yet, but i'll do in these day... I'll inform you!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Software Freeness
Even if it is in Trisquel repositories it doesn't ensure that is free: errors can happen also for Trisquel developers (as they say in the documentation pages). I think that this type of topics should be encouraged and not inhibited.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedoom is awesome
I agree, Fredoom is great! What's the "pratical" difference between Odamex and Prboom?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedoom is awesome
Thanks! :-)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedoom is awesome
Very interesting! I'll give all of them a chance as soon as I can... thank you very much!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian forum for Trisquel: is anyone interested?
EDIT Sorry, Galician doesn't have an official forum too..
[Trisquel-users] Italian forum for Trisquel: is anyone interested?
Hello everyone! I was thinking about a previous post here suggesting to ask Rubén for an Italian forum. At the moment Italian is the only "officially supported" language which doesn't have his own forum. I was thinking that maybe it could be helpful to people who approach free software for the first time, as well as for people that may need help with Trisquel but feel embarrassed to post something in English. However, I have no idea of how many Italian people are already on this forum, so: are some of you interested to have an Italian Trisquel forum? If there is someone else I can ask Rubén...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian forum for Trisquel: is anyone interested?
There are also another two translators and I saw another couple of users around. And many other politicians who could enjoy the forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs9GsaWaJNE
Re: [Trisquel-users] Italian forum for Trisquel: is anyone interested?
Ho provato a contattare Rubén via IRC negli ultimi giorni ma credo non sia reperibile per ora... appena riesco a parlargli vi aggiorno! Ciao! :-)
Re: [Trisquel-users] apt-get update question
It seems you added the google repositories for Chrome... Could you copy and paste here the content of the file /etc/apt/sources.list ? You will probably have some lines you need to remove...
Re: [Trisquel-users] apt-get update question
It seems to be ok actually... I think you probably have additional repositories from the list files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ . Could you please check if you have some .list files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and if in some of them you have something that sounds like deb http://dl.google.com stable main ore something similiar... In that case you will probably just need to erase/move away the file/comment the line and apt-get update should be fine...
Re: [Trisquel-users] apt-get update question
No, it should be enough! :-)
Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?
I'm trying yacy now... I'm very impressed by the concept! I'm thinking it would be nice to have it in Trisquel repos, although there is already one for Debian-based distros http://debian.yacy.net
Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?
Sorry, I'm not so expert in this, but I don't see so much difference between a yacy server and for instance a googlebot except for their number. Which means that is unlucky to replace (let's say) google with yacy as the most diffused and efficient search engine, but still the concept is great and if it will spread it can become a good alternative, even with a much more limited global store space...
Re: [Trisquel-users] client side search engine?
It looks nice! It reminds me of this https://freenetproject.org/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel in Asus 1015E
I will start by saying that I have no idea of why it's not working :-D but I have an Asus 1015cx with Trisquel and it worked out of the box... the only difference I see is that I probably used just "sudo dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdX" instead of "sudo dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M" (or maybe bs=4096 or bs=512, I don't remember, not 8M for sure)... maybe you could give it a try...
[Trisquel-users] Netbook / 2-in-1 / portable laptop working with free software
Hello every one! Do someone of you know some netbook/portable device working with free software which is still in commerce? I had an asus 1015cx which worked out-of-the-box (i thought i added on h-node at that time but it seems I didn't, sorry :-( ), I can't find anything I'm sure it works. I'd like to have something similiar, i.e. long battery life, small size, wireless card and sound working with free software, storage as big as possible, as cheap as possible. I don't care too much about performances, i need portability.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Netbook / 2-in-1 / portable laptop working with free software
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be still for sale anywhere... Indeed my first choice to replace my eeepc 1015cx would be another 1015cx, but i can't find it :-( . I can't understand why netbooks have been completely replaced by tablets or ultrabooks, having both a different aim.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Netbook / 2-in-1 / portable laptop working with free software
Ciao! Actually most of them are not for sale anymore and some of them are 15 inches laptop. The only ones I see fitting what I'm searching for are the chromebooks c720 and 720p which I will consider, even though I'm a bit scared about the fact that the device needs to be opened in order to rewrite the OS, along with some additional configurations (e.g. for debian http://www.circuidipity.com/c720-chromebook-to-jessiebook). But I will consider them together with the libreboot c201 (https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-c201). Thanks!
