Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to recognize and use a usb drive that failed on format
Assuming your misbehaving usb drive shows up in lsblk as /dev/sdb (as per the screenshot), try doing the following to recover... WARNING: DOING THIS WILL DESTROY ALL DATA ON YOUR USB DRIVE Zeroize the entire disk: # shred -f -v -n 0 -z /dev/sdb Create partition type and define a partition: # parted -a optimal /dev/sdb then within parted... parted> mklabel msdos parted> mkpart primary 0% 100% parted> quit That will write a standard MBR to the disk and create a primary partition using all of the available space. Format the new partition as EXT4: # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 or... Format the new partition as FAT32: # mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 or... choose some other filesystem.
[Trisquel-users] Ubuntu 16.04 LTS released
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is released. Looking forward to Trisquel 8!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Windows and Ubuntu Might Become the Same Thing?
And you are right to be concerned. A kernel contributor already demonstrated this by creating a "snaps" package that can steal data from X11 sessions... http://news.softpedia.com/news/developer-claims-that-canonical-s-new-snap-format-isn-t-secure-on-ubuntu-desktop-503287.shtml "According to Matthew Garrett, a renowned CoreOS security developer and Linux kernel contributor, Canonical's new snap package format is not secure at all when it is used under X.Org Server (X Window System), which, for now, is still the default display server of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system."
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wifi for my x200
If you are using X200 with the Lenovo bios, then yes it does have a "whitelist" and the Atheros card is likely not on it. After you get Libreboot flashed to your X200 you will no longer have this artificial restriction.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wifi for my x200
The best wireless card I found for my Libreboot T400 is the Atheros AR5BXB92. It is full length mini PCIe, uses AR9280 chipset, is 2x2:2 and dual band a/b/g/n 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Works perfectly in Trisquel 7. Chip info here... https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Atheros#AR9200.2FAR9500_series
Re: [Trisquel-users] is it even possible to make virtualbox 4.1 work on my new kernel?
Related virt-manager article here... https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/virtualization-using-kvm
Re: [Trisquel-users] When will Trisquel 8.0 (Flidas) release?
lemme guess... systemd
Re: [Trisquel-users] Will Atheros 9285 Ar5b95 Ar9285 work with free software?
Atheros AR5BXB92 is a full-length mini-PCIe card that uses AR9280 chipset, is 2x2:2 MIMO and has dual-band support for A/B/G/N. Can usually be found for around $15 USD. IMO worth the upgrade over the ar5b95 single band, single stream $5 cards. Atheros AR5BHB92 is the half-length variant of the same. I have both and they work fine in my Libreboot laptops (X200 and T400).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Will atheros ar5bhb92 work with free software?
Hi, I have one of these in my Libreboot X200 and Trisquel 7 sees it just fine. It works on both 2.4 and 5Ghz bands. FWIW, the "BH" half-length card you link and the "BX" full-length card both work fine in Trisquel 7 on my wife's Libreboot T400.
Re: [Trisquel-users] So Linux-Libre Kernel 4.7 fails to boot properly
Did the kernel 4.7 upgrade on my playtime box and got the same problem. Error text and won't boot. Followed the instructions on jxself site on a fully up-to-date Trisquel 7 install previously running the 3.13 "linux-generic" default kernel. Error text during boot after the upgrade: /scripts/init-top/udev: line 14: can't create /sys/kernel/uevent_helper: Permission denied mdadm: CREATE group disk not found mdadm: CREATE group disk not found mdadm: CREATE group disk not found mdadm: CREATE group disk not found Video card is ATI HD6450
Re: [Trisquel-users] So Linux-Libre Kernel 4.7 fails to boot properly
On the plus side, I wiped the disk and reinstalled my box precisely as I had it before, a default Trisquel 7 Mini installation and only adding the packages needed to compile libreCMC. This time instead of doing "apt-get install linux-libre64", I did "apt-get install linux-libre64-lts" which downloaded and installed kernel 4.1.28. Rebooted and everything came back up normally on the new kernel without any errors. The upgrade to 4.1.28 worked perfectly.
[Trisquel-users] Libreboot 20160818
A new stable version of Libreboot has been released today! https://libreboot.org/download/ Although none of the mirrors seem to have it yet.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best free software friendly router
They don't do a very good job at keeping linked to the latest version, so it only looks like nothing is going on. Timeline shows the 1.3.4 release announcement but didn't seem to make it to the release section yet. jxself has already posted the URL to 1.3.4 binaries. If you wanted more control and greater customization, just follow their simple guide for compiling it yourself... https://librecmc.org/librecmc/wiki?name=Build+HOWTO Super easy to do. And it allows you to compile in useful things like SQM and BCP38 that are not in their prebuilt images. Only at the part where it says... fossil open ../librecmc.fossil v1.3.x ...do this instead... fossil open ../librecmc.fossil v1.3.4 ...or you will end up compiling 1.3 trunk instead of 1.3.4. I compiled 1.3.4 a day after its release and have been running it on two WNDR3800 units. Zero issues. I absolutely love libreCMC. So much cleaner than openWRT and no blobs.
Re: [Trisquel-users] libreCMC Router
Netgear WNDR3800 is officially supported and works great. Simultaneous dual band, GigE ports, tons of RAM. $20 USD off ebay all day long.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server
Supertramp/lloydsmart: thank you both so much for pointing out Mailinabox. I migrated my personal domain to it a month ago. My Mailinabox server scores 10/10 at mail-tester.com and received an "A+" security evaluation from a scan by Qualys SSL Labs. I couldn't be happier with it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Remote reboot with encrypted disk and SSH security
Here is a page with a good explanation of the different ciphers and hashes used in SSH, and makes suggestions on what to use and what to avoid when configuring your SSH server... https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Ciphershed Free Software?
Strongly recommend to just use LUKS / cryptsetup. Community developed, free and it's already baked into Trisquel. https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
Re: [Trisquel-users] Camera security at home with free software
Try using Zoneminder. It is in the repos and you can use capture cards with analog cams or IP cams that offer rtsp streams. I've run a few systems this way.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Stallman trying to derail Linux adoption once again
It still really wouldn't be a good compromise. You have no control over the software you just purchased. Not in any sense. You don't have the code and you don't know what that code is doing on your system. Also if you have to be connected to their server to play it then they are in control. What if you want to play offline? I think the idea that people have that their code can't be under a free license is just an old and outdated belief. Also, I'm not trying to pick a fight here but there's nothing in Stallman's article that is trying to derail "Linux" adoption. He actually argues for and against the idea in his article. If you think that he is being manipulative because he knows some tech writer will pick it up then think again. EVERYTHING he writes is mis-interpreted or flamed by many of the tech writers out there. He's not doing himself any favors by writing things that are mostly unpopular.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre Guitar Tuner
I tuning fork maybe?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble testing Trisquel in VirtualBox
This sounds odd but try disabling the network interface in your virtual machine. I ran into this same problem with Trisquel 6.0. After installation I had to re-enable the virtual network interface and still had some issues. I think I finally configured it using the /etc/network/interfaces file before I could get it to behave.
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
I wish I could go...I'm just a bit too far away.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Replicant
I use Replicant on a Nexus S. It works fine and it wasn't hard to install. I have mobile data, text and voice with no problem. If I want WiFi, bluetooth, 3d accelleration or great camera support I have to use non-free firmwares. The camera currently takes still pics, but not video.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Remote Support (aka Teamviewer Replacement)
I think much of this software is equal in many ways but it is all pretty much lacking the ability to work around NAT. They only way to make this work is to do port forwarding on the router. This is the big problem really and that's why companies that make software like TeamViewer are able to capitalize in this area of software.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the things that Trisquel can do but Windows 7 can't?
I think it is great and prefer it to anything else at the moment.
Re: [Trisquel-users] PengoPod selling on eBay!
I believe these require non-free firmware.
[Trisquel-users] GUI for 7" Touchscreen in a car
I'm very interested in building a PC that I can install in my vehicle and I want it to have the option of using GPS Routing and Navigation, Web Browsing, videos, music and maybe a few other goodies. My biggest problem is that most software that is geared toward this purpose is built to run on Windows and it's non-free software. Everything I've found for GNU/Linux is old and doesn't seem to be maintained any longer. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any links or suggestions on a good GUI would be greatly appreciated.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GUI for 7" Touchscreen in a car
I'm looking into lxlauncher as that looks like it would be a good place to start. Thank you for that suggestion axgb. Also, what do you think about using Sugar? It looks like it's very friendly for touch screens. c107, I totally understand the consequences of being tracked when using GPS. This is something that I might not use at all, but if it is used at least it will be controlled by free software and I'll know exactly what it's doing and when it's off, it's off. Besides, I have a mobile tracking device already; it runs replicant but it is a tracking device none the less.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GUI for 7" Touchscreen in a car
I'd primarily use an on-screen keyboard but would sometimes use a small external keyboard. Overall I'd like to stay with a 100% free software solution so I'd rule out the Rasberry Pi. I'm looking into lxlauncher but it doesn't look very customizable. I want to make the tabs taller and maybe align them on the side vertically rather than horizontally across the top. I'm going to dig further to see how I can do that.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't run virtual machine in virtualbox
There is another thread on this issue. Myself and a few other people ran into this a while ago. Thanks a ton to Chris(of Think Penguin) for posting this: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/intstalling-virtualbox-trisquel-6-howto-solved-if-you-need-it
Re: [Trisquel-users] Replicant ?
I second that. I have a Nexus S and it works well. My only complaint is the lack of free firmware for some of the devices but it still has mobile data and makes phone calls, which are the two things I needed most. Like Armworm said, installation is easy. I've tried to root other phones before in order to install different boot loaders and Cyanogenmod and it was a nightmere! The Nexus S is cake by comparison.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GUI for 7" Touchscreen in a car
I've also looked into using Enlightenment 17. They have a specific layout for small touch screen devices and for the most part it works pretty well. What's more is that it seems like you could modify it further without too much trouble. Also Enlightenment is known for its eye candy. Eye candy is not necessary but it never hurts when it doesn't impact performance, and in E17 it really doesn't impact performance. My ultimate goal is to install something in my car that is very usable and feature-rich but runs as much free software as is possible. If I can't do it in free software then I won't be doing it basically. I'll update this thread when I have more progress...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software alternatives to popular Wingdows software
Scribus is great for print layout. It will do labels very nicely.
[Trisquel-users] Photo Print sites that don't use flash
I've recently come up against a problem with trying to get photos printed by online printers(as in entities that make prints for you, not mechanical printers that are somehow accessible online). Every single site I've looked at so far requires the use of Flash Player. Not Flash v7 but the most recent(or close to) most recent flash player. I need to find a site that is US based because I'm in the US and with shipping it makes the most sense to find a printer that is based here, and one that doesn't use flash. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Photo Print sites that don't use flash
Well I found one site that doesn't seem to ever ask for flash player so I've decided to go ahead and use it. It seems like a decent site but to avoid promoting sites that have nothing to do with free software or Trisquel I'm not going to post the URL. If anyone wants to know then just PM me.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Firefox 29 (Australis)
I don't really have an problems with the new interface, it's quite usable. I didn't really see much wrong with the old interface either though. Not enough to warrant a redesign that didn't enhance the experience in any major way. I suppose a lot of people guenuinely don't like the new interface but I would argue that many people just complain because that's what everyone else is doing.
[Trisquel-users] Abrowser secure page problems
I've recently done updates on my system and abrowser 30 was one of the updates. Since then I'm having problems trying to access an online bank account. The support group with the bank is of little help. The other secure page that doesn't seem to work anymore is the one for webmin. When I try to login to webmin I get a security error. I've listed it below: Security Warning Warning! Webmin has detected that the program https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1/right.cgi?open=system&open=status was linked to from an unknown URL, which appears to be outside the Webmin server. This may be an attempt to trick your server into executing a dangerous command. Two other things to note. I have this problem on the windows build of Firefox 30 but not on the GNU/Linux Mint Build of Firefox 30.0. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser secure page problems
I should have noted that I have tried that. Also of note is that this is happening on more than one computer. Most secure sites are working just fine. Firefox 29.0 did not have this problem at all. There must be a recent change that triggered this.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser secure page problems
I ran across this as well. I suppose that it could be webmin, but something has changed in abrowser. Version 29 worked fine and still does. 30 is the issue. I would just go back to 29 but eventually whatever is causing this should be known or dealt with. If it's a bug we can have it fixed. If it's something that websites need to do differently, at least we can advise them of that.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser secure page problems
I figured out a setting in Abrowser that by changing allows access into webmin again. Still no luck on my banking site. If you go into about:config and change network.http.sendRefererHeader to a value of 2 it allows webmin. I'll try to dig into what the differences there are in the mint build of Firefox 30 and Abrowser 30 to resolve the problem with my bank site.
Re: [Trisquel-users] On the NSA targeting readers of Linux Journal as "extremists"
Looks like it's available from project Gutenberg too. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101
Re: [Trisquel-users] prboom-plus and freedoom 0.8
It sounds like /usr/local/games is not in your path. You could either put /usr/local/games in your path or you could install to a directory that is in your path already.
Re: [Trisquel-users] prboom-plus and freedoom 0.8
It should
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser secure page problems
When I download the official build of Mozilla Firefox(64-bit) for GNU/Linux and run it I am able to login to my bank web site. I am still not able to under windows and I'm not able to in Abrowser. There has to be something specific to the Abrowser build of Firefox that is making it not work. I've also tried Abrowser with extensions disabled. Can anyone familiar with anything unique in Abrowser chime in on this?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser secure page problems
This didn't have any affect. Is there anything else unique to abrowser?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser not loading some websites properly
I pulled out every single pref, reset abrowser and cleared all history, cookies, etc and that still didn't fix the problem I'm having. My problem is with my bank website and they're being assholes about it and won't tell me what they're specially generated error code means. This obviously leaves me guessing. All I know for sure is that every other build of firefox 31 works fine with my banks site. I'm left with running FF 31.0 in wine to access my bank account. Not ideal at all.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser secure page problems
Glad it helped BinaryDigit. After having fixed my problem trying to get to webmin I'm still fighting with my bank website.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser not loading some websites properly
I guess I could download the FF build for GNU/Linux. When I did so before it acted quite funny because of all the abrowser prefs already existing in my profile and so forth. I just decided not to fart around with that and isolate FF a bit from all the other prefs in my system.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser not loading some websites properly
Good point on both accounts. I should do that for the time being. None-the-less I am still trying to work out why these two most recent builds of abrowser have developed this problem.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser not loading some websites properly
I just gave that a try and it didn't fix the problem.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is abrowser 31 for 64bit?
So is there a reason that the 64-bit version hasn't been available in the repos? Did anyone ever figure this out?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is abrowser 31 for 64bit?
I think it's awesome that Legimet has made his PPA available but I don't understand why nobody wants to answer the question of why abrowser 31 for 64-bit Trisquel isn't in the repos. It seems a reasonable enough question considering that 32-bit Trisquel has it. Is this an error? Is this intentional?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Diaspora*
AlucardX [at] diasp [dot] org
[Trisquel-users] User Account Pictures in Trisquel 5.5
I'm using Trisquel 5.5 alternating between Gnome Shell and the fallback interface. In either situation I don't see a way to edit the user account picture. I must be missing something here. Can anyone point me to a way to edit the user account pictures?
Re: [Trisquel-users] User Account Pictures in Trisquel 5.5
aliasbody, I thought that was the way to do it, but when I click on the picture from there it acts as though something should open but nothing ever does. Any suggestions?
Re: [Trisquel-users] User Account Pictures in Trisquel 5.5
While I personally think that changing it by hand is no big deal(I used to configure everything by hand-I ran Slackware) it is a usability issue. I'm not even sure how to begin tracking the issue though.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU and Linux
SirGrant, I think you're missing the point. There are many packages associated with any given GNU/Linux distribution. The purpose that is being served by calling the system "GNU/Linux" rather than "Linux" is that of proper reference. By calling the system "Linux" then when people try to learn more about it they are going to be lead back to the origins of the system with Linus Torvalds. By calling it GNU/Linux then they will learn of the FSF, the GNU project and Richard Stallman. In terms of ideology, the GNU project is really what started all of this and it was the basis of freedom. Torvalds simply had the last and missing piece of the system, the kernel, and is only driven by convenience. Most of the operating system itself is actually GNU anyway from what I understand. You can't really count all of the additional software package as part of the OS because they are just additional and only add optional functionality, not a base system as is required to be considered an OS. The underlying issue really is the ideological reference that is associated with just saying "Linux".
Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU and Linux
SirGrant, I'm terribly sorry. I see now where I made the mistake. I should have looked more closely. My apologies to you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] User Account Pictures in Trisquel 5.5
Does anyone know what application is supposed to launch when you select the User Account Picture? Also, when you select "Network Settings" from the network icon nothing happens. Is it possible that there is a permissions problem somewhere?
Re: [Trisquel-users] User Account Pictures in Trisquel 5.5
gnome doesn't want to install because ekiga won't install and ekiga won't install because libopal won't install and libopal won't install because libcapi won't install. Any ideas on that one?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Chris from TP is a hypocrite
Listen, Chris is working to get hardware that works without requiring non-free software. The fact that someone prefers to run a system that includes non-free software is their business. If Chris began selling hardware that was designed to work with the non-free software that Linux Mint features then I would suggest that is a problem. The truth about it is that there just aren't a ton of people out there looking for exclusively free software. I think the numbers are growing but it's not a huge demand right now. I've talked to Chris and I can tell he's passionate about free software. I'm sure he grinds his teeth a bit knowing that Linux Mint has non-free software in it but at least someone can easily transition from Mint to Trisquel(or other free distros) without worry that their hardware isn't going to work properly.
Re: [Trisquel-users] User Account Pictures in Trisquel 5.5
Thanks for the info. That makes sense and thanks for looking into it a bit.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Chris from TP is a hypocrite
I disagree with you. If you think you can do better than Think Penguin then go do it otherwise I think you should appreciate that there is someone out there trying to further the cause by selling hardware that can run using free software. The difference between TP and other companies is that other companies DON'T CARE AT ALL if you have to use non-free software for something to work.
[Trisquel-users] Prospects of a GNU/Linux Tablet
It seems like the idea of having a GNU/Linux tablet is really gaining momentum. I have been hoping for a really good one to come along that can run GNU/Linux and run using only free software. A very prominent chipset being used is the Allwinner A10 SoC. Does anyone know what the freedom status is on this chipset? I don't think that anyone is going to rival the iBad or Android tablets any time soon but just having an option to run a free software only tablet would be nice.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Prospects of a GNU/Linux Tablet
I'm currently running Replicant on my Nexus S. There are a lot of things about it I don't like. For one, there are no real good hardware candidates to use that have good privacy. The other is that getting everything to work on the phone using only free software is not currently possible. Also, I personally don't think Android is that amazing. Maybe it's okay for a smaller device like a phone(tracking device) but for a tablet I'd prefer GNU/Linux running some type of touch-friendly interface. There is a project out there called PengPod ( http://pengpod.com/products/pengpod1000 ). It looks like it's using the Allwinner A10 SoC. Like I said before, I'm curious as to whether GNU/Linux will run that with all free drivers and firmware.
Re: [Trisquel-users] "Shumway" - a JavaScript SWF Runtime
This could prove to be interesting. I'm always sceptical though. Personally I'd like to see flash go away in all its forms. That way there isn't some dev team trying to always play catch up with the official flash releases. A widely used open standard would be great.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Prospects of a GNU/Linux Tablet
I agree. This idea of throwing away phones and tablets every couple of years is just wasteful. Plus being able to extend the life of a device by replacing a component just makes sense. I hope that idea comes to fruition. I'd really like a straight GNU/Linux tablet. As stated before, I don't think Android is really that great.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Replicant 4.0 released
I just upgraded to replicant 4.0 a few minutes ago. I've been running replicant 2.3 on my Nexus S for about six months or better. I was having issues with it freezing and rebooting and found it quite irritating. I've recently realized that those symptoms are common to android in general and not just replicant. It is kind of annoying that wifi, gps and bluetooth don't work. On the other hand though I'd rather have those not work and have more freedom than have it the other way around. Overall though things work quite well and it is the most freedom-friendly solution out there right now.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU OS
I can see where systemovich is coming from on this idea. It is stated in many places that the purpose behind the GNU project was to build a free operating system. I find it a bit strange that they got everything done, then their kernel took longer than expected, but instead of building a system using the Linux kernel they left that up to other people to package it all up as distros. I can understand what happened and why but we never have come to the actual GNU Operating system.(though it could be argued that GNU/Linux is technically the GNU Operating System). At the point we're at now though, it almost seems counter productive to offer something straight from the GNU project. It would be competing with itself in terms of having its own distro and then a bunch of others it endorses. It would be a bit like the big auto makers owning so many brands that they're spending resources competing with themselves. It seems that the GNU project's resources are better spent elsewhere. As long as good distros like Trisquel exist that is.
[Trisquel-users] Screen won't lock when you resume from standby
I'm using Brigantia and have gnome-shell installed(which I love). Something strange has come up though. It's that when I resume from standby the screen isn't locked. It automatically unlocks. I can always logout then go into standy so that when it resumes you have to login. I was trying to find where this could be fixed but I can't seem to find anything. Along similar lines, I've been having issues shutting down or restarting using Brigantia(using gnome-shell or fallback mode). I push shut down and nothing happens. Any ideas on what this is or suggestions on ways to track down the problem?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Prospects of a GNU/Linux Tablet
I would say that tablets mostly are toys. There are a few things you can do with them that they work well for. The most useful thing I can think of though is casual viewing of books, documents, movies, video clips, images, etc. You can't do much real work on them. You can do some communications. I know there are some special "apps"(that term is lame and should be done away with. I'd rather we called them programs, like they are and always have been) that serve this purpose or that but usually it's very limited and is more of a novelty. I'm sure if you try hard enough you can find someone that is using it for real work. But it's not as widespread as the marketing folks would have you think. Tablet and "smartphone"(another term that could disappear) are just the most recent buzzwords. Well along with virtualization and "cloud"(don't get me started on that one). That being said, I would still like to have a tablet for the simple things mentioned above. I don't NEED one. For the most part I'm doing things that I couldn't do on a tablet. But if I'm going to get one I'd like it to be running GNU/Linux and all free software. And again, I get sick of hearing excuses that "well it's mostly free". The problem is that it will never be free (in the case of CyanogenMod) because that's not part of what the goals are. As long as they can customize things and make it work most people are happy. I'm here because I want free. Not kind of free. Not mostly free. ALL THE WAY FREE.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Screen won't lock when you resume from standby
I have that enabled but it isn't working. I'm not entirely familiar with the inner workings of gnome but it just seemed odd that even though it's told to lock it's not doing it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Replicant 4.0 released
I agree. I think we should also follow Jacob Appelbaum's advice: To just leave the tracking device at home when you don't need it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to boot in terminal only
Shouldn't you simply be able to edit /etc/default/grub and change the line that reads "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to simply "text" then update grub? This is what I've been able to do in Trisquel 4.0 and Trisquel 5.0.
[Trisquel-users] Seahorse / Evolution Problem
I'm running into an issue where Evolution can't verify Security Certificates any more. It's claiming that the gmail cert I received isn't safe. I thought it was weird but being cautious I chose not to accept the cert. Digging further into this I think it is actually a problem with Seahorse. For some reason seahorse won't sync with any key servers. I did some research and it seems that there were seahorse releases in Ubuntu that had this problem. I didn't really find a solution though and I'm not sure if/when it was fixed. Has anyone else run into this and if so, what's the solution?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Seahorse / Evolution Problem
I did try doing that. I've also tried removing all key servers and uninstalling seahorse and gnupg and reinstalling. I've had no luck at all. I'm not sure what's caused this or how to fix it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Seahorse / Evolution Problem
No I didn't do anything like that. This was just a sudden thing. I'm not even sure where to start troubleshooting. Though I do suspect that seahorse is operating as a face to gpg? If so I still don't know what to do with this problem. It's really odd. The strange thing is that when I go to sync seahorse with keyservers it claims there are keys to sync when there really aren't any.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Seahorse / Evolution Problem
I think it's because those don't use seahorse. I tried Sylpheed Mail an it works fine.
Re: [Trisquel-users] [OFF-TOPIC] Any advice about e-readers?
The Pengpod requires non-free software to operate parts of its hardware though. It's out of the question for me.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you think of Steam coming to Gnu/Linux.
I'm confused as to why people are describing Apache and BSD licenses as "permissive". Really think about what that's supposed to describe. I think the word "permissive" is the wrong word to use. It gives the wrong idea of what the license is for. The GPL is far more permissive than those licenses are. You are right though, the game engine could be dual licensed. I think the biggest problems the surround game consoles is that they subjugate the user more than non-free software does by itself. Not only are you running non-free software on the system, but you're not permitted to make the system do anything else. You're also not permitted to develop anything for the system unless you pay a ransom. Pay the ransom and you're "permitted" to create a game. That's only half the problem because publishing is still an issue for you. Not to mention that if you're trying to make money it would make sense to be on all the console if you can afford it. Since many can't then you've got to gamble with one. This does split the user base and it gives the hardware makers a huge monopoly. I used to be a huge fan of Nintendo. I still think they make some of the most brilliant games but that is a separate issue from software freedom. If I modify my Wii I could risk having it get ruined by an "update" from Nintendo. I also have no option to publish a game for it because the cost is so high. Not to mention that the tools needed to develop a competitive title are non-free. I own a huge collection of console games but have made the decision not to buy any more. I will occasionally buy a really really cheap($3-4) used game, but that doesn't support the companies producing these games. Looking forward things are only getting worse as companies are trying to do away with physical media and even limit how physical media can be used. I don't doubt at all that Sony would limit a disc to work in just a couple of consoles and otherwise render it useless.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you think of Steam coming to Gnu/Linux.
I think that there are a lot of reasons for games to be free software. It could speed up development of new titles for one. It could allow gamers that bought a game that didn't live up to expectations to modify it and make it better so that they could make it enjoyable. Sometimes there are just minor technical problems that need fixed to make a game fun to play. Many kids that are into the games could benefit from being able to learn the source code for the games they really enjoy playing. One of the biggest things I think though is that it would make it easier for a game to be on multiple platforms. Your game wouldn't be locked into just one system. Also if the code was free, cross-platform online play would be a hell of a lot easier to accomplish. People could write a free software online-gaming system and then insert hooks into the code of their favourite game to make it work in that online system. The argument for proprietary games doesn't really hold up in my opinion. Freeing the code will just make game companies more honest and I can see why they don't want that.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you think of Steam coming to Gnu/Linux.
I totally agree with you on these ideas Chris. I do wonder why the flash things hasn't been resolved considering that it is a high-priority fsf project... Rather than writing a flash compatible solution why doesn't someone design and write a replacement that has all of the features that flash offers(other than DRM)? Maybe if that existed people would begin using it on sites instead of flash.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you think of Steam coming to Gnu/Linux.
I understand the differences but I don't think that makes it "permissive". Using "permissive" to describe a license that lets people restrict your freedom by releasing a non-free version of a program is a bit misleading I think. I think it would be better to call it a non-copyleft free software license. It more accurately states what the license is.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you think of Steam coming to Gnu/Linux.
I thought there were some browser compatibility problems with HTML5, namely Internet Explorer. If that's the case that would easily keep sites from using it. Although that is an area that changes rapidly and I haven't been good about keeping up with the changes. My one huge concern regarding flash is that adobe can change things and just break compatibility. As everyone knows it's a ton of work just to get caught up with their latest release of flash. It would be a huge waste of resources to try and keep up with all of the adobe changes if they were doing it just to try and ruin compatibility with a free software alternative. If flash were an open standard then it would make a bit more sense.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Seahorse / Evolution Problem
I'm still trying to dig into this problem and figure out what's going on. I am seeing it on two computers. One that has a fresh install of 5.5 and also had 5.5 installed previously and also on a computer that has never had anything but 5.5 on it. I'm not sure what's causing it but it seems to be something with seahorse. If it were only affecting seahorse then I'd let it lie for now, but it also seems to affect evolution. It's causing SSL cert errors when rendering html in emails and also when sending and receiving mail on an SSL server. Where can I look to try and fix this? Is anyone else having this problem?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Seahorse / Evolution Problem
Yeah everything is up-to-date. I don't know where to start either. I have been on the evolution mailing list and the only suggestion I received was that something is causing my nss database to have problems. I think that's under ~/.pki/nssb or somewhere similar. I've tried pulling those files out and letting seahorse rebuild it(don't know if that's the right thing to do) but it didn't help. I do have to say that this is a frustrating thing about using a distro that is a repackage of another distro. You have problems that are upstream and then you end up chasing bug trackers and things from those. To complicate it even more we're based on an older release of Ubuntu. I've found that people like to recommend that the problem is fixed in the newest version of Ubuntu, which of course doesn't help anyone using Trisquel all that much.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Donation
As far as processing transactions for donations has anyone looked into using ACH payments? I don't know a ton about them and I know that many companies use ACH to pay their vendors. I found a project that looks like it might be worth looking into. It's called OpenACH and can be found at openach.com Looks pretty flexible as a payment option. I'm not sure how flexible the software is or what kinks might come up.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to login
I've had this happen before when I did some package updates or changes. Seems like I flipped over to a console with ctrl+alt+F1 and logged in so I could manage packages. I can't remember what finally fixed it but I updated and upgraded everything, autoremoved old packages and my have done "apt-get -f install" I did get it working again without doing a clean system install though.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Moral Dilemma With Gaming/Drivers
It seems like Ryzom could be an alternative if you want a social game to play. I've not done much with it and don't know if it fully qualifies as free software(I'm not talking game assets, just software).
[Trisquel-users] Mumble won't connect to servers in Brigantia
I'm trying to use mumble to connect to servers that come up in the server list and when I do the program seems to hang. I don't know what's going wrong but the UI becomes unresponsive and then I have to kill the process. Any ideas on this one?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mumble won't connect to servers in Brigantia
I did try that and it really didn't give any information.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mumble won't connect to servers in Brigantia
I'm using 1.2.3
Re: [Trisquel-users] Making Desurium Libre
It doesn't look like they had much to say. I don't see a reason why someone couldn't take the desura client and build a libre-only game repo. Tell me, does desura track anything like in game achievements or anything like that? Does it give any kind of a social aspect to the gaming experience or is it purely distribution? I think it would be cool if we had the option for something like desura to integrate some social features and track points/awards and that sort of thing. Kind of like Xbox live does for people. It would be really awesome if all of that was done in a decentralized manner too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mumble won't connect to servers in Brigantia
I've had some time to play around with this a bit more. It seems that this problem is related to mumble trying to utilize the sound system in some way. As soon as you try to use a part of the program that needs the sound hardware, the CPU usage on the mumble process jumps up to 90% or so and then the program is unresponsive. I'm going to see if I can narrow it down any further. Does anyone else have any ideas?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Mumble won't connect to servers in Brigantia
Okay, I'm not sure if this is a bug with drivers for my soundcard or not, but it seems like it could be. I've narrowed down a way to make mumble work everytime. If you open mumble and go to the Audio wizard, then on the second screen there is a check box for "Positional Audio". You un-check that, then re-check that and click next to go to the next wizard screen. At this point it will play test audio for you. If you don't un-check and re-check the "Positional Audio" box then mumble starts eating up your CPU and will hang. The sound card on my Motherboard is an Intel 82801 High Definition Audio. Hopefully this will help someone else out if they ever run into the problem.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on the GFDL
The two licenses are meant for two very different kinds of works. AndrewT points this out as well. From what I can see, there's no reason for the two licenses to be compatible; You can distribute a piece of software with an FDL licensed manual and the manual will carry its license while the software carries its own. Just like the graphics, sounds and other parts of a game can carry a separate license from the game engine's code.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on the GFDL
One thing to remember about this is that even though you can always copy and paste, that doesn't always maintain formatting and it can make things difficult when moving the text to a different medium. I also think it's more of a courtesy for the next person down the line that plans to add to the manual. Editing a document where you have access to the original will be less of a headache than having to deal with a "copy and paste" scenario each time a new author needs to work on the manual. The fact that it is a technical manual for a program that is going to be under a free license and the real work is actually writing the manual(not to mention the software), I think the small amount of work involved in complying with this license is rather minor "problem". The pay off is well worth it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on the GFDL
It seems like the original question was about why CC-BY-SA hasn't been adopted for manuals. If you're just licensing an image or other work it would seem more appropriate to license it with a free CC license. For manuals, I think the FDL is well-suited.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What's Wrong With Flash: An Explaination
Disney is one of the biggest proponents of Digital Restrictions Management so while I agree that it would be great to see them do away with flash, they probably never will. They don't seem to care about freedom issues.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What's Wrong With Flash: An Explaination
It seems like you don't understand the FDL
