Re: [Trisquel-users] System76. A step in the right direction.
It may not have seemed like an important point to Marketing. But the first post of the Reddit thread linked above, by their engineer, mentions it by name.
Re: [Trisquel-users] System76. A step in the right direction.
> More No argument there. Even so, this alone is enough to put System76 in first place when it comes to replacing my laptop in a few months. (Puri.sm is charging several hundred dollars more for a comparable IME-disabled machine.) Here's hoping ZAReason, ThinkPenguin, et. al. follow suit and widen the field of choices.
Re: [Trisquel-users] About systemd
“Hyperbola is a Free Software and Free Culture project aiming to provide a fully free as in freedom GNU/Linux distribution called Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre. It is based on the packages of the Arch GNU/Linux plus security and stability patches of Debian GNU/Linux, with packages optimized for i686 and x86_64 CPUs under a Long Term Support (LTS) way. Hyperbola aims to keep its package and management tools simple, stable and secure. The primary goal is to give the user complete control over their system with 100% Free Software and Free Culture.” https://www.hyperbola.info/ “As systemd doesn’t follow our Social Contract, we have decided to remove it and use OpenRC as our default init system. The decision means that the Stable v0.1 will be the first and the last version supporting systemd.” https://www.hyperbola.info/news/end-of-systemd-support/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Feud between Chris & Francis Over! (I think)
I bought me a TPenguin. I bought a Francis X200 too. But when the jxself laptop comes out, I promise to buy two. : )
[Trisquel-users] Linux Luddites Ep 28
Comprehensive podcast-based review of Trisquel 7. These guys are definitely not libre purists. While they praise the distro on certain scores, the main utitlity of the review is in seeing how smart people from the outside view what Trisquel is trying to accomplish. Enjoy. http://linuxluddites.com/shows/episode-28 Direct link to the .ogg: http://linuxluddites.com/media/LinuxLuddites028.ogg
Re: [Trisquel-users] vPro
I completely agree on the Klein and Snowden thing. But given all that bullshit, I'm not sure that the buggy features of this or that chip are worth debating. If they're pulling a copy of all our traffic (and it seems clear that they are), then running a compromised chip is only represents a minor improvement in their ability to look in on you. So if it's privacy you're after, the only way to get there is to type things into any computer you like ... but only after you've ripped out the ethernet and wireless and completely disconnected that box, so that there is no traffic. The military-industrial autocrats have put us in a situation where the solution to this problem no longer exists for the average person on the technological side. The only true remedies remaining to us are political.
Re: [Trisquel-users] vPro
If anything, you have to worry more. They just love letting themselves off the hook by saying we're only really putting our major effort into tracking those foreigners.
Re: [Trisquel-users] vPro
You do know how the Internet works, right? And that ambassadors are paid to say that stuff?
Re: [Trisquel-users] vPro
It probably is, for most of us. But you live in Canada and run an adblock add-on, so you probably have nothing to worry about anyway. Problem solved. : ) (Seriously, if and when I find anything out, I'll post it.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Penguin GNU / Linux Laptop /w 1920x1080 Matte Screen Now Shipping
I agree that this is a feature I'd rather not have around. I agree that there's no particular reason to trust Intel. On the other hand, it's (maybe/probably) not designed with nefarious intent. There's a pretty obvious answer to your why the hell would you do that! question, and it's hinted at in the flack piece you linked to. The feature makes computers easier to administer in large numbers, without having to physically send a tech to where the problem box lives. So their big enterprise customers are happy, and that's what they care about--not the tiny fraction of us individuals who care passionately about privacy. This sort of crap exists in software form all over the userland of most companies, and it's usually very difficult or impossible to remove, or even see clearly most of the time. The most troubling part of this version is how deeply it's baked into the hardware. Next time I boot, I'll try to remember to have a look at their but you can turn it off claim. I appreciate you guys giving them hell for it, for what it's worth.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Two Questions
Very useful discussion, Fabian. Thanks for the post and the linkage.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Adskipping
It was passed, but they've pushed back the deadline a few times to give the marketers more time to comply or some crap. (For those who don't know, this sub-thread is talking about an internal US regulation.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are most of you free software extremists?
Thanks QG. Your opinion is more generous than most people, who seem to think that because they can't Friend me or Like me or Tweet me, I must be some kind of cave-dwelling luddite. Of course, I might be! But either way, no pictures of my cave remodelling project will ever hit the social media. : )
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are most of you free software extremists?
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. --Barry Goldwater, of all people. Bruce Perens was instrumental in writing the Open Source Definition, and somewhere I read once that his idea was to bring Stallman's concepts out of the closet in a way that would have wider marketing appeal (especially to capitalists). The intention wasn't evasion, it was putting a face on it that would sell better. I think Bruce Perens is smart and witty and talented. I enjoy reading his acerbic posts on Slashdot sometimes. But I'm not at all sure open source was such a good idea, in terms of the long game. And the long game is where RMS excels.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Are most of you free software extremists?
I'm an extremist because: --I usually agree with RMS, and I'll spend plenty of time and money and effort into protecting and preserving my freedoms, and deny myself many popular functionalities (Facebook for example) in that effort. I'm a moderate because: --I didn't throw away my Mac when I got my Linux system. I love Manjaro. I'm not going to run around with a Lemote Yeelong. And, I'm more interested in getting my work done efficiently than I am in getting it done purely. I'm something else because: I don't really care if the Year of the Linux Desktop never comes ... in the same way I didn't really care if my vote for a Green presidential candidate was 'wasted'. Expanding adoption of the best policies, whether they be technical or political, leads inevitably to dilution, compromise, and the money vultures flocking. I'm looking at you, Mark Shuttleworth. I'll live my life as I see best. Hang out where I can find like-minded souls like ya'll. And continue to studiously ignore the whiners, whether they're calling me an extremist or a bipartisan tool or worse. Their opinion just doesn't count for much, in mine.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Occultic origin of Ubuntu?
If Mark actually were an evil occultist with a hidden agenda ... I'd probably like him better than I do. : )
Re: [Trisquel-users] PRISM break with Trisquel and Free Software
Yup. To let *anyone's* list decide for you what is ethical (or not) is to make the same mistake that fundamentalist religionists make all the time--to take a text as gospel and turn off your brain. The FSF's strict standards are a good thing. I support them, and they have a use. But that use is not to be the sole arbiter of what is Ethical and what is not.
Re: [Trisquel-users] PRISM break with Trisquel and Free Software
I just watched the Stallman vid on Ubuntu spyware that someone linked again in another thread. He says, roughly, that most distributions contain some ethical flaws. A much more precise and accurate thing than saying Not On The List = Unethical.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Penguin GNU / Linux Laptop /w 1920x1080 Matte Screen Now Shipping
You're right about the Strata being Fifteen-Six (and coming w/ an optical). Source: I just measured the one in front of me. I think Chris misspoke on that detail. He's probably right on the rest, if histtory is any guide.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Major changes in the next Trisquel release
Blue J: I think there's a lot of people around here that share your feelings about a Debian-based Trisquel being the best thing ever ... I'm certainly one of them. But it's clear that this is very unlikely to happen anytime soon, and it seems to be mostly related to the workload involved from what I gather. In the meantime there is gnewSense. Also basically a one-man show, and therefore very slow in coming--the current beta is the first in four years, and it's still based on Squeeze. Or just Deb itself, and taking on the responsibility for purity yourself.
Re: [Trisquel-users] If you needed another incentive to not use Google search or Bing...
The hero Snowden, who threw his career away so that you might know this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P_0iaCgKLk
Re: [Trisquel-users] If you needed another incentive to not use Google search or Bing...
Not caring whether they track you is beside the point. Whether you care about the nearly complete perversion of your constitutional rights in this case is what matters. Also, if you think that Adblock Plus is saving you from the three-letter agencies, you're very poorly informed on the subject.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do you get your movies?
Local used bookstore and media exchange. No connection worries, no time limits, no ownership hassles, few and skippable ads, no premiums for getting the latest, extra content, and it's as Green as it gets. What's not to like?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?
Yep. And the major difference between this administration and the last is that the first guys just didn't care about the law ... and the new guys are putting all their effort into doing the same unconstitutional bullshit and trying to make the law bless it, when they do it. Instead of reversing the horrors, they're trying to make them the new normal and wrap them in the mantle of justice. I share your worry, and your fury. I'm not sure I'm quite as pessimistic (as in the 'evidence' discussion below), but we're on the same page 95% of the way down.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?
I heard someone say the other night that Americans tend to fear government, while the rest of the developed world fears corporate power. I think that's generally right. In many ways the federal government is the only protection left to people without power. That's why business is all over Washington with lobbyists and elected shills, trying to mangle and break it. The current news story unfortunately plays right in to the narrative of government as the bad guy. It's the military-industrial complex part of the government that's playing these games, just like Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago. I totally agree that there's plenty of reason to try and keep your data and demographics away from anybody that can afford to buy and sell you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Major changes in the next Trisquel release
Yes you are, Dave, and you shouldn't have to say it for it to be true. We're all impaired (not impaled, Telstar, for f's sake ... :)) and regardless of the flavor of our impairment, any project should take Real Accessibility seriously. From what I've read and watched, that's more true of Trisquel than it is of most. I'm sorry to say that I don't have a lot of expertise or evidence for that; it's just a casual perception.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?
Regarding the free vs. evil freeloaders problem: If you want to keep it screened yet anonymous, there are ways. Money orders in a very small amount, for example, might be sufficient to rid yourself of the drive-by spammer types, at least. Or you could use the riseup model of write me an essay and tell me why I should trust you. It's all a lot of overhead, though. And since (I'm assuming) this is ultimately modeled as a business, it might not be cost-effective to be charitable. As far as Hiding vs. Activism: There's no reason not to do both, and seeing it as either/or is limiting yourself. Most movements of resistance NEED both to move forward. And your assertion about what laws might or might not be passed soon is completely unsupported by evidence. Even if it turns out you're right someday, running your life based on what your antagonists MIGHT do is no way to live.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?
D'accord. Yes, limiting yourself to hiding is ultimately pointless and self-defeating. And complete transparency in one's struggle is generally only possible for true saints. Most of us occupy some point in between, and this is where I'm hoping that Chris's efforts will be useful.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there any interest in privacy free software friendly services?
Chris, I would almost certainly sign up. Although ... I'd want a way to pay for the services I use, and not just plunk down c.$300 a year for a bundle. What you're probably looking at is tiered service levels, like most places have. Micro/Small/Med/Large, or something like that. For the most part, the only relevant to your list that I shell out for are: --Domain names --SFTP-accessible raw web space, sometimes with modules available for things like blogs/wikis/CMSs --Webmail and associated services, esp. aliasing Generally speaking a modest package for the latter two runs around $100/yr. and I have two or three of those running at any given time. My favorite vendors over the years have been NearlyFreeSpeech and the Church of the Swimming Elephant (cotse).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ixquick/Startpage launching new privacy-aware email service.
Thanks for the tip Horgeon. Checking it out. WRT privacy: No online service is going to protect you 100% of the time. With enough money, or abused power, or both, you will get got, if they want you got. By court order, or by bribery, or by hacking, or multiple other vectors. Best you can do is keep most of your info out of most of the greedy hands most of the time. So Riseup, or rolling your own, instead of Yahoo. Startpage instead of Google. Throwing up your hands and declaring privacy dead is stupid. Paranoia against everyone, all the time, equally so. Do the best you can wherever you can. It might not save you from everything in the end, but it's the most artful way to live.
Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreJS chrashes Abrowser
Yes to your first question. By default (after you clean out the whitelist), JS is disabled everywhere. Then you gradually build your whitelist back up, for your banking sites and other mission-critical browsing ... Simplest and easiest way to do so is hovering the small NoScript button that installs at the very bottom of the browser. It's an effort at first, but very well worth it IMHO.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why did you switch (or use) Free Software?
If I can eat local and organic, instead of at a corporate factory chain ... If I can support craftsmen who love what they do, instead of shopping at Walmart ... If I can have a digital life that runs on collaboration and community instead of the profit motive ... Then that's one less person contributing to making the world an ugly and violent place. One more in the name of love.
Re: [Trisquel-users] I can easily steal your privacy data. Even with disabled cookies and Javascripts.
Came in tonight on the old Mac. Good old Little Snitch popped up: Do I want to connect to 2ip.ru? Hell no. End of story. You got nothin'. I really, really wish there was an active Linux project doing that same thing. It's the main little piece of software that I haven't been able to find a good replacement for. Probably need to hire someone to write it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] I can easily steal your privacy data. Even with disabled cookies and Javascripts.
Thanks mYself. I have links saved for those two softwares, and a few others. Need to dig a little deeper on them as I have time over the summer. My first impression was that they don't have the kind of functionality that would allow me to choose on-demand to block emerging threats like the one in this thread. But still probably good for many situations, like blocking google-analytics globally and the like.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy Security Tech to Watchful of: vPro
Yes thank you. Any pointers/tips/links on how to break/neutralize said features?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Ubuntu as the base for Trisquel?
From your lips to god's ears; amen. I hope your guess is right, and I hope Canonical knows it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] gNewSense 3.0 beta 1
It's my understanding that you have to go out of your way to enable the non-free repos in vanilla Deb. And that the Debian Project developers have voted several times on bumping themselves up to FSF levels of purity, though the proposal has always failed. That said, I think your first point was mostly right. There's not much reason for anyone with half a clue to install Gnewsense (instead of Debian), unless you count that extra purity as making the world a better place. And hell, maybe it does. The FSF taking a hard line is a good thing. The Debian project having a social contract, no corporate overlords, and opting to be the Universal Distro--a very good thing too. If Gnewsense is where universality meets orthodoxy, then that's win/win. I doubt I'll need a partition with this particular distro, but I'm glad to see it finally update nevertheless.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Fear and Loathing in Free Hardware build quality
So it did take over two weeks--and they did screw up one of my distro requests (got vanilla Debian 7 instead of the requested XFCE)--but: I'm satisfied with the Strata so far. It's much heavier, and a little bigger than I was after, but it does have a solid and polished feel to it so far. If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change my choices, except that I probably would have gone with the 15.6 (at TP, or ZA) from the start. My overall take. You're paying a premium for freedom. And another premium for a good chance at it just working with your Linux of choice. If you've got the cash to throw at, consider the extra money a donation to a good cause--real companies trying to turn a profit while kicking against the Borg. That's how I think of it. If you've got more time than money, go ahj's route above. It's got a lot to recommend it too. And now, onward. I see that Gnewsense finally dropped a beta3 after what, four years? That's intriguing, and I've got a nice empty partition just crying out for an install ...
Re: [Trisquel-users] blasphemous question here
Interesting discussion. I'm glad that there are people in this world like Richard Stallman. I'm glad there's a distro like Trisquel. I'm glad there is a company like ThinkPenguin. We need them all. And, I'm not in a position to live that purely 100% of the time, personally. Yet. Something to work toward, yes. Something to litigate in the meantime? Nah. To the mods I would say: Someone once recommended Fedora to me here. The FSF doesn't consider it free enough to put on the Good Distros list. Was the person who made that recommendation in violation of the guidelines? I guess so. But nobody made a fuss, because Fedora isn't demonized in this theology, like Flash is. As far as I can see, you're handling it about right. State the position, encourage what's right, but leave the banhammer in the drawer, as long as people are polite. Freedom. Veneceremos. Peace.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Ubuntu as the base for Trisquel?
the distro is dead You can certainly be forgiven for thinking so. It seemed the same to me. But we were wrong! http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07871 FWIW I feel pretty much the same vague sense of dis-ease with the idea of basing on a Canonical product. However, I appreciate that Ruben is plenty smart enough to have considered the argument, and made his decisions regardless. If it matters intensely, jump the gnewsense train. Or fork! That's the beauty of the F/LOSS. Good hunting.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Fear and Loathing in Free Hardware build quality
Hi Chris, and thank you for the response. I have great respect for what you're doing, both as an ethical small business person, and in your pro bono work within the Trisquel community. Most of it is outside my skillset (especially balancing capitalism and freedom!) ... we need people like you that can walk that line. I'll continue to watch developments here closely, on both the hardware and software sides, as I move toward my own twisty blend of ethical purity in the digital realm. I hoped, and continue to hope, that my story provides some insight into how the process looks from the customer side, for both vendors and fellow consumers. I don't really have any agenda beyond that in sharing--just feedback, from a particular point of view that some unknown number of potential customers might have as well. And, in that spirit, an update: the ZA people offered to take their computer back, right on the edge of the 30 days, for a 15% restock fee. And they're sending out a Strata, which is larger--and, they say, sturdier. So I'm investing another $230 into the project, instead of into a used Thinkpad, or Chromebook ... time will tell if that was wise of me, or not.
[Trisquel-users] Fear and Loathing in Free Hardware build quality
I'll give you the tl;dr first. 1) I'm very happy with the available software choices within Free Software, including Trisquel. 2) Hardware, under the hood, pretty much the same. But: 3) Form factors and external build quality are still almost deal-breakingly bad out there. Now the (very) long version. 1996-2004: Eight years almost exclusively a Windows user. 2004-2012 Eight years almost exclusively a Mac user. Xmas 2012, I'm well fed up with both mega-corps and very motivated to replace my six-year-old G4 Powerbook laptop with a high-quality, free hardware machine that's multi-distro capable out of the box. I distro-hop via USB stick. I find operating systems I like just as well as OSX Tiger--better, on some points (KDE and XFCE let you customize especially well), a little worse on others (no drop-in replacement for Little Snitch and a couple other apps). I read a lot, most importantly on this forum, and it seems I can pay $600 for a stock retail laptop, and maybe figure out which ones will mostly work with most distros ... or, I can drop $1200 and get one that specs out a little better, and more importantly comes with a reasonable expectation of working with any free operating system. I decide to pay the big bucks. Maybe not the smart choice, but worth it to me. If I pay too much, I'll consider the overpayment a donation to the Good Fight. I settle on a TP Royal Penguin, top of the line, maxed out. I add a printer, and a second pre-installed distro, and $1400 goes off to New Jersey. It arrives quickly, it works great, and it's beautiful. Doesn't seem too fragile. But ... it has one horrifying flaw. The ultra-thin keyboard that comes with this ultra-thin laptop is REALLY noisy and cheap-feeling. I'm used to aluminum keys and zero noise. Typing on the Royal, to me, sounds and feels exactly like pushing a shopping cart with a bad wheel. Clatter-racket-clatter-BUMP. There is just no way I'm going to be able to use this. I write Support at TP. The tech is sympathetic. Yep, he had the same reaction at first, but ... it gets easier to ignore. (I find it hard to believe.) He assures me that the slightly cheaper, slightly thicker Gentoo model has a less horrible keyboard, but that I shouldn't expect anywhere near the quality of keying I've come to expect on my ancient Mac. In the meantime, my SO falls in love with the Royal. She types with her long fingernails, and isn't as obsessive as I am about the noise. We decide she will keep it, and I'll fork out another $1200 for a Gentoo, fingers crossed. That weekend, I find the exact printer I just paid TP $75 for ... on a Target clearance shelf for $23. I bite my lip and soldier on. In the meantime, I notice that ZAreason.com has one called the Alto. The closer I look at it, the more it appears to be absolutely identical with the Gentoo from TP. Same ports in the same places, same range of HDs offered, everything. Spec'd out almost identically, it's $100 less. But ... there's that wireless card issue, right? Only TP has the Atheros offered. Damn. I shoot zareason an email and explain. Oh sure, they say. We get that question all the time, and we'll be glad to swap out the wifi card for your preferred freedom-loving one. Hmm. Okay. This time, my $1200 goes to Berkeley. I wait again, and this time the wait is longer. Speed points to TP. The Alto arrives, and I'm thrilled again. Looks nice, works good, and this time the keyboard is acceptable. Not anywhere near great--I will end up spending another $40 on a wireless one for it--but at least not rattling garbage. I find myself, though, treating it very gently. It feels ... fragile. Hard to say why. But I do not feel free to bash-type away on it at 100 wpm like I do the old machine. 28 days later, fragility is confirmed. I pull it out of it's branded ZA laptop case (another $40), and the hinge is broken. Not snapped, or cracked, just sprung. I have treated this laptop with great gentleness. It's less than a month old. I paid through the nose for it. And ... it just broke itself, inside a padded bag. That six year old P-book? I paid the same amount for it. I dropped it more than once, from desk height, hating myself every time it hit the ground. And after all the battle scars, it was fine. I'm typing this on it right now, even though I wish I was over on my brand-new machine inside Manjaro or Trisquel. The moral of the story, for ZA, and TP, and System76, and LACLinux, is this. I can't WAIT to give you my money. I LOVE what you're about, philosophically and commercially. I will HAPPILY overpay for a free as in speech product. But god. Damn. I do need to feel that I'm not a complete idiot as a consumer. Work with me. Give me a machine that feels like a fat-finned Oldsmobile. That doesn't mind living in luggage half the day. That can take a punch like Humphrey Bogart. I'll pay
Re: [Trisquel-users] Fear and Loathing in Free Hardware build quality
Thanks for the reply, ahj. I think your advice is sound. Cory Doctorow made kind of the same point last July, if you read his review carefully enough: http://boingboing.net/2012/07/06/zareason-a-computer-company-w.html ZaReason doesn't really do a laptop for road warriors (yet) ... Though I thoroughly support ZaReason's mission, I regret to say that I'm not their target market. My Alto will probably end up living a sheltered life as a desktop-replacement research machine. I'm back to square one on finding a capable, not-fragile travelling unit. I might do what you suggest, or I might try to hack around with a linuxified chromebook, single-distro. Either way, yes, 200-300, not $1000+ ... I won't be able to afford any more grand experiments for quite a while anyway.
Re: [Trisquel-users] After version 6, Trisquel is moving to LTS only releases.
A lot? I suppose ... Definitely not all. http://www.debian.org/social_contract As for your kernel example, I'd say: you can have (corporate) money flowing around you in a number of different ways without profit being your End Goal. Conversely, you can have people dressed up like noble monks who turn out to really be (end goal) about the cash. (Walk through downtown Sedona or Santa Fe!) If someone claims to be about selflessness and freedom, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt, until they prove themselves otherwise. But once they do, I'll judge them more harshly than I would someone who starts out an unabashed whore. Because hypocrisy hurts the commons by breaking people's impulse to trust.
Re: [Trisquel-users] After version 6, Trisquel is moving to LTS only releases.
I appreciate the clearly experienced advice. Thanks Andrew, I'll have a closer look. My Mac-transitioning strategy so far has basically been: download all the XFCEs, move the main Panel to the top edge (and draw in a few more freestyle), and then pack on a Docky/AWN/Cairo dock down below. Feels pretty right so far. I should say that the Mac I'm transitioning from is ancient PPC/Tiger, so the Gnome 3/hypervisory thing isn't really that much of a draw in my book. But ... I'm still open and playing. Sorry for all the O/T digressions. I'm not even sure that my experiences are that useful to the Trisquel devs--I'm atypical for a New User--but then again, I might not be all that unique, either. So factor all that in and do what you're gonna do, regardless, and in good spirits. : )
Re: [Trisquel-users] After version 6, Trisquel is moving to LTS only releases.
Gracias quiliro. I do think there's a pretty wide distinction between including and recommending. The first seems felonious, I agree ... the second is more open to interpretation in my book. I know this makes me a less than perfect FS(F) partisan. I will take Gnash over Flash any day, for example, as long as it works ... though I do sin for convenience at other points. But we all seem to be on the same page in general terms, fine detail aside ... no point in being here otherwise! I will fold your suggestions into my research, and they're much appreciated. Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] After version 6, Trisquel is moving to LTS only releases.
DuckDuckGo recommends non-free software to me all the time in its little ads. I ignore them, of course, but I still use it, because it's the best available tool for the job (general search with some privacy). I'm a big boy. I know the risks and responsibilities of enabling a nonfree repo, and I'll do so with caution. I think Stallman's point about distros is aimed at the clueless masses, and it's a good point, in their regard. So to return to the point: I feel marginally more free using Debian than I would running a son of Mark distro, so that's the way I'm leaning as I explore.
Re: [Trisquel-users] After version 6, Trisquel is moving to LTS only releases.
I'm not saying Burn The Witch. I'm not even sure I'm criticizing, though RMS basically did both WRT Canonical in December. Quote: please remove Ubuntu from the distros you recommend or redistribute ... tell people that Ubuntu is shunned for spying. On balance, it probably IS a good thing, for all of us, that MarkyMark poured his money and effort into distro(s), instead of land mines or a better floor wax, and that he continues to take risks. Even his fanbois are not very bothersome, compared to Apple's ... I'm just trying to pick tools that match my needs, values, politics, and aesthetics. And I think there are better tools out there, on those criteria, in my unique use case.
