[Trisquel-users] I'm back
hi I'm back Some of you don't remember me. And some don't know me. Been gone a long time. But still exists in the World of Freedom Like a Unix demon Works quietly in the background BTW this my new web site I love this nice community http://alimiracle.codes have fun and be free ali miracle
[Trisquel-users] I'm back.
As I noted in another post, I've been away (I'm a distro-hopper with a tendency to rove), but I'm back, and I love the new release. Not enough credit goes to the developers who not only bring the distro out, but make it as easy as possible to get around without the use of non-free software. Kudos and thanks. I've been roving less of late. I've spent the last few months with fedora (Blagg is coming out with new release based on Fedora 20), so maybe I'll be around a bit longer than usual. I can't promise anything because I find it difficult to predict my own behavior. But again, Kudos to the developers.
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http? Welcome back
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Welcome back, Ali! Great website with lots of inspiring content. Thank you also for creating free software.
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Nice to see you here Alimiracle. How's progress on the next version of Uruk? Any word on when Uruk will be added to the FSF list of endorsed distros?
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> Nice to see you here Alimiracle. How's progress on the next version of Uruk? We are working on the 2.1 version > Any word on when Uruk will be added to the FSF list of endorsed distros? I don't know. fsf so Slow
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PureOS was just endorsed recently and the project started nearly 10 years before. So just wait FSF's formal endorsement...
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Don't forget Hyperbola and FreeNIX like Uruk. "CalmStorm" will have comments on Hyperbola to here. :)
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Welcome back!
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Ah, I remember my early weeks of Linux. I too was a distro-hopper! :D
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Distro hopping is part of the fun of being a new GNU/Linux user so i would never want to spoil it for you, but if you sudo apt-get aqemu you might find it easier (and more fun) than using physical hardware. ;) Great news about Blag! TFS
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Unfortunately this disorder I have isn't based on my newness to linux. I've been a gnu/linux user since 2005. It's more a case of immaturity. I'm only 61 years old. Who knows, some day I might grow up. I used to be a Blag user, back when Jeff Moe (Jebba) was running it. I think he got burned out from running it by himself. Fedora makes it easy now to create your own spins, so hopefully Blag will stay more current.
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As an infant (55) with a mere 17 years of GNU/Linux use I still find myself doing things like 'checking out Parabola' [on a spare machine] just to see what it's like. And, of course, when Gnome made its big change like lots of people I tried loadsa desktops to find what was the best desktop for me. The answer is any of them. Because I can use shell, Emacs, QuodLibet and a browser with much the same lack of fuss in any DE. Which leads me to ask are you too a Terminal Recidivist? Anyway distro hopping teaches the primary skills of an alpha or beta tester. So if you ever retire I suggest you take it up as a hobby.
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Embryonic babe of 49 here, but if I hadn't started virtualizing I would have been crushed under the weight of all my physical hardware many years ago. ;) I thought virtualization would be much more complicated than it actually is. I need one more trip to eWaste but when I come home, I'll actually have one desktop and one laptop like normal people do and normal people don't need to know about the 20-40 VMs on the external drives in the back of my closet that can easily be clonezillad on to physical hardware if the need or desire ever strikes.
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"I need my shiny stuff" - Cat, Red Dwarf. :-)
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Ok, well if a 49 year old is embryonic, I don't want to know what my 31 year old self is. On that note, I have played only with Ubuntu, Slackware, and now Trisquel. I guess I'm not as adventurous, or don't find the time for 'distro-hopping'. I like to just think I found the perfect fit with Trisquel for my use. It has a lot of the out-of-box ease of use the basic user in me likes, but is powerful enough for my advanced side to become adventurous.
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My distro hopping got cut a bit short when I moved to Free systems (hopping between 7-10 distros including Fedora and Debian most of which I'll never use (i.e. Dragora)?). But if all distros out there were free I'd certainly be the distro hopper I was just before I settled with Manjaro (and then Trisquel). Waiting for someone to go out and do a Libre CentOS.
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Like many males when under stress I favour what psychologists call the 'distraction strategy' and installing GNU/Linux is my favourite vehicle for that. So e.g. the installs I did in the late beta, early RC phases of Belenos were more to do with my Father getting to the stage where he no longer recognises family than anything else. For a three month spell last year I re-installed Trisquel changing the DE every week after phoning a lifetime friend to discuss how his chemo was going. Sometimes it's a different distro, then I'm back to the freedom of Trisquel within a few days out of principle, not stress. Or maybe a couple of weeks play if it's a free distro. That's why I keep *the* spare machine, my previous desktop. I'm not sure whether that makes me a distro hopper or not. Frankly I don't care as it's a lot cheaper and healthier than either more booze than is wise or comfort eating both of which appear to be much more popular habits for the same thing (not that they're always that). Therefore, since it's mostly a matter of re-installing Trisquel with a different DE on the spare machine, perhaps I should say 'Trisquel is good for your health.' :-)
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Yes, I've heard that many people use their computers to do things other than installing distros. Curious...
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An interesting CentOS desktop effort is Stella. I've been trying it off and on for a couple of years now. It's amazing what's possible with such an old kernel.
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That because a kernel is irrelevant to what a desktop graphically does!
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Distrohopping is not a disease, nor a sign of immaturity. It can take a long time to settle down and besides, just after you've settled down some bright spark goes and releases something even more attractive and you're off again.
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Squirrel!
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I used ubuntu,lubuntu,xubuntu,debian,mint; tried lxle,puppy and gnewsense I switched to Trisquel a month ago and have been using it quite intensively since then - have to say - Trisquel is one shiny gem!!
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I started with GNUWinII, then installed Mandrake (Mandriva), quickly switched to Damm Small Linux, which I truly loved even though I had a modern machine with Slackware on it, and then missed all the infighting and hullabaloo because I was busy with my newborn. I'd made some sort of a pact with myself that I'd give up computers/the internet if I could just bring this little guy safely earthside at my advanced age, but that translated into Ubuntu on the cheapest machine I could possibly run it on. Babies grow up as I've learned to my sorrow and we've both been using Trisquel since '12. My older kid bought me a System76 Wildebeest for Christmas that year. Realistically, it's not a good time in my life to use Parabola or even Debian, although I play with my VMs because I find them more entertaining than Minecraft or the Honey Boo Boo show. I've been pleasantly surprised at how user friendly Trisquel is and would put it on my 80 year old mother's machine if she lived closer. There have been enough interesting incidents, like needing to install my printer through CUPS on Belenos instead of Gnome, that I still feel like I'm learning enough to keep my mind active. I've also seen software in the Debian reps that is not in Trisquel and enough posts on the forum about why it is not on Trisquel that I'm comfortable trusting Quidam to do the research I could do myself if I wasn't too busy blowing soap bubbles and playing with fingerpaints. I hope we both get to grow up with Trisquel and that someday it's as comfortable to me as DSL used to be back in the day. It's nice to see the forums so active in the last few days and to have the chance to get to know some of you better. My username was not intentional and I don't usually "out" myself as a middle aged female on tech forums, but this seems like as good a time as any to do so.
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When I was a kid I used Solaris then I Moved to gnu/linux I started with Mandrake (Mandriva) I've found difficult Because Mandrake has bad Screen reader(I am blind) then I Moved to Trisquel
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Another +1 for Orca from me. I could "pass" for a sighted person until middle age hit, but when the screen reader started up automatically I found out how much easier it was not to turn it off.
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Yet Another +1 for Orca on behalf of my Dad. It was important to his sense of independence for a goodly amount of time.
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Ubuntu MATE is worth a look... https://ubuntu-mate.org/
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I use glasses and with them on I see perfectly. I thought orca was pretty annoying when i installed trisquel 'cause the vast majority of people are not going to use it. But then on second thought i reckoned it was a good thing, a very good thing indeed, for it is very simple for me to remove orca or to disable it but it is not simple for a non-sighted person to deal with trisquel without it. Hence one big "respect bro!!" for that implementation to the trisquel developers!!
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We're the richer from your unintentional 'coming out.' And you're right about this weekend - from school age to 61 and mentions of 80 somethings, able bodied and not, and global. A far cry from the programmer cult the likes of ESR would have others believe we are. Instead an actual free software *community.*
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for me, Without orca My life becomes difficult It gives me the ability to control computer BTW, In this day I used parabola I installed http://talkingarch.tk/ then I follow these instructions https://wiki.parabola.nu/Migration
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From: blade.vp2...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm back. Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:28:54 +0100 (CET) > for me, Without orca My life becomes difficult > It gives me the ability to control computer > BTW, In this day I used parabola > I installed > http://talkingarch.tk/ > > then I follow these instructions > https://wiki.parabola.nu/Migration Good stuff! How about putting a suggestion on the Parabola mailing list that they do a TalkArch derivative install CD themselves? AsA - Leny
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yes In this day I put a suggestion on the Parabola mailing list
