[qubes-users] Booting Xen directly from GRUB2 command line

2016-11-25 Thread Duncan Guthrie
Hej folks, I have installed Grub2 as my Coreboot payload, and now I want to boot Qubes from a USB drive. Since I haven't made any changes to Grub2's default config, I am trying to boot Qubes from the command line Grub provides. I do the following: set root=(usb0) linux /isolinux/vmlinuz

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Qubes 4.x and Librem 13

2016-11-25 Thread Duncan Guthrie
À 25.11.2016 04:36, Jean-Philippe Ouellet a écrit: On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Duncan Guthrie <dguth...@posteo.net> wrote: And of course Coreboot is fast and fun. I love your description of BIOS work as "fun" ;) In my experience, getting things working has been anything

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Qubes 4.x and Librem 13

2016-11-24 Thread Duncan Guthrie
On 25.11.2016 01:44, taii...@gmx.com wrote: Purism laptops are new intel so they will never have real coreboot support, only FSP shimboot which is a black box that does most of the work. Its pointless, honestly you might as well just get an AMD (with iommu/amd-vi) laptop if you want to avoid ME

Re: [qubes-users] Question about the SECURITY of backing up QUBES.

2016-07-11 Thread Duncan Guthrie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/07/16 15:14, neilhard...@gmail.com wrote: > Is it possible that someone who compromised QUBES, could re-write > the AppVM in a way that whenever it is loaded up, it re-infects > the entire system all over again...? > > In that case, the only

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes-users forum - Please, moderate this guy

2016-07-10 Thread Duncan Guthrie
Hi all, Personally, I think we don't need to have an active "moderator", but when poison starts seeping through just blacklist the email address/account. We can't assume everyone is guilty but when the guidelines of common decency are violated then we need to have a process. It is hardly

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes-users forum - Please, moderate this guy

2016-07-09 Thread Duncan Guthrie
On 9 July 2016 13:17:13 BST, Gorka Alonso wrote: > > >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/V8_SvMk0yx0/P4VNTpFnBQAJ > >"Achim. Don't forget YOU are the homosexual, NOT ME. That's a mental >disease, doesn't matter if for political reasons was removed or not >from

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Qubes top priorities suggestions for me as an user.

2016-07-09 Thread Duncan Guthrie
On 9 July 2016 09:32:35 BST, juris...@gmail.com wrote: >Em sábado, 9 de julho de 2016 05:24:04 UTC-3, Duncan Guthrie escreveu: >> On 9 July 2016 09:12:28 BST, juris...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I definitely think we should remove that guide though. Nouveau >> >su

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Qubes top priorities suggestions for me as an user.

2016-07-09 Thread Duncan Guthrie
On 9 July 2016 09:12:28 BST, juris...@gmail.com wrote: >> I definitely think we should remove that guide though. Nouveau >supports almost all Nvidia cards, and Qubes includes the signed >firmware required for the newer Nvidia cards. With Nouveau we can now >have 3D acceleration in dom0 without

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Qubes top priorities suggestions for me as an user.

2016-07-08 Thread Duncan Guthrie
On 8 July 2016 09:56:18 BST, juris...@gmail.com wrote: >Em sexta-feira, 8 de julho de 2016 05:17:54 UTC-3, Laszlo Zrubecz >escreveu: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 07/08/2016 09:54 AM, juris...@gmail.com wrote: >> > Ah and just 1 more thing. Dont forget that a

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Qubes top priorities suggestions for me as an user.

2016-07-08 Thread Duncan Guthrie
On 8 July 2016 08:51:00 BST, juris...@gmail.com wrote: >I think programers have some kinda problem. >They insist in trying to transform linux in something already is, >something that wont bring windows users, just people into the IT world. You do realise that most of us are not programmers?

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes top priorities suggestions for me as an user.

2016-07-07 Thread Duncan Guthrie
On 7 July 2016 16:53:35 BST, Chris Laprise <tas...@openmailbox.org> wrote: >On 07/07/2016 10:40 AM, Duncan Guthrie wrote: >> >> On 7 July 2016 03:28:48 BST, Chris Laprise <tas...@openmailbox.org> >wrote: >>> On 07/06/2016 09:42 PM, raahe...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes top priorities suggestions for me as an user.

2016-07-07 Thread Duncan Guthrie
On 7 July 2016 03:28:48 BST, Chris Laprise wrote: >On 07/06/2016 09:42 PM, raahe...@gmail.com wrote: >> I'm not so adamant about wanting gpu passthrough on qubes, cause >imo, gaming online usually means all security is out the window. Plus >I feel as though gpu is

Re: [qubes-users] Linux-libre in dom0

2016-07-02 Thread Duncan Guthrie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/07/16 18:19, raahe...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 7:47:11 AM UTC-4, Duncan Guthrie wrote: > > > On 01/07/16 02:05, raahe...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 8:49:16 PM UTC-4, D

Re: [qubes-users] Linux-libre in dom0

2016-07-01 Thread Duncan Guthrie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/07/16 02:05, raahe...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 8:49:16 PM UTC-4, Duncan Guthrie > wrote: On 01/07/16 00:03, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 10:57:42PM +0100, Duncan

[qubes-users] Linux-libre in dom0

2016-06-30 Thread Duncan Guthrie
Dear Qubes Users, I have been using Qubes OS for a couple of days now. I own a Lenovo Thinkpad X200 and everything works fine, including WiFi. However, I am concerned about this, because my X200 has an Intel WiFi chipset, which I know uses proprietary firmware. I am concerned about this because