Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.0 LTS alpha images ready for testing

2011-07-27 Thread tegskywalker
That 1% is generally for Flash (I watch a lot of online videos) and Sun Java which has better performance than OpenJDK when I use Eclipse for programming. It would be great to not use Flash, but Gnash is still rough around the edges and I may give OpenJDK another try down the road. Some Java

[Trisquel-users] Should XChat be included in Trisquel?

2011-07-27 Thread alonivtsan
I just noticed that while XChat is free software for GNU/Linux it is proprietary software for Windows. This means that if an existing Windows user tries out the Trisquel live CD to find free as in freedom software and finds XChat he or she will assume that if there is a version for Windows

Re: [Trisquel-users] Should XChat be included in Trisquel?

2011-07-27 Thread snot . herry
I use at moment under windows the free fork http://www.silverex.org/news/ since the win version is shareware we should look at it before at the end we got Shareware in our repos. 15 Euro for Windows version is kinda crazy

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.0 LTS alpha images ready for testing

2011-07-27 Thread magicbanana
I have not heard about RMS being communist for long time. It is simply wrong. For example, the Freedoms of Free softwares includes the ability to change the software (e.g., to fix a bug) and redistribute the improved version. In a proprietary world, the user has no choice but to beg the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is btrfs ready for use?

2011-07-27 Thread Rubén Rodríguez
70 GB Ubuntu system: [...] 18.75 seconds with ext4 At that pace, checking a 2TB disk takes eight minutes. Xfs takes zero.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is btrfs ready for use?

2011-07-27 Thread magicbanana
True. I was only pointing out that it is quite unfair to talk about ext* when it comes to file system checks. In this regard, ext4 is much faster than ext3.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.0 LTS alpha images ready for testing

2011-07-27 Thread adrian . malacoda
I do not appreciate your remarks, and I'm sure several others are hurt by them too. The free software movement was started in the 1980s by Richard Stallman, with the goal of creating a world of software that would give its users full command and control over their computing experience. His

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.0 LTS alpha images ready for testing

2011-07-27 Thread Claudio Delpino
2011/7/27 adrian.malac...@member.fsf.org I do not appreciate your remarks, and I'm sure several others are hurt by them too. The free software movement was started in the 1980s by Richard Stallman, with the goal of creating a world of software that would give its users full command and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.0 LTS alpha images ready for testing

2011-07-27 Thread tegskywalker
I think you slightly misunderstood my resolution. I do want to use this OS and it will probably be the one that's installed on my main development machine when 5.0 comes out. I'm willing to swap out my wireless card and embrace what Trisquel offers. I do understand the difference between