If hard drive space isn't an issue an exact copy of the DVD into VOB format
(which is supported by your TV) would be the fastest. Here is the Arch Linux
guide:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dvdbackup
Handbrake is partially non-free as it provides the proprietary FAAC encoder.
There is a free fork in Ubuntu's backport repositories (for 12.10) but only
for 32-bit systems.
> For those who are interested there may be a weekly meeting
> on the #trisquel-devel channel on Tuesdays at 17:00 UTC.
Not sure if I am skilled enough so I didn't add myself to the
list but I might lurk occasionally. Timezones can be a
problem though - 3am on Wednesday morning is pretty early fo
Can you post an announcement to the mailing list?
I've finished sending out notices to those who added themselves to the list
of volunteers who were actually contactable (on the forums):
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/proposed-policies-procedures-solutions
I guess we should wait a bit to give people time to respond. Then try and
setup a meeti
It'll probably be 6-7 months from now. Not years (unless I did the math
wrong).
Canonical's mainly just fixing up Debian. There is very little that is
actually being done where it comes to introducing non-free software. Can
anybody point out an instance where Canonical has developed a non-free
component for which they distribute and it is used on the desktop?
I believe
They certainly are. HP alone donates more to the Linux Foundation each and
every year than all of the money raised by the Free Software Foundation this
year. They have multiple other companies donating similar amounts. To give
people an idea of how much the Linux Foundation is pulling in jut
That may be although I think they are actually referring to the greater
operating system GNU/Linux/etc. I'm sure you know that though.
The Linux Foundation gets the big donations from huge companies and I am
guessing the donations per year is bigger than the FSF because of those types
of companies it attracts. Companies that wouldn't probably donate to the FSF
ever.
Is it more popular donation wise because these 3rd party
Thank you for mentioning Handbrake (in the first version of your post at
least, I see that you edited it since then - any reason?) - I added the ppa
for it, and it works absolutely fine. I can rip to m4v or mkv, and both
formats are recognized by my TV set (m4v extension must be changed to m
You don't want to base it on Debian because that will end up taking more
resources to maintain and make sure things don't break. Debian Testing, even
though not as bleeding edge as Unstable, is still like the wild west in how
things work. Linux Mint Debian started as a pure Testing distro, bu
Did you try Handbrake?
Or perhaps FFMPEG from the command line?
There are pretty good tutorials online about how to use each.
+1
There are two issues here, which are both of different nature. The first
issue is the release schedule, which you mention. I agree that Ubuntu has a
regular release schedule. However, although Debian being erratic, the release
schedule is much slower. It is true that this could be compensated
There is also release schedule to consider.
Ubuntu has a 6 month release schedule and a 2 year LTS release schedule.
This certainty of release times translates directly to Trisquel releases.
Debian's stable release schedule is " when it's ready " ( which is necessary
to make sure a complete r
Hello,
I recently purchased a TV set which has a USB port, and it can read videos
from an external hard drive plugged into that port.
The formats it can read are summarized in this table (I scanned the user
manual): http://benwen.info/public/video.jpg
I have a bunch of region 2 DVDs from
You know what makes me sad ? Is that in the beginning the Gnu/Linux ecosystem
was created like the informatics itself. Something open that will remain open
to study, modify and distribute.
But then the same started to happen in both camps, the convenience start to
gain weight between those
Linux is only kernel. For they don't matter web browser, interface, nothing.
The kernel is success and running in many gadgets, operating system(like GNU)
and others. Not more.
Is very bad when say "Linux applications" for reference for VLC, Amarok,
Firefox, GNOME and all free softwares. I
Currently, Trisquel is an Ubuntu derivative. We all know that Canonical, the
business behind Ubuntu, is having it's own agenda. I would think that
attempting to be a derivative of Ubuntu in the end will only make the problem
of package maintenance worse.
Would it not be easier to have Trisq
The CDDL, according to the Free Software Foundation, in contrast to the
business oriented OSI, claims quite clearly that the CDDL is incompatible
with the GPL (any version).
This is due to the use of the term "Intellectual Property". This also shows
the reason why the original author is mak
while playing around with mkisofs, noticing there is no man page, noticing
mkisofs just points to genisoimage i found this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrkit/+bug/489077
and moreover this:
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html
there seems to be some irritation on
I had some issues with the outdated automake 1.11 package. I made a new
automake 1.12 package through checkinstall, it appears to build cleanly into
prefix /usr. How can I aid in getting this into trisquel?
Upgrade your kernel to latest linux-libre.
http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
Hello everyone,
I posted this solution as a bug in the Issues page in order to try to solve
this situation. But for those that have this annoying bug here is the
workaround.
(PS: this is a simple copy-past from the bugreport).
I've noticed that on 2 of my 3 computers where Trisquel is inst
For underclocking the CPU you can use cpupower. By default the CPU is
underclocked when using the battery on Parabola, so increasing the CPU
frequency might be required for watching HD videos when using the battery.
Also replacing a hard drive by a solid state one should improve battery life
as it requires less power. It will also eliminate noises as there are no
moving parts.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 03:46:18PM +0100, mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi
wrote:
> smartparameters were indicating something's wrong, then the disk
> was quite likely to fail soon. On the other hand, most disks simply
> failed without any prior warning in the smart parameters.
>
> My disk
Google did some research on the smart attributes for predicting disk failure
on 100,000 disks. They found out that if the smart parameters were indicating
something's wrong, then the disk was quite likely to fail soon. On the other
hand, most disks simply failed without any prior warning in t
Apparently freetux tv [1] is GPLv3 licensed and included in Ubuntu 12.10
onwards [2], so it should automatically be included in Trisquel 6.5, which
will be released many years from now.
Apparently there are PPA packages for oneiric 11.10 [3] which the current
Trisquel 5.5 is based on.
[1]
Note that while possible, ''mining'' bitcoins is practically impossible and
will end up only costing you.
This is because the free software client can only utilize the CPU. The
relatively much faster GPUs require proprietary software and even these are
getting to be obsolete by in turn much
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:02:02AM +0100, mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi
wrote:
> I'm now also looking for a handy program, […]
> * regular (automated, because a human being tends to forget)
> * frequent (sometimes you get a lot of work done quickly)
> * on another disk or encrypted off-site
I've been using Back In Time for a while now, and I quite like it. It does
all of the things you mentioned.
@ ivaylo I will try this week end, thanks.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:03:27AM +0100, t...@tius.it wrote:
> but I get generic error. I think I need to
> buy a new usb disk :-(
Check your disk's health with palimpsest/gnome-disk-utility or some of
the tools in these packages: smartmontools, gsmartcontrol,
smart-notifier. Anything that suppor
Depending on how you use the box, underclocking the main cpu and the video
card cpu could be helpful as well. These however can ruin your hardware, so
be careful if you do try them.
I have an ATI video card and use the package rovclock to underclock it when
doing something like reading a lo
And then pop open the Synaptic package manager and search for installed
packages with they keyword bluetooth and remove those.
That way you don't have to disable the service after every boot or have a
script to do that. On the other hand, if you were to acquire a bluetooth
device then tomor
Yes. It can.
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