You might also enjoy some of Richard Stallman's talks if you haven't seen
them (or you might not, it depends what kind of person you are). I would
recommend these ones:
http://archive.org/details/20090203-Richard-Stallman-UofC-01
http://gobblin.se/u/onpon4/m/richard-stallman-a-free-digital-so
Thank you!
Here is what I am reading on. It may help you too.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
I'm new too, I would love to learn more about what Free Software is compare
to open source.
Is it a good idea not use compiz? I have a issue with playing 720p on
youtube?
I just sent them an email thanking them for making my life easy and not
making me have to jump through hoops to get my hardware working, although
that was in reference to the Atheros wireless NIC I put in my netbook. I also
referenced this article in the email.
Please, anyone who benefits f
Welcome home. :-)
It seems to me astounding that a nonfree magazine actually helped
freedom for you.
--
Saludos libres,
Quiliro Ordóñez
Presidente (en conjunto con el resto de socios)
Asociación de Software Libre del Ecuador - ASLE
Av de la Prensa N58-219 y Cristóbal Vaca de Castro
Quito, Ecuad
El 01/05/13 16:22, ejectm...@me.com escribió:
> If you can copy something without cost, why should you have the
> freedom to charge any price you want for it?
The cost to implement it may contain additional work or resources. If
you have no right to charge, then you would have to finance it anoth
Welcome to the community.
"why should you have the freedom to charge any price you want for it?"
Why not? Paying can help support the development of free software. As an
example, RMS used to charge money to send people free software on magnetic
tape. This was a good way to raise money in the beginning of GNU so he cou
I will keep this short and sweet. I am a new user of trisquel gnulinux and I
love it. I have been using ubuntu for about two years now and it seems it
keeps trying to go more and more mainstream with additions of nonfree
software. I found out about trisquel gnulinux in Linux Format Magazin
I finally figured out how to put it into words (and I can't believe it took
this long. If you can copy something without cost, why should you have the
freedom to charge any price you want for it?
Until this is resolved, anyone that have an AR7010/AR9271 based device can
download & install the driver I created a while ago, specifically for
Trisquel.
The driver currently supports all Trisquel releases that has the required
ath9k_htc kernel module built-in (4.5 and up), both 32/64-bit,
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
Continuing the convertion, I found this multitouch gesture recognizer (under
GNU GPL 2 license) called Touchegg: https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/ .
Looks promising!
It seems to have a second option for GUI:
https://github.com/Raffarti/Touchegg-gce
But it's under a CC Attribution 3.0 licens
Here's the run down - Yes, this device can be used in freedom but it's not
supported out of the box right now. I think this is why the ThinkPenguin
website talks of the next Trisquel version.
Two things are needed to make this device work:
#1 - Support in the kernel
#2 - The firmware
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Yup - that's the one
It sounds to me more like issue 145 from June 2011:
http://www.linuxformat.com/archives?issue=145
From an abstract point of view (i.e., forgetting about the hardware
limitations), programming is like proving a theorem in a constructive way
(i.e., constructing an actual solution to the problem). That actually is the
fundamental reason why software, like mathematics, should not be patentabl
I've been away from the forums for a little bit, but does this mean that both
the drivers and firmware have been updated in the Trisquel repos to contain
the free bits?
Was it issue 171 (June 2013): http://www.linuxformat.com/archives
Must've been a happy surprise! Hopefully it reaches somebody who values
freedom.
Interesting, this morning whilst at a visit to Sainsbury's supermarket saw a
magazine called Linux Format, it came with a dvd with an interview with
Richard Stallman and on the dvd cover Trisquel, the word is spreading !
Greetings and salutations kernelKurtz.
I share your feelings. Most laptops sold today really are garbage.
Ridiculously glossy, 1998 resolution screens, disgusting 'chiclet' keyboards,
that horrible 16:9 ratio, and most recently, soldered on RAM and solid state
storage (muh storage).
You k
On 2013-05-01 03:09, holger.be...@gmail.com wrote:
> so in term of suggesting / promoting non-free devices you Silicon Dust
> devices are not "better" than using a TV adapter which relies on a
> firmware blob.
I believe they are much better, yes. They give unlimited access to
unencrypted streams i
Yes, agree. Would be helpful if the firewall was turned on by default.
> IMO, math and function calls definately count as software code.
Why would you say that? You wouldn't say that the math problems on a homework
sheet count as software. Why should a mathematical expression be treated
differently simply because software uses it?
Function calls only do what
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) lo
I guess the multiple workspaces is a feature of the window manager. The
Workspace Switcher applet probably is well integrated with Metacity, but not
with Compiz.
I remember Compiz has its own multiple workspace configuration, separate from
the configuration set from the Workspace Switcher.
I personally think a far superior solution would be to remove such servers.
Most of your 'average users' will never use them. And for power users their
install should not prove an insurmountable challenge.
Fab,
so in term of suggesting / promoting non-free devices you Silicon Dust
devices are not "better" than using a TV adapter which relies on a firmware
blob.
Not to sound offensive but such a list is useless since most likely 90 to 95%
of the consumer devices available rely on firmware fi
It's supported in Ubuntu 12.04 which is the release Toutatis is derived from.
Seems reasonable to assume the page should say Trisquel 6.0.
'Big Up' to Chris and s/his team for going for RYF. I'm very happy to see
that they've contained the certification cost within what would be UK quality
Fab,
thanks for answering ! I know about the firmware-free device Chris will
offer. The bad point here ist that it was limited to DVB-T for Europe
IIRC..and at least for Germany this means that people outside big cities will
not be able to use it. I mean..even in big cities you sometimes re
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