It appears to me this rep did everything possible to avoid telling you that
it wouldn't work and even attempted to mislead you into thinking it might
work. I wonder if she worked in public relations at some point because she
would be very good at it.
The facts:
1. There are no technical or
On 04/07/13 13:25, Armworm wrote:
> 08:21:20 PM Agent
>
> Yes, you can change the Wi-Fi card from a card to Atheros, however,
> there is no assurance that it will work properly.
Armworm wrote:
> Looks really doubtful.
Yes, unfortunately I think all it really proves is that the HP
"representativ
Log of the chat I just had with an HP representative (their name has been
removed).
Initial Question/Comment: Does HP restrict swapping of the Wi-Fi card for
another one on any of its laptops, either in hardware or in software?
08:12:29 PM SystemSystem
Connected with Agent.
08:12:29 PM Agent
On 04/07/13 13:18, volarkp wrote:
> Trisquel works excelent in the lemote yeelong notebook ?
No, because Trisquel does not support the MIPS CPU architecture. If you
want to use the Yeeloong, you could use Parabola or gNewSense GNU/Linux.
Andrew.
Trisquel works excelent in the lemote yeelong notebook ?
On 04/07/13 11:25, Armworm wrote:
> What do you want me to say? I said something like "I have heard that
> HP laptops ship with restrictions that prevent you from swapping the
> Wi-Fi card."
Often there isn't anything stopping you from *physically* swapping the
card (unless it is soldered on the
What do you want me to say? I said something like "I have heard that HP
laptops ship with restrictions that prevent you from swapping the Wi-Fi
card."
Be careful with exact words. Also, reps are not necessarily well-informed
about this.
>> GDebI fails to install it
Sorry, I overlooked this. It's pretty common that installing pre-packaged
proprietary blobs are failing to install, but it can be worse. I tried to
install Skype on a Trisquel-loaded USB key some time ago (used the packages
from the official website) just becaus
It's his choice (he is free to do whatever he want on his computer), but I'm
wondering what feature Opera has that Firefox/Chromium doesn't.
You just knowingly installed non-free software on a system designed for your
freedom. Firefox/Abrowser would have worked just fine. Why are you even using
this distro if you're just going to install non-free software on it?
If you want to install DEB packages by simply clicking on them, do the
following:
Open Add/Remove Applications located under Gnome Panel's Main Menu (Trisquel
logo)
Search for an app called GDebi Package Manager (there are two of them)
Select the one that have GNOME GUI in its description
Cl
I do not own it, but I recently discovered it and thought it was a purchase
option.
I just talked to HP chat support, and the representative claimed that they
don't restrict swapping out the Wi-Fi card.
On 04/07/13 04:25, chuck wrote:
> Okay, I know Opera is non-free, but it is what a friend called the
> Ferrari of browsers and I want to make it available on my new
> Triskel system.
Out of interest, what features of Opera are you requiring? There are
plenty of add-ons for Abrowser, IceCat, Firef
It looks like it is probably shipping with an Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230
card which is not free software friendly. It is dependent on non-free
firmware. That said it is not 100% certain this is the card you'll get.
Companies ship with different cards for different reasons. Sometimes there
I wouldn't mind compiling a new kernel, but I don't know which version to
download, or which settings to use.
Is the wi-fi card in the HP ENVY 17t-j000 freedom-compatible? This is the
best one I've found yet, even if it comes with Windows.
Oops. For some reason they didn't attach. Here's a link that ought to work:
http://wikisend.com/download/171008/Croscore.7z
Not a problem. I love fonts and I love to share that love!
Anyway, sorry about that Filedropper problem. I'm not sure why it's not
working, so I've attached the files in this comment. I really had to compress
it to get it under Trisquel's upload limit; if there's any information loss,
let m
I didn't look into the broadcom ethernet chipset although it is probably not
something you can simply replace. If it was a problem you could buy a USB
ethernet adapter though. There are 10/100 and 10/100/1000 chipsets that are
free software friendly. We sell both..
The batteries are not usu
In the early days of the Internet I use to use US money orders to buy stuff
online all the time. The reason was simple. I didn't posses a credit/debit
card.
Another site to to the list:
http://www.engagemedia.org/
I think the main reason to avoid using Debian is that the project points
users to non-free software. It's not that the core of the distribution isn't
free software friendly (even if you were to use the FSF definition).
I believe there was clarification on the binary blob blacklisting issue an
There are two separate issues:
1. Linux includes nonfree firmware
2. when a driver requests a firmware and it's missing, it logs an error
message containing the firmware file name
Both Debian and Linux-libre solve the first problem removing the
firmware from kernel (there are small, unimportan
Armworm, first of all thank you very much for sharing this information about
well made and libre fonts! For those of us who lack the knowledge to sift
through everything you can find out there, it's a blessing!
I'm having a bit of trouble with the filedropper link with the Croscore
versions
I, too, don't understand how running a deblobbed Wheezy kernel equates
or leads to recommendation of non-free firmware or software. Is non
free firmware black-listed, in some way, in Linux Libre? There's
nothing, but my desire to keep it free, to prevent my installing
non-free user-land apps.
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Not sure I understand this comment.
I totally get the desire not to recomment nonfree firmware, but I don't
understand how the potential use of the Debian Linux kernel (which is
deblobbed) would lead to nonfree firmware being recommended.
Gnash should already be in your Trisquel system; be sure the browser
plugin is enabled. There's also lightspark, which you can install with
the terminal or Synaptic. There are user scripts like Linterna Magica.
There's a manual entitled "Playing Videos Without Flash", see here:
https://trisq
ook I understand! I'm new on free software. I've already know that Chrome and
Flash is a proprietary software but I don't know alternatives from wich I
could use youtube and another websites. Certainly should exist one but maybe
something that only a "Linux Expert" can handle with.
If there
The reason is to not recommend nonfree firmware, it would be possible to
implement it without disabling it (e.g. using machine-specific firmware
file names), but no one has implemented it.
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Sounds like you aren't burning the ISO correctly. I was wondering what
program
and OS you used to burn the IMAGE File? It has to be burned as a image file
which will put the bootloader on the disk. I've used several different ones
and
the one I use will work in Windows, it called "InfraRecord
Fine, thanks. I appreciate your position.
If you don't mind my posting the answer, I managed to figure it out. If you
don't want this info distributed, feel free to delete my post.
I finally remembered that dpkg can do this kind of thing, Turns out that
sudo dpkg -i [OPERA_DEB_FILENAME]
We cannot help you to install non-free software.
Okay, I know Opera is non-free, but it is what a friend called the Ferrari of
browsers and I want to make it available on my new Triskel system. However,
GDebI fails to install it, and when I try to add the Opera repository apper
gives me a 404, which is obviously not true as the repository
My FSF donation also got suspeneded and I just got this email from the FSF:
Hello,
Thank you for supporting the Free Software Foundation as a monthly
member. Recently, PayPal sent us a notice that automatic payments to us
were suspended. We have had some issues lately where PayPal erroneously
did
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Thanks for the clarification.
Is that the only reason they continue to develop Linux-Libre? To restrict
what software the user can install? Seems like a bit of a waste of effort to
me.
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On 2013-07-03 12:30, ll...@lloydsmart.com wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Just curious about something.
>
> Ever since Debian Squeeze, the Debian Linux kernel has been deblobbed -
> i.e. it contains only free software.
>
> Given this, what's the actual difference between the Debian kernel and
> Linux-Libre? A
With real cash, your bank may know how much money you take, but they
don't know what you're doing with it. Can you take real cash to the
post office and buy money orders? You may lose the convenience of
on-line shopping, but you get some privacy back. What are you willing
to trade off, and w
When I go and get some cash from the cash point, I can be tracked like this
as well.
In my opinion, we need to stay anonymous when sending and receiving money to
others; but with real cash, my bank knows everything how much money I take,
too.
I asked this question some time ago in a debian forum. Nobody knew the
answer.
Shoud be minor differences; the fsf and debian have different opinions what
"exactly" to call free.
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Hey,
Just curious about something.
Ever since Debian Squeeze, the Debian Linux kernel has been deblobbed - i.e.
it contains only free software.
Given this, what's the actual difference between the Debian kernel and
Linux-Libre? And why does
Still rocking the ol' EEE 1000H myself. =P Lovely little machine, and unlike
most later netbooks it's just a single large panel to get at the disk, ram
and wifi card.
So if you can find one of them used, more power to you.
Although as has been mentioned, lots of netbooks run well with free sof
I think lightdm can skip itself
System Settings > Users and Groups
password: Asked on login
click on change
I think you should not allow the user "public" to use sudo.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:59 PM, wrote:
> I heard of the flaws in the rp after buying it;
> I can affirm that you're able to run debian on the raspberry without
> non-free parts, but I can only verify this for text-only.
> Probably, non-free stuff would be necessary for launching the x server.
Al
I heard of the flaws in the rp after buying it;
I can affirm that you're able to run debian on the raspberry without non-free
parts, but I can only verify this for text-only.
Probably, non-free stuff would be necessary for launching the x server.
Well, most users run precompiled software packaged by the distributor and
they aren't capable of compiling the whole system by themselves. So actually,
this quite a similiar problem.
The question is: who deserves our trust more?
Definitely the distributor;
But one does not know.
Well, kind of. I would consider the problem to be worse than that. Check out
this link: http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
You are right - I tried all suggestions above and the best I could do is make
the printer spit out a blank page. Thanks to everyone for helping me try.
I've just installed trisquel 6.0 on two machines in a public library. It's
great! (no more having to tell people where to find the "close window" button
in Unity, etc)
It would be ideal if we could completely skip the login screen. (We just have
one account, "public". Admin tasks can be don
I wasn't aware of freedom issues on the Raspberry, thanks for the
clarification. Since you can run Debian on it, I assumed there might be (at
most) only some BIOS-like part which is unfree.
Known and reported mail to forum bug,
http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-users/2013-July/023092.html
should have the same text.
I think the blank message problem on the forum might be caused by
MIME/PGP (I could be wrong though).
Michał's post, for the forum:
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Compromising the Services
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 12:44:37 +0200
From: Michał Masłowski
To: User help
^Blank post.
> If you do find a solution to the SMTP-hijacking problem, please let me know.
> Currently, I have mine set to refuse connections from outside my local
> subnet, but that's not great for when I'm using my Android mobile on the go,
> and want to reply to an email. Is there something we can do
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Thanks for the info. I too run my own email server at home, but the
electricity wasn't an issue for me because I already had a machine running
Debian 24/7 acting as a media server.
I definitely think the Freedombox is the way forward, and it d
What about Acer TravelMate B113-M?
- Intel Core i3-2377M 1.5 GHz
- 4 GB RAM
- Intel HD Graphics 3000
- 11.6 inch 16:9, 1366x768, matte screen
- 500 GB HDD (5400 rpm)
- 2 USB 2.0, 1 USB 3.0, 1 VGA, 1 HDMI, 1 Kensington Lock
- 2-in-1 audio in/out - might be an issue, but hopefully has an integrated
Thanks for the info. Remember that the Raspberry Pi has freedom issues though.
I look forward to reading your howto.
I am in the process of setting up my own mailserver. The webserver is already
online and I'm testing it and filling it with interesting stuff, etc.
The cost is minimal if you manage to get a cheap domain name like I did (like
up to 10 EUR per year in some cases below that). Just a bit of phan
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