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On 2013-07-11 23:55, nickjwal...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello, in case anyone was wondering, Logitech wireless mouse/keyboard
> combos that use the "Unifying" receiver work right out of the box with
> Trisquel (and I assume other FOSS GNU/Linux distros). (
Hello, in case anyone was wondering, Logitech wireless mouse/keyboard combos
that use the "Unifying" receiver work right out of the box with Trisquel (and
I assume other FOSS GNU/Linux distros). (You may stop reading now, the rest
is just me blah blah blah-ing.)
I used to have the old (prob
When I want to stop PeerGuardian, I have to enter my password.
When I want to change blocklist settings in PeerGuardian, I have to enter my
password.
When I want to update PeerGuardian, I have to enter my password.
When I want to install new software or remove software,I have to enter my
pass
Trisquel is actually downstream of a project that includes non-free software.
Ultimately helping fix distributions which include non-free software helps
just as much if not more than helping just Trisquel. You can't really fix
non-free bug because a non-free program is non-free.
But if you
The best thing to do in your situation is to get a USB G wireless adapter
with the RTL8187B chipset (as others pointed out the easy solution is to go
to libre.thinkpenguin.com and order one from there, it comes with support,
etc) and use that to connect to the Internet. It'll 'just work' wher
You make a good point. It would be nice if the FSF started a certification
program for software like it has for hardware:
http://fsf.org/ryf
There is a difference between an application not having any non-free
dependencies and being under one of the GPL licenses.
Thanks for the explanations. I still think it's misleading for these
projects to advertise themselves as Free Software projects when the user ends
up executing nonfree code, provided by them, on his machine. For instance, I
added the Handbrake ppa at one time, confident that it was Free Sof
Since I am warned, and can take the ads off, I am not betrayed. ABP is
for filtering annoyances.
I was curious about how I would disable the Drag Window Function with
Alt+Left Click.
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:17:47 +0200 (CEST)
chris.ar...@student.kuleuven.be wrote:
> Tails is detecting my wireless card
> Ubuntu 12.04 TOO
>
> Trisquel NOT !
>
> Strange
Can you post your lspci output?
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/question-about-trisquel#comment-32942
On 12/07/13 02:56, ron88ald wrote:
> Nobody has done so far driver for this Wi-Fi card? Am I right that
> on this computer I will be unable to use wireless internet? What
> about mobile broadband modem Huawei E331 or Huawei router E5832? So I
> think I must stick to Ubuntu OS due to proprietary dri
Well, I don't really see that they're "betraying the users". ABP tells you
about it when you install it and allows you to disable it at any time. It's
not like ABP is some anti-capitalist effort. The purpose of ABP is to get rid
of annoying ads. The whitelist is for ads which are deemed to no
I just installed Handbrake a couple of days ago, now I learn it's not fully
free. Now my computer will have one less program.
Don't you see that they're betraying the users?
Their statement is: only non-intrusive adds are showed with our feature; they
pretend to make a choice because of the appereance of the add.
But the truth is they're making a choice because of the money they receive
for showing the adds.
It's not
Tails is detecting my wireless card
Ubuntu 12.04 TOO
Trisquel NOT !
Strange
I never mean to say it was Trisquel's fault. It was entirely mine. For the
full story, see comment 11 here.
LibreJS is not omniscient; it guesses at whether or not a script is free
based on the presence or lack thereof of suggested comment tags. Most scripts
don't have these, so in practice, LibreJS tends to just block everything.
WRT Linux: I read somewhere that Richard Stallman thinks that the bi
> - The Linux kernel is under GPL v2
> (https://www.kernel.org/category/faq.html), but it contains the
> infamous binary blobs, which should invalidate its Free Software
> license (you cannot study how those programs work -> no freedom 1).
The blobs have different licenses [0][1] and are separate
Cannot edit my post, so fixing a typo here:
Are these GPL-violations? What's the point of carefully picking a
GPL-licensed program if non-free code ends up being executed on your machine?
Something has been bugging me for a while, and the recent discussions about
LibreJS had me thinking about it.
- The Linux kernel is under GPL v2
(https://www.kernel.org/category/faq.html), but it contains the infamous
binary blobs, which should invalidate its Free Software license (you cann
What's the problem, exactly? As far as I can tell, the system isn't corrupt;
they aren't accepting payments for intrusive ads. The only possible objection
that I can think of is that the developer gets money from the feature.
Considering that the whole point of the feature in the first place
I have this question in mind for a couple of days.
Whay developers, programers don't join Trisquel project? Whay they contribute
to non free distribution?
My answare is:
Because they lost the path. They don't know anymore about freedom.
I found the answare reading this article by Richard Stall
Thanks cyberhawk.
I wasn't aware of the libre kernels.
Well, maybe it could simply come with the distribution by default. That would
make it easy for users to read it. An alternative would be to make it the
default homepage.
Hi and thanks to everyone who's offered to help!
The problem is fixed now. I'd added repositories that I thought were
appropriate but I was wrong. Removing them left my Triskel system running
smoothly. Pilot error!
Thanks too for the tip on "apt-get dist-upgrade", which is a new one to m
Every time I've used the command "apt-get update" the kernel is held back
unless I run "apt-get dist-upgrade" I think it just works like that, although
I don't know why.
It does, it just isn't necessarily the newest version.
Well, I'd imagine the problem is that you really don't know what's running on
your computer at that point. You sign up for the projects, but I don't know
of a way to investigate what the computer is actually calculating. It is
possible to install it, however.
This is not just a technical filter, according to my sources (I read it on
golem.de, a german it page) but an economical one.
Companies have to pay for not getting blocked.
So we better say "non-intrusive AND well-payed adds".
Please don't tell every new trisquel user how you lost your data without
giving the specific details.
Most of your posts sound like "trisquel is the greatest shit on earth, but
i'm still using it, you accept the risk of using your data".
I don't know what went wrong with your installation, bu
What's so bad about non-intrusive advertisements?
I have no info about this specific devices, but similar ones from huawei work
according to
http://h-node.org/threegcards/view/en/285/E220-HSDPA-Modem---E270-HSDPA-HSUPA-Modem
Please use h-node.org for such questions.
You don't have to stick with ubuntu just because of the wireless card.
You ca
A bad feature doesn't become good just because you can disable it.
Typical arguments of ubuntu spy-lense users.
Nobody has done so far driver for this Wi-Fi card? Am I right that on this
computer I will be unable to use wireless internet? What about mobile
broadband modem Huawei E331 or Huawei router E5832?
So I think I must stick to Ubuntu OS due to proprietary driver.
They aren't always small: a Radeon UVD firmware file is 100+ kilobytes,
an Intel wifi firmware file is bigger than half a megabyte (bigger than
a recent TeX binary, an old example of big and complex software).
We have some knowledge of what the hardware can do, for example PCI
network cards can ac
Every time you install AdBlock Plus, you get a screen saying "Adblock plus
has been configured to allow some non-intrusive advertising. You can disable
this at any time in the Filter Preferences" or something like that. And you
can just go to Addons Bar → Filter Preferences → Filter Subscript
Please do not link to sites that recommend or promote non-free software.
Steve Matteson would definitely be another champion of free typography; he
has the next most fonts on GWF after Vernon Adams.
Every once and a while, sort the fonts on GWF by number of styles and scroll
through them. G
Does the browser recommend this nonfree software specifically, by
e.g. having an addon repository listing it? We do blacklist and modify
browsers with this feature. If I understand this correctly, BOINC has a
similar feature (I haven't used it for several years, I don't remember
what it did).
An
Unfortunately, it appears that the Wi-Fi card you are using was made by
Intel. This means it will require proprietary drivers to run. Assuming you
want to maintain your freedom, you will likely have to buy a USB adapter,
available at http://libre.thinkpenguin.com/. (Click "shop" and then "Wir
These are small amounts of binary (executable) code contained within the
source code. The source code for these blobs is not available and it may not
be legal to redistribute them. Because we don't have access to the source
code, we don't know exactly what those blobs are doing, so we can't g
Eager to learn i read on https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
about Ubuntu:
the version of Linux, the kernel, included in Ubuntu contains firmware blobs.
What are these blobs and what can happen with our privacy and freedom ?
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On 2013-06-29 11:25, tegskywal...@hotmail.com wrote:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711470
>
> I don't know if they are going to respond to the bug request or if
> it is in the pipeline. Either way if Ubuntu does it and it moves
>
Even if not all the parts work, you should still add it to the database so
others know what parts don't work.
Results of the lspci command:
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trisquel@trisquel:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller
(rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core proc
@MagicFab: Thanks a lot for your hints. Now my systems runs at around 61 °C
after removing all unnecessary processes. That should be ok, shouldn't it?
@ssdclickofdeath: Thanks for the link. I will add the laptop once I'm sure
that everything works without any problems. Maybe it would even be
H-node (www.h-node.org) is a database project which aims to collect
information about various kind of hardware like printers, scanners, webcams,
laptop models and internal parts of laptops and desktop computers like wifi
and video cards.
H-node seems to have your video card reported as comp
H-node is a free software compatibility database for laptops and other
hardware.
Not all the hardware is tested in Trisquel, some hardware is tested in other
distros, but still should work in Trisquel.
http://h-node.org
Hi,
You can use h-node.org website to find free software compatible hardware. It
is a database project which aims to collect information about various kind of
hardware like printers, scanners, webcams, laptop models and internal parts
of laptops and desktop computers like wifi and video car
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On 2013-07-10 04:00, gromo...@web.de wrote:
> Hi guys, I recently installed Trisquel-Mini on my Acer Aspire 7739
> laptop and have to say that it really works very well. So far I
> haven't had any issues except for one:
>
> My laptop seems to get real
Yeah, Xfce is far easier to customize and better for that task, though be
warned that there's a weird problem where the speakers will stay muted when
the headphone jack is unplugged (you'll want to make it so you can see
"Headphone" and "Speaker" volume controls in the mixer so you can correc
Well, it's a little more than that: to be called "acceptable", it needs to be
static and have no more than one script, so for example video and audio ads
are never going to be called "acceptable".
Adblock Edge is, as far as I'm aware, just Adblock Plus with the "acceptable
ads" option remov
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On 2013-07-11 08:22, ron88...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if my laptop is suitable for this distribution
> of Linux. I've read articles and watched some videos regarding FSF
> and free software and it would be nice to try someth
Hello,
I would like to know if my laptop is suitable for this distribution of Linux.
I've read articles and watched some videos regarding FSF and free software
and it would be nice to try something different from Windows or Ubuntu.
I'm not an experienced user nor intermediate. Could You ple
The drivers (including "nouveau") are the largest part of the kernel. Just
follow Cyberhawk's instructions.
btw: Boinc is even listed by the free software directory:
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Boinc
The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation
(FSF). We catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems
— particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.
Licenses are verified for each and every program listed in this directory.
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
Hum... let my put it this way by asking some quite polemic questions:
Couldn't a webbrowser be used to download non-free software? Should we
therefore blacklist all webbrowsers?
Not to use adblock plus, obviously.
so, what are the solutins?
With the world becoming more and more globalized, there has been a improve in
business for car delivery organizations to deliver all kinds of automobiles
which range from bicycles to automobiles, automobiles etc. Online car sales
and car online auctions have also provided to a rise in require
It may not be convenient for you, but you can easily modify xfce so that it
looks quite similar to the default gnome3 classic of trisquel;
advantage: it supports transparency without problems and probably it uses
less resources, but I'm not sure about that.
It literally is sufficient to block it, see
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html#license-rules,
the paragraph starting with "A free system distribution must not steer
users towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use".
I believe we shouldn't change t
I don't know much about adblock edge, but adblock plus is software we should
not support.
It contains a developer-side-whitelist function which is enabled by default.
All adds on this whitelist will be displayed because they are treated as
"acceptable".
The only reason why they are acceptable
I just tried to install BOINC on my system but it stopped due to unresolved
dependencies. Some research showed my that BOINC actually is not meant to be
installed in Trisquel. [1]
I would like to propose to whitelist this package as the possibility to run
proprietary apps from within this sof
On 11/07/13 17:50, oralfloss wrote:
> So I spent about 20 minutes trying to find how to make the taskbar
> transparent when the answer was obvious the whole time (alt+right
> click the taskbar). However, it seems that it doesn't apply to the
> whole taskbar (see attached image).
>
> The taskb
So I spent about 20 minutes trying to find how to make the taskbar
transparent when the answer was obvious the whole time (alt+right click the
taskbar). However, it seems that it doesn't apply to the whole taskbar (see
attached image).
The taskbar icons, clock, and open windows still appear
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