Well I found one site that doesn't seem to ever ask for flash player so I've
decided to go ahead and use it. It seems like a decent site but to avoid
promoting sites that have nothing to do with free software or Trisquel I'm
not going to post the URL. If anyone wants to know then just PM me.
To change your UI fonts, you can go to Trisquel Menu → System Settings,
select "Advanced Settings", on the side menu select "Fonts", and click on the
setting for "Default Font". You should be able to change your font size
system-wide.
It's the administrator forum account, I think.
http://www.gluglug.org.uk/contact/
The form requires a name, but you can use a fake one, such as "Sudo Nymn".
"It's not clear what measures Francis Rowe is taking with respect to CPU
microcode."
Very tempted by the Gluglug X60, but the following concerns are preventing me
from purchasing one:
(1) It's not clear what measures Francis Rowe is taking with respect to CPU
microcode. There are three options:
(1A) Provide no microcode. BAD option, because of the serious bugs in Core
Sol
"1.I must understand how it works "under hood". My understanding must vary
from very abstract concepts to detail comprehension of every "cogwheel",
according to my needs.
2.If I encounter a problem, then I should be able to solve it on my own,
without help of other people. In ideal, even wi
"proprietary MS-DOS...
"There is FreeDOS, but I heard it relies upon a proprietary compiler.
Actually, what i did right after unplugging the ethernet was:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo iwconfig essid "essid"
(the wpa_supplicant couldn't assign an essid to wlan0 or something?)
Unplugged ethernet
sudo killall wpa_supplicant
sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D nl80211 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
sudo dhclient wlan0
called ping www.startpage.com about 20 times, and suddenly by some miracle it
started receiving.
I don't the reason to why it suddenly started working,
but i t
lembas: I found /etc/X11/xorg.conf and inserted the section (assuming
"whatever" means whatever I put the was inconsequential). xev still did not
notice buttonpresses from my controller. I double-checked with evtest and
it's still sending input.
I guess with this I'm trying to get my X serv
I tried to connect and got the same error messages. I tried many different
configuration file options and got it working.
I can no longer reproduce what happened the first time, but here is what I
have learned. If your desktop is running, you need to kill nm-applet. You
also need to kill al
În 2013-12-23 01:27, george.stand...@ncf.ca a scris:
i'm just replying regarding the wireless (i have no idea about the
default DE, I don't use it) - by the sounds of it, your wireless card
is NOT supported by Trisquel. If it worked, you'd see wireless
networks listed - i use the livecd (on U
i'm just replying regarding the wireless (i have no idea about the default
DE, I don't use it) - by the sounds of it, your wireless card is NOT
supported by Trisquel. If it worked, you'd see wireless networks listed - i
use the livecd (on USB really) to test wireless hardware for support - i
I loaded Trisquel for the first time on a USB thumb drive and booted it. The
colors and windows are pleasant. I have some questions about Trisquel before
installing it.
In the folders window, where all of the different folders are laid out, can
the size of the text be made larger? It seems
Thanks for that info.
The following is the output of using both the wext driver and the nl80211
driver with the -d (debug option).
(Though i do not understand most of it)
in terminal(with wext driver):
wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
the error i had originall
Are i3, i5 and i7 processors of any generation not able to be endorsed?
Oh ok, thanks. Now i get the same error message as in my first post again.
Your .conf looks a bit simple. Sure you don't have to provide additional info
about the type of encryption etc.?
Better have a look at the manual of the config file.
I used wpa_supplicant only once in order to establish my network connection
without gui but as far as I remember there was a lot
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2703
It says that "The problem is that a precomputed hex PSK must not be quoted."
Do you have the same error message? I never used wpa_supplicant but your
error said that something is wrong with your arguments. Maybe it's the
ordering of your arguments. "-d" is the debug modus. Try
wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wext -dd
I have read that "nl8021
I get another error message now, after i edited
the psk to be surrounded double quotes(psk="passphrase") in
wpa_supplicant.conf (as it was not originally, even though it is shown in
double quotes in the "content of wpa_supplicant.conf" in my first post, it is
for sure now (as i read somewher
No that don't work.
În 2013-12-22 22:43, gnu...@lavabit.com a scris:
one more thing: it is related to the thread itself. There are people
who want to ban users simply because they talk about "non-free
software". The problem is, the definition of "free software" is a
little too vague. For me Debian is free, for ot
What about the account called Trisquel ?
Maybe you need a space between "-D" and "wext"?
I decided i wanted to know how to connect to a wpa protected wireless network
without the need of a gui program.
Though, i have encountered some issues of which i'd appreciate some help
with.
wpa_passphrase "ssid" "password" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
content of wpa_supplicant.conf:
networ
În 2013-12-22 22:40, gnu...@lavabit.com a scris:
Also, as you can see in the link I posted above, those are not part
of Debian project.
Those repos are hosted at debian.org and official documentation at
debian.org recommends adding those repos and using proprietary software,
even when free s
An explanation for why Debian isn't endorsed by the FSF can be found here
https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html
I started with Ubuntu 10.04, later moved to Mint 13, after that Trisquel 6
and now use Debian 7. On my way I also used some other distros in specific
ocasions (Tails and Puppy).
Debian:
-removing non-free/contrib: no need to remove something that is not there to
start with! If you already
one more thing: it is related to the thread itself. There are people who want
to ban users simply because they talk about "non-free software". The problem
is, the definition of "free software" is a little too vague. For me Debian is
free, for other people it is not.
Glabel is really really good. I will use that from now on. I just printed a
label to identify a usb hdd. The thing to make your own design is great,
better than publisher. If I had known about this when I was printing labels
for a optical disk with publisher... What happened is a used the wro
It is great
Rubén is also a Spanish name
Ahh, no I got it. Obviously the whole thing was a big misunderstanding. I
originally thought the most important thing for you is freedom in a digital
society.
But the biggest goal for you is "the fsf endorsement".
"(...) then this will make Trisquel lose it's
endorsement from FSF."
I don't s
i've just come from using debian to trisquel - because I wanted to support a
faif-distro. all i want for x-mas/grav-mas is a debian-stable fork with
non-free and contrib removed, and s/linux/linux-libre/ until debian removes
contrib/non-free (which i doubt will ever happen) there is no hope
http://media.libreplanet.org/u/libby/m/stefano-zacchiroli/
If you watch this video, you will notice that Debian has always tried to
maintain a healthy environment on their development strategy, has freedom as
a main priority and have been trying to get the FSF endorsement for years.
They ha
They keep the prices coming up until they see that people will stop buying.
When that happens, they lower it a little bit again, and keep selling the
most units at the highest price. So, yeah, they will make tons of money from
people who want freedom, but a lot of people won't have freedom be
Supply and demand. you know. Makes me happy to see an ethical business doing
well. Might buy me one when this current lapper dies.
The price has been raised by £20 again. Now
IBM Lenovo ThinkPad X60 (w/ coreboot) costs £218+
IBM Lenovo ThinkPad X60 (w/ coreboot) (w/o extras) costs £198+
What about buying a Chromebook? They're cheap, available locally from France,
and compared to ThinkPenguin, Chromebook's BIOS'es are based on Coreboot.
Also, all the post-Pixel models (including the Pixel itself) comes with
SeaBIOS, which means that you can directly install Trisquel without a
This thread might interest you.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/free-software-running-e-book-reader-now-made-possible
În 2013-12-22 15:03, shiret...@web.de a scris:
1.) Who is "the free software movement" exactly and who defines its
values?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-intro.html
I doubt you have evidence for this so most of your accusations have no
base
Read the pages at gnu.org linked in t
You're permanently defining meaning of words yourself.
1.) Who is "the free software movement" exactly and who defines its values?
I doubt you have evidence for this so most of your accusations have no base
2.) You might interprete my words as a personal attack. I don't see why this
should be
În 2013-12-22 13:48, shiret...@web.de a scris:
Hey man, are you the sheriff in here? Could you please provide some
evidence that you're the person in charge for forum moderation?
Why do you think you have any authority in here?
I don't, Trisquel Community Guidelines have authority here.
https
On the news, it said that the NSA targets had been revealled - about 1000
organisations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-25468263
I could not find the document with the targets on the internet, but if anyone
does then we would know.
It would not surprise me if the FSF was on that list.
>With a proprietary system you cannot find out. Code is not available, can be
obfuscated and you might be breaking the law if you try to find out how
something works. With Trisquel you're welcome to browse the code, with an
occasional comment or two and won't run into any legal issues.
I ca
"Double personality or you are acting as part of a troll team, with
quantumgravity (shiretoko) as your sidekick (and from what I see, with
few more showing their interests in joining you)."
Hey man, are you the sheriff in here? Could you please provide some evidence
that you're the person in ch
>Who is making you use google/NSA?
I use google because of relevant results. Maybe this is my fault, because my
search skill not-so-good, but facts are facts. For example, yesterday I was
searching "activ тариф джуни". Duckduckgo showed me only irrelevant
trash.
>Who is making you not tr
No e-readers for me then.
Thank you for the information Mr Maslowski.
În 2013-12-22 12:09, aaz...@mail.ru a scris:
Excuse me, but did you ever heard of so-called "situational ethics"?
There aren't absolute unethical actions.
There are a lot of examples of absolute unethical actions. Human slavery
is one of them and it's forbidden by international human rights tr
Some ereaders with EInk displays were supported by OpenInkpot, they are
hard to find now and the project development stopped.
All other free software support for such devices that I know about is
running a GNU/Linux system inside the original nonfree system.
Improving this might be difficult.
A R
Greetings.
I'm interesting in purchasing an electronic book so I could read books from
project Gutenberg where I want.
Is there a freedom friendly model I could buy?
Thank you
Hello,thank you for your responses.
I have to say that I never considered to provide a Tor relay, and I cannot do
so because I am only at house in a short period of time and I could not
maintain the relay.
Also, I could not share th WIFI because that decision is not entirely mine.
But I wi
>Because if I encounter a problem, then often I forced to google solution and
blindly use instructions. Without proper understanding, like magic.
Why? Who is making you use google/NSA? Who is making you not try to
understand the instructions? It's crazy to follow random instructions one
doe
>By the way, if "computations control" can be considered as related to
ethics, then in my book proprietary MS-DOS much more ethical than opensource
Trisquel.
This is bait
Try putting this into /eetc/X11/xorg.conf (you might have to create one, sudo
X -configure)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "whatever"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event10"
Option "AutoServerLayout" "true"
EndSection
Restart X, now can xev see i
>Trying to justify it (family starving) means trying to justify non-free,
proprietary software
Excuse me, but did you ever heard of so-called "situational ethics"?
There aren't absolute unethical actions. Because ethics depend on context.
For example, I consider meat is unethical in my curre
I don't have sense of control over my computer.
You can say "You must use only FLOSS, only freedom-friendly hardware, etc.
Then you can control your computer. "
But alas, it is an overstatement. Because if I encounter a problem, then
often I forced to google solution and blindly use instruc
În 2013-12-19 12:36, arielxgbar...@gmail.com a scris:
You can't make money just from selling free software.
You can.
You will sell a
few copies, then free (as in money) downloads will be all over the
internet.
Let them be, nobody should people from sharing software and improve it.
What is
În 2013-12-22 00:07, shiret...@web.de a scris:
First, I think you should better provide arguments which show that I'm
wrong instead of pointing towards the rule not to talk about certain
things.
You are right. It might not be obvious for everybody you are not
following the Trisquel Community
Yeah, I was thinking that there should be something that wouldn't require
polling.
Apparently read don't like pipes. The explanation was beyond my understanding
but this works
var=$(command)
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