Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Clarendon!

2013-12-28 Thread jason
onpon4 said "And the way copyright of fonts works in the U.S" Hence the fundraising mentions patents, which are valid in the U.S. for fonts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces#Design_patents Patent law is an entirely different beast than copyright

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Clarendon!

2013-12-28 Thread onpon4
To be completely honest, I have zero interest in this. It's not a font that people think of as "standard" or anything, and it's not special enough for me to want to use it. And the way copyright of fonts works in the U.S., $30,000 seems like a total waste. Since the font face itself can't b

Re: [Trisquel-users] what are some alternatives to LibreOffice Impress?

2013-12-28 Thread onpon4
There's Calligra Stage. I've never used it, but it's available in the repo (just search "Calligra").

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Clarendon!

2013-12-28 Thread adel . afzal
You've really got me more interested in fonts Armworm. I see from the Indiegogo page that Clarendon has a long history, and that it's popular. But $32 300 is a lot of money! Are there any free fonts that are similar to Clarendon? Why won't a "close enough" substitute/knock-off do?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Clarendon!

2013-12-28 Thread LDrumbler
Bump! We're really lagging in donations, and can't do this without your help.

Re: [Trisquel-users] upgrade xfce?

2013-12-28 Thread gramex
What's the license for the script?

[Trisquel-users] what are some alternatives to LibreOffice Impress?

2013-12-28 Thread adel . afzal
Have you used one of the alternatives? How did it compare to Impress?

Re: [Trisquel-users] upgrade xfce?

2013-12-28 Thread firefoxbugreporter
You may need to patch a package. This is an updated script for doing that. #!/bin/sh cd /tmp/ mkdir build-trisquel-desktop-common-data cd build-trisquel-desktop-common-data/ # install build dependencies sudo apt-get build-dep trisquel-desktop-common-data -y # get package source (without sudo) a

Re: [Trisquel-users] upgrade xfce?

2013-12-28 Thread firefoxbugreporter
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/xfce

Re: [Trisquel-users] Think Penguin Laptop Questions

2013-12-28 Thread adel . afzal
capitalkid posted a review and photos in November. Scroll down a bit for the review: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/penguin-gnu-linux-laptop-w-1920x1080-matte-screen-now-shipping?page=2#comment-45166

Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a Trisquel laptop in France

2013-12-28 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 12:01 +0100 на 21.12.2013 (сб), wlqdq...@sharklasers.com написа: > Debian 6 is out of the question, the kernel is too old. Not only the kernel. It currently receives only security updates. Soon it will be completely obsolete. > But Debian 7 does work, till it freezes. > Trisquel doesn't eve

Re: [Trisquel-users] Think Penguin Laptop Questions

2013-12-28 Thread mono
found this review, including a photo from inside the notebook http://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=9495.0

Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0.1 Ready For Testing

2013-12-28 Thread gav616
the updates do fix the dns issues, thank you all. offtopic> I can't create any bug reports: There was a problem with your form submission. Please wait x seconds and try again. any idea? (wait... I guess...?)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a Trisquel laptop in France

2013-12-28 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 21:05 +0100 на 28.12.2013 (сб), chris.arijs написа: > I know that Atheros Wifi cards are great but what about the other > stuff ? Check the h-node [1] project's hardware database. The information is reported from fully free distributions. They lack motherboard section, but still. Have in mind

Re: [Trisquel-users] A laptop earns FSF Respects Your Freedom certificate

2013-12-28 Thread gramex
Is there any special model of X60 required to install libre coreboot?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a Trisquel laptop in France

2013-12-28 Thread chris . arijs
I think this is a great laptop BUT, the screen is just to small for me. Are there any alternatives, because i have the same problem as BMw: i live in europe, so i don't know what funny taxes i'll have to pay if i buy from ThinkPenguin. It would also be nice if someone could make a list of p

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel, Text mode install (selected no packages to install)

2013-12-28 Thread unknown . 10001 . notthis
Thank you, i will test it out :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : New "RPM"-based fully free system distribution

2013-12-28 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
Sorry for the double post. I pressed a wrong key-combination and send the last unfinished e-mail. В 18:54 +0100 на 28.12.2013 (сб), magicban...@gmail.com написа: > has *nothing* to do with the package manager (RPM) or its usual interface > (yum). Those are > choices made by Fedora that is the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : New "RPM"-based fully free system distribution

2013-12-28 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 18:54 +0100 на 28.12.2013 (сб), magicban...@gmail.com написа: > Everything you list (the second list, not the first one) has *nothing* to do > with the package manager (RPM) or its usual interface (yum). Those are > choices made by Fedora that is the preview of Red Hat that is recompiled into

[Trisquel-users] Re : New "RPM"-based fully free system distribution

2013-12-28 Thread magicbanana
Everything you list (the second list, not the first one) has *nothing* to do with the package manager (RPM) or its usual interface (yum). Those are choices made by Fedora that is the preview of Red Hat that is recompiled into CentOS (hence the huge similarities between the three distributions

Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a Trisquel laptop in France

2013-12-28 Thread adel . afzal
"If having a 17" screen is not an important feature for you, look at the eeepc 1005PE from Asus." (Cyberhawk) I used to use a netbook for school. I had a larger monitor at home, and I plugged the netbook into that so that I could use the big screen at home. Sort of had the best of both wo

Re: [Trisquel-users] Buying a Trisquel laptop in France

2013-12-28 Thread leny2010
ISTR an FSFE newsletter lauding a French user enforcing their right to buy a laptop without Microsoft Windows. So, please, whatever you do buy - don't pay 'Windows Tax.' Because the keyboard on the netbook I bought secondhand earlier in the year gives me wrist pains in extended use I bough

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel lags when playing videos and video games, sometimes freezes

2013-12-28 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 16:06 +0100 на 28.12.2013 (сб), magicban...@gmail.com написа: > Linux-libre's radeon driver is far from being complete. In particular, there > is no 3D acceleration. In addition, your hardware might not be able to reproduce high-definition videos and games at high resolution. My laptop has Int

Re: [Trisquel-users] New "RPM"-based fully free system distribution

2013-12-28 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 15:24 +0100 на 19.12.2013 (чт), jan...@yopmail.com написа: > http://gdnewhat.org/ Hi list, I've noticed that there are questions in this thread what is the difference between RPM-based and Debian-based distributions, which is better etc. etc. I decided to share my observations on the *technical

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel lags when playing videos and video games, sometimes freezes

2013-12-28 Thread magicbanana
Linux-libre's radeon driver is far from being complete. In particular, there is no 3D acceleration. Do you have an AMD CPU too? If it is Intel, you had better remove the video card and use Intel's integrated graphical chipset: better support and performances; less memory consumption!

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel lags when playing videos and video games, sometimes freezes

2013-12-28 Thread magicbanana
When that happens, try Ctrl+Alt+F1. If that switches to a terminal session (where you can log in), then the kernel is not panicking. From the terminal session you can kill the problematic processes or even the whole graphical session with 'sudo service gdm restart'. To fix the actual proble

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel lags when playing videos and video games, sometimes freezes

2013-12-28 Thread uedibupi
lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v] lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Trisquel Description:Trisquel 6.0 Release:6.0 Codename: toutatis uname -a Li

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can I disable the 'Recent Documents' menu?

2013-12-28 Thread magicbanana
For GNOME Shell's users, there exists this extension to have a drop-down menu with the recent files and a button to clear it.

[Trisquel-users] Re : 6.0.1 Ready For Testing

2013-12-28 Thread magicbanana
The FSF ISO is the i18n ISO plus some applications for artistic creation (mainly): Audacity, Blender, Inkscape, MyPaint. Here are the additional packages: $ wget -q http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisquel_6.0.1-fsf_i686.manifest $ wget -q http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisq

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel, Text mode install (selected no packages to install)

2013-12-28 Thread mikko . viinamaki
What it is waiting for is DHCP info. It's handled by /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf. Since you say it's instant when plugged it, set a low timeout.