jsbean, my recommendation is never to buy recent hardware as it isn't always
well supported by free software when it is released (not all bugs are ironed
out yet or it isn't supported in older software or the older software
requires configuration in order to use the new hardware). You can
There are two parts here. One is my perspective in at least how it relates to
ThinkPenguins and one is RISCis. From RISCis perspective I think it is best
summed up as things weren't going the way he wanted them to. Other people
involved wanted to take things in a different direction (I
First of all this isn't one router really. There are different versions of
this router like most routers and it all depends on which version your
talking about. I believe that if LibreWRT was more up to date than some of
these routers would probably work. It's likely that LibreCMC will work
As far as I understand, the kernel from Trisquel CD is the Linux-libre one.
Rubén Rodríguez and Jason Self use the same deblobbing scripts (initially
written by Alexandre Oliva with the early help of Jeff Moe from BLAG). In
fact, Rubén is even acknowledged in the script released by the
You don't seem to understand though. If I do not install linux-libre's latest
kernel then the Xorg server will not launch. Trisquel 6 as it is does not
work whatsoever. And even after I update the kernel, I get no 3D acceleration
due to configuration issues that I have no idea how to
The bios issue is one that I would like to overcome, but I guess it's not
necessarily important as it's not something I change. I don't want an old
outdated system that doesn't have any 3D acceleration (I don't know the specs
on the Gluglug) but I know there are systems that do, such as
The gluglug X60 also supports 3D acceleration. I personally don't understand
the hype surrounding new processors - for me a computer from 5 years ago is
good enough as long as the screen has high enough resolution (your Acer
laptop I would find unusable because of its low 1366x768
You don't need to downgrade what you already have (just waiting will give you
support from the stable systems), but when it's time to get a new PC, getting
something that's been out for a while is going to be a lot less hassle than
something very recent.
Hi,
I'm thinking on buying a notebook, I selected some candidates to buy,
but their specifications on the official documentation are too vague
(and I hate vague specifications).
So, could you all, by chance, know which wireless network interface
card, which sound card and which
Thanks for that, I wish they would elaborate more on the site as I can't find
specs specifically as to what type of CPU and hardware they have.
I don't look for fancy, I can't afford it anyway, 1366x768 works fine for me,
I just don't want something as slow as something like the Lemote haha,
That's exactly what I've been saying all along, because of all the
fragmentation, we have very smart people all working on the same thing and in
turn it results in less work done as what they're all doing redundant, we
have people doing jobs that are already done elsewhere.
What's more,
Free software does support the new stuff - for instance Parabola supports
new hardware.
The only reason Trisquel doesn't is because it is based on Ubuntu so it is
always released after Ubuntu. And as I said before I think this is not one of
free software's main issues as one can always use
My father always said he would never buy anything off a store shelf if there
was no price tag, even if he really wanted it because it angered him that
someone would advertise something that looks appealing but they would always
rip you off when you got to the counter to buy it.
In the case
Well with such a low resolution screen you are limited to other things, e.g.
you cannot view 1080P movies without downscaling them, you cannot edit and
view high resolution pictures since most of the information will not be kept
at that resolution, you cannot write documents or surf the web
But I'm saying there's no real reason why you shouldn't be able to buy new
hardware if you really want it. Every day people are not going to go out and
get an older computer especially when theirs should work, and do work with
systems like Parabola. All I'm saying is it's unfortunate that it
1080p is not happening here. I barely get 1Mbps anyway, haha so typically I
can hardly watch a video on youtube at 360p, let alone 1080 or even 720. 480
doesn't even work :P. Torrents do not work well on this connection so I don't
do that, and I have no intentions of buying BluRay discs. I
I see. I don't follow software patent issues, other than I know they're bad
and I don't support them. The best I can figure it out, software patents here
in Canada are a non-issue compared to the US, and I know the EU doesn't
follow them. I install mp3 decoders when needed. I understand why
If you buy new hardware it usually requires more work to get working than
hardware that is say 2 years old and is already fully supported. Bear in mind
that even with Ubuntu you will usually need to use a non long term release if
you have new hardware which means you will need to update to a
You also should be carful about kde offering some media codecs or widgets
(don't know about this in detail) which might be proprietary.
I've heard that kde is doing this from time to time.
But beside of this you should be fine with debian jessie.
Maybe you could contact Sony and check.
Chris
Is there any chance for us the router savvy people user, to see any
screenshots of what is inside the SETTINGS, for example: Port forward, login,
DNS, DHCP SETTINGS, QS, bandwidth management, ETC.
I hope is not much of a headache to post some screen shots.
Respectfully
David
Sure, that is sensible, but who does that when inserting a usb wireless card
(or memory stick, or bluetooth dongle, or similar)
Really. That sucks. Do you know of any other brands of wifi chips that are
free other than the ath9k?
I just noticed that it is reduced, and now it is a very reasonable price for
what it is; and if I had a laptop with non-functional wireless, or one that
required non-free drivers to work, I would buy it. About £15 or $25.
The only recent ones are ath9k (pcie) and ath9k_htc (usb, the ones for which
free firmware was released by atheros last year). Atheros is the best we
have.
I'm not sure how we might even go about preventing wireless devices with
non-free firmware from connecting. I don't think that is a good idea either.
While I'm in favour of leaving out non-free components particularly
unnecessary ones (ie there is a free solution available) taking steps to
That looks great :)
And preventing people from using wifi adapters with nonfree firmware is a
horrible idea. It sounds similar to what proprietary software companies do.
I think you need to back up a moment. It's probably not quite as bad as you
think. LibreCMC didn't take a significant amount of time to produce. As I
stated its more like a LibreWRT v2. I'm not even sure why after this is
released you would want to use LibreWRT. 2nd had you contributed to
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-broadband-router-gnu-linux-tpe-nwifirouter
It'll probably be available, but not yet. We're still in development.
It also sounds similar to what Linux-Libre does when it encounters nonfree
firmware.
Oh okay, the latter (htc) must be the one that I have for the USB wif devices
I bought as I had to compile the firmware myself.
Yes, I hope that gets fixed. I thought the Linux-libre developers were
finding a way to prevent suggesting nonfree firmware while not blocking it.
So, why is it in Trisquel repository ?
Trisquel's mission doesn't involve purging free/libre software that might
include patented ideas, and distributing this software isn't unethical. It's
just best to avoid developing programs with C# so that we don't dig ourselves
a huge hole and get ruined by Microsoft.
I never install anything that is from non-free and contrib, if it involves me
having to add those repos then I don't do it. That said I'd like to know if
anyone knows what kind of proprietary codecs KDE may suggest, I believe it
may suggest flash player on it's browser but that can be
I believe the backlight will stay fixed at 100% until someone figures out
what PCI register to poke (or reverse engineers the original firmware hard
enough to find this detail.)
In the meantime, the screen can be fake-dimmed using xrandr, for example:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --gamma 9:9:9
About whining: I don't think he was talking to you. He was talking to
quantumgravity.
I've seem to have broken my package manager. This is what I get when I try to
install any package (in this case gcc, just to illustrate an example):
$ sudo apt-get install gcc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gcc is already the newest
Occasionally (but for some reason it happened a lot today), my system hangs,
but it goes away after waiting a bit. In the kernel log, I see the following:
[23998.804024] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* stuck on render ring
[23998.828074] [drm:i915_set_reset_status] *ERROR* render ring
Apparently, there's a bug about this, so I hope the next updates will solve
this (or the trusty stack)
Did you try the UXA accelmethod as suggested in the bug?
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