Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!

2014-05-22 Thread danieldelahoyde
Absolutely agree with you Freedom. This is the usual pattern and very disappointing. Just means another fork of Firefox will be developed that'll have no DRM, forced ads, etc ... I'm really sick of Adobe trying to muscle in on everything. I wish they'd go away and develop something actually

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Alpha Images

2014-05-22 Thread legimet . calc
I tested the latest image. Graphics are horrible on the nVidia card im using, and I get a lot of errors from the kernel.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!

2014-05-22 Thread myself600
According to this Phoronix article, a new Firefox fork is beign developed under the name of Pale Moon with a goal to resolve the recent disagreement about the project direction. I hope that this will also bring native WebP support to finally deprecate the old JPEG/PNG formats that many people

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!

2014-05-22 Thread legimet . calc
Pale Moon doesn't seem new. Also, the binaries on the website are nonfree.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!

2014-05-22 Thread onpon4
Pale Moon isn't "new", and its goal has nothing to do with the recent direction of Firefox. It's been around for years (since 2009), and it's basically just what someone thinks is practically better in a browser. A developer has said on the Pale Moon forum that Firefox's EME system is never

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!

2014-05-22 Thread onpon4
Hm, I didn't notice this. In fact, the developer of Pale Moon mentions on that page "principles of free software", by which they mean "distributing without charge". Directing people to Pale Moon would be a rather dangerous move.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!

2014-05-22 Thread legimet . calc
If you use it, don't use the binaries. http://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml

[Trisquel-users] Re : Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!

2014-05-22 Thread mtlben
Trisquel users have abrowser, so no worry. I would love to be able to advise non-Trisquel users to switch to GNU IceCat, but it lags too far behind Firefox security-wise :(.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mozilla to adopt support for digital restrictions: help with the protest!

2014-05-22 Thread myself600
To my previous comment: I just heard about the existence of the Pale Moon browser, I doesn't even looked at their website up until now. I simply wasn't that much interested (about the project, not the topic). While, as stated above, this project isn't new and that the developers doesn't reall

[Trisquel-users] Abrowser for KDE Users

2014-05-22 Thread legimet . calc
It's well known that Abrowser and the vanilla Firefox don't integrate very well with KDE, so I've created a here. Of course, the PPA will only contain free software. The patched Abrowser for Belenos will be finished building shortly.

[Trisquel-users] gcc

2014-05-22 Thread blade . vp2020
Welcome gcc is Old Why distribution is still on the old version?