Re: [Trisquel-users] My wifi card that isn't supported.

2014-08-27 Thread jabjabs
Free Hardware is the next level that is still a very long way off. There are some projects that are aiming at working on this but is still the early primative days. I agree for the moment the software is what we should be focusing on until the hardware is more viable.

Re: [Trisquel-users] My wifi card that isn't supported.

2014-08-27 Thread eemeli . blasten
Coreboot includes non-free blobs. Without those you are looking at Libreboot: http://libreboot.org/ It currently supports the Lenovo ThinkPad X60/X60s, the Lenovo ThinkPad X60 tablet, some of the Lenovo ThinkPad T60's, and finally Apple Macbooks 1.1 and 2.1.

[Trisquel-users] Re : numeric keypad

2014-08-27 Thread obscurite
I changed the mouse settings and will check if it works later. thx very much.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is abrowser 31 for 64bit?

2014-08-27 Thread matt . ivie
I think it's awesome that Legimet has made his PPA available but I don't understand why nobody wants to answer the question of why abrowser 31 for 64-bit Trisquel isn't in the repos. It seems a reasonable enough question considering that 32-bit Trisquel has it. Is this an error? Is this int

Re: [Trisquel-users] Systemd

2014-08-27 Thread nux
The argument that anyone who resists change is "anti-progress" has left us with genetically modified crops, nuclear power plants built on or near fault lines, a whole raft of technology that has done nothing other than to increase poverty and unemployment whilst increasing the concentration o

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 screenshot

2014-08-27 Thread franparpe
You only need to left click on the background of Nautilus and select "properties".

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 screenshot

2014-08-27 Thread shiretoko
What's the problem with a short 'df -h' ? Takes one second...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 screenshot

2014-08-27 Thread D. A. H.
Nothing, and it's more informative than an attached pic! On 08/27/2014 03:09 PM, shiretoko wrote: What's the problem with a short 'df -h' ? Takes one second...

Re: [Trisquel-users] HACIENDA - Another mass surveillance program

2014-08-27 Thread arielgnu
What an irony in my country Mexico a new law has given the right to our tax agency called "HACIENDA" to do many kinds of nasty surveillance to taxpayers :( I'm talking about getting from cellphone companies names, address, types of communications, date and time of calls, IMEI code and e

Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is abrowser 31 for 64bit?

2014-08-27 Thread legimet . calc
I think no one knows except Ruben. I filed a bug: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/12276. But Firefox 32 is coming in 6 days anyway.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Systemd

2014-08-27 Thread kkpengboy
> Slackware, which is known to be very slow to adopt new technologies, is, to the best of my knowledge, the only major distribution that did not announce the switch. They will certainly make it later. Then again, Slackware doesn't even use Sysvinit (they use a BSD-style init) for their own r

Re: [Trisquel-users] New (first) libre planet in UK

2014-08-27 Thread redgreenlibre
Well done on setting this up. Another UK user here - but in Devon, so a little out of the way. Best of luck.

[Trisquel-users] Trying to install the drivers for Netis WF-2109 wifi adapter and don't know how to use Terminal

2014-08-27 Thread adurp
Hi, I'm trying to install the driver for a wireless adapter. The first part is to make an 8192C USB Linux driver. The steps are: 1) uncompress the "blahblahblah.tar.gz" file in the driver directory >tar zxvf blahblahblah.tar.gz I think this gave me a file. I went inside that file. 2)make 8192C

Re: [Trisquel-users] uncompression error System halted

2014-08-27 Thread adurp
Thank you, that worked.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-08-27 Thread joel
I believe it may be possible to override the convenience factor by providing informative and free (actually as in gratis) classes with FREE software. This could be foundation courses such as image manipulation, video/audio editing, basic web development, and—importantly—computer programming (

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trying to install the drivers for Netis WF-2109 wifi adapter and don't know how to use Terminal

2014-08-27 Thread jason
Try installing the build-essentials package first so that you can have access to things like make.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trying to install the drivers for Netis WF-2109 wifi adapter and don't know how to use Terminal

2014-08-27 Thread chris
Just to give you a heads up that driver has non-free firmware embedded in it. As many people here are aware the fact the code is under a free software license (like the GNU GPL v2) doesn't in itself make the whole of it completely free if there is critical non-free binary code embedded in it.