Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread ken
Huh. Interesting. Is there anyway to switch back to a Fallback mode? I usually don't mind performance hits, but this is very noticeable.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tp link librecmc wifi router on an isp modem with public address?

2014-11-06 Thread svhaab
Thank you for your answers. It worked. I switched off the tp link router and isp router modem for 5 hours. Turned on the isp router modem and the tp link router, and I got internet access. Using url 192.168.1.1 I can log into the tp link router. Tp link asks me to set a root psswd. Shall I do

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rendering non-English characters?

2014-11-06 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
6 or 7? Regular or mini? Fresh install? URL?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 7 will be released next week.

2014-11-06 Thread lcerf
You can look it up on http://ark.intel.com. Just search the processor name and skip to the Advances technologies section. For instance http://ark.intel.com/products/3/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G3220-3M-Cache-3_00-GHz?wapkw=g3220 tells you that this processor supports Intel® Virtualization

[Trisquel-users] long-term sustainability of Trisquel -- what if we lose core developers?

2014-11-06 Thread akfoss
How does the Trisquel project guarantee the long-term sustainability of the project? I've check the developers' mailing list from Oct. 2013 to Nov. 2014 and found out that only 7 users have contributed patches (Ruben has write access to the repo. (Only the creators of subjects on the mailing

Re: [Trisquel-users] long-term sustainability of Trisquel -- what if we lose core developers?

2014-11-06 Thread akfoss
These links may be beneficial: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove http://mentors.debian.net/sponsors

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread superdude83
I've been researching this a little bit more. DuckDuckGo is indeed hosted by Amazon. I had no idea. I will not use DDG anymore. I have no respect or trust for anyone doing business with Amazon. I'll use exclusively ixquick from now on. onpon4 - I am pretty aware that privacy is not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 and new homepage - gratz!!

2014-11-06 Thread abhijithb21
Just when I screwed up with my beta version the official version is released. Thank you so much!

Re: [Trisquel-users] long-term sustainability of Trisquel -- what if we lose core developers?

2014-11-06 Thread shiretoko
3. Ruben gradually give more power to long-term and trusted contributors like Legimet, Leny, Jason, etc. As far as i know, this is not wanted. The idea is that trisquel remains rubens project (correct me if i'm wrong though). However, i agree with your criticism.

Re: [Trisquel-users] long-term sustainability of Trisquel -- what if we lose core developers?

2014-11-06 Thread onpon4
Having only a few developers is normal. Among free/libre software projects, most only have a single developer.[1] Also, Trisquel isn't doing everything from scratch like Debian is. It's downstream from Ubuntu, which is downstream from Debian. So it benefits from all the work done by the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Where do you buy printed books online?

2014-11-06 Thread keith . scott
In my personal understanding shopping online has become so secure than in the past and shoppers relies on the online shopping because shopping market is now eCommerce marketing. Most of the customers evaluate products prices by price comparison website where they find different prices for

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread milind727
I've also noticed that the graphics rendering is not only slower, but that the 1920x1080 default resolution that I had for my wide screen monitor is now only displaying a default 1280x1024, with my other options being 1024x768 and 800x600. There seems to be no xorg.conf file written

Re: [Trisquel-users] long-term sustainability of Trisquel -- what if we lose core developers?

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
Perhaps it should be rephrased what if we lose the developer?:) Should that ever happen I hope the old images and repos will still lie in a repo somewhere.

Re: [Trisquel-users] long-term sustainability of Trisquel -- what if we lose core developers?

2014-11-06 Thread akfoss
There's nothing to worry about. Trisquel is fine. It would benefit from donations and contributions, though, so if you're inclined to do either, go ahead. I live in Iran, and because of the U.S. Sanctions (ITAR, etc.), transfer of money is not possible so I try to contribute code. I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
By removing Nouveau (sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau) ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web (browser) aka Ephiphany

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
It isn't?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rendering non-English characters?

2014-11-06 Thread cmhobbs
7. Fresh install.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rendering non-English characters?

2014-11-06 Thread cmhobbs
How do I install other locales?

Re: [Trisquel-users] long-term sustainability of Trisquel -- what if we lose core developers?

2014-11-06 Thread Michał Masłowski
Have you subscribed to the list before posting the patch? In my experience mails rarely leave moderation queues, while mails from subscribed users are usually accepted without moderation. I believe only Ruben can significantly improve the current development process. The new GitLab instance is

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rendering non-English characters?

2014-11-06 Thread cmhobbs
While I'm using Abrowser and not Firefox, this post appears to have resolved my issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=233851#c18 I installed the two debs provided and everything is peachy. I'm relatively certain those files are Libre. If not, please let me know.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Where do you buy printed books online?

2014-11-06 Thread gnufreeme
There's also a book sharing service called BookMooch. (bookmooch-dot-com) It was created by John Buckman, who runs the music label Magnatune and I believe is affiliated with the EFF. They trade books they already own, so no Amazon. If you are looking for something obscure you're probably

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on a iMac?

2014-11-06 Thread espectalll123
1) The CD suddendly worked! But it asks for username and password. I tried trisquel, trisquel-mini and root (with no password or repeating the username), and nothing works. Anybody knows what could it be? (and no, I'm not using an AMD graphics card) 2) If the CD fails again, I should try to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread ken
Would I have to replace it with something?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
I'm not sure (sorry), as far as I know, though, no. That'd mean that your GPU's doing nothing (or not doing everything it is capable of), though (I think). To be honest my post was a wee bit of a guess (hence the question mark). All I can say is that it's best to reinstall the package,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on a iMac?

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
Try the username live (and is there a guest session? Perhaps you should try guest as well) Anyway Unetbootin should work. I don't think Apple computers support booting from USB, though (or was that Macbooks?). In which case you need a CD that can boot the USB drive. I'd reccommend you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Where do you buy printed books online?

2014-11-06 Thread franparpe
Thank you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on a iMac?

2014-11-06 Thread espectalll123
None of both users worked, duh -_- My iMac supports USB booting (only UEFI on Apple's EFI, also BIOS with rEFInd), so in theory, it should just work (as Trisquel 7 also has an UEFI boot manager). However, I couldn't start from my USB, after burning it using dd, as said earlier. So yeah,

[Trisquel-users] T7 - Synaptic fails to run from menu - socket failure?

2014-11-06 Thread davey-robbo
Hello folks y buenos dias todos el mundo, new install of Belenos-mini, Synaptic doesn't run from the Menu, it does run from a Terminal prompt, gksu, sudo, pkexec and synaptic-pkexec all authenticate OK. Yesterday on running Synaptic as above, there were messages ...cannot find

Re: [Trisquel-users] Rendering non-English characters?

2014-11-06 Thread jason
Trisquel already has those packages. In general it's better to install packages from your own distro.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tp link librecmc wifi router on an isp modem with public address?

2014-11-06 Thread Andrew 'Leny' Lindley
Thank you for your answers. It worked. I switched off the tp link router and isp router modem for 5 hours. Turned on the isp router modem and the tp link router, and I got internet access. Using url 192.168.1.1 I can log into the tp link router. Tp link asks me to set a root psswd. Shall I

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread marioxcc0
DuckDuckGo is hosted in Amazon. There is no need to check the news or similar that to confirm information. You can use the “whois” command on GNU/Linux. There is a public database that make this information available. Both the database and associated protocol is also called “whois”. For

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on a iMac?

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
Oh, and note: If you want to do a debootstrap there's a trisquel-mini metapackage for you to install when you chroot into the installation. Not that I ever install it like that (I always install something like trisquel-baseXorgLxterminalSynapticDesktop ShellNetwork ManagerUpowerDMother

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread trinux
No, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread superdude83
marioxcc - thanks for the whois input. The matter is, as I already posted- I don't respect nor do I trust anybody doing business with Amazon. DDG's privacy policy is pretty good. Thing is - I suspect there is a fair probability, being that the servers belong to Amazon, that the key for the

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread superdude83
trinux - I just saw that link after posting the previous comment.. That is exactly the reason why I hate Amazon.

[Trisquel-users] Setting dashboard ?

2014-11-06 Thread lowe . thierry
Hi I just installed trisquel7.0 and I discovered this environment. I know the setting gnome3.12 / 3.14, but then I dry a little. In the dashboard, can we move the items? For example, the desktop display, put it on the left? In a new dashboard, how do you move items? By default, they block

Re: [Trisquel-users] Setting dashboard ?

2014-11-06 Thread dhunt
I notice similar; that is, I cannot add or remove panel applets. I can focus the bottom panel with 'ctrl+alt+tab but when I use 'right-click', 'alt+right-click' 'super+right-click' or 'super+alt+right-click', I cannot reach the menu with options like 'add to panel', 'remove from panel'.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on a iMac?

2014-11-06 Thread espectalll123
Doing good, doing good. Installing right now, as I finally managed to boot (still can't confirm that the problem's over) The Ubuntu USB Creator did the job - thank you all for your help! :D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Persistence file not working

2014-11-06 Thread tobias
It is a typo, I did not rename the created persistence file

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread ken
I purged nouveau and restarted, and the results are MUCH better. I notice that there are a few flourishes missing, such as my main menu not being semi-transparent, and some animated effects, but I hardly notice them, and everything else is now MUCH more responsive. Since my monitor is hooked

Re: [Trisquel-users] Speech syntesis

2014-11-06 Thread sansonetto
Thank you all :-)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread jabjabs
Not that I know of, I have just live with it because there is nothing I do that needs a higher update rate. Others may be of more help.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on a iMac?

2014-11-06 Thread alijrh
That's really cool man!. Please keep in touch and share your experience with the comunity if you find any issue.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread chris
I didn't read up on this, but essentially all web sites you interact with are trusting multiple third parties. This includes co-location facility, likely another middleman (company you actually “host with”), the certificate authorities, etc. Amazon is acting as both the co-location

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web (browser) aka Ephiphany

2014-11-06 Thread tkmantz625
I added the GNOME PPA (ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3) but it didn't add Ephiphany to my list in Synaptic. When I updated, it installed libcolord-gtk1 and updated gnome-control-center, gnome-control-center-data, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-terminal, gnome-terminal-data, libgnome-control-center1.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread marioxcc0
SuperTramp86: I'm glad that I have been helpful. Chris: I don't think that there's a justification for DuckDuckGo use of Amazon. There are probably more than 1000 companies offering hosting. Most of them are not concerned with ethics, but some are. Anyway, from what I read (I just began

[Trisquel-users] Which software does this forum runs?

2014-11-06 Thread marioxcc0
Which software does this forum runs?. Normally forums contain a note stating which software they use at the bottom but such a note is not present in this forum.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Which software does this forum runs?

2014-11-06 Thread servicios
I've looked at the HTML source code before, and it appears to run Drupal, which is free software, licensed under the GPLv2.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 7 will be released next week.

2014-11-06 Thread nmrk . n
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-pro-5-gnu-linux-desktop : Nothing is said ? ? North Bridge ChipsetIntel B85 : http://ark.intel.com/products/75019 Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ‡ No Intel® Virtualization Technology VT-x ? ? ? Nothing is said ? ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Dreadful graphics on Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread superbyelich
Your's doesn't seem pixellated, looks like a lot of sub-pixel rendering going on there. Here's what it looks like without it, if this is the effect you were hoping for. Though I am running Trisquel 6... grimlok

Re: [Trisquel-users] [Abrowser] Unexpected Error, not able to sync

2014-11-06 Thread amalinda . gamage
I have the same problem with the latest edition of Trisquel. And how to install firefox? Whenever I try sudo apt-get install firefox it opens up ABrowser.

[Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-06 Thread LDrumbler
I am fed up with this system. It's not that I lost all my files the first time I installed Trisquel. Because that was my fault. I took a risk and overwrote the wrong partition while I was migrating from Windows. And I panicked and wasted money on useless HP tech support instead of asking

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread tkmantz625
There's a whole lot of anti-DuckDuckGo talk (rightfully so), but not a whole lot of talk about solutions. How does Ixquick/Startpage and Privatelee and others hold up to scrutiny?

[Trisquel-users] Free Software in Schools

2014-11-06 Thread superbyelich
I noticed something rather delightful today while I was in one of the computer labs at one of the schools I service. There were a number of students playing around with some digital pictures on their desktops. Now, mind you the school district I work for is deeply imbedded in using

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread chris
Yea- as I said, it didn't sound like it to me either. However- not having experience with systems of this scale I wouldn't know. I'm not even entirely sure how Amazon's specific services compare to other “cloud” services. I've been under the impression Amazon's service makes scaling things

Re: [Trisquel-users] Which software does this forum runs?

2014-11-06 Thread marioxcc0
Thanks you. What's the reason that the site appears to be hosted on Drupal, based on the generated HTML?. As a small note, I think that it's preferable to call automatically generated HTML as such, rather than source code, since it's not the preferred form to modify the word or even

Re: [Trisquel-users] Test trisquel 7 64bit on 8gb usb memory stick?

2014-11-06 Thread tkmantz625
Well technically he doesn't have the rights to those things because they were reserved by the corporation who sold him his computer, which can be a problem. It was done legally so he has no rights to say, the source code of his BIOS or the documentation necessary for making drivers, because

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo hosted by Amazon!!??

2014-11-06 Thread Andrew Roffey
tkmantz625 wrote: There's a whole lot of anti-DuckDuckGo talk (rightfully so), but not a whole lot of talk about solutions. How does Ixquick/Startpage and Privatelee and others hold up to scrutiny? I did a WHOIS and traceroute of DuckDuckGo and Startpage IP addresses. As expected, packets

[Trisquel-users] Battery panel disappearing for me

2014-11-06 Thread kkpengboy
Has anyone else had a problem where, in Trisquel Desktop, clicking the option in the battery panel's menu to display the percentage remaining, and clicking it again (to hide the percentage) makes the battery panel disappear?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread Andrew Roffey
ken wrote: I'm a little disappointed that so much visual fluff was combined with a less-effective driver resulting in poor performance. I don't have a weak machine, and Trisquel 6 was so responsive and snappy. Trisquel 7, before removing nouveau, was very sluggish and muddy for the sake of

Re: [Trisquel-users] [Abrowser] Unexpected Error, not able to sync

2014-11-06 Thread ken
Abrowser is Firefox without the Firefox branding. Firefox's branding restrictions make the vanilla program non-free software, so instead, the developers took Firefox, removed the Firefox branding, made a few other tweaks, and packaged it as Abrowser. If you are using Abrowser, you are

Re: [Trisquel-users] [Abrowser] Unexpected Error, not able to sync

2014-11-06 Thread alijrh
Same issue in our forum (spanish) https://trisquel.info/es/forum/%C2%BFsincronizar-marcadores-de-abrowser-con-firefox try with about:config add a new chain services.sync.username set value 0

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software in Schools

2014-11-06 Thread alijrh
Im student of art and design and we use in our lab GNU/LINUX Canaima and Ubuntu. I know they aren't free but is a good start.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread milind727
Well, ended up giving up and reinstalling 6.0LTS. Couldn't get the screen resolution problem fixed regardless of what I did to xorg.conf...and the terminal reported a memory leak error every time I gave myself su rights.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Want a free .net programming book?

2014-11-06 Thread freeuniverse
Thanks! But I guess the pdf book on http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm is not free.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Want a free .net programming book?

2014-11-06 Thread freeuniverse
My PERSONAL view on this: 1. I absolutely support free software, not non-free software. 2. Mono is free software. I myself consider Mono is a brave challenger to the related non-free software. 3. In future if Mono could not keep its freedom, I will stop learning or using it.