[Trisquel-users] /etc has a 'firefox' folder with apturl.js

2015-01-17 Thread lakbk89
What worries me really is not the 'Firefox' folder name but its contents, ie /etc/firefox/pref/apturl.js, especially the javascript file named apturl.js There are two folders for IceCat and Abrowser both having files named syspref.js, which also resides in /etc path. I am *NOT* against incl

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-17 Thread blade . vp2020
Many of my friends want to play free baseball Unfortunately there is no baseball game free so far

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-17 Thread davesamcdxv
Parabola('s stable branch) seems to be more cutting than bleeding edge to me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-17 Thread onpon4
So, if your car's engine doesn't work, that car is oppressing you? What if the car's engine dies? Or what if a program stops working because you upgraded a dependency? Is the car or program now suddenly oppressing you? I'm sorry, but your logic is insanely flawed. A tool being broken isn't

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-17 Thread LDrumbler
I can make some allowances for your machine. But they're not relevant in the face of what I see: the fallback "error" image, the *dreadful* font rendering, and SeaMonkey as a browser.

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-17 Thread LDrumbler
The first and most fundamental purpose of software is to run. A free program that does not do what the user wants is more restrictive than a proprietary program that does do what the user wants, because the first does not fulfill software's fundamental purpose, while the second does. Freedo

[Trisquel-users] Disabling panel animations

2015-01-17 Thread rainteller
Is there any way to disable panel animations that trigger on button click (or frames that appear on tab+alt, for that matter)? I'm using out of the box Trisquel 7 (metacity).

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-17 Thread onpon4
I think Batman Doom is OK. It does have blood and violence, but not very much. (Note: it's not libre, but it runs on libre Doom engines; preferably, use PrBoom or PrBoom+.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-17 Thread onpon4
I once asked RMS what he would think of ROM hacking if copyright weren't a factor. He refused to consider it because it's a theoretical scenario that won't happen for several decades, but based on what he did say, I don't think he would consider ROM hacking as it's currently done to be good e

Re: [Trisquel-users] Achieving native 1680x1050 resolution in Syncmaster 2253BW monitor

2015-01-17 Thread amenex
After trekking through the graphics-card wilderness, I came up with an R92LE-C3S (a.k.a. ATI Radeon 9200SE) which runs on the same generic driver as the HP 6430NX motherboard's built-in graphics. Hence, my desktop looks exactly the same as it did with the motherboard's video output. This is a

[Trisquel-users] No picture in guvcview

2015-01-17 Thread catfishagain
Guvcview worked brilliantly in Trisquel 6. Cheese works and the video in Jitsi is great in Trisquel 7 but I have no picture in Guvcview. Is anyone else having this problem?

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-17 Thread tomlukeywood
i loved doom when i was a kid(12 years old+) but not too good for a 4 and 6 year old diddnt see that bit in your post!

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-17 Thread tomlukeywood
the majority of flash applications are non-free if pepole set out to make libre software there main platform is not normally flash!

Re: [Trisquel-users] What happen to hardware?

2015-01-17 Thread tomlukeywood
i think that it compleatly depends on how many pepole are willing to make it happen.

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-17 Thread ka1cey
I was pleased to discover that the BLAG GNOME 20 live medium seems to have a complete GNOME 3.10, including orca screen reader. I haven't yet checked the Mate spin. My earlier test was on 14. 20 does not seem to see my Think Penguin USB wifi radio; that's for another topic or f

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-17 Thread noordinaryspider
You may hate me for Minetest, but if it wasn't me, it would just be somebody else. That's what this generation does. We don't have a server set up yet and mostly keep Heather Jr. offline, but that could change and undoubtedly will at some point.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What happen to hardware?

2015-01-17 Thread golyn
Thank guys for the answers... In your opinion, How long will it take to have complete free hardware (laptops, mobile phones, eReaders, etc) available to FSF users? What do you think about that future? is it utopic?

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-17 Thread shiretoko
Alex the Allegator is really awesome, and so is supertux (and supertux 2 i as far as I remember). Though it is a controversal topic, i want to point out that for people actually make mods and hacks of old snes/nes roms and share them with the community, so they are exercising freedom 2 and

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-17 Thread onpon4
For platformers, I can recommend a few in particular: - Barbie Seahorse Adventures (package seahorse-adventures in Trisquel 7) - Secret Maryo Chronicles (package smc in Trisquel; you probably also want smc-music, for music) - Tux Strikes Back -- a SuperTux Milestone 1 (package supertux-stabl

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-17 Thread sleepruim
Thanks Heather and Magic banana! installed Minetest and Celestia. I will show him tonight! He has played Minecraft (installed it on a Rasp) and he loves it so I'm sure he will be pleased. He likes platform games so I showed him Commander Keen. I found Clonekeen as a replacement: http://cl

[Trisquel-users] Re : new user to linux

2015-01-17 Thread lcerf
Well, the NSA change the firmware on hardware before it is shipped to people they *specifically* target. It is not a common threat. They do that because no application (such as an anti-virus) can detect the malware. The only solution would be to flash that firmware. But, again, you probably h

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best Secure AMD Laptop for free software

2015-01-17 Thread Michał Masłowski
Choose old Intel systems (i945 and gm45 can work with free boot firmware and without Management Engine firmware which implements AMT). (TPM is just a mostly useless chip, it's harmless.) If you choose AMD, you should decide if their signed blobs are sufficiently harmful. You won't avoid having m