Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre Game Development

2017-04-10 Thread davidpgil
Correct me if i am wrong, but I dont need to include project files for creating the art or music, correct? For artists, this is "source code", except its not programmed its just the source file for the PNG or OGG file. It would seem very odd to me for this to be needed. I dont want people to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Transferring Windows 10 backup files to Trisquel

2017-04-10 Thread sublime4
Hi there, would there possibly be another way to diagnose the problem without having to list all of my backup file names? I'd prefer to not publish them if possible. This script did work though, I got the output file in my Downloads and opened it up in Gedit with no problems. Thanks!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware Freedom Day 2017! Saturday April 15th

2017-04-10 Thread infinityfallen
A very good cause, and I hope the day offers a chance for the issue of hardware freedom to be brought to light. I unfortunately am limited in my ability to participate, but nonetheless believe it is worthy of support. That said, are you aware that testing wi-fi/ethernet/bluetooth freedom is

[Trisquel-users] Hardware Freedom Day 2017! Saturday April 15th

2017-04-10 Thread nospam
http://hfday.org Their website unfortunately uses Google Maps to show locations of events. It also uses Google Analytics. I think the Hardware Freedom people ought to talk more with the Software Freedom people! They have been informed. Are any of you celebrating? One idea is to have

[Trisquel-users] Re : Canonical is killing Unity 8, will ship GNOME as default

2017-04-10 Thread lcerf
As far as know, GNOME Shell only depends on systemd-logind. logind replaced ConsoleKit (GNOME used to depend on it), which stopped being maintained four years ago: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit/ systemd is, indeed, not only an init system. It is an umbrella project

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project

2017-04-10 Thread noordinaryspider
Strypey said it better than I ever could. Much respect, Leah.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Obsolete software in the Trisquel repos

2017-04-10 Thread jason
That might work *IF* Trisquel were nothing more than a copy of Ubutnu. But it's not. So it doesn't. That picture how how Trisquel is made is probably helpful. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Transferring Windows 10 backup files to Trisquel

2017-04-10 Thread infinityfallen
Thank you for being so patient with this- it is impossible to say with words how much I appreciate it, especially as a novice. I should have posted some sort of reply earlier, looking back, but there is little I can do now. I hope it hasn't caused any trouble. In any case, what is

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre Game Development

2017-04-10 Thread infinityfallen
Indeed, you needn't provide source code with the game for it to be libre- as long as anybody who receives a copy of the game can obtain source in an easy and timely manner, the software is still free.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project

2017-04-10 Thread infinityfallen
Seconded- it takes a *lot* of courage to publicly make such a statement.

[Trisquel-users] Re : ThinkPad T400 not booting

2017-04-10 Thread lcerf
Maybe dust on top of the processor that makes it overheat automatically shutdown the computer?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Obsolete software in the Trisquel repos

2017-04-10 Thread pinmaritim
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made

Re: [Trisquel-users] Obsolete software in the Trisquel repos

2017-04-10 Thread leoo
Why is any people power needed, at least to keep software updated? Why can't the Trisquel repos simply pull down whatever the latest version is from Ubuntu as soon as Ubuntu's are refreshed?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot no longer opposes the Trisquel project

2017-04-10 Thread leoo
I think the followup that apologized specifically to individual people, for specific things, was very impressive.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is killing Unity 8, will ship GNOME as default

2017-04-10 Thread megver83
oh, I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wich is your favorite libre game?

2017-04-10 Thread ren . kudun
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is the best.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wich is your favorite libre game?

2017-04-10 Thread greatgnu
I forgot the best ones (non-free data): Quake 1, 2 and 3. How great was ID Software?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is killing Unity 8, will ship GNOME as default

2017-04-10 Thread greatgnu
>why a DE would depend on an init? It's really simple, mate: because Pottering can!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre Game Development

2017-04-10 Thread davidpgil
I'm only interested in making a Libre game is if I can sell a binary of it wit haccess to the programming code for the game. For all of the music and visual art, no project files will be included and will not be free to edit. Of course, its fine to replace those assets with your own

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hi everyone

2017-04-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
About Jitsi from Trisquel, perhaps we can package it to Guix, so that people with Trisquel can also test Guix, and an updated Jitsi. I'm not making promises though, this is just an idea. -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wich is your favorite libre game?

2017-04-10 Thread anthk
- Prboom - FlightGear, specially the 2017 versions. - FlightGear + OSGEarth

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wire is Free Software now

2017-04-10 Thread megver83
Wire used to be proprietary software. When was is created? can I trust it?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is killing Unity 8, will ship GNOME as default

2017-04-10 Thread megver83
$ sed -e 's|the maker of Linux distro Ubuntu|the maker of GNU/Linux distro Ubuntu|' Better :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical is killing Unity 8, will ship GNOME as default

2017-04-10 Thread megver83
I agree, I don not like it too, latest versions depend hardly on Systemd, why a DE would depend on an init? because Systemd it is not really an init, it does things that are not related in what an init must do. This may be a different topic, but anyway, it is true.

[Trisquel-users] ThinkPad T400 not booting

2017-04-10 Thread megver83
hi everyone, I've a "ThickPad" T400 which I rescued and resurrected, but then it died again :'( It didn't have anything, no battery, no BIOS battery, no DVD reader, no screws, and a bad flex (display cable). After fixing almost all that (now it has a bios battery, all the screws and a good

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wire is Free Software now

2017-04-10 Thread albertoefg
But Wire is free software :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre Game Development

2017-04-10 Thread onpon4
> No use providing a music in .opus or .ogg format because, although these are indeed free/libre software friendly, > they're not the complete corresponding source files in most cases. I'm not a lawyer, but to my understanding, version 3 of the GPL is worded in such a way that if nothing

Re: [Trisquel-users] JWPCE

2017-04-10 Thread fredo
Hello, I found this https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/uim-anthy wich replaces this proprietary software by allowing a system wide japanese input. Every text editor can write in japanese the same way (romaji to kana to kanji by hitting space bar or enter). Uim is in trisquel's repo.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre Game Development

2017-04-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
NOTE For this message, I assume that you have read the four freedoms described in the free/libre software definition. It must be noted that, when people here say that they are thankful for you for making such decision, they are also going to assume that: for non-functional works you'll give

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wire is Free Software now

2017-04-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Well, free/libre software isn't perfect, we should perhaps start taking feedback from these people who didn't understand it. :) We can do for example, questions like: - What is the difficulty in detail? - Why do you want it to be in [such way]? Then, make a bug report (in the bug tracker, not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Asus KFSN 4-DRE at the end of november 2016

2017-04-10 Thread mcz
Ok, forget chainloading, it needs the BIOS (and I want to boot from Coreboot with GRUB2) (thanks to #coreboot for the info).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Asus KFSN 4-DRE at the end of november 2016

2017-04-10 Thread mcz
Ok, so it seems it accepts this, but it's stuck at the boot command: grub> set root='(optical drive)' grub> linux /path_to/vmlinuz root=/path_to/vmlinuz grub> initrd /path_to/initrd.img grub> boot replace /path_to with /live, since this is where the files are on the Debian LiveCD. If there's a

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to assign a backup drive during the install?

2017-04-10 Thread mcz
Oh, so I create a mount point anywhere I want, and name in anyway I want? Cool, thanks :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] I have tried everything...

2017-04-10 Thread jbahn
Good morning. I finally succeeded. What made the difference, I don't know. Regarding the command I pasted above, there is one mistake: One should not address the partition (e.g. sdb1) but just the device (e.g. sdb). I tried both several times, so that is not the issue itself. Though I did