Re: [Trisquel-users] uruk gnu/linux 2.0 beta-2

2017-10-29 Thread strypey
I put this feedback on the wrong thread, so I'm reporting it on the thread about Uruk-2.0-beta-2 for completeleness. Please feel free to ignore this. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/uruk-gnulinux-20-alpha I like the look and feel of Uruk 2.0-beta-2, and I look forward to the final release,

Re: [Trisquel-users] [Poll] Should Trisquel 9 be Based on Debian?

2017-10-29 Thread strypey
After a decade or so of running GNU-Linux on the desktop, I've learned the hard way that the newest version is *not* always the best version. My first distro was Ubuntu, and I always used to upgrade to the latest version as soon as it come out. But this did not give me the most stable OS,

Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I stop distro-hopping?

2017-10-29 Thread strypey
Thanks Magic Banana. I must have been reading some old Debian documentation that has been rendered obsolete by changing technology. More details about these details of partition managements and some relevant history can be found here:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2017-10-29 Thread masonhock
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2017-10-29 Thread strypey
"I use [Guix] in Trisquel 7" How did you install it? I searched for Guix in both Add/ Remove Applications and Synaptic. No results. Also this ... https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ ... is not really what I need. I need a "for dummies" intro, 1-2 pages of text answering these questions; what

Re: [Trisquel-users] [Poll] Should Trisquel 9 be Based on Debian?

2017-10-29 Thread Ignacio Agulló
On 27/10/17 22:12, wrote: > I think Trisquel 8.0 should be Trisquel 9.0. I was afraid that this moment would eventually come. That the delay of Trisquel 8 (more than one year) would grow to the point that it would be suggested to wait for the next Ubuntu LTS release - and that it would have

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU Ring on Trisquel

2017-10-29 Thread dadix
Can we make grups for chatting in this app ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : I met RMS yesterday. We talked about Trisquel 8, this is what he said...

2017-10-29 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I like the course materials very much! Actually, I have it in my list of favorites for quite some time. ;) lc...@dcc.ufmg.br writes: > I'm a teacher and I enjoy explaining stuff. > > Same thing for me. You may find useful the slides I use to teach > less, head, tail, cat, tr, wc, cut, paste,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is and when trisquel 8 will be released?

2017-10-29 Thread i_write_words
I am probably going to have to wait for my preferred configuration and will try again with vanilla Flidas in the next few days. If there is anything else that I, as an "average joe"/autodidact with extremely uneven skills, can do to help, please don't hesitate to ask.

[Trisquel-users] Fcitx doesn't work

2017-10-29 Thread csh
I'm a language nerd. I need to be able to type lots of different languages, because sometimes discussion of words come up in conversation. The default input method (ibus?) doesn't work at all. I add input methods in Region & Language > Input Sources, and I press Super+Space to switch them

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU Ring on Trisquel

2017-10-29 Thread elr
You should think on install packages with two packages manager, dependences are different in many cases and can take file problems. The problem is not Guix on self, the problem is install packages on differents packages managers and different repositories.

[Trisquel-users] Re : I met RMS yesterday. We talked about Trisquel 8, this is what he said...

2017-10-29 Thread lcerf
I'm a teacher and I enjoy explaining stuff. Same thing for me. You may find useful the slides I use to teach less, head, tail, cat, tr, wc, cut, paste, comm, join, sort, uniq, grep, sed (focusing on the s command) and awk: http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda3.pdf

[Trisquel-users] Re : Guix on Trisquel

2017-10-29 Thread lcerf
Probably one of these talks: http://people.bordeaux.inria.fr/lcourtes/index.html#talks

[Trisquel-users] Re : How do I stop distro-hopping?

2017-10-29 Thread lcerf
Sharing a swap partition is only a problem if you want to hibernate a system, boot another system, and, later, try to recover the first system from the hibernation. If you do not need to that, one single swap partition is enough. As far as I know, primary/logical partitions make no

Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is and when trisquel 8 will be released?

2017-10-29 Thread jodiendo
well i sped abot 14 hours overall on this distro so far.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I met RMS yesterday. We talked about Trisquel 8, this is what he said...

2017-10-29 Thread martin
You should definitely learn Bash and there are many tutorials around the Internet for that. You should lean basic usage for command-line tools like grep, sed, awk, diff and patch. You should also learn how Deb packaging works, for which there should be tutorials on the Ubuntu and Debian

Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is and when trisquel 8 will be released?

2017-10-29 Thread jodiendo
Nvidea Geforce GT 630

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2017-10-29 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I use it in Trisquel 7. ;) Regarding the issue of actually building GNU Ring using the Guix recipe, I'm currently trying to fix it. For more information on what must be done in order to make the work easier, see the package recipe itself. It has some TODO comments that show the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk GNU/Linux 2.0 (Alpha)

2017-10-29 Thread lilos1
Is it System D distro if is system D no Thx!

[Trisquel-users] Re : Uruk GNU/Linux 2.0 (Alpha)

2017-10-29 Thread pinmaritim
Could be that Mate Compiz is enabled by default in Uruk 2.2 or not ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fixing partition error caused by making USB live disks with Disks

2017-10-29 Thread strypey
Yes, that's right. It takes the USB right back to a tabula rasa, allowing me to create a new partition, and restore an .ISO to create a boot USB. In answer to my own question, the bug that stops me deleting partitions might be avoided by making sure I remove all partitions, and create a new

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk GNU/Linux 2.0 (Alpha)

2017-10-29 Thread strypey
"1GB RAM is not really comfortable" True, and I'm looking at buying a RAM upgrade, or just using this netbook as a CLI-only system. But it's worth pointing out that Trisquel 7 (with the default DE) still gave me significantly better performance than the Uruk beta I tried. Even running

Re: [Trisquel-users] I finally managed to install Trisquel 8. But it was quite hard to install and run. Any solutions?

2017-10-29 Thread strypey
I had the same experience as Dave. As reported on another thread, I used Disks to make a Trisquel 8 alpha live disk on a USB, but it woudn't boot at all on either of my oldish laptops (non-UEFI). It seems like I have a choice between switching to Debian, or continuing with Trisquel 7 (and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2017-10-29 Thread strypey
Does anyone know if Adfeno uses Guix on Trisquel 7 or on the 8 alpha?