Re: [Trisquel-users] Comodo antivirus for Linux

2018-01-23 Thread Caleb Herbert
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[Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 operating system and Windows based viruses

2018-01-23 Thread foreign . mail
Once a user installs on his computer or notebook the Trisquel 7 operating system with ClamAV antivirus, is an Antivirus for Windows based viruses needed as well or not?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-23 Thread foreign . mail
As an alternative to Firefox I suggest the Waterfox browser at www.waterfoxproject.org. What are your opinion about Waterfox?

[Trisquel-users] Can't get math to work in PDF

2018-01-23 Thread Caleb Herbert
Someone sent me the following PDFs to help me with learning how to budget my money. https://www.consumer.gov/content/make-budget-worksheet https://www.moneyunder30.com/really-simple-budget-worksheet. It acts as though it will calculate the numbers for you, like in a spreadsheet, but the

[Trisquel-users] What's wrong with DOCX?

2018-01-23 Thread Caleb Herbert
If people use MP4, then why not use DOCX? Both are patent-encumbered formats that can easily be written and read by free software, right? -- Caleb Herbert OpenPGP public key: http://bluehome.net/csh/pubkey signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Trisquel-users] Re : LVM : xfs vs ext

2018-01-23 Thread lcerf
I do not understand why it would be harder to setup with ext4.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why is Trisquel 8 taking so long

2018-01-23 Thread william_lauritzen
Oh they actually have the development image up on the download site now so thats cool hopefully it wont take much longer.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread studio
Thanks for the info. I am working on some benchmarks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread studio
> you are inciting the installation of a non-free driver Not at all. My exact words were: "So I had to install the NVIDIA driver :(" Does that sound like "go and install non-free driver"? Or it rather sounds "Unfortunately I had to install the non-free driver because of issues" + follow up

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-23 Thread studio
Man... did you read their latest reply?? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432248#c3 They have put Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME and give us again all their bulshit. Obviously they are not even planning to fix the docs so we can know which flags. Now they call us "our users",

Re: [Trisquel-users] LVM : xfs vs ext

2018-01-23 Thread jbahn
You believe well. For now I used the XFS 'provided' by the graphical installer, but at some point in the future I hope to figure out how to make it work with ext4. Thanks for the explanation.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-23 Thread Mason Hock
> The main problem here, is *not* that Firefox has so and so flaws > here and there. The problem is that, Mozilla is NOT behaving. This > is an attitude problem, is grave, and prone to grave consequences. I agree. Even if Mozilla were to fix these specific issues I would not use their browser.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Minifree's Libreboot X200 laptop comes with Trisquel pre-installed. Now with other keyboard layouts available, and free stickers

2018-01-23 Thread info
To make matters worse, the ways people previously obtained media involved using a particular protocol that had free software clients available for.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-23 Thread ar018
Mason I am afraid there is a much more serious issue here than a bug or documentation error. Mozilla is foot-dragging to correct a grave fault - grave as in it blatantly trespasses users' privacy, and what is more, does this being one of main representatives of "open, secure, peer-reviewed

Re: [Trisquel-users] Disabling the Guest account

2018-01-23 Thread jbahn
And that did the trick. You are not only kind but also very smart. Thanks for the help

Re: [Trisquel-users] Disabling the Guest account

2018-01-23 Thread jbahn
And that did the trick. You are not only kind but also very smart. Thanks for the help

Re: [Trisquel-users] Disabling the Guest account

2018-01-23 Thread jbahn
I shall give it a shot, then

[Trisquel-users] Re : Disabling the Guest account

2018-01-23 Thread lcerf
I would add "allow-guest=false" to /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-trisquel-session.conf and see if it works after restarting LightDM ('sudo restart lightdm' in a text session) or the whole system.

[Trisquel-users] Re : LVM : xfs vs ext

2018-01-23 Thread lcerf
I believe you are referring to Trisquel's graphical installer, which does not propose full-disk encryption (only encryption of the home folder with eCryptfs, whereas GNUbahn is talking about a the text installer. I believe he follows the instructions on

[Trisquel-users] Extended-Term Support

2018-01-23 Thread jason
Hello, I wanted to share that I've added another support option for my Linux-libre APT repo. In addition to Long-Term Support (LTS) kernels, which are supported for 2 years, I'm adding Extended-Term Support (ETS) kernels, which are supported for 6 years. I've updated

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Tor really that bad?

2018-01-23 Thread pinmaritim
SNOWDEN: Use Tor. LEE: Use Tor? SNOWDEN: If you’re not using Tor you’re doing it wrong. Now, there is a counterpoint here where the use of privacy-enhancing technologies in certain areas can actually single you out for additional surveillance through the exercise of repressive measures.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Comodo antivirus for Linux

2018-01-23 Thread pinmaritim
Jodienda hahaha!

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread vitacell
Kepler are best supported card by nouveau. NVIDIA driver will be faster but not much more. With nouveau you must to run reclock commands for run the card to full clocks (very very easy). With gtx770 you will be able to run any 3d game with no stutter, with similar performance to NVIDIA's

Re: [Trisquel-users] Comodo antivirus for Linux

2018-01-23 Thread greatgnu
>I know this is off-topic And what exactly would make you think that? You are both on Jodienda's list, I hope you're happy now. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread greatgnu
Hmm, just to point out you are inciting the installation of a non-free driver on a free software forum, and that goes against the rules. You should now throw your guitar out of the window and buy another one. The next time you'll think twice before making RMS angry again. (yes, he called me,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Disabling the Guest account

2018-01-23 Thread greatgnu
always welcome, mate bahn! >Is that the one? No idea..

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU parted - how to update to new version?

2018-01-23 Thread greatgnu
Sure, mate Bannanna Magique, I know. I am not one of those 'gimme only muh CLI apps' guy. In fact I think gparted is one of the most amazing software on my computer. I also am not willing to spend 5 hours studying parted to do what gparted does perfectly well and without any issue. I was

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Tor really that bad?

2018-01-23 Thread julesverne
Tor is great. I do recommend it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Comodo antivirus for Linux

2018-01-23 Thread onpon4
> Lard is poison. I know this is off-topic, but I would dispute that. Do some research on the history of the lipid hypothesis, which is what you're referring to; there's really not any evidence behind the idea. It's more likely excess sugar consumption and, to a lesser extent, other excess

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-23 Thread studio
Great. To avoid parasite packets make sure no other network programs/services are running while you test. Also if you notice in my actual tcpdump command (in the bug report) I monitor only the outgoing packets as they are the important ones.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-23 Thread Mason Hock
> "Work offline" sends packets on closing of the browser. It is not > offline at all. So Mozilla can talk nonsense to infinity - this is I agree that this is an actual bug. Unfortunately it seems that Mozilla will not acknowledge this. > So Mozilla can talk nonsense to infinity - this is > not

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread studio
Can you show benchmarks, i.e. nouveau vs NVIDIA for these?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Disabling the Guest account

2018-01-23 Thread jbahn
Thanks. I really appreciate you helping me out under the suspicion that I haven't searched for an answer first. I had though, and what I wrote was the 'average' of what I discovered. I don't have a 50-ubuntu.conf file The closest thing I have is a file called 50-trisquel-session.conf but

Re: [Trisquel-users] LVM : xfs vs ext

2018-01-23 Thread fbits
During installation the 'install software' step failed. Which one is the 'install software' step? How did it fail? I've never used the installer for T8, so someone might have better answers... 1) Normally when you start the installer you have an option for how you want to install, and one of

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread vitacell
For performance gtx770 with 4gb, and cheap one, 730gt with 2gb of GDDR5.

[Trisquel-users] LVM : xfs vs ext

2018-01-23 Thread jbahn
I am (again) trying to make a full disk encryption installation of Trisquel (8). I just gave up on the method explained on libreboot.org (https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html). During installation the 'install software' step failed. Now I am trying to use the

[Trisquel-users] Re : GNU parted - how to update to new version?

2018-01-23 Thread lcerf
'sudo chmod 777' quite extreme. You probably just wanted to change the owner and the group with 'sudo chown', either applied at the root of the filesystem or, if there are different users, on as many directories created with 'sudo mkdir' (to get permissions analog to those of the home

[Trisquel-users] Re : GNU parted - how to update to new version?

2018-01-23 Thread lcerf
There is nothing wrong. If you prefer GUI, it is the way to go. GParted uses GNU parted.

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU parted - how to update to new version?

2018-01-23 Thread greatgnu
I see, my bad. But may ask what is wrong with simply using gparted for your purpose?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy/Security services and software

2018-01-23 Thread greatgnu
>Especially if you have JavaScript enabled, as just the timing of your keystrokes is unique enough to identify you. Yes. Not only that. Javascript can and will probably uniquely identify your hardware, which in the case of it being non-common will almost uniquely identify you, yourself.

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU parted - how to update to new version?

2018-01-23 Thread 43453
I made the prozess of dd / partition table / partitioning / formating with the new version of Parted (3.2), which is on the gparted live iso, again and everything went as expected. BUT same strange behaviour still occurs. if the drive is mounted permanent activity happens on the completely

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread studio
In KDE Plasma > System Settings > Color Management I have specified the color profiles which should be used but when I install nouveau I see the desktop colors as non-color managed (more saturated that they should be) which tells me that perhaps color management doesn't work properly.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Best schedulers

2018-01-23 Thread lcerf
$ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1009577/selecting-a-linux-i-o-scheduler

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Color management? Do you mean brightness keys? 2018-01-23T11:31:34+0100 stu...@anchev.net wrote: > Thanks for sharing. I have tried this one: > > https://h-node.org/videocards/view/en/1792/GK104--GeForce-GTX-680---rev-a1-/1/1/undef/undef/undef/undef/video-card-works/undef > > but with nouveau it

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you guys do about graphics cards

2018-01-23 Thread studio
> Here's a good resource for finding graphics cards that don't require proprietary firmware. https://h-node.org/videocards/catalogue/en Thanks for sharing. I have tried this one:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Comodo antivirus for Linux

2018-01-23 Thread studio
> Lard is poison. Eating ideas is much worse. > You should not install proprietary microcode on your machine, but already-existing microcode that cannot be removed is acceptable for now. You have been accepting that lard "for now" in the last 22 years. > This is why we have collective

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-23 Thread studio
It seems you are missing the very first blatantly actual bug: "Work offline" sends packets on closing of the browser. It is not offline at all. So Mozilla can talk nonsense to infinity - this is not a documentation bug. > Once I know what I'm doing, what's the the most helpful thing to