Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading from Trisquel 6 to 7

2018-01-27 Thread anandawardhana
Thanks for the clarification. I got this idea to upgrade when I saw upgrading to 8 from both 6 and 7 is listed here among "to-dos" https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/flidas-release-issues

Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading from Trisquel 6 to 7

2018-01-27 Thread lap4fsf
Hi Anandawardhana, I had exactly the same issue as you. My advice would be to download Trisquel 7.0 from trisquel's official website (https://trisquel.info/en/download) or through mirror website maintained by FSF. (http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel-images/) You can also download Trisquel 8.0

[Trisquel-users] Upgrading from Trisquel 6 to 7

2018-01-27 Thread anandawardhana
Trisquel 6 is the best OS I have ever used. So, until today I had a computer running T6 without upgrading (or connecting to the Internet for the past year or so). I used it for writing and some of the other basic work I do. There was no reason to upgrade because it works fine. I now want

Re: [Trisquel-users] news about eoma68?

2018-01-27 Thread jason
The best source of news is provided on the crowdfunding page. Notice that it has an "Updates" tab. https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

Re: [Trisquel-users] installed Thunderbird in terminal but I don't see it

2018-01-27 Thread Mason Hock
The package name might be icedove.

[Trisquel-users] installed Thunderbird in terminal but I don't see it

2018-01-27 Thread adel
I typed into the terminal: sudo apt-get instlal thunderbird and hit Enter. But I can't find this program to launch it. Any ideas?

[Trisquel-users] news about eoma68?

2018-01-27 Thread adel
Is there an expected delivery date for those who pre-ordered? I understand that R takes time. Just checking in.

[Trisquel-users] '@' on MacBook 2,1 - revisiited

2018-01-27 Thread jbahn
I have had issues with '@' earlier and never solved it the last time. Below is a copy of an advise proposed by Eemeli (https://trisquel.info/en/forum/librebooted-and-trisquelised-macbook21-where#comment-123269) According to that (and earlier comments), re-configuring the keyboard should

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

2018-01-27 Thread jason
">Also swap out kernels Why? The kernel is free, deblobbed." The request_firmware calls cause problems. Linux-libre fixes that. http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2018-01/msg00046.html ">rebrand everything What exactly?" I don't pretend to know all of the places where

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

2018-01-27 Thread ar018
> I've no idea but it would seem logical to me it would > be much simpler to base Triskamullo on Debian - the > OS is already free and you'd just need to remove > the references to non-free from the documentation. Bingo! The main problem apeears that FSF has just *too strict* rules. So strict

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

2018-01-27 Thread Mason Hock
> Icecat is already ready. No big issues, it would appear. In my experience Icecat is barely faster than Tor Browser. I don't know that everyone would accept it as a substitute for Firefox or Abrowser, at least not until ESR moves to FF60 in May. I'm looking forward to Tor Browser becoming

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-27 Thread Mason Hock
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections > > I don't know if you already gave it a try or if you maybe already > posted it here. heyjoe already found that this documentation is broken. Bug report is here:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-27 Thread greatgnu
Tx for the link, senor LeGuitarraJosé :) I played a little bit fir Mouzillacox and visited this website, which has grown hugely in dimension from the last time I did so, which was give or take a year ago. It would appear they really like their browser to not only have new (mostly useless

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

2018-01-27 Thread greatgnu
>Also swap out kernels Why? The kernel is free, deblobbed. >Replace Firefox Icecat is already ready. No big issues, it would appear. >modify the installer to get rid of those various verboten prompts Never saw one, but that too wouldn't seem a big issue >rebrand everything, and more What

Re: [Trisquel-users] (Trisquel 8) Problems with installing add-ons in Abrowser

2018-01-27 Thread greatgnu
sudo apt install geoclue-2.0

Re: [Trisquel-users] (Trisquel 8) Problems with installing add-ons in Abrowser

2018-01-27 Thread svenerik_vn
The Trisquel 8 I am running now already have something called "redshift" in the main menu under accessories. But unfortunately I get this message when I'm trying to open the program: "Failed to run Redshift Trying location provider `geoclue2'... Unable to connect to GeoClue. Unable to get

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

2018-01-27 Thread jason
Also swap out kernels, replace Firefox, modify the installer to get rid of those various verboten prompts, rebrand everything, and more. gNewSense is based on Debian and they have similar things to Trisquel's "Helpers", caller Builders. (I think that might be where the idea of Trisquel's

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-27 Thread studio
> Btw I am wondering: how come we need a stupid addon to make it so we are automatically directed to the encrypted version of a website? Isn't that a necessity? Don't you think Mouzzilla should make such behavior the default feature? Mozilla supports HSTS preload.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Node.js free?

2018-01-27 Thread greatgnu
I needed to use wikipoeja to find out. It would seem so. I learned something new. Memelogy is relevant to my interests, a delicious (and quite powerful) linguistic phenomena. (It would appear so)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browser

2018-01-27 Thread greatgnu
>When I used T7 I found Icecat to be slow compared to Abrowser Yep >possibilty due to its extra plugins like LibreJS Exactly because of it, mainly. >The version of Abrowser in Trisquel 8 is based on FF57, so it's much faster now. 57, now 58 is night and day compared to any previous

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

2018-01-27 Thread greatgnu
I've no idea but it would seem logical to me it would be much simpler to base Triskamullo on Debian - the OS is already free and you'd just need to remove the references to non-free from the documentation. How difficult is that? No idea, again, but I imagine it would not take much

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

2018-01-27 Thread studio
It's worse than I thought.