Re: [Trisquel-users] A second (encouraging!) letter from Canada Type

2013-05-04 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
From: Bob Ham Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] A second (encouraging!) letter from Canada Type Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 19:31:26 + On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 19:55 +0200, ejectm...@me.com wrote: I'm trying to purchase proprietary typefaces under a libre license Why? -- Bob Ham Rule 34 Bob -

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software Restaurant POS System?

2013-04-27 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
From: sdilli...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [Trisquel-users] Free Software Restaurant POS System? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:21:13 +0200 (CEST) Hallo trisquel users, a friend of mine has opened a very small restaurant and needs a POS restaurant software. he asked me to help him and said sure, if I find

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do MSi DRM their Wifi? Anyone using an MSi U135DX?

2013-04-27 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
From: onp...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Do MSi DRM their Wifi? Anyone using an MSi U135DX? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:14:50 +0200 (CEST) You could ask your friend to let you test a Trisquel live CD on it, that would give you the answer. Thanks, yes, as I said I'm testing it on Mo

[Trisquel-users] Do MSi DRM their Wifi? Anyone using an MSi U135DX?

2013-04-27 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
Thanks for your time. A friend is selling her MSi U135DX netbook. It's not on h-node. I'm testing it with Trisquel on Monday and would like to know if MSi are known to DRM their laptop WiFi? Or if anyone has info from using this netbook with Trisquel already but hasn't yet found time to do

Re: [Trisquel-users] Antwort: My installation-Script for Trisquel v6.00 "Toutatis"

2013-04-26 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
From: sgies1...@t-online.de Subject: [Trisquel-users] Antwort: My installation-Script for Trisquel v6.00 "Toutatis" Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:23:20 +0200 (CEST) There is no copyright on my shell-scripts. Everyone is allowed to use the scripts. Under the Berne Convention everything you write

Re: [Trisquel-users] Sega Mega Drive Emulators?

2013-04-23 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
You bring up some good points; sorry if I seemed combative in my previous post. I thought it more arguing your position vigoursly than combative. No need for an apology. I've been thinking... If Trisquel has removed Firefox in part because of its suggestion of non-free software and add-o

Re: [Trisquel-users] Sega Mega Drive Emulators?

2013-04-22 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
All the games machines I have seen details of feature a microprocessor of some sort. They are computers. FSF say boot ROMs are OK because they are not modifiable and sold with the hardware. That seems to put paid to images of them being used by an emulator on both counts. But one door clos

Re: [Trisquel-users] Interested in volunteering? Read this... update

2012-12-18 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
From: nospamh...@runbox.com Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Interested in volunteering? Read this... update Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:56:32 +0100 (CET) > What about artwork for Trisquel? Is there an email address to submit > it for consideration? The Trisquel Team page points people to hound the ow

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Konqueror Bug - What Would it Take?

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
As a result of your information I've had enough of a 'play' with the git package helpers to be able to update the package helpers page here: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/package-helpers Please read, comments welcome.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Konqueror Bug - What Would it Take?

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
From: nospamh...@runbox.com Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] The Konqueror Bug - What Would it Take? Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:56:02 +0100 (CET) > Let me go find an online Dummies guide to sed & awk and see what I can > do. Give me some time. >From the info sed Other Resources node: 6 Other Resourc

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Konqueror Bug - What Would it Take?

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
From: m...@mtjm.eu (Michał Masłowski) Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] The Konqueror Bug - What Would it Take? Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:17:53 +0100 >> Unless they're not the helpers available at >> git://devel.trisquel.info/package-helpers.git then all the git repo >> there is is the helper framewor

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Konqueror Bug - What Would it Take?

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
From: m...@mtjm.eu (Michał Masłowski) Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] The Konqueror Bug - What Would it Take? Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:25:32 +0100 Last I looked the Toutatis helpers were not yet online. I haven't yet looked at IRC and found quidam online to ask him to do that, a sec ond pair

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Konqueror Bug - What Would it Take?

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
I've never done this before, so I need some guidance on the next step. I don't know how to submit patches. I don't know who I should submit them to, aside from Trisquel. I will do the other Parabola patch posted in this thread as well. Should I also do both patches for Toutatis and submit those a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Interested in volunteering? Read this... update

2012-12-16 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
For me a weekly session would be better than a monthly one. In that if I have questions only Rubén can answer I can hang on for a regular weekly slot, but if it was only once a month I would track him down on IRC. Thus if there is demand a weekly half hour or hour would be better use of Rubén

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Konqueror Bug - What Would it Take?

2012-12-16 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
If you had dug through the links to and in gNewsense bugs your question is answered here: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2011-05/msg7.html In short a code change is required.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Interested in volunteering? Read this... update

2012-12-16 Thread Andrew M . 'Leny7; Lindley
I must emphasise that I am not an authoritative source but from my hobby level work towards getting the Trisquel maintainer knowledges I can give some pointers as to what I'm using: Firstly, the places to find out about .deb packaging are: One of the following packages, maint-guide - Debian N

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu Tweak project is now dead. What now?

2012-10-25 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Thursday 25 October 2012 03:39:37 ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote: > Your certainly right about this. I don't think Rubén is without criticism > though. One does need to learn to let go of certain things to be a good > manager. I don't know what SirGrant has submitted, how long, etc. Maybe it Agre

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu Tweak project is now dead. What now?

2012-10-24 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Wednesday 24 October 2012 19:53:31 sirgr...@member.fsf.org wrote: > While I will admit I am not t3g's biggest fan I believe he does have a > decent point here. > > Ruben is not around as much as users would like. I would like to get bazaar *This is all strictly in my unauthorised opinion, FWI

Re: [Trisquel-users] ARM Code for Raspberry Pi Goes Free

2012-10-24 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Wednesday 24 October 2012 21:04:32 ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote: > Just thought I'd point out this out. I didn't read it yet. > > http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221 > > Might be good news. Time to crack open the Raspberry Pi we have laying > around and actually start selling/supporting i

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on ARM

2012-10-24 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Wednesday 24 October 2012 20:15:04 aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: > The problem still persists :S.. You still need the Firmware contained in the > Proprietary Blob to use it (and to boot the OS). > > But it is a good step forward :D Reading the comments and replies on the linked page what the boot

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0 Alpha Images

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Monday 22 October 2012 22:25:45 secondnat...@riseup.net wrote: > the trisquel-mini 6.0 amd64 alpha still contains this bug with the > installer: > > https://trisquel.info/en/issues/5141 I've named the culprit line of (trisquel only) code in issue 5141. It is the same line in 6.0 .

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on ARM

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
moving towards FSF approved distro status that looks to be the best bet. Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on ARM

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Monday 22 October 2012 22:38:54 Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross wrote: > The only ARM (but *not limited* to arm) hardware I would put my effort > into is Rombus-Tech. The future is very exciting. > http://rhombus-tech.net/ > > Look at the mailing for what’s happening. Do say what you want. when >

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on ARM

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
t of netbook I could get that worked well enough. In the UK that would get me down below the total cost of an RPi, power adapter and monitor cable. Plus they have built-in battery backup for server use. If I wanted multimedia as well I'd get to know the Intel video chipsets and do an lspci on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on ARM

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
decs for the GPU acceleration are proprietary, I can live without those. Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on ARM

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Monday 22 October 2012 21:48:34 aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: > I wouldn't buy a Raspberry Pi anymore > since the Broadcom GPU Chip don't have free drivers It's worse than that. The GPU orchestrates boot and you therefore require a proprietary blob to boot even if you're happy with just using

Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0 I18N Looks Good So Far!

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
ory 'operating system level virtualization.) My kernel messages show at least jxself's kernel is built for Xen. Chroot is already pre-installed and an apt-cache search on their names will find you the packages for the other two. Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0 I18N Looks Good So Far!

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Monday 22 October 2012 16:26:28 aliasb...@gmail.com wrote: > (I don't like to use the linux-libre kernel > because of the problems with virtualbox... hope they've been solved with > this new version). You should get on to the Virtualbox developers. The essence of the problem is that the Vi

Re: [Trisquel-users] Setting up a Gamemon USB mini game-pad joystick

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
I have aa old Logitech Rumblepad 2 USB gamepad which just works when plugged in. Perhaps we should all (me included) respond to the suggestion elsewhere on this forum and post stuff like this we find compatible to h-node.org .

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0 Alpha Images

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Monday 22 October 2012 10:01:01 Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley wrote: > Still you can get gnome-shell by installing the gnome-session package > and selecting a 'GNOME' session at the login screen, so if you want it > you can have it. Or, having tried to install it myse

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0 Alpha Images

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
n at the login screen, so if you want it you can have it. Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] How many of you dual-boot ?

2012-10-21 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
iki has it that checking against the parent distro is a required part of the Trisquel beta bug reporting process. It goes mostly unused. Andrew M 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Adapteva Parallella - is it genuinely free software compatible?

2012-10-20 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
or on the other side of the world phones when they're having problems compiling your code then don't come complaining to me. Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser and Search Engines

2012-10-20 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
ike complaining that when you install a .deb you have to request the source separately is it not? We're not talking deliberately obfuscated proprietary code here. Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser and Search Engines

2012-10-20 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
fae1cc075034.js AIUI Trisquel.info uses Drupal which automatically aggregates the free Javascript that is included in processing. I dunno how often but in at least some cases the license info is not present in the aggregate. Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Adapteva Parallella - is it genuinely free software compatible?

2012-10-19 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
nez.' Sure there are a lot of robot projects out there but this is distinct in that being an exhibit all the sensors and communication are going to be human perceivable. Robots talking in a musical language, audible 'sonar' etc. What are you thinking of using yours for gnufreeme? Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Adapteva Parallella - is it genuinely free software compatible?

2012-10-18 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
27; for people like the students who joined us recently. > > Please consider joining us and donating. Someone else who uses the mail interface? I'm already a member and have also donated twice recently (once as leny2010 and another because I forgot to login to the site as plain Andrew Lindley.) Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley

Re: [Trisquel-users] My Forum Sugguestions - Phase One

2012-10-14 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Sunday 14 Oct 2012 22:18:27 gnufre...@hushmail.com wrote: > I just want to be able to give someone this distribution and be able to send > them to a forum without them having to wade through flame wars and > frustrated comments such as mine above. Features which enable this such as 'kill files'

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Adapteva Parallella - is it genuinely free software compatible?

2012-10-14 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Sunday 14 Oct 2012 17:27:33 gnufre...@hushmail.com wrote: > I corresponded briefly with the project manager on the first day and he sent > me the following: > > "All software related to the Epiphany chip (driver, dev tools) will be given > away as free open source. Can't comment on the exact l

[Trisquel-users] The Adapteva Parallella - is it genuinely free software compatible?

2012-10-14 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
Has anyone managed to find out if the Adapteva Parallella Kickstarter [1] is genuinely a free software compatible parallel computing platform? They use both 'free open source' and 'open source' in their press releases and it seems right. But, they haven't replied to my query (they will obviously

Re: [Trisquel-users] Idea about a new DE Shell (What is your opinion ?)

2012-09-19 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Wednesday 19 September 2012 18:03:22 Morne Alberts wrote: > What card do you have, though? I've got an nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (in a Morne, Have you tried Trisquel 5.5 with the most recent kernel from jxself and libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental installed? I have three NV50 'cards' (as is your

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 5.5 / SMPlayer / LinternaMagica >> YouTube codec suddenly doesn't plays.

2012-09-15 Thread Andrew M. 'Leny7; Lindley
On Saturday 15 September 2012 09:57:15 Dave Hunt wrote: > I'm using Trisquel 5.5; installed xine-plugin; disabled gnash; > re-enabled greasemonkey/linternamagica, and my subscription videos that > have html5 option play as they should, since I'm in the html5 trial. > For other videos in my subscrip