Thank's, I wasn't aware of Gentoo penguins, only knew about Royal and Emperor
penguins. Since Gentoo uses the head of a cow as a logo, nothing hinted the
connection to penguins to me.
That's one really cool netbook! Why is it called Gentoo? That name doesn't
seem to fit the other two.
Trisquel is Ubuntu-based, not Debian-based. Changing the repositories will
result in problems.
Debian is fully free anyway, so there is no non-free software in the standard
Debian repository. Only the repositories that can be activated after
installation manually can contain non-free firmwa
GNU is not a license, it is a name for an OS. If you try to use GPL licensed
code where you can, that's fine and there are surelly reasons for that. What
I'm trying to bring accross is:
GNU = Gnu's Not Unix
GNU GPL = GNU General Public License
The one is the name for an OS. The other is a li
Have to admit, that I'm dual booting... into another Trisquel, so I can test
out different desktop environments without messing with my primary work
environment :P
I've had no Windows on my PC for years now, the only contact I have with
Windows is on the laptop from work where I can't insta
The naming of the OS is not about the license ,freeme. While it is true that
you can get a feeling of safety from using a GPL'd program and that the GPL
is one of the best licenses out there, there is one simple fact: not all
software that is GPL'd was written by the GNU Project. Linux (the k
The SNES already has protection mechanisms built in besides the fact that
cartridges aren't easily reproduced, like CDs. The Mega Drive / Genesis
didn't have such a thing, at least the early model 1s didn't.
And the protection mechanism the Mega Drive / Genesis implements is much less
hard
I understand your point. But even if you will read the ROM, you'll have to
write it back in order to use the changes you made on real hardware. That
will basically mean using an expensive flash-cart or making a repro cart
(which is probably even more cumbersome).
And while it is obvious tha
Since gaming consoles that are the primary target of emulation nowadays were
not meant to be general purpose computing devices, I believe it makes the
issue somewhat different. You wouldn't want the four freedoms with the
software that runs on your microwave oven, or the watch. The products'
Yeah, what miga said. The awareness grade for the issues is very low, since
there are so called open source drivers for Radeon cards. However they are
pretty much useless without the non-free firmware they depend on (it is
bundled with vanilla Linux, by which I mean the kernel itself). In
L
So in near future my Kopete or Pidgin will be able to just add a Skype
account? Un-f***ing-believable :D
Omg, all hail t3g, he is the most important person on this forum. I thought
Ruben together with the members and the English translators were the most
important people, but t3g proved me wrong.
Seriously t3g, that is an awesome accomplishment that you helped Trisquel get
noticed by the Linu
Cool, listening to the radio stream right now! The hosts are being plain
silly :D
Seems that my decision to switch to KDE was a good one.
While it would be cool to have a new LTS version, I feel like 5.5 hasn't been
around for that long. Besides that, 5.5 is absolutely OK.
All in all, what needs updating, for the most part? Abrowser, the drivers,
LibreOffice. To me, there isn't much else that needs updating. At least not
that
In case the driver update won't help:
I had a problem with Kwin crashing from time to time. Here is my original
post. If you scroll down, you'll find the work-around that helped me solve
the issue.
The driver update isn't a bad thing, but if you have the same problem as I
did, it probably
There are several things you can try:
1. Enter the html5 trial on youtube.
2. Upgrade gnash and abrowser $ sudo aptitude upgrade [package]
3. Install Linterna Magica (a Greasemonkey skript, so you have to install
Greasemonkey first).
4. Install Unplug. That's an addon for Firefox/Abrowser that
I've donated a small amount once and got no gifts, or anything else. You only
get the gifts if you become a member, which include a keychain, an
email-alias and a jabber-alias.
Are you using Gnome Fallback? That's on by default when you install the
standard Trisquel 5.5 image. Maybe you should try adding some applets to the
panel (in Gnome 2.x it was a common situation that the applets would
sometimes quit themselves). If I recal correctly, Alt+right click on the
Exactly, this is what I mean. Since Gnome 3 came out, I have to switch. Be it
to Gnome 3, or to something else. Maybe I should have stuck with XFCE, will
try it out sometime soon.
And I don't like the absence of a traditional desktop.
Afaik there are compatibility issues between Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 fallback
mode. You can't do all you used to be able to do. I think a lot of plugins
for the panel will be missing, etc.
If you were on Fluxbox, that's nice for you. Changes within Gnome will not
affect you that much. But if yo
If you will be installing games that have native GNU/Linux support, they will
go onto the / partition by default. If you intend on doing that, there might
be a reason to keep it relatively big, yet I'd still resize it if I were you.
30GB ought to be more than enough EVEN if you put a lot of g
No idea, he does mention that you can contact him through the github project
page.
Just tried installing FVR on Mint, but there is no FVR anymore. Development
has been suspended. Apparently Google doesn't want to tolerate third party
apps on their youtube platform.
A company that produces free software compatible hardware only would be
awesome. Motherboards, graphicscards, wireless cards, etc. Everything that is
problematic to run with free software basically. Another company would buy
those things and build specialized laptops and desktops out of them.
Would fonts even qualify as software? Is there an ethical issue about
installing different fonts, even those that are not under the SIL or a
simliar license?
I'm lurking on Diaspora for several months already (same username). There are
a lot of interesting news about free software and GNU/Linux.
I didn't find a lot to do there besides reading news, but there seems to be a
picture sharing service that you can use to share photos with friends. Never
Software like Python debug tools and entertainment stuff like movies are in a
completely different category, that's true. If a movie is distributed
digitally, it shouldn't have DRM though. I understand that DRM might be a
tempting technique in the modern market. The modern market is just work
The GeForce 9500 from libre.thinkpenguin will work with 3D acceleration as
well. If you will buy that, you will not be restricted to Intel CPUs. If you
are not restricted to those, you can obviously take an AMD one, which will:
a) cost you a bit less for the same performance
b) allow you to c
When I want to extract the audio part of a video file PiTiVi helps me out a
lot.
I don't know if it can import directly from a DVD, but maybe some other video
editor can. Just unlink the video and audio streams, delete the video, cut
off parts of the audio you don't want and render the proj
Now I know what was wrong. The server where my mailbox is ran out of disk
space. The folders are where they belong to, it just looked like I moved
Inbox somewhere. Once I got the login data for the adminpanel it was a pretty
easy fix, delete unneccessary data and everything works again.
Oh
The Sent folder inside Thunderbird is created right now. I have duplicates
for Trash, Sent and Drafts inside Inbox (and it's the only thing that is in
the Inbox for now).
The problem seems to be, the server has a different folder structure without
those duplicates and when I try to do somet
I don't know what happened, but my mailbox doesn't work anymore. I can't
receive messages and I can't send them. Not even sure if this is going to get
posted. The error I keep getting is something along these lines: "INBOX.Sent
not found".
It started after I accidently pulled the Inbox fold
I have disabled Nepomuk and Akonadi. I'm not at home right now, will post
more details soon. You have to edit certain files to prevent Akonadi being
loaded at start, that's all I remember for sure.
All in all, I find KDE to be very fast on a Core2Duo e6400 with 2GB of memory
and an integrat
Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do to help the coreboot project. A
small donation would do nothing, imho what they need are capable people
hacking on new and completely unsupported hardware. That's way over my head.
When it's time for me to upgrade again, I'll certainly look into buying
The computers sold by Thinkpenguin have a nonfree BIOS, because it is near
impossible to get a computer that can use a free BIOS, say coreboot and uses
a graphicscard that can use 3D acceleration with free drivers. When there is
no choice, you just go with best thing available.
Nowadays it sh
Another suggestion for Thinkpenguin would be to make more hardware available.
Surely there is more than one printer around which supports GNU/Linux well. I
have the DeskJet D1560 from HP and it works very well, a lot of HP stuff
works well as a rule of thumb.
Also, I don't see any scanners,
It is a bug in Kubuntu that is marked as solved upstream by now. The current
workaround is to add "TerminateServer=true" in the /etc/kde4/kdmrc in the
[X-:0-Core] section.
That's how I've done it and managed to login with effects enabled three times
in a row :)
Strange, now I tried different combinations of options and nothing helps. Now
Triskel crashes every uneven login and every even login works. No matter what
option is enabled under desktop effects and even if they are disabled
completely.
However, when I turn the compositing on I can utilize
I don't like Gnome 3 and it's fallback mode, so I started checking out all
other flavors of Trisquel. After installing the Triskel packages I'm really
impressed, KDE works way faster than how I remembered, especially after some
finetuning. It doesn't even need a lot of RAM, 220MB after loggin
Since the forum is basically another form of representation of the mailing
list, I think there is no need for stripping away email addresses in the
forum or something like that. I was shocked when I saw my email in a quoted
response the first time but soon found out the connection between the
I'm interested in such a phone. I use an old mobile phone right now which
I'll give to my parents eventually and it would be awesome to have a
free-software friendly smartphone. If it will really cost below $150 and work
with German telephony providers I'd buy that.
A friend who uses Ubuntu and is quite proficient with GNU/Linux and a
programmer as well, told me Unity was proprietary. So I never looked it up,
now I see it's under the GPL. I was absolutely sure that Unity is
proprietary.
helping people on the forums was never so rewarding it seems :P
I think it's because the wallpapers are managed by a program (metacity or
nautilus I think) that can't display animated pictures, so .gifs get
converted to simple snapshots of the very first frame.
If you want to make your CPU cry and see animation on the desktop, you can
make snapshots of
Unity is absolutely not acceptable, since it is proprietary. Before they
started using a proprietary, self-developed desktop environment, everything
was simple: stick with the upstream, change the theme, done. If Trisquel
would use Unity it would stop being the 100% free distro that it is. Wh
Thanks a lot for contacting quidam on my behalf! Already translated some
stuff on the mainpage, including the release announcement.
That's kind of bad, if he is only reachable over IRC. I don't have Internet
at home atm and what I can use well from work are emails. I'll contact him
right when those idiots can turn my DSL signal on.
I've looked at the German translations on the main page and they pretty much
suck. They are stiff and full of small mistakes. I understand that it is
somewhat dangerous to let people with unknown qualification translate things,
but I'm perfectly qualified to do this kind of job and I'm sittin
It seems that at least one of the games uses features uncompatible with Intel
graphics cards: Psychonauts. They literally say, "Note: Psychonauts uses s3tc
textures which are not supported by Intel integrated graphics".
Maybe if enough people will email the developers about it, they will rele
It seems like a great deal, but unfortunately, several of these games are
unlikely to work in fully free environment.
Psychonauts use some textures that are unsupported by Intel graphicscards,
Super Meat Boy may not work with Intel cards as well, Amnesia might also have
some issues running
Hello Chris, if you are making such a list, I'd like to be on it as a
translator. I can translate between English, German and Russian, being most
proficient in the later two.
I can write HTML and code in Java and JavaScript, but it would take me way
more time to do anything than a real prog
Thank you for that link, awesome piece of information! I was basically just
repeating what the IT-department of my company told everybody.
To ensure a high level of security, you should use a router with a hardware
firewall (which should have no rules for port-forwarding configured). Then
double check if you have software that listens on some ports for connections,
like ssh, Apache http server or the MySQL server, stuff like tha
That's exactly the core of the problem, people are buying hardware that is
functional with Ubuntu or any other distro which happens to be their
favorite. Stores are also being build upon the idea of providing
Ubuntu-friendly hardware, not Linux-libre friendly. You're one of the few
people w
By demand, I think he means more orders. If one million people from every
country in the world would email suppliers like Chris saying, "please we want
free software laptops", that would not make anyone like HP, Lenovo, or
whomever produce them.
But if everyone starts buying stuff from Chri
Many of the Clevo Laptops (I've looked into the 12" ones) have Intel Wireless
cards, or come with a WiFi-card slot. That's not the perfect kind of free
software support if you ask me... Besides that, they seem to be really good.
Btw., you can't have coreboot on a laptop. One variant of the T6
The only way to do it without any problems is, unfortunately, to test it and
see which combinations work best. I believe to recall installing grip from
the Ubuntu repos, together with some libraries which it needed which were
only in Ubuntus repos. All went well and I had grip running without
Trisquel is based on Ubuntu. However, since Ubuntu has a rather fast
development cycle, Trisquel is always one or two versions behind. Thus, if
you try to use newer Ubuntu repos, it might break your system.
If you want to use the newest versions of any software, you might consider
compiling
I had the same situation with a friend who bought himself a multifunction
device, a scanner/printer/fax from HP. It didn't work under Trisquel out of
the box and I was convinced the thing had no free drivers at all. However, on
the HP homepage you can download both the drivers and the firmwar
I think it's for people who can't use the keyboard properly. Like, malformed
hands, things like that. When the keyboard pops up on screen they can use the
mouse to type.
I know a guy who has made such a mess out of his table once, that the
keyboard was buried somewhere way back, without any
If you want to switch, you might consider switching to parabola, which is a
libre Arch like Trisquel is a libre Ubuntu.
Also, if you want something different from Gnome3 in Trisquel, you can always
install with the "text installer" option, deselect any of the desktop
environments and just p
That's one cool story, great to hear your laptop suspends correctly now!
Heard exact the same from a friend who uses encryption. After an update to
5.5 Abrowser tends to just close itself, so does the filemanager.
I'm leaning towards the encryption being the problem.
It's great to hear that 5.5 works out well for you Nathan! A friend installed
it through the updatemanager and has only had issues since. Abrowser would
crash, and the filemanager too.
I get a similar error on Trisquel 5. The panel doesn't disappear though, the
clock or the indicator applet just keep crashing with the same error message
you posted.
You said you upgraded, right? Try a full install, or switch back to 5.0 until
gnome 3 gets more mature.
I could do an occasional translation to German and Russian.
I believe that Chromium was not included into the repositories because some
parts have unclear licensing. So in order to make sure everything is as free
as possible, Chromium wasn't included. It's most likely free software though,
just too hard to verify it.
What exactly is needed to update the translation there? It isn't enough just
to translate the sentence "Trisquel ... release announcement", when I type
the German translation in it gives me an error message about a missing post.
Does one have to translate the whole release announcement, post
Awesome, that looks great! Will look into the loki setups for now.
LSB as in least significant bit? Sure you can install debian packages on
Ubuntu and Red Hat packages on Fedora, but there are still some limits to
this and you can't install Red Hat packages on Ubuntu and vice versa. If your
game would be big enough to need a DVD, it would mean using two DVDs
Ubuntu still comes with a version of Linux that has certain firmware inside.
Even if you use the open-source drivers in Ubuntu, it means that you are
using the non-free firmware that is included in the kernel itself. That is of
course missing in Trisquel. That reveals how some of the supposed
I can second the experience of the guy who written the email. After learning
a lot about GNU/Linux with other distros, I became a Trisquel user. It is a
very good compromise between pre-made choices and possibilities to configure
something on your own. Not to mention the huge software base yo
I think your Radeon gets so hot because the free drivers can't turn the fan
on, or get false temperature readings.
Please post the exact specs of your laptop, otherwise all we can do is
speculate.
Does that qualify as SaaS? Because then we can just ignore it out of ethical
reasons. I hope so, because it sounds quite difficult trying to make such
games work with gnash on a platform that often has difficulties with 3D
acceleration...
He mentioned Trisquel :D
It's when reading the interviews of RMS that I realise his genius. Look at
how he answers, how everything he says clarifies things. Instantly ethical
issues are separated from technical and legal ones, everything complicated is
quickly analysed and explained in a sim
I use Trisquel full time on my desktop. I bought a different motherboard
(and, as a consequence, a new CPU and new RAM) for it to be as free software
friendly, as possible. Before that, I had to cope with slow performance even
without compiz effects.
Now I can't play a number of games that
thanks for correcting!
afaik these packages are what makes up the gnome-version of trisquel:
trisquel-desktop-common
trisquel-gnome-base
and these are what make up the mini-trisquel:
trisquel-mini
So if you want to convert from mini to the Gnome version, do: sudo aptitude
remove trisquel-mini && sudo aptitude instal
I thought v.3 rar is already backwards engineered? Does it work, if you
install unrar-free and all updates?
That's very easy. There are basically just the integrated cards from Intel.
Intel does the drivers on their own and gives the source to the guys
maintaining the XServer.
Don't you have to specify what driver you used for the card when making an
entry to h-node? It would be sufficient, if there was some place to look up
which drivers are reverse engineered and which ones are "real" (based on
original documentations or made by the manufacturer itself). Sometime
I'd love to see that, the Windows version of Firefox reporting Flash as a
spyware and forcing the user to remove it and never install it again.
A self hating Jew, huh? He is an atheist.
The problem with having kids, we are hopelessly overpopulating mother Earth.
Unless we stop growing and start de-growing, quality of life will go down to
almost nothing within a couple lifetimes.
But Stallman is a jerk to talking that way to people.
I know, it might sound shocking, but there is some truth to what Stallman
says about children. He does it in an absolutely unpolite and mostly
offending way. He is, as usual, unable to bring his point across so that the
majority of people understands him. Don't get me wrong, I find the way rm
You should not use facebook, since it spies on people and by using it, you
encourage your friends to join in and possibly letting facebook spy on them
too. This is why facebook always remains free of charge (ans doesn't use
advertising banners on site): they sell the personal information thei
If your client gets pissed off by your licensing policy, that doesn't mean
free software is some kind of bullshit that is not reality-based. It just
means your client has false preferences. In theory, it would not be bad for
anyone if the JavaScript you write for a webpage is licensed under t
:D It was just today that I found out about them from the gnu.org page. They
do seem quite cool in fact! Would be awesome if they would donate some small
part of their sells with Trisquel pre-installed to this project.
The problem is the following: there is only one company that makes videocards
that run with fully free drivers. It is ironically Intel. For example the
x3000 and x4500 have free drivers and do not require binary blobs in the
kernel.
However, the motherboards that use those videocards run on
That's where GNU/Linux usually shines: advanced video and audio editing.
Basically any editor you choose will do the job of separating the audio track
from the video and putting it back together. If PiTiVi doesn't work for you,
try Lives and kdenlive. Lives is slightly less intuitive as far I
DDG requires some more work on users side, but 90% of the time I can find my
stuff without going to google. Sometimes it does take a bit longer though.
What really rocks about DDG is the design. It doesn't load a whole new page
to show more search results, but just loads some more results into
Sorry for the OT, but whatever happened to the games DVD? Back in Trisquel
4,0 there used to be a live-DVD full of pre-installed free software games.
I see Gnash working out well for two purposes atm: flash based adverts don't
start playing when the site loads and require me to click on "play now"
first. Also gnash plays back youtube videos that are embedded somewhere else.
Besides that, it isn't of much use. Afaik some flash based games c
There is Musix GNU/Linux, a fully free distro that is based on Debian and
afaik has a realtime kernel. It doesn't get updated too often though.
I'm sorry, but this has to be one of the most stupid partitionings ever. You
will constantly run out of space on your /home while having tons of (barely
usable) space on / and only a tiny fraction of your swap will ever be used.
Once the next LTS Trisquel will come out, consider repartitionin
Trisquel is not a rolling release. But you do not have to wipe your HDD - as
long as you install software only from the official repository you should be
able to update the distro number without reinstalling. I updated from 4.5 to
5.0 without problems.
As far flash videos go: there is a gre
Tivoization is more about locking stuff down through hardware protection,
it's a rare case and usually nothing you have to worry about on a PC.
Dependance on non-free compilers or libraries is bad though, didn't think
about it.
freely available porn = more relaxed men = more economical power.
That was a real sign at the anti-ACTA demos in Germany, I swear :D
In general, it's an awesome idea to have some place where bids on projects
can be made and people will actually be able to execute the freedom to change
their software even without the skills to do so. Trisquel already has the
so-called croudfunded tasks. Everyone bid on a task, until some pr
I sometimes refer to free software as to "software under a free license". If
you specify that the license (and not the software) is free, it might help
people to think in the right direction.
Of course, with proprietary software all you buy is actually the license,
since the developer remai
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