I agree with you generally, because not everyone has DVD drives and fast
internet connections.
I can send you a boot disc and DVD drive by mail if you like (I mean, if
that's the issue).
Will the new website come in the next week too? No rush -- just wondering,
because I read that the OS and website will come at the same time.
lol
A few of us put some info about this in the wiki:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/hardware-type-and-software-freedom
I hope that we got it right. Please let us know if not.
Hey MySelf,
I made an account on your wiki. I can help with writing/editing. I don't
really know where to start. Let me know if I can help with something.
Nice find lembas!
Those cameras look awesome. It's nice to know that these exist,even if
they're priced out of most peoples' reach. I see that Ephel's market is
probably businesses.
I wonder what it would take to get one of those cameras in working order for
regular people.
Do you know of any cameras that save videos as webm or ogg?
One that can translate sentences and paragraphs, and not just one word at a
time. I'd like to use it for (English to/from) Chinese (simplified and
traditional) and Spanish.
It looks like a great resource; I'll take a closer look this weekend.
Oh man, that is so awesome!
I put together a list of articles about third-party control. Could you have
a look, and let me know if you have suggestions.
freedom-and-software_list.odt
Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
Thanks a lot Leny; that really helps.
STMP, POP, and IMAP are free, right? And then there are other proprietary
alternatives (as you said)?
Does Lemote have any relation to Imagination Technologies? I'm asking in
relation to Legimet's post here:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/new-mips-single-board-computer
Does Tox.im use a free communication protocol? I suppose that because it's
free software, anyone can figure out how the protocol works?
In practice, at the moment, only Tox.im uses its protocol right?
It's a free communication protocol, right?
For example: a non-free software proprietor stops software/security updates
to old-format, and introduces new-format, to encourage everyone to buy
new-software.
Links to articles would be great if you know of any.
nice work
Trisquel comes with programs like mv and pdfunite right? Do most gnu users
(like me until very recently) have them on the computer and not use them? Or
do popular GUI programs depend on these kinds of programs to do things (like
"export to pdf" in LibreOffice)?
Thanks again, again
My first run of the script was successful, and I now have a
"basename-matches" PDF. I renamed the match file to word-word-#ofhits.pdf
I run the script a second time, on that basename-matches PDF
(word-word-#ofhits.pdf), to achieve the "and" functionality. Unfortunatley,
on this second ru
Haha, "a little"; my only contribution was linking to your website.
I imagine that there's a lot that people can do with tools like this. I
opened a documentation page for it here:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/information-processing
I don't know whether "Information Processing" is the most appropriate name.
If there's a better name, please open a new page
thanks Ali
Can Pump.io accounts and Diaspora accounts communicate with eachother?
nice to meet you serval
Thanks!
The terminal gives me that warning when I tried to install pdfjam in Trisquel
7. The terminal offered to install the packages without verification.
What does authenticate/verify mean? Is it authentication/verification by the
Trisquel team?
I think that I understand -- pdfjam lets the computer group the matches
without first creating an individual PDF for each page-match.
I will read the new script to spot the differences and to try to understand
how you did it.
My largest set of PDFs is 80 files. In that set, some PDFs are as big as ~20
mb, some are only ~500 kb.
In the newest version of pdf-page-grep, the number of matching pages is
restricted to 1021 right? I can search my PDFs in smaller groups if this is
the case.
Thanks for the tip; I hadn't thought about how to structure the search in
this way. I will review how I'm doing my searches with this in mind.
Cool -- 1021 pages at a time will work great. Thanks for all the updates and
help MB.
I get an error message at the end of the run, and there doesn't seem to be a
matches file in my working folder. Maybe 500+ megs of PDFs is too much. I
did a few test runs with a few 10-15 page PDFs, and that seemed to work.
I/O Error: Couldn't open file '/tmp/pdf-page-grep.PHgWDa-1022': Too
The script writes the "basename-matches.pdf" file to the same folder where
the script and PDFs are, right?
I can't find that matches file. Is it a problem if my PDFs have spaces in
the name? (Particularly the last PDF, that the script uses to create the
"matches.pdf" file name)
Oh, I understand now -- When I read "pipe grep" earlier, I thought that
"pipe" referred to script instruction or terminal command that I didn't know
yet.
You're right; no need to separate out the pages. I just have to pipe grep
with a second set of words to achieve "and".
I just thought of something. I could use pdf-page-grep to do a first pass
with my first group of ORs.
Then I could split the "matches" file into single-page PDFs.
And then use a new set of ORs on those single-page PDFs.
This would be like having an "And" in the search. Is there an automati
Is it possible to search for pages that contain words -- at least one word
from each of two groups? For example:
First group of "ORs": car, truck, bus, bicycle, or motorcycle
"and"
Second group of "ORs": blue, red, green, purple, or beige
So a good hit could have the word "green" and "tru
Right! Thank you!
I moved the script to the directory in my PATH variable like MB suggested.
But I'm not sure that it worked properly. I'll do a little research about
that and try again more carefully.
I tried running the script again today, but am having trouble. When I cd to
the directory where pdf-page-grep is, and enter "pdf-page-grep", the terminal
tells me that there is no such command.
I tried moving the script to the directory in my PATH variable; I'm not sure
that this went well
If a new user clicks on "Documentation" from the website's front page, she
will go to the Documentation landing page, and see these links:
All Manuals
Philosophy
How Trisquel is Made
Editions
Setup
Community
Language and Accessibility
Hardware
Logo
Home a
I heard of the Lemote Yeeloong; that it used a MIPS processor, and that it
respects freedom. And I (wrongly?) associated MIPS with software freedom.
Is it up to the manufacturers to disclose hardware documentation? Just
because an architecture is free (is MIPS free?), implementation of that
I want to learn Shell scripting now and will read those comments carefully --
thanks
Does this have RYF potential?
http://store.imgtec.com/product/mips-creator-ci20/
In case someone with a similar situation finds this page -- here's how to run
a script:
1. Open the terminal, and type:
cd [directory where your script is]
Example:
cd /home/username/Desktop/research/
Put the PDF files in the same directory
2. Then type the following, to give yourself pe
It took me a little while to figure out what I was looking at ... thank you
so much! I'm running the script now, and it's finding pages! This is so
cool. I'm going to PM you about that beer.
Also, thanks a lot Legimet. You guys are the best.
proprietary software in a security-oriented distribution ... how bizarre
MB, having the text would be way more useful than the PDF pages! Thanks for
recommending pdftotext and the -layout option.
I have some questions -- could you help me break this process down into
smaller steps?
I looked up pdfjam's split command online -- I think that it may be a little
t
Thanks for working on this Icaro
Is there a way to search PDF files for keywords, and then create new PDFs
that contain only the pages that contain those keywords.
I'd like to search the PDFs for words with various combinations of "and" and
"or". Is this possible?
The blue box is on the Documentation page. The Documentation page is
"parent" to all the pages listed in that blue box. And all those pages
listed in the blue box are "child" to the Documentation page.
You can change the hierarchy of items in the blue-box-list. To do that:
(1) go to the i
"the barbaric quality is kind of endearing"
Haha I hear you. I used MS Paint to make a slide show for a school project
once, many years ago. The backgrounds were photos; I wrote comments on the
photos, in red, with the paint brush. The finished product looked pretty
rudimentary. That co
Thanks for joining us Abjectio
You'll find that these guys are a smart and helpful group
I added a link to LibreTrend to the "complete systems" list in the
documentation. Do you know more about them?
I wonder whether the unattractiveness helps with marketing. Maybe the idea
is that potential users will think "LXDE is ugly -- and so committed to being
light-weight!"
I'll try this out -- thanks Garsmith
Is that Trisquel 7's default appearance? It looks good.
Does anyone know how to make LXDE look like this?
I noticed that today in the pre-release version. The computer suspended and
woke up okay, and then Freemind (mind map program) closed without warning.
Another time, after suspend and wake-up, the computer restarted without
warning.
Is this what it looks like in Trisquel Mini 7?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LXDE_desktop_full.png
Are there any (easy) customization options? Things like colour, font,
text-size, an icon dock.
great idea!
I opened a wiki page for the info that you guys are posting
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/printer-freedom
I have a few suggestions -
Set the browser home page to Trisquel's all-manuals page:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/all-manuals
Put free-sw-friendly websites in the bookmarks. For example, for music :
bandcamp.com , Jamendo (please correct me if these websites are not good
suggestions)
Thanks again -- it worked just as you said
Thanks wpurcell; it worked!
I now find myself in a slightly ridiculous situation. In the "Add to Panel"
program, I saw something called "Indicator Applet Complete". I was pretty
sure that I didn't need it ... but I was curious. So I clicked on it.
I now have:
a) three wifi buttons
b) tw
How can I bring it back?
I'm using Trisquel 7 by the way
lol
The system update (Trisquel 7) gave me a new start-up and log-in background.
It's pretty.
thanks man
Trisquel 7 seems mostly pretty good to me, but I would caution people who are
thinking about installing it as a main OS.
GNU Cash doesn't work properly in Trisquel 7 yet, and I had a little trouble
with Add/Remove Programs. I recommend checking the Issues page and asking
about your planned
Oh I understand now -- thanks MB. I will take your advice and use Mini if I
need a lighter system down the road.
I wanted to try gNewSense for the nostalgic gui, and the possibility of
getting a little more battery life out of my laptop. My laptop handles
standard Trisquel fine though, an
Do current versions of programs require a more current version of gnome to
run? So gNewSense 3.1 will only run years-old versions of programs?
gNewSense seems to use mate (or maybe gnome 2); I heard that mate is a little
easier on older hardware.
I remember reading that there's no benefit in switching to mate if the
programs rely on gnome3 anyway. Is that correct? I may be totally wrong.
I'm thinking of giving gNewSense a try --
Can I make today's day and date appear next to the digital clock?
Open Arena is a good game; ideal for a LAN party I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenArena
I haven't been a fan of the KDE Plasmas... but Plasma 5 looks pretty cool.
Does Triskel 7 come with Plasma 5? Or will it auto-update to Plasma 5?
What's the key combination for this search feature? Does it work like
Synapse?:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/screenshots/krunner-k
Thanks Sachin, I'll check this out
Thanks, I filed a bug report
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/11999
Oh -- I wish that gnucash.org had a .deb file. I don't think that I have
built a program from source before.
I'll file a bug report lembas
The left, right, and backspace keys don't work in GNU Cash.
This problem from 2010 looks similar:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607673
In Trisquel 6, I could drag a window to the right or left side of the screen,
and the window would occupy that half of the screen.
The windows in Trisquel 7 don't seem to work like that. I like that feature
in 6; I hope that it makes it into 7.
Has the Open Source Initiative (OSI) said anything about the motivations for
open source?
I assume that the OSI's definition of open source accomodates Tom Preston
-Werner's vision. And perhaps others' visions too? Are there other visions
for open source?
http://opensource.org/osd
I started the Onboard on-screen-keyboard a few weeks ago. I played with it
for a little while, and then turned it off. It still appears at the log-in
screen. It doesn't appear after I log in.
I don't mind that Onboard appears at the log-in screen. But I don't think
that it should appear
Will this early release update to the final version automatically? Or is it
better to do a fresh install when that time comes?
We don't have much about accessibility in the documentation either
http://xkcd.com/1390/
the commentary (hover over the comic) works for software ethics too
great post
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html
"Have you ever written an amazing library or tool at one job and then left to
join another company only to rewrite that code or remain miserable in its
absence? [...] By getting code out in the public we can dras
The GPL is about promoting freedom for everyone. Not maximizing freedom on
an individual level.
The GPL's extra restrictions ensure that freedom persists from one iteration
of a work to the next. Permissive licenses do not restrict in this way. And
so are more free on an individual level
I was in the same situation about a year ago.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/blasphemous-question-here
My dad needed Flash for work. I put Ubuntu on my dad's computer, so that I
could get Flash from Ubuntu's software centre. I wasn't happy about it, but
I didn't have a good option.
Hi Dave, that was me. I messaged you about Tox; I saw your topic about it
and thought that I would give it a try too. My ID is:
4B14CEACBE0B9E2BFA9A766E5DF3177222FB58227BFE54D1981BC91E63697761FC03E0516F44
Thanks!
Is Tox GPL? I installed one of the recommended packages from tox.im/Binaries
and have the program open. How do I make an account?
I'm going on the assumption that people who want accessibility features might
check the documentation to see what Trisquel offers. If our accessibility
documentation looks thin, they may go somewhere else.
I'll try and learn about accessibility features so that maybe I can
contribute somet
Quidam says on his blog that Trisquel has really good out-of-the-box
accessibility features. I feel like we should have more info about
accessibility in the documentation.
Right now, we have just two third party links on accessibility. I don't know
whether that's enough to convey Quidam's
pdfjam worked! Well, I'm not surprised that it works. I am a little
surprised that I got it to work.
I did a test run on a bunch of pdf files following the directions in Example
6. I ran into a hurdle; the newly letter-sized pages all output as a single
pdf.
Then I remembered that you
Thanks for posting
It was really cool to see Chris
Haha. Well, he would have been proud!
Thanks again!
If anyone finds that when it comes out, please share
My scanner isn't listening to Simple Scan's preference settings. It's the
same for the few other scanners that I have tried.
I'll try pdfjam. I found some instructions for pdfjam's trim command
(Example 6 on the page below).
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-resea
Cool table Chris. But so many penguins, and no gnus!? Everyone knows that a
penguin can hardly do anything without a gnu! Or something like that =)
I don't know how to limit scanners to particular page sizes. The scanner
always seems to scan the full potential size (the full scan bed, or the
automatic document feeder's full motor run time per page).
I have letter size pages to scan through the automatic document feeder. The
scanner c
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