Also noting that after disabling Orca screen reader as per
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/disabling-orca-screen-reader, logging out and
logging in again, I notice that the "orca" process was consuming 100% of one
CPU core. Required a `killall -9 orca` to stop it.
Hi, I've been trying to install Trisquel 8.0 today but not having much luck
The text-base install works smoothly up until it fails to install
linux-image-generic.
The graphical install works smoothly as long as I accept the default
partitioning and encryption, but I really do prefer a
For what it's worth, my upgrade experience was fairly bumpy. I ended up with
quite a few packages failing to install due to conflicts, requiring manual
removal with aptitude, because apt-get was stuck. Got there in the end.
When it's completed you'll need to reboot your machine. Now you're running
Trisquel 8.0!
Regards,
Ben
Given that they just opened a "General Free Software Talk" board on this site
I would say no. There are already a few forums, for example the FSF has a
forum, although I believe you need to be a member to view it and it's not
very active. It seems like this forum already has enough Free
Those are the instructions to install the proprietary firmware.
Something has been bugging me for a while, and the recent discussions about
LibreJS had me thinking about it.
- The Linux kernel is under GPL v2
(https://www.kernel.org/category/faq.html), but it contains the infamous
binary blobs, which should invalidate its Free Software license (you
Cannot edit my post, so fixing a typo here:
Are these GPL-violations? What's the point of carefully picking a
GPL-licensed program if non-free code ends up being executed on your machine?
Thanks for the explanations. I still think it's misleading for these
projects to advertise themselves as Free Software projects when the user ends
up executing nonfree code, provided by them, on his machine. For instance, I
added the Handbrake ppa at one time, confident that it was Free
If Replicant does not support your phone, CyanogenMod + F-Droid is the 'least
worst' solution. As you can see on the FSFE's 'Free your Android' page
(https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html), with CyanogenMod:
With the exception of some non-free device drivers, your phone should
I use 'sudo -i' and my user password when I need to work as root. How can
'sudo su' work since the root password is not set by default?
The xfce desktop environment is packaged in the repos:
sudo apt-get install xfce4
Who sent you the email? Paypal, Trisquel, other?... I didn't get any such
email.
Unfortunately for you, this Intel wireless card depends on a non-free piece
of firmware, which is not distributed by Trisquel due to its non-free nature.
You can either replace your wifi card by a freedom-friendly card, or use a
USB wireless adapter (see
I for one would be interested in such a service. I try to run some of those
services on a home server but I lack time and knowledge to have a fully
functional setup. Knowing that there is a clear commitment to privacy and
using Free software would be a big selling point for me!
It works absolutely fine as far as I can tell. You may want to install
libdvdcss2:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
Something along the lines of
sudo apt-get install unity unity-2d unity-greeter
should do the trick.
So shall I conclude that video calls between Trisquel users and Mac/Windows
users are impossible to achieve? So far absolutely no one has been able to
give a working recipe...
If anyone here is able to make video calls with someone who uses MacOS or
Windows, I would be VERY interested in knowing what client software and
protocol you use successfully. I have a jabber.org account, and also a sip
account at ekiga.net. I have tried the ekiga and jitsi clients but
Are you the new official troll?
Free Software is a horrible misnomer. *We* know what it really means, but
anyone outside of our circle will hear it and understand gratis, freeware,
etc... From a PR point of view, it's a total failure to use a term which is
misinterpreted by 99% of the people who'll hear it. I'm so glad
How about: Ethical Software, or even better, Liberating Software.
After all, Free software is software that liberates users, isn't it?
Liberate:
To set free, as from oppression, confinement, or foreign control.
You won't find LibreOffice 4 in Toutatis (which is based on Ubuntu 12.04).
However, you can use the following ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-4-0
Well, I still have the issue and haven't been able to find a fix. Updating
to the latest linux-libre kernel didn't help, and neither did all the
wireless module tricks and tricks found on Ubuntu forums.
Actually, I have found several messages on the Ubuntu forums describing the
exact same
The problem is still there :(. I just tried to transfer a 136 Mb folder from
one computer to another with samba and wireless got disconnected after
transferring a dozen files. I was also disconnected while simply downloading
my email.
Am I the only one experiencing such an issue on
This is the thread where I speak with myself, so please indulge me one last
time lol :). Well I sure hope it is the last time!
I *may* have found the fix! I was finally able to transfer some large
directories with samba over my wireless connection.
Here's what I did:
1. Disable ipv6 in
Anyone experiencing wireless issues since the upgrade to Toutatis? My
wireless connection, which worked flawlessly with Brigantia, now drops from
time to time while I surf the web for instance, and systematically when I do
large file transfers via wifi between my computers. This happens on
Disabling ipv6 in network manager *may* have fixed the problem. I was
finally able to transfer some large files through ssh and smb, whereas it
kept failing previously. I will now hope that the issue is gone for good.
Keeping my fingers crossed...
@icarolongo Thank you very much!
Cinnamon is terrific. As for as modern desktops are concerned, I really
tried to keep an open mind and tried both Unity and Gnome-Shell for a while,
but I feel that there are just too many bad design decisions that no
extension or tweaking (when such tweaking is even possible) can fix.
Always nice to get some good reviews; too bad some reviewers totally miss the
point of Trisquel (what's the point of installing Trisquel if you then add
Ubuntu's non-free repos and Skype?).
Anybody here using lightdm as the login manager? I think it looks much
better than gdm, except for one thing, a problem that I didn't have on
Brigantia by the way: the buttons and menus and square, gray and ugly, as if
no good-looking theme had been applied. Anyone experiencing the same
Hmm... Same problem in Unity by the way. Strange.
In the meantime, I have installed the Cinnamon ppa and I really, really like
it.
I tried so many desktop environments recently and I believe I have finally
found the right DE for my needs. Trisquel 6 w/ Cinnamon is just great!
I've started using Gnome-Shell with this new release of Trisquel. It takes
some time getting used to it, but I don't think it's as horrible and unusable
as some people say. Fortunately some extensions enable some interesting
customization.
I am currently using the following extensions:
Some applications have a blurry icon in the Gnome Shell's Activities window.
I guess they didn't provide an icon with the correct size in their package.
However, it surprises me that LibreOffice is among them. Can anyone else
using GNOME 3 Shell and LibreOffice see this problem as well?
Well I for one use Trisquel Mini on my cheap underpowered netbook :) !
But I use the main edition on my workstation.
Maybe we could keep two editions, the difference being 3D graphics
support or not. Trisquel Mini would be the light, 2D edition, for
machines which lack either power or 3D
Interesting article here:
http://www.iloveubuntu.net/canonicals-vice-president-engineering-rick-spencer-officially-proposes-adoption-rolling-release
In short, Ubuntu may replace all STS releases by a single rolling release.
LTS releases every two years would still exist.
Keep in mind that
Just had a quick look at the RC using VirtualBox. I think I remember quidam
mentioning somewhere that it was impossible to keep a transparent task bar in
the main edition, which is really too bad. So how come the Trisquel Mini
task bar is transparent (and very nice looking)?
OK nevermind, I think it's the latest version of Linterna Magica that's the
cause of the weird behavior with links that I was experiencing.
I've noticed lately that I am unable to browse some sites (my bank for
instance) correctly with abrowser (v16), although it used to work fine, and
it works perfectly fine with Midori or GNU IceCat (v17). I'll try to empty
my cache and see if things change, but if it doesn't, then it would
Trisquel mentioned on Slashdot today:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/21/2212202/gnu-hands-out-trisquel-at-a-microsoft-store
Some of the comments dismissing Trisquel are sad because they show clearly
that the person commenting has never tried Trisquel, but spreads
misinformation nevertheless (e.g. 'you won't be able to listen to your
mp3s').
We mentioned HandBrake in another thread and the fact that it includes some
non-free code for AAC encoding.
A fully free (as far as I can tell) version of HandBrake exists in Debian
Experimental. I tried to install the .deb package in Brigantia but couldn't
because of unfulfilled
In case anyone has a similar CPU overheating problem one day, let me just
tell you that I was amazed that simply cleaning the inside of the computer
case with a compressed-gas duster completely solved my problem! The CPU went
from 40C when idle down to 20C, and hit a maximum of 35C when
I am still interested. 17UTC is noon EST, right? That would be fine with
me.
Hello,
I recently purchased a TV set which has a USB port, and it can read videos
from an external hard drive plugged into that port.
The formats it can read are summarized in this table (I scanned the user
manual): http://benwen.info/public/video.jpg
I have a bunch of region 2 DVDs from
Thank you for mentioning Handbrake (in the first version of your post at
least, I see that you edited it since then - any reason?) - I added the ppa
for it, and it works absolutely fine. I can rip to m4v or mkv, and both
formats are recognized by my TV set (m4v extension must be changed to
My feeling as of today about this topic:
- I don't mind if the software that is included is not the latest and
greatest, as long as security patches are applied
- But we may have an issue here with abrowser, given Firefox's highly
idiosyncratic rapid release cycle, where if I understand
Le 2012-12-10 12:07, tegskywal...@hotmail.com a écrit :
You do bring up an interesting point about future releases being
based on LTS only and then backporting necessary packages and fixes
in the toutatis-backports repostory. The repository exists, so why
not use it??
Exactly. Like an
Le 2012-12-07 14:51, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross a écrit :
Sorry, I forgot to say that I have been thinking about the problem of
bad upgrades. What about having a system that held backup risky
upgrades. Like xorg, glib, linux etc. Those how want too can install
them to test/conform that the
Le 2012-12-06 06:29, Fabian Rodriguez a écrit :
On 12-12-04 07:56 PM, ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote:
I'm trying to wage demand for various regions/languages if we shell
out money to manufacture the keyboards. How many would be interested
in a Emperor Penguin laptop first off?
Excellent - thank you! Unity is a nice desktop environment for my netbook
and its small screen.
I would be the first in line to purchase a smartphone running 100% free
software. But such a phone does not exist. In the meantime, I use an
imperfect solution, one that is recommended by the FSFE :
http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html
I am glad that we're able to run
I own a Samsung Galaxy S and currently run Cyanogenmod 10.0 with the F-Droid
repository. Replicant supports this phone, and I was excited to see that the
camera is now supported with replicant 4.0. Still missing according to the
replicant wiki: 3D graphics, GPS and compass. Functional but
I have tried owncloud on my local server, and on a shared host, and ran into
a lot of bugs (I opened a few on their bug tracker system). Most problematic
for me, was losing access to my calendar after an upgrade. I must say I
don't trust owncloud to host my data in the current state of the
The fallback mode, which is what the default Trisquel DE is based upon, is to
disappear in the next GNOME releases:
https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2012-November/msg9.html
Le 2012-11-12 12:21, aliasb...@gmail.com a écrit :
Because of the logic behind Ubuntu itself. If Trisquel is based on
Ubuntu and fallows the same development then it should use the same
DE no ?
But Ubuntu's DE is Unity, not Gnome-shell nor MATE, so I'm not sure I get
your point here.
Currently I have the following setup, for 'historical' reasons related to my
distro-hopping days:
Home server: Trisquel
Desktop: Trisquel / Linux Mint / Ubuntu / Debian
Netbook: Trisquel / Linux Mint / Ubuntu / Windows
iBook: Debian / Ubuntu / Mac OS
Today I use Trisquel 99.9% of the time. I
Make sure you add yourself to the bottom of the above wiki page.
I just added myself as well.
Since I'm the original poster, let me make it clear that I absolutely don't
mind not having the very latest version of any piece of software packaged in
my distribution. But there may be something I don't understand about Firefox
now that it is using a rapid release cycle. Do the new
How come abrowser in Brigantia is still version 14 when Firefox 16 was
released today? Aren't abrowser versions supposed to track Firefox versions?
Looking at the Ubuntu web site, it seems like Oneiric's Firefox is currently
at version 15, so I guess Brigantia should follow suit?...
I am a software developer. My company creates proprietary software, and our
tools are proprietary as well. Free Software is non-existent within this
company. A few years ago, a brave colleague of mine was asked to stop using
OpenOffice and stick to Word. Witnessing how we screw customers
Hello theblackpig,
First, congrats for actually proposing something :).
The current forum layout doesn't bother me. I don't really like forums with
hundreds of sub-forums. A bit overkill as far as I am concerned.
And more importantly, I sure hope we won't create a second Trisquel forum.
Well 'screw' was maybe a bit harsh; that's just the way proprietary software
vendors work. I give money to free software projects and never use
proprietary software outside of my job so my conscience is clean ;). I'd say
working for such a company just constantly reinforces my personal
I've never met him but would gladly go to one of his speeches if he ever came
to my area (Montreal). So I won't mention my job, nor the fact that I have
two children and a smartphone - anything else I should know? lol :).
Can you install anything else at all (Ubuntu, Mint...)?? I had the same
issue on a netbook. The reason was bad RAM. Everything worked fine after
replacing the RAM with the right one. Can you run memtest86++ to test your
RAM?
I don't get it either. This community is very friendly and helpful, even
towards people who don't seem to understand the very purpose of the project.
For some not-so-friendly advice, try to ask a naive question on the Debian
user forum ;).
Received it today (I live in Canada) :). Now ready to show it to anyone who
cares - lol. Which makes me think that it was my 5 year old son's first day
of school today, and that I spotted three computers at the back of the class.
Wonder what OS they're using, hmm... I guess I won't
I have a NVIDIA 9500GT card which provides me with 3D acceleration. Games or
applications which require it (e.g. Extreme Tux Racer, Stellarium) work
absolutely fine in GNOME. In KDE, I can enable desktop effects and some
games which require 3D acceleration (e.g. Open Arena) work perfectly,
Hello miga,
You are right! I was just going to add that I had found the culprit.
Disabling the desktop effects fixes the issue. I will try to see if a
specific desktop effect is to blame, or if it's the whole setting that
creates problems for these applications.
By the way, you have a
Both computers basically have the same install (Brigantia)... I did manage
however to get a nice looking LXDE desktop by following those instructions:
http://www.vandorp.biz/2012/01/installing-a-lightweight-lxdevnc-desktop-environment-on-your-ubuntudebian-vps/
I don't think I have the energy
This is what my Trisquel server looks like when I access it through VNC using
the Remmina client:
http://www.imagebam.com/image/b974ec206949604
The VNC server is launched with the following command:
vncserver :1 -geometry 800x600
Using the -depth flag, with different values, as in vncserver
You could also use Minitube. It is a youtube client available in Trisquel's
repos and I have yet to have any problems seeing any video with it. I love
it!
Does anyone know if such a CPU/GPU provides 3D acceleration for Trisquel:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116399
Intel HD in general?
I couldn't find the answer on h-node.
Thanks!
Thanks! As I have a few spare parts lying around, I am thinking of building
a fully-free desktop, but I want to make sure that the components I pick will
be fully compatible with linux-libre. My understanding of the current
situation is that careful thought must be applied to the choice of
Thanks for your feedback!
All the desktop mainboards I checked on the Supported Mainboards coreboot
page seem quite old/discontinued. It seems to be quite a challenge to
purchase a supported mainboard (by the way, anyone here running coreboot
successfully on a desktop?), but it would
I use Trisquel on a low-end netbook. The Gnome edition works fine, although
it is a bit slow. The Trisquel Mini edition is significantly faster, but
power management is an issue : the LXDE battery indicator gives wrong
numbers, and the battery discharges itself completely when suspending the
Got the gist of it, surprisingly as I don't speak or understand the Spanish
language. I guess French and Spanish are close enough so that I can make
some sense of what I read :). Thanks!
Will try tonight. Thanks - will let you know how it goes!
Problem solved :) !
Adding a .desktop file in .config/autostart with the following content does
the trick:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Power
Comment=Power Manager
Exec=lxterminal --command xfce4-power-manager
Terminal=true
Finally found the solution to this machine freeze at reboot, thanks to the
following blog article:
http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/08/04/howto-fix-linux-hangfreeze-during-reboots-and-restarts/
Setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=reboot=efi in /etc/default/grub fixed the
problem for my Acer
I used to be an Apple fanboy. Didn't know any better. I thoroughly despised
Microsoft. Now I despise them both ;). You can by the way probably make a
case that Apple is even worse than Microsoft in many aspects!
What makes you think F-Droid isn't maintained? I get updates, see new
applications being added to the repository...
I second Morne's message, and think that what is really needed is for someone
to assume the role of 'Community Manager'. This person would be able to
answer all questions from our community, and post the information that Morne
suggests. Obviously this person would need to have constant
That's because almost nobody reads said conditions ;). If the product is
convenient, people use it and that's it. Sad but true!
I had these kinds of messages on a netbook with bad RAM. Replacing the RAM
fixed the problem. Not saying this is the problem with your computer, but it
can't hurt to run memtest86+ (available from grub once installed) just to
make sure.
Talk about counter-intuitive behaviour!
It's an upstream (Oneiric) bug (thanks SirGrant for the follow-up on my bug
report).
I confirm that the following workaround works:
- remove modemmanager
- replace network-manager by wicd
Boot: OK
Shutdown: OK
Reboot: machine hangs
Thanks lembas for the workaround... Will try it...
Gotta say Unity is growing on me... Are there any Trisquel themes for it?
Hello,
I'm a native French speaker and could help with some translations, especially
of the release announcement. I have followed the link given in that thread
but don't understand how to proceed once on that page. If anyone could shed
some light...
I agree, bring back the old trash can :)!
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