Just get a Samsung SSD. They're reasonably priced and they are reliable,
unlike this one. It is just a generic SSD. Any SSD will work with your
computer if it is the right size (I think they only make them in laptop
size). Crucial SSDs also have a lifetime warranty or so I've heard.
I have a Dell desktop with Wifi card where there is Wifi without firmware,
but Bluetooth doesn't work.
But are the M.2. cards actually working without proprietary software or is
there some software stored on a flash chip (other than the basic stuff on the
regular Mini PCIE cards) that is equi
I think this might not be the place
Trisquel takes Ubuntu and removes proprietary software.
You can make Trisquel work just like Ubuntu, although some devices might not
work without the proprietary software. You should try it and you will
probably be presently surprised.
As you are from Brasil, please read this for more informat
"sputnik" - I like it. it has good contrast with the text.
adds support for new board
I think we should have copyright but not in such a way that impedes the free
flow of information and culture. For instance I think there should always be
a way for people to make sure that their name is always attached to their
work, especially for arts and literature. If that were the case I
I agree, it's kind of silly for them not even to handle the blobs the same as
debian where they're not enabled by default...
reinstall is best option
inb4 the trolls
I remember the "EU: All your internet is belong to us" thread... *shudders*!
I support Libreboot if true but we need to hear all sides of the story before
we make conclusion.
There is a lot of sexism underlying software industry etc so it is somewhat
plausible. But lets hear bo
looks like they took the liberty to cease them
i thought it was kind of over the top in some respects
let's get real, he probably has read it. he's clearly not stupid
just likes non-free license!
what chipset is it?
if it's a funny nvidia one, get rid of it and see if you're processor, intel
we assume, will have integrated graphics.
name change
same person
I'm neutral in the issue
But this is standard statement
with debian the driver looks for the firmware and then if it can't find it,
it says "possible missing firmware".
ruben rodriguez is sysadmin at fsf, and develops trisquel.
> *Tehnoetic anger towards thinkpenguin/Luke*
this is more than a forum spat
Recover with photorec/testdisk.
Don't run weird commands without understanding them. I have no idea what the
command does. It looks strange though.
If the bashrc file is gone as well as documents you probably did "*c*"
instead of "*.c".
Make frequent backups. Always.
There is no evidence she is suffering from a mental illness.
> He hasn't given any proof of anything.
Leah is a woman. This is well known. Correct this please.
You are right, of course it is unfair and patronising to attribute it to
mental health. It is strong belief Leah has.
inb4 the "muh SJW ruining our software" comments
i get the impression you might not know what the term actually means
you have no evidence this is the case.
Well obviously it may become problematic should you want to turn your
personal computer off for some time to save power or something.
If your computer is a desktop it probably would be less efficient than
keeping a small single board computer on for all the time.
in future ask on irc
we're all friendly there
try #coreboot, #libreboot, #flashrom on freenode
I don't see what's wrong with asking if a baby is a boy or a girl.
However, toys should not be gendered. Lego for example is sometimes seen as a
boys toy but it has always been advertised for both boys and girls (although
they have had various "girly" ranges in recent years). Gendering toys is
if I recall SpamAssassin is actually called ClamAssassin, and uses ClamAV.
Tch tch
Don't you read what /etc/sudoers says, to only edit it with visudo?
:-P
..
This reminds me of how the Spanish Civil War was fought on foreign capital,
like Texaco.
Fascism is there always, lurking, with the rich and powerful by its side.
"We seek individuals with Financial Management know-hows to handle the
investment and management of over US$900M from private investors."
"Turkeys paid handsomely for roast dinners"
Scratch is a programming environment under a free license. It was developed
by MIT to make kids think like programmers.
I don't know what you are talking about...
I suspect this thread is going to end up like the thing where someone wanted
to delete libdrm...
yay! please stay
join irc for stuff like this and talk to us on #trisquel, #fsf, and #gnu on
freenode :-)
Leah did a lot of the development on Libreboot. Therefore, I would say that
most people are going to go to Libreboot, not the version associated with
GNU.
to be fair the email was full of personal attacks that the author didn't want
to write publicly.
Leah started Libreboot, and lead the development of it. I would say she has
the moral right to run Libreboot, not GNU. I think that GNU should change the
name of "their" version and find new contributors.
He even says they aren't people.
Leah Rowe is right. He is a coward.
"I could go on all day about how "trans" people are diseased and don't
exist, but I'd be ignored and thrown out
of a safe-space that has been established by such "people.""
He didn't need to say this at all though. Why does he say it? To state his
belief, as principled as it is? I'm sorry but i
It's also pretty rude to say that Trans people are diseased.
You don't understand me.
He is clearly being horrible. The stuff he is saying is literally abuse.
Bigotry is still bigotry even if it is styled as a political belief.
If he is not prepared to insult someone in public where judgement might be
passed, he should not say it at all.
do hacking?
el anarchismo
hardware hacking join a hackerspace
I'm a hacker
I am an anarchist
I fuck around with electronics
I listen to internet radio
Just try most of them yourself by connecting the pins
menuentry 'Load Operating System [o]' --hotkey=o {
cryptomount -a
set root='lvm/vg-root'
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/vg-root cryptdevice=/dev/mapper/vg-root:root
initrd /initrd.img
}
where vg is the volume group
agh
I much prefer cat for major text editing
> And then I have a list of errors obviously, about 'ata0, 1', 'ata0, 2' etc.
and then 'ahci1, 0', 'ahci1, 2' etc. not opening.
that's because libreboot's default config is designed for many use cases, of
which yours isn't one.
if /boot is encrypted, as it may be if you followed the Librebo
don't be ashamed, it's just a router
This is interesting.
I hope they build a phone that respects software freedom. Please send them
your thoughts. I suggested designing compatability with EOMA68 standard.
https://puri.sm/surveys/librem-phone-preliminary-survey/
free software on the router is not as important as on the personal computer
This isn't the whole story. Android targets MIPS, ARM64, ARM, x86 and x86_64.
Therefore Replicant could in the future support these architectures too.
this is bad advice. ryf, as it stands, is not computer parts, but whole
systems. better advice is to visit https://h-node.org/ for actual information
about computer parts.
also this place feels like the cult of fsf
the forum software could have more functionality regardless of whether it
uses javascript
because as soon as someone mentioned hardware someone immediately recommended
a page that was extremely inadequate, by virtue of it being from the domain
of the leader
the ryf page is shit let's be honest
i recommend the GNOME Disk Utility, using the "restore disk image"
functionality as a safe(-ish) way to do the same thing as a dd command
*shrugs*
we might as well have a bot to answer these questions
naw your question was fine
the answers were kind of predictable
it is apt that an OS that is a duplication of effort should have people
duplicate memes without context
this will never work
the people here who have done an extremely custom config and os install are
either going to know how it works or not be able to get it to work and then
keep trying
learn to follow instrutions
libreboot should use seabios, it is far more flexible and compatible, and
sa
duckduckgo can be used without javascript
block nonfree websites? how do you plan to do this? if you mean librejs, you
will be doing people a disservice because tor browser is designed to be
anonymous - running arbitrary code (you can never check what the "free" sites
are actually sending you) removes anonymity!
"Hint: if non-free so
why not just research yourself and try out different weather applets?
this is just some shitty forum off the internet
Uh Banane? I think we should stop feeding the troll
ironically it is nasty window managers fucking up the elegant X window
system's way of copying
no, seems like the author of this post just doesn't know how the internet
works...
and... the echo chamber echoes forever
look at the list and ask on the channels relevant to libreboot
answer: probably
The problem with Mint is that it includes things like Flash and various
codecs, when they really are not necessary even to run people's hardware. It
might be user friendly but it really gives people the wrong idea about what
GNU/Linux is actually for. Why can't you recommend Trisquel? It is e
The best option for free gaming is currently an older Nvidia GPU. Some of
them have had the firmware reverse-engineered. Nouveau is in constant
development; the version included in newer kernels means that SuperTuxKart (I
am using the 0.9 release) is reasonably playable at mid-range graphics
If you are going to play non-free games, at least reject Steam. The copy
protection is ruthless and it tracks your gameplay.
Perhaps they will support the GPU as much as they supported Coreboot... that
is, not much. Isn't there the firmware still needed for the GPU?
'if': input file, e.g. if=/dev/sda
'of': output file, e.g. of=/home/duncan/Documents/backup.img
'bs': block size, the size of the blocks to copy, e.g. bs=256k (I never saw
any speed benefits for different values, however see
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2787330/dd-block-size-optimisati
I don't use it so I took lack of updates to be lack of development. How
up-to-date are the packages?
Debian main is totally free. The objection of the FSF is that it recommends
nonfree firmware in the installer, in some cases (but not all). Usually it is
just for things like WiFi, Bluetooth and occasionally graphics. You should be
aware of these but there is nothing really wrong with using D
They are refurbished Lenovo laptops, which have been reverse-engineered to
run Libreboot and have had a new WiFi chip installed.
It is a question of compromise. We would love new hardware, if it did not
have backdoors and proprietary BIOS we can't change. The hardware is old, but
Trisquel run
I had the same problem with video drivers. I think it may arise from it
detecting an older version of Nouveau (for me) or the Intel one. Or it could
just be detecting the drivers wrongly. At any rate, I can't use the highest
graphics level. Level 4 worked reasonably well for the simpler level
From what I can tell, you are using an AMD graphics card. The driver is free,
but the firmware is not. Therefore, Linux-libre removes the firmware so your
computer may be using integrated graphics or something else. That may be why
you get worse performance on Trisquel.
```/dev/sdb/"some directory"``` is invalid: ```/dev/sdb``` is a
[i]device[/i], not a [i]mount point[/i]. This means that using ```/dev/sdb```
as part of the 'of' option would /dev/sda to it. So you need to mount
```/dev/sdb``` either with GNOME Disks or by running the mount command. GNOME
D
You don't need to mount the disk you are copying from, in fact you probably
should not do that. But you inevitably need to mount the other disk, so that
you can write the image file to it. If re-writing the image file to the disk,
you would inevitably switch if and of. I tend to put the conv
So why do they allow the Tor browser to view PDF in the built-in viewer? It
seems like something they should advise against.
You need to work out how Youtube streams its videos now. I doubt it would
simply have some hidden file with each video: it seems to send the user it in
parts, which can then be assembled into a single video. Therefore you need to
work out how you can make Youtube think you are streaming the v
I have used GNU/Hurd in QEMU. It is slightly slower than GNU/Linux. However,
it is almost impossible to install, because of lack of support for USB
keyboards and mice.
It probably requires old versions of the dependencies. That is not to say it
won't work with the newer ones, but that it might cause unforeseen problems.
You should definitely check you have them all though, and of course keep
trying, as it may not always work the first time.
What features di
A program already exists for this purpose; it is called youtube-dl, and is in
Trisquel's repositories. It can also download videos from other websites. It
is not as simple as a script that finds where Youtube stores the file for the
video. You should look at the youtube-dl source code if you
There is a PPA: https://launchpad.net/~stk/+archive/ubuntu/dev. I recommend
the latest Linux-libre as the driver may have been updated for better
performance since then.
Why don't you organise your own meetings? You could just have an informal
meeting regularly to discuss issues with like-minded people.
I would argue it is prudent to install an anti-virus, e.g. ClamAV. Otherwise
it's a similar situation to Macs: "they don't get viruses", apparently, until
they do. Considering that GNU/Linux is most prevalent in academic
institutions and government (as opposed to the consumer market, although
...or the kernel from FreeBSD (which is more advanced and stable than Hurd at
this stage).
Linux is useless without a userspace such as GNU. GNU is a collection of
packages, and distributions incorporate the GNU packages into it. To get a
'minimal' install, one would need to gather a minimum number of packages. I
would suggest that in a truly minimal Linux+GNU System utilities+X se
Some distributions of Android include GNU Nano. I have CyanogenMod 12 on my
mobile phone and it includes Nano 2.2. Apart from that though all it has for
the shell is Busybox. I doubt regular AOSP Android has this.
We didn't mean to make you feel unwelcome. We just think these things are
important.
As for your question, it appears that it is quite difficult to make KVM fast
without the proprietary updates to the CPU, due to bugs in it.
I suppose you could use a chroot jail (after mounting the disk image o
If you install from the repositories, you will be fine, unless some nasty
thing is introduced by the developers into a package or the GPG keys are
changed by a malicious program and you end up downloading (and verifying)
packages from some dubious source. That's why I like centralised
repos
You could download the live image. Then, if your computer has a disk drive,
you can burn the either the 'Trisquel' image onto a blank DVD or 'Trisquel
mini' onto a blank CD. Then you can slot it in your computer, and boot the CD
(probably by pressing some button when it starts up, e.g. F12 on
MATE is basically GNOME 2. So the current theme can be used pretty easily
(with minor modification). Try the MATE PPA and select the Trisquel theme.
Such a computer would be better than what we currently have. I would look at
it pragmatically. A hypothetical computer with free hardware design, free
bootloader, free graphics and wireless, but with the non-free IO controller
is less bad if they have a commitment to use their best efforts to
It depends what it's used for. If it is just for backups of Trisquel, such as
full disk images, you could just go for ext4. If it's for carrying around
files e.g. documents and presentations then go for FAT or NTFS. FAT has 4GoB
limit though, so keep that in mind. Also NTFS has dubious patent
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