What can I say? I enjoy the occasional shenanigan.
So it's Libreboot, but with the proprietary blobs added back in? That sounds
like a bad thing to me.
I don't know. She hasn't really apologized for anything substantial. She's
still claiming, without any evidence, that the FSF fired this person for
discriminatory reasons. Which, to me, is really the whole issue here.
Still, I suppose it's a start.
No worries. It's just that it was exciting to see the development progress
for Trisquel 8.
I miss them.
Thanks for that information. It's obvious that he's a troll here, but I had
no idea he had such a reputation.
I get an Access denied error when trying to view that link :(
I can't find any information saying that it isn't free.
Is Popcorn Time actually free software? According to its Wikipedia article
it is, but I can't find source code for download anywhere on the site you
linked.
Ah, I see. Sorry, I'm not much for icons. I prefer words.
Why can't you just use the bookmark feature of your browser?
The URL at the beginning of the article clearly has the word 'satire' in it,
it appears to be from 2009, and the link is no longer active.
We're not interested in your anti-GPL FUD, t3g.
What do you mean by GNU/Linux is rendered ineffective?
The decimal point in the number twenty-thousand is a regional thing. In the
United States where I live, we use a comma, but many (if not all) places in
Europe use a period.
The second one you mentioned is already correct in the original. The grammar
is a bit weird, I agree. Even as a
The zip file contains a file called copyright.txt, which contains the
following text. It looks free to me.
Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Ulrich Apel, the project and the Wadoku project
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are
According to http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/faq.html#FAQ4, it's licensed
under the LGPL which makes it free software.
According to the product listings on Gluglug's website, they ship worldwide
at no extra cost. Also, I'm pretty sure ThinkPenguin will ship to France, I
just don't know how much it will cost.
GNUser, I understand your concern about censorship, but that is not at all
what I am trying to accomplish. Certainly, everyone is entitled to their
opinion and has a right to express it. However, Trisquel is an FSF-endorsed
free software project. As a community, we have specific interests
While I never claimed to be the first to come up with it, being FSF-endorsed
is actually pretty special. Only a handful of distributions have this
distinction, and with it comes certain obligations.
To be fair, I never claimed that anyone was encouraging the use of
proprietary software.
We've got people defending the development of proprietary software and
comparing software freedom to tyranny. This is unacceptable. Trisquel is an
FSF-endorsed distribution; there is no place for the expression of these
viewpoints on our forums.
These people need to go. Are there
Maybe they don't know about it yet.
I don't believe Stallman has ever said he lives in a way that's superior to
anyone else.
Exactly. This issue (the FSF's non-endorsement of Debian) could also be
solved if Debian would follow the FSF's Guidelines for Free System
Distributions. Why should the FSF be the ones to bend?
jxself gives you clear instructions on how you can help, and you criticize
him and the entire project? How exactly is that helpful? What are you
trying to accomplish?
For labels, I have used glabels in the past. (I haven't needed to print a
label in quite a while.) I don't know how it compares to Microsoft Publisher
though, since I've never used that.
It seems to me that that link is extremely relevant. While there isn't
anything wrong with running Debian without non-free software, Debian does
include non-free software. Therefore, we should not recommend Debian to the
general public. And since these forums are readable by the general
They could charge people to download it.
Check out our installation guide:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installation-guide
I don't like this petition. Saying if it cannot be kept alive in one form
or another then its source code needs to be released to the public implies
that making the source code of a program available (the only ethical way of
distributing a program) is akin to killing the program.
The issue is that 'restrictive' is such a negative word. For that reason, I
think we should avoid using it when referring to the GPL. From a marketing
perspective, the word 'restrictive' probably isn't going to sway developers
to use the GPL.
It is true that the actual wording of the GPL is rather difficult to
understand (as a matter of fact, I've skimmed through it in the past, but
never actually read it properly), but the general premise is simple enough:
code licensed under the GPL cannot be used in proprietary software.
And
If you install PySDM (available in the Trisquel repositories), you can do it
without messing around with cryptic configuration files.
Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to ban users who violate the
Community Guidelines. The possibility of implementing this has come up a
couple of times in the past, but it's never really gone anywhere.
From an ethical perspective, I'm not sure it's right to say good things about
proprietary software, whether or not those things are true. I fail to see
how what you've said can benefit us in any way.
Clearly not. I'm worried about what's happening to our community. Things
seem a lot less civil than they used to be.
You just don't get it, do you? We're pro-GPL here. We like it because it
guarantees freedom for users. That's really all there is to it.
Proprietary programs don't respect your freedom. Many of them prevent you
from sharing copies of the program with others. Plus, without access to the
source code, there's no way to verify that such programs are in fact doing
what they claim to be doing.
Let's not be so harsh with new users. I remember when I started using
GNU/Linux, I switched back to Windows several times before I finally stuck
with it.
I know that many of us, myself included, take pride in the operating system
we use, so things like Linux [sic] sucks may seem like
I cancelled my membership but I've still got that membership badge by my
name, so I doubt it takes that into account. I still intend to make a yearly
donation, though.
There's not really anything new in this article if you've read Stallman's
previous work, but I swear there's nothing like reading the comments on a
piece like this to make you realize that we in the free software movement are
fighting one hell of an uphill battle.
The article can be found
I use both. I use Trisquel on my desktop and Trisquel Mini on my netbook.
It's a (possibly) free operating system designed to run proprietary software.
What's to like about that?
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I didn't really look into the issue at
all, mainly because I'm not interested in it at all.
What sort of desktop setup are you using there?
Debian's done a lot of great things; I don't think anyone's denying that.
But that doesn't excuse the fact that they still distribute proprietary
software.
Does 'which java' display the location of the JDK or the JRE? I haven't
dealt with Java (on the programming side of things, anyway) in at least five
years.
You can report bugs on this page: https://trisquel.info/en/project/issues
What's the difference between crowdfunding and crowdsourcing? I didn't know
there was one.
If there's no information about the card on h-node, it doesn't necessarily
mean it doesn't work; it's because no one has added information about it to
h-node. H-node has information on both hardware that is and is not free
software-compatible.
They may be words, but they're not *just* words. The words we use influence
the way we think about things. If we want people to think about freedom,
then we should use words that call to mind the idea of freedom. GNU and free
software do this; Linux and open source do not.
Personally, I think we need more moderation, not less.
I think that's a good idea. I tried out qemu once, but I was never able to
figure out how to make it work. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I believe that information is in two files: /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.
If it doesn't work in Trisquel or Ubuntu, perhaps it's an issue with the
drive itself?
I believe that's an inherent feature of Gnash, the free software Flash player
included in Trisquel. I'm not sure if it can be changed or not.
You could get a USB CD drive to use with your netbook.
Near the bottom it says allocator.c:5:8: fatal error: opening dependency
file .deps/allocator.Tpo: Permission denied. Maybe you need to run 'sudo
make' instead of just 'make'?
I was wondering why Thunderbird wouldn't connect to my inbox. Well, that
sucks. I'll need to find a new email provider now.
Trisquel, hands down. Then again, this is the Trisquel forum, so I may be a
bit biased ;)
Unfortunately, I don't think there's any procedure in place for banning
people who aren't spammers. I think we desperately need one, though.
Just so you are aware, converting from one lossy format (such as MP3) to
another lossy format (such as Ogg Vorbis) will result in a loss of quality.
sbcl is already in Trisquel's software repositories. I'm sure installing it
from there would be much easier.
What's so bad about non-intrusive advertisements?
One option would be to use a USB CD/DVD drive. If you don't have one,
perhaps you have a friend who would let you borrow one?
If it's included in Trisquel, it's free software. So Evolution is free. I
use Mozilla Thunderbird, which is also in the Trisquel repositories. There
are other email clients available as well.
I'm not sure what you mean about it being just open source. I use
Thunderbird because I prefer it to Evolution.
Many websites contain nonfree JavaScript. Abrowser will run this JavaScript
code by default, but this code is not provided by Trisquel; it's provided by
the websites that host it. Trisquel contains only free software.
That is unfortunate.
We cannot help you to install non-free software.
I've been using site: with DDG for quite a while now. At least a year, I
think.
Just so you are aware, the Flash plugin used by Google Chrome is proprietary.
Indeed, Google Chrome itself is proprietary software, hence why it's not in
Trisquel's software repositories.
I haven't gotten any such email.
If you're just looking to try out KDE, perhaps an easier way would be to
install it in a virtual machine. That way, you could just delete the VM when
you're done.
I've got a lavabit account that I use with Mozilla Thunderbird. I like it.
It's not hard to set up, and it does everything I need it to.
I doubt that anyone would self-identify as an extremist. It's just that we
care about software freedom and think that the term open source doesn't
adequately convey the idea of freedom.
I doubt it would be a problem. We've got screenshots of the procedure in
Windows, after all.
You can use the CLI in any distro you like. In fact, if you choose text mode
installation when installing Trisquel, you have the option to set up Trisquel
without any graphical environment at all.
What is Belenos, anyway?
I don't think it excludes you from the ideals of the Trisquel community.
There may be certain (very limited) circumstances in which choosing to run
proprietary software is less bad than choosing not to, and you are free to do
so if you wish. However, we will never help you to do so.
EPUB is essentially just HTML, so yes.
Please do not recommend proprietary software here.
I guess you have to do what you have to do. The lesson here is not to buy
hardware from manufacturers who force you to do these things.
Abrowser already respects user privacy; why should we switch over?
Thank you, Magic Banana. I couldn't have said it better myself.
As far as I know, there is nothing non-free about the CC-BY-SA license. But
saying that something is under a Creative Commons license is ambiguous:
there are several different Creative Commons licenses.
It is unfortunate that the word free can be ambiguous, but I don't know of
any better way to convey the idea of freedom to people. The word open
certainly doesn't do it.
Its Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron) states that it
is proprietary - all rights reserved.
It may only be a theoretical consideration, but it's still the right thing to
work toward. Proprietary software is unethical.
Why can't you start such a crowdfunding campaign? It was your idea, after
all.
And I know that $30,000 sounds like a lot of money, but if 3,000 people all
contributed $10, that would cover it. I think it could be done, if enough
people knew that such a crowdfunding campaign existed.
Welcome to the community.
If the art and music are not free, Trisquel may not be able to legally
distribute them. That doesn't mean that you can't install it yourself,
though.
If you go to download source, it says GNOME Sensors Applet is released
under the GNU GPL, so yes, it is free. I'm pretty sure all the software on
sourceforge is free.
RMS's personal blog is just that--his personal blog. What he says on it
doesn't necessarily reflect the position or opinions of the FSF.
I get a 403 Forbidden error when trying to download this file.
I would like to know this, too.
I understand that; I was attempting to reply to the original topic writer.
I did the 'sleep 5' thing as teodorescup suggested, but it still crashes.
This is the crash report it generated:
Add-ons:
I originally encountered the problem in Cinnamon, but I tried Gnome Classic
and it persists there too.
I created a new profile, and disabled all of the extensions, plugins, and
language packs. None of these solved the problem.
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