I like a larger taskbar on the bottom so I increased the size. Then after
switching to the Mate Advanced Menu the icon is too small. If you want to get
a good icon for this it is in usr/share/pixmaps. I chose trisquel.png. Looks
great now. Simple tip. That's all. Happy hacking.
I think Richard calls this "defenestration". Congratulations.
I'm waiting for EOMA68 myself. Hello console apps. :-)
I think I'm in love.
Their project goals and social contract seems wonderful to me on all points.
It looks like a worthwhile free software project and a unique approach: Arch
LTS Stability + Debian Patches + "-libre" + init choice.
I've never used Arch or pacman before so I'll have to
When it's ready.
Although you are obligated to rename it to Ice___ beforehand to regain
freedom zero. :-)
Does anyone know if they still use the OpenBSD ports tree or do they have
their own audited for freedom? I've never used a BSD but my understanding is
that non-free software was optionally available through the OpenBSD ports
tree.
Yes, I know! Isn't it great?
Bear in mind that even though the LTS version T8 is based on is a year old it
will also be supported until 2021. That's a good long while down the road so
when it's finally done it will be a long time before absolutely needing
replacement.
I believe Trisquel is a mixed-use distribution
Better question: Is Trisquel free as in free beer?
Is LXDE still being developed? I was under the impression that PCMan had
moved development efforts over to LXQT and the Qt toolkit due to his
frustration with GTK development.
Trisquel (as upstream) has had a majority GTK orientation to it over the
years so that may play a role in what
I haven't listened to FreeTalkLive in a while, since the Liberty Dollar days.
Gotta dig up the EOMA68 episode. Thanks for the head's up.
Congratulations also. That's a good gig to have. And to get to speak to
people all over the country about the things you are passionate about must be
And apparently there was no impetus for Rubén to do the work. Most of us
are forced to use computers with a non-free BIOS or other such restriction
(for now). I'm guessing there was no desire to do all of the work porting
Trisquel to ARM in order to support another non-free hardware
So this is for sure? May I please have a link to where this is mentioned?
Not that I doubt you but I'd like to read more about it. Thank you.
I have confirmed that the Devuan distro shipped with the EOMA68 has no
proprietary software. Also, as in Debian, it will not dissuade you from
adding it after-the-fact.
I have a question submitted to Luke Leighton asking whether the Devuan
distribution contained within the "Numero Uno" EOMA68 computer is fully free
out-of-the-box. As we know, Debian is free out-of-the-box as long as you do
not enable the non-free repo. I'm not sure about Devuan.
I
Remember this line from The Breakfast Club?: "Will milk be made available
to us?"
In a similar tone of voice I must ask: "Will ARM be made available to us?"
Having heard Rubén say a few years ago that Trisquel will make an ARM port
when there is suitable freedom-respecting hardware to
I saw a speech Rubén gave a few years ago in which he said that Trisquel
will produce an arm port when there was suitable hardware to run it on. The
Libre Tea would certainly fit that description.
I think he will focus on Trisquel 8 first (Or will it be part of that?
H...).
I imagine the religion being referenced is probably Catholic, which I also
am. It is not an injustice to embrace the theology of the body of the Holy
Catholic Church.
We all need to begin with mutual love and respect for each other. I
understand that many people will disagree with my
Can GNU save you from a past life of looking at the world through dirty
Windows?
Can GNU save you from the cult if "i"?
Is there a Kernel of truth waiting for us to rescue it?
Don't give me SaaSS now... just the truth.
I do want to try Ratpoison. It does look really cool and certainly has a lot
of geek street cred. I try them all out at some point or another anyway.
Besides, who couldn't use a little more self-satisfying snuggery?
My little joke above was because people seem to get really passionate
That's it... we've had enough. Ratpoison is now the default!
If you don't like it then install your favorite and stop posting about it.
;-)
Zem:
No I wasn't booting from an install disk. It was just simply me getting
frustrated with it not accepting my password and trying to re-boot. The
fourth or fifth time doing so I left for an evening out and didn't touch the
computer for two days. I don't know why but I started the
Zem:
Let me confirm that this happened to me as well. Exactly the same symptoms.
I assumed the computer itself was going bad since it's 12 years old and has
been heat-freezing on occasion. I decided just to reinstall rather than
CHROOT and update/upgrade etc. When I was ready to
Question:
Is there any place I can go that lists (and explains!) each non-free firmware
blob used for “modern” intel computers (i7-type) and what it does, etc.
Background on question:
I am trying to find out how compromised "modern" intel pcs really are. I've
done some reading on this
Sounds like the purchase was already made. In that case it does only good to
liberate non-free hardware. We need more of that.
Even if it did encourage people to buy new products from Apple, I believe on
net balance that freeing them is still a greater act of good.
(I'm at work with limited time to search the forum so I apologize if this has
been answered before.)
CHIP looks really cool and I like the PDA-style device it attaches to but
I'm concerned about this for two reasons:
1) Is there any need for non-free software to run this device? I'm sick
Chris:
Will the chip require linking with someone outside to work at all or is it
just available for some shadow agency to access?
Can we just buy the desktop version and put it into a foil or lead-lined
tower? I'll not wear the hat, though. :-)
Done! Figured it out. Password rubricks can be helpful.
Turns out I cut off a character from my password.
Nice to have my Bitcoin back, though.
Still, my earlier comment stands. Export your private keys before
transferring to these addresses in Electrum.
Has anyone else had trouble with the Electrum Wallet in Trisquel 7?
Even though I was careful in copying the seed and password for the wallet, it
now will not accept the password and the seed does not re-create the wallet
as it's supposed to. It produces different addresses with zero
I realize that's true about brute-forcing the key and I definitely agree.
I should've specified that I have an approximation of the kind of things I
would do in a password and that might narrow the scope of the search to the
degree that it might cost less electricity in figuring it out than
Newton and I wish you a Merry Christmas.
Does anyone know if Ryzom is considered unsatifactory?
They liberated the source under the AGPL, and all of the art assets under
CC-By-SA 3.0. However, the gameworld was not released.
I'm not sure of the implications of that. Are they obligated to release the
whole gameworld if they
Thanks for your reply.
I remember the FSF putting out a 'what's next' press release about Ryzom
becoming free software. I knew they were working on making the 'world editor'
based on QT instead of a proprietary graphics library. Sounds to me like they
planned for the community to make
There's also a book sharing service called BookMooch. (bookmooch-dot-com)
It was created by John Buckman, who runs the music label Magnatune and I
believe is affiliated with the EFF.
They trade books they already own, so no Amazon. If you are looking for
something obscure you're probably
When it's ready. (A not-so-serious answer.)
That's why I was wondering if there will be a Windows and Mac version of
IceCat for those of our friends who haven't yet converted to GNU?
The browser would not recommend non-free plugins and would certainly not
contain the DRM module mentioned in the article you referenced. The 100%
First LibrePlanet and now this one as well? I hate technical difficulties.
It's like a bad UHF station that is forced to sign off right after dinner and
you miss your re-run of Night Gallery. (Yes, I'm that old.)
It still sucks never to be able to see Trisquel keynotes.
This might actually
WOOT!
I suppose this is so people can run a free version based on Slackware without
the far more difficult route of a proper fork. As Rubén can attest, there
is a lot of work completely freeing a distro. For example, I doubt all
references to non-free software are removed from the packages of
I've heard of this but have never tried it. How do you do this?
Are you disabling swap in that case?
Is there any way to sucessfully upgrade a working T6 to T7 without going
through a quagmire? I tried just changing sources and apt-getting my brains
out and it's mired in dependency hell with dpkg errors, etc. (It's not
hardware because it runs 6 without a hitch!)
Previously I have tried
Thanks Chris.
It's an Nvidia GeForce Go 6150.
I wanted to re-install 6 before answering just to be sure but that wasn't
working either. It said no new release found. Is that because 7 isn't
official yet?
If you can't install XFCE, have you tried using a lightweight WM (like
Fluxbox!) with XFCE settings running in the background? You can manually
install xfce4-notifyd and use xfce4-notifyd-config to set the duration of
your notifications.
Thanks Andrew.
One more question. What tracker do you recommend? Is there a freedom-loving
tracker?
Doesn't the Trisquel updater use Aptitude instead of Apt? I've never looked
into what the Trisquel updater uses (probably what Ubuntu uses). If so, it
might explain why it is showing different packages than apt-get.
I've heard you should only use one of the two as they will become
Once a misconception becomes common it continues ad nauseam despite the
valiant efforts of kind friends like yourself. I heard it in a podcast a few
years ago but didn't really research the matter. It just seemed logical
considering the symptoms.
Sorry for the nausea.
After a recent experience taking all night downloading one of the ISOs I
decided to make torrent files of all of the most recent ISOs in the devel
server. I figured that myself and perhaps a few kind volunteers could seed
them. I now have torrents of all of the 32 and 64 bit versions of each
Without the BIOS the operating system would not be able to know how to use
the various components on the motherboard. Based on how you worded your posts
I'm not sure how much of the BIOS is working by the time it refuses to start
the bootloader. It's worth a shot I guess.
Trisquel works as
And it doesn't require any non-free bits?
Thank God! I'm so grateful because I could not find any answer to help you.
It looks like once these laptops fail due to the EUFI problem that they are
bricked for good.
I've only held a tablet once so let me show my ignorance: Do they have usb
ports? The website I looked at about the 10.1 didn't seem to indicate any.
If they do, I could probably use my ThinkPenguin USB wireless device.
Pretty cool, huh? I would love to have an e-reader. I've been avoiding them
because I don't want to contribute to any potential kakotopia on the horizon.
A bookstore employee at a major retailer recently asked me if I wanted to buy
one of their readers, which were on sale. I told her that I
Are we going green?
Try powering off and hitting F4 over and over during reboot.
I think F4 is the hard reset for Samsung.
The brick problem seems to happen after installing GNU/Linux then writing to
the NVRAM.
UEFI should garbage-collect after every reboot. Samsung's doesn't. The right
thing to do is acknowledge the bug, fix it, and push updates to customers.
The absolute wrong thing to do is blame the user
I'll take you up on that Heather.
I'll go ahead and grab the latest of each version (32 and 64bit) over the
next couple of days. It will certainly take that long judging by the upload
speed of the devel server. :-|I have the 64 bit of Trisquel 7 proper
circa 7-9-2014. I'll grab the 32
I read this recently. It looks like the FSF is getting involved with doing
exactly this. Sorry you will not be able to buy it tomorrow.
fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/help-us-make-tablets-and-ebook-readers-respect-your-freedom
If we're going to have hardware that respects our freedom, we have
I was under the impression that Rubén's speech this past weekend included
the public release of Trisquel 7. I therefore expected the website to change
the default download to the new version.
Was this a wrong perception on my part?
Is there a mirror? Perhaps at the FSF?
The download is taking forever. 22 MB downloaded over 19 minutes... 11 hours
to go.
I'm downloading trisquel_7.0-20140708_amd64.iso.
Thanks.
Thanks anyway. I'll leave it on all night. I'm up to 226 MB of 858MB. Whoo
Hoo!
Still faster than dialup. :-|
P.S.: I don't suppose it makes a difference to download the most recent of
all of the versions and make torrent files if I'm the only one serving,
right?
I'm at work and probably will not be able to access the keynote today. Does
anyone know if video from this event will be published?
...Or perhaps is someone from our community going to stream rip the feed?
Cool thanks.
Missing out on Libreplanet videos this year due to technical issues was a
real drag.
Not a good sign:
The website is now being used by someone else for some other computer-related
business. I don't know if it's the old maintainer or not, but it definitely
isn't being used for the distro.
Too bad. A fully free Slackware would be nice.
Distrowatch has a Pre-Alpha from May of this year and lists the status as
Active. The previous release looks to have been 2011. I hope this means
it's being picked back up.
Is there a standard methodology for when code could be licensed under the
LGPL?
I understand that it depends on the circumstances but I'm at least
partially unclear just what those are. For example, are there certain
categories of circumstances that drive the differences? (I have heard
You actually posted this before I finished typing my second post about the
money issue!
I'll look this over. I don't know how I missed this page on the FSF.
I should add that I'm aware of the money issue. Proprietary companies have
money to spend developing the LGPL libraries and therefore it may benefit
everyone to use their resources to promote the free program/library. I'm just
not sure of all of the other factors to consider in choosing the
Does GNU IceCat have a Windows and Mac version?
It didn't look like it from the mirror. I think it would be beneficial to
have a fully-free version of Firefox without the DRM and proprietary plugins
available to our friends who are stuck in non-free OSes.
I was very happy to see a
Why not just create another side project that's web based and includes this
sandbox idea? An app designed from the ground up for viewing this crap.
...Or a browser extension.
That way the browser itself could remain committed to it's principles and
anyone that wants to can use the
We used open source software as much as possible.
Non-free software coming from intel? Shocker.
This seems to be another of those times where you get exited looking into the
promise of something but maddeningly there is some non-freedeom included with
no easy way to skirt it. Nice to have
Is the sound cutting out for everyone else? If so this is unwatchable.
Perhaps in six months when the FSF gets around to posting video from this
event we can see if there is a better version.
I'm not a patent expert, but would it matter for objects made at home for
home use?
As far as I know, patents are a monopoly that comes into play only upon
distribution to others. Is making something yourself for your own use
something likely to violate anyone's fictitious rights?
If the
Does anyone know where Daala is compared to H264?
Do you the members of this forum have any suggestions as to which web
registrar I should use for obtaining a new domain?
I must confess that I have not even looked into this issue before and I have
no idea what roadblocks there might be in this area.
At times like this, I usually lean on
That's an excellent question I've given absolutely no thought to. :-)
I suppose I was answering the way I usually do for music. But you're right.
That would not make sense.
Or Fluxbox, of course.
I like the panel in Fluxbox. Just what you need and easy for mouse users as
well as keyboard jockeys.
Is there a free software audiobook format that remembers where the listener
last was and can skip there?
I know proprietary formats have this feature, but I'm not sure about free
software.
(Or is this feature in the player and not the format?)
Thanks for any advice.
Thanks guys.
I generally have used VLC, but I'll definitely try out Totem again (and MPD
again) for this purpose.
I like keeping things in FLAC myself if possible. I anticipate people will
one day be very sorry they have so much material in lossy formats.
Gracias.
I asked the Ubuntu Edge team if Canonical was now committed to free firmware
for this 'crowdfunded' device after previous negative statements. In
response I received this:
Ubuntu Edge is an open device. Developers are able to tinker with the
software and use our standard flashing tools
Then I guess I can breathe again. Damn.
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword.
The other is by debt.”
Try typing metacity --replace into a command prompt and log back in.
I hope that works for you.
Just cut and paste the command above.
On my screen the forum post barely shows that there are two dashes before the
word replace above and a space between the word metacity and the dashes. I
don't want to cause confusion.
I think it's because Ubuntu now contains spyware and that data could
theoretically be subject to the same misuse as other services.
Is it significantly slower using the software rendering?
I'm guessing X11 will still be packaged. Otherwise Kubuntu et al. are in a
lot of trouble.
I agree with Andrew. I think x11 will still be packaged and available. Also
since we do not use Unity anyway Reuben is used to putting in a significant
amount of work into the UI.
Thanks everyone. I went the triskel route. Everything works.
I'll have to spend some time in KDE to learn it. Maybe I'll kick the fluxbox
habit. :-P
Gracias.
I am trying to install KDE on Trisquel 6.
It has the eternal broken package dependency hell scenario.
Our repo has kdepim version 4:4.8.5, but requires 4:4.8.2 ! Hmmm. When
I tried to force install kdepim from the repo, I got another package error as
kdepim's dependencies could not be
I just wanted to install the base packages, but I guess I could try the
triskel metapackage.
I thought the package triskel would be similar to Ubuntu's kubuntu package
which would swap out GDM for KDM and replace a bunch of stuff and basically
change the whole distro. I didn't necessarily
Hey t3g.
As a Fluxbox and Openbox user, I may not have as much experience as you do on
these desktops. May I please ask a few questions?
Cinnamon: I believe Cinnamon is GTK3/Gnome3-based. Doesn't Cinnamon use 3D
rendering? If so, isn't that the same problem as Gnome-Shell for those
I'll pay for these services for sure... and if you throw in Mediagoblin I'll
name my firstborn after you.
Has anyone else had a problem with the Linux-Libre repo created by jxself?
I have followed the instructions from jxself.org/linux-libre/ including
adding the GPG key.
I'm getting the following error upon apt-get update:
Failed to fetch
I still had Synaptic open so I just used the Repositories section to add it.
I pasted the repo string using the Add command and it added source
automatically. That's why that happened.
At any rate, I subtracted the source repo and everything worked. The reason
the kernel was not being
A Leisure Suit Larry clone would be fun.
Smoking Jacket Jerry?
Sports Coat Sammy?
Chuck Chuck Bo Buck?
:-)
Yeah. That's right.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply they were real titles.
Does it play video? Theora perhaps?
It didn't sound like it, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
You made the spam-bot mad and it attacked the forum by hitting us with it's
Coach Bag!
What ever happened to the first law of spambotics?
The guys on the other side always give our community the absolute minimum
necessary to get enough of us to cave to make it worth their while.
I agree with lembas. Don't give them your money. In fact, send them a message
letting them know why you are not going to give them your money. It
I agree with Heather. Eye candy is overrated, in my opinion.
I've also used fluxbox for many years.
I understand that it might not be the best 'default' WM, especially for
Windoze converts. I also understand that people who use Fluxbox for awhile
come to appreciate it's power and
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