Free games I like to play:
- FreeDroid
- Supertux
- Supertux Kart
- Sauerbraten
- Xonotic (& Chaosesque Xonotic)
Non-free:
- UT99
- DeusEx
- Quake (with Darkplaces Engine & lots of mods)
- plus all those oldie but goldie DOS ganes running fine inside DOSbox
No, the 64 bit binaries do not work because they bomb out with a general
memory protection error. At least this is how I would translate it. In German
it's Speicherabzugsfehler. The 32 bit binaries are missing some libjpeg
stuff.
Is compiling the sources straight forward ? I mean like
Honestly not.I did not look too deeply into the docs.
But if a binary is included I would expect that it launches. :-)
Well at least similar to native / vanilla Xonotic.
Just a little update from me on the performance topic:
I tested Xonotic ChaosEsque v60 yesterday on my HTPC (AMD Dualcore with
GeForce 610) and surprisingly the stuttering was gone.
On my gaming PC with the 450GTS I have stuttering but much higher CPU GPU
ressources and on my HTPC with much
Interestingthe 720GT I had for testing in a spare PC of me running Ubuntu
14.04 x64 was very unstable with Noveau.
OpenGL always crashed and accelerated video playback showed artifacts. Are
you experiencing similar things ?
@Mzee: +1
I think the thread should focus on the game but not any political, ethical or
religious opion.
Some people also seem to forget that tolerance is one of the core things that
is needed for a free society. Nevertheless one thing chaosesque is right
about one thing: We all already
Possibly stupid question:
Is it hard to set up at torrent tracker (or how is this called ?).
I have an Arm system running all the time anyway and would be willing to host
the ISO as well.
@davidnotcoulthard: AFAIK older NVidia cards such as a 9X00 or 8x00 have
always worked better with noveau then newer cards.
The 610GT in the PC of my daughter was unstable as hell with Nouveau on
Ubuntu 14.04 and the 720GT I was testing in another PC didn't run stable as
well.
YMMV
The point is rather that physical limits and limits of the current production
methods are keeping the CPU manufacturers from increasing the clock speed any
further.
So instead of this they keep at a maximum clock below 4GHz and have started
to add more and more cores.
This results in
Thanks for your reply ! I will give this a try. I guess you are right.
Slowdowns on my system were mostly related to grenade explosions and / or the
blood splatters of my character when being hit by a grenade :)
There lies no sarcasm inside the sentence itself (may be only in the fact
that Crysis 1 is stone-old and runs fluently on much older systems) but in
the :-P at the end of the sentence =:-o
Simply grab the ISO and see yourself. I for one did experience horribly
slowdowns in the three various maps I tried with two bots.
The original Xonotic scales very well and is know to work well on older
systems. The ChaosEsque mod seems a lot different here to me. It adds lots of
new models
Truebut as you pointed out nearly all GPU-solutions under GNU/Linux have
their issues. Especially when you consider that even newer Intel GPUs will
rely on closed-source firmware which is a big No No for free software.
So what remains in the end ?
Only using older systems ?
Choosing the
Sorrythen I simply misunderstood youmy bad !
My Gaming Box runs all version of Crysis fine in 1080p (with M$ CrapOS :-)
The main thing beside some more documentation which really is a show stopper
to the mod IMO is the performance penalty compared to vanilla Xonotic.
Have a nice
Thanks for the contiuous updates ! I tried the latest version of your mod on
my gaming rig.
Unfortunately at least on my system the mod still suffers the same issues
that it 1 or 2 years ago:
Certain effects like blood splatters or explosions bog down my system a lot.
This seems to be
Thanks Chris for pointing out !
Unfortunately I didn't feel too motivated to hear the rest of the show after
listening to it about 20 minutes while riding my bike to work. I think you
did a great job in this interview but the way this guy speaks makes my brain
hurt :-o
I was listening right from the 1h mark and stopped right somewhere near 1:20h
:-)
@SuperTramp83 moxalt: Sarcasm does not make technical issues and / or bad
programming go awaydon't you know that ?
Similar to the fact that no speach of Stalman will make Apple and M$ melt
away :-P
So unless you have something useful to share on the topic of bad Xonotic
performance on
Oh yeah...and if it hurts your feeling that I was using a propritary non-free
OS with a non-free driver, I am sorrybut this gives the best performance.
Using any GNU/Linux with the free Noveau drivers will cause a performance
drop of 50% or more. So I decided to test on the fastest
xcp-xe has unfortunately nothing to do with opening ICA connections. It seems
rather a management tool for the Citrix-based Xen virtualisation hypervisor
or the free / open Xen variant.
@m971668: I think you will have a hard time finding anything that works nice
under Linux and is free.
I am not shure how your information helps here. To my understanding the
combination of Vagrant / VBox is only used by Docker under MacOS where
something like LXC or OpenVZ is not available. I guess KVM will not help here
as well.
For GNU Linux one can relax and use the free and into the
Well, when it comes to down to docker the technical base seems either to be
LXC or Virtual Box / Vagrant. So if the Ubuntu base version used for
Trisquel Version X supports LXC, Trisquel should support Docker as well.
From the typical use case perspective speaking one must ask himself if
@t3g: Uhm...hello ? Any feedback ?
Well, in the first place I suggest you play around a bit with Vagrant and
VirtualBox.
Docker seems to either relate on Vagrant / VBox or LXC as base altough I
imagine that also other container solutions such as OpenVZ should do although
they rely on a
I haven't spent any time playing around with Docker but experimented with
Vagrant plus Virtual Box.
You need to understand that Docker is NOT any container-solution similar to
OpenVZ, LXC, Jails, etc.
It's more like a layer between some container virtualisation or something
like Vagrant
@quantumgravity: I have no doubt that Debian is compromised in the pretty
much same way as every GNU Linux distribution is compromised as well. Due to
the sheer amount of code for the Kernel itself, all applications used and all
the libs included it is close to impossible to validate code
@opon4: I suggest you watch this video from the BSD guy at FOSDEM:
http://video.fosdem.org/2014/Janson/Sunday/NSA_operation_ORCHESTRA_Annual_Status_Report.webm
Then think about the more recent OpenSSL bugs
Debian might not be owned in the sense that they belong to the NSA but
there are a
- so, if i install it 3d will work?
Yes, but Trisquel is a free distribution which does not support loading
non-free firmware. Performancewise AMD / ATI cards with the free radeon
drivers are a good option but only if your distribution / kernel supports
loading of non-free firmware.
In common speak (as pointed out int the wiki article linked above) batch
files are text files with command sequences. In essence ususal shell scripts,
Python or Perl scripts are nothing else:
A sequence of commands which are executed one by one by some interpreter.
And the common writing
Try either .bash_profile or .bashrc
Oh yeah, my badboth files are only called when you log in at a shell.
I had it wrong in mind. Writing a simple NO as answer on the other hand is
neither polite, nor very helpful though.
Just some other ideas:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1110
You could use Xdotool:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/xdotool
or joy2key:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/joy2key
Or qjoypad:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/qjoypad
I remember that I had good success with joy2key,
why not hosting an IIRC server yourself ?
I guess you need to set up an Apache server plus IRC server. Then you will
need to install a webchat client like this:
http://code.google.com/p/webchat2/
Although webchat2 seems to have it's own backend. So an IRC server might not
be mandatory.
Simple...for the same reason one should not run closed-source software or
install precompiled software from PPAs: Security... :)
Hi there,
a good starting point might be the wiki entry over at Ubuntu for the
uncomplicated firewall:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW
IIRC Trisquel does not have UFW (or anything else) installed per default as
firewall.
HTH,
Holger
@lembas: Why on Earth would one not need to use a firewall ?
Because one can always trust open-source programms ?
@Legimet: AppArmor is not exactly what I would consider the right security
tool for a novice user. Or would you ?
Interesting, a guy build his own notebook which runs completely on free
software:
http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
@Armworm: My bad...please bare with me. Those who have read this information
can simply ignore it, can't they ?
In the end I do not share the extremism of many people here. Hardware and
systems which are only a little bit more free than others are a step in the
right direction. A 100% free
You are currently running the Mesa Software Renderer for 3D which makes
playing games with 3D (like Tux Racer, Open Arena, etc) very slow.
I can not comment on your desktop experience but for 3D you will most likely
not be able to play any 3D games on Trisquel. Pure software based renderer
The vendor string itself does not indicate that he is running a VM and his
video card is emulated but that lvmpipe (= the software OpenGL implementation
of Mesa) is running.
See here:
http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html
I do not remember the exact details but AFAIK VMWare provided some code
@spyfall: It might be useful if you post your system specs in order to nail
the your source of problem.
For lacking 3D support the issue is simple: All ATI/AMD based cards rely on
non-free ucode / BIOS files to enable 3D via radeon driver. This is not
supported by Trisquel.
I suspect you do not have 3D acceleration.
Could you post the output of
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
Please excuse my ignorance but what is the benefit of making such an old
piece of software FLOSS ?
Possibly a lot of people still use Winamp today but with things like VLC,
Mediaplayer Classic and the huge variety of players available on Linux I
never look back to Winamp for years. IMO
Ah..thanks for clarification !
I was misleaded by the two big FB and Twitter Icons below the button.
Anyway...I rarely see purpose in open-sourcing WinAmp. Those with interest in
Mediaplayers can simply study the VLC sources.
You can also configure your network via /etc/init.d - scripts. See here:
https://dijks.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/how-to-disable-network-manager-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise/
AFAIK the network manager does not integrate into all desktop environments.
As for your idea about a media center I would
Unfortunately this only true for vanilla Xonotic. If you like to play
ChaosEsque this is very different from the hardware requirements. I even
found my AMD Quadcore (4x3GHz) and a GeForce 450 slowing down a lot. And this
was with the propritary driver
Even if I am late...here are my 2 cents...
For me all boils down to this:
Trisquel Debian Ubuntu Windows / MacOS with mostly open source
Windows / MacOS with no open source used
Explanation:
- Trisquel stands for pretty much every free GNU Linux out there
- Debian stands for all those
Not I am aware of anybeside the DVB-T stick from Think Penguin most
DVB-S2 devices or DVB-T devices rely on non-free hardware.
At least my XBox 360 sports a standard USB port (or multiple standard USB
ports to be specific). There should be no modification required for attaching
the Kinect sensor to a standard PC. Only the old XBox had special
connectors although everything was standard PC technology.
Well cinnamon is not the standard desktop of Trisquel. So it is not very
likely that anyone is experiencing your issues.
From my experiences you now have two possible approaches (given you have
another working (!) PC for searching the www):
1) Look through all logs in the shell after boot
Well, Google / Youtube changes things from time to time.
I mostly either use youtube-dl wrapped with some custom scripts to download
things for later viewing or Greasemoneky plus Viewtube.
Is conversion of the Font an option ?
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ#Supported_Fonts
It seems that one can convert fonts at fontforge ?
@ssdclickofdeath: Thanks...that boils down to the point I mentioned.
Now here is a positive example why to use the free driver and not the binary
blob. But this time it's AMD / ATI:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTQ4MDE
Man...companies are strange.
What Magic Banana says is only partially true :P
1) Nouveau runs VERY stable with the GPUs I mentioned above which are
available for 10 bucks at the bay
2) The above mentioned GPUs (even when powered by a slow AMD dual core with
2x2.7GHz) still easily compete with every Intel GPU (also the
As for my benchmarks I digged out my old thread:
https://trisquel.info/es/forum/trisquel-55-gaming-benchmarks-and-some-conclusions
In regard to the comment fo Chris: An I3 might run 1080p video but still
costs 130€ (where I live). For this one gets a dual-core with 2.9 to 3.6
GHz. But one
Hey,
I am afraid that Noveau currently does not play nicely with newer cards. I
have had issues with my GeForce 450 as well as with a GeForce 610. You either
get no 3D acceleration at all and Mesas LVM Pipe or Nouveau is instable as
hell.
So far either the NVidia 8X00 family or the 9X00
This will be my last post on this topic...I promise :)
Um; this is trisquel.info... Part of the free software movement.
...
Pointing out that proprietary software has its limitations and useful
features might go away it not the topic here. Saying Heyclosed drivers
are bad...they
@Armworm: You should not devalue propritary drivers. This gives a bad taste.
Similar to propritary companies devalueing free software.
Not everyone needs to power something like this:
http://play.esea.net/global/media_preview.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fawesome.naquadah.org%2Fimages%2F6mon.medium.png
Oh yes, also one needs to understand that both the feature and the hardware
configuration in question here (two NVidia cards in SLI, two monitors
connected to each VGA card and a seamless desktop) is a very special one.
AFAIK both free drivers (Nouveau and Radeon) do not really support
The point is that the feature they removed is of very limited use since only
a very limited amount of users would need / use it anyway (quad head monitor
setup combined with two GPUs running SLI mode).
Most peoples (including me :) run at a max 2 monitors or may be three
monitors.
Unless
Technical this is possible but not really advisable.
Applications store their configuration stuff inside hidden files and
directories.
They might interfere e.g. if you use different versions of the same tool in
Debian and Trisquel.
In the end IMO this discussion is somewhat useless. SteamOS and Steam itself
as well as the majority of games distributed via it will never be free as
defined per FSF.
You either deal with it or simply ignore Steam / SteamOS. I have accepted
that fact since I like to play Games in my spare
Possible candidates would be Tomb or dmcrypt.
Tomb:
http://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/
dmcrypt:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt_with_LUKS
(this is from the archlinux wiki but provides a pretty good explanation)
I used Tomb myself for a encrypting my files on a USB stick.
HTH,
This is the biggest BS I ever heared.
The main purpose of Steam is to provide
- a digital distribution platform
- enable multiplayer communication
- enable match making
and *drumroll please*
- provide DRM (= binding games to a Steam account) to those companies who use
it !
Not all but
What would be the source to update / refresh partion backups ?
I do not exactly know a GUI tool but in the end this could boil down to
mounting a dd image file via loop back option (similar to an ISO), apply the
changes from the source to the dump via rsync and then unmount the dd image.
I
You are still quite unprecise what the source for the backup is...
Your mounted home dir ? Do you copy your full home partition as dd image and
want to add modified files ? All this is important since a full partition
backup is a completely different beast than a incremental filesystem
Hm, I would choose a different strategy. Put your home dir on a dedicated
partition. Then backup the system partition(s) like / with a full backup. For
your changeable stuff you could do filebased incremental backup like with
rdiff-backup or rsnapshot.
To my best knowledge only the
I have used the rec command from sox in combination with ffmpeg although
pulseaudio allows you to copy / re-direct sound. You can simply use Audacity
for recording audio without a physical connection.
You might also want to check out this video on Youtube:
Sounds like a false positive to me ! Firefox under Xubuntu also reports this.
The corresponding elements have this URL:
https://apis.google.com/_/scs/apps-static/_.
Oh, nothing really fancy...
Mostly something like:
qemu -m 1024 -cdrom /path/to/Trisquel.iso.iso -boot d
I rarely use anything special here
If qemu behaves REALLY slow this strongly indicates that KVM is not working.
You might check out the ArchWiki on that:
There are free drivers (MGA) included in the standard XOrg package. What I am
interested in are true hands-on observations :)
I think I asked very clear questions, didn't I ?
Honestly slow performance is not normal for KVM running with hardware
virtualisation. That is really strange. On my AMD E350 (2x1.6GHz) with 8 GB
RAM I can run Debian or Trisquel inside a VM and it feels like a physical
system. Of course only until you do something CPU or I/O intense :)
I can not commenct on 10 Bit h264 stuff since I never tried but general I
find Mplayer (or SMPlayer / GMplayer) much less demanding than Totem or VLC.
Especially when ressources are limited. For playing back 1080p stuff in H264
you eihter need hardware acceleration (Intel HD graphic only) or
@Liberty: MD5 is essentially not unsafe simply because it was possible to
produce checksum duplicates. Try to modify any file inside the ISO for a
specific purpose and produce a duplicate MD5 checksum which matches the
current one. Good luck.
Not every possible attack vector does work
No, here refers directly to MD5 as hashing algorithm:
...
Why does Trisquel use the notorious unsafe MD5 for verification of downloaded
ISO-files?
...
MD5 is not unsafe simply because people were able to produce different files
with identical values (= hash collisions). It simply means that
In general it is a wellknown myth that Linux has no viruses. There are
viruses and rootkits similar to other operating system.
Sticking to the official repos is always a good idea but unless you are able
to review all source code of the apps you use and compile them by yourself,
you can
You can easily find out where java (or any other program) is installed by
using the which command.
This will most likely give the following output:
which java
/usr/bin/java
Then ls -la /usr/bin/java will reveal the true location of the installed
java.
On my Xubuntu box it's
Trisquel bugs go here:
http://trisquel.info/en/project/issues
Questions / problems are usually answered here in the forum / mailing list.
Questions / problems with other GNU/Linux distros are answered in their
forums / mailing lists.
Thanks for the link ! I didn't know http://topdocumentaryfilms.com
They list some very interesting sounding documentaries.
Personally I think your text could fit the Trisquel wiki although it is not
directly Trisquel related.
Just for curiosity:
And what is the benefit over youtube-dl ?
Also the script does not support direct download of Youtube playlists and I
can not find anything mentioned about channels.
I do not want to sound disruptive but I fail to see true benefits in using
this script. Python is as transparent as Perl and most GNU / Linux today have
both
@jxself: You should be more accurate. The VBox team is not uninterested in
fixing this.
The reply from their VBox ticket:
...
We would be glad to fix this, but we lack the resources to do so as our BIOS
code has simply outgrown what bcc (which we were using before and which was
always very
Sarcasm does not help here. Also Oracle has a proven record to do NOTHING for
open-source. Also see how the (re)sell rebranded RHEL for their own purposes.
Note that the VirtualBox guys were always quite open to the free software
community but Innotek was bought by Oracle...hence end of
I can not judge the state of the Hurd Kernel but AFAIK it is quite limited
compared to a vanilla Linux kernel. My experiences under GNU Linux are quite
good. We run a virtualisation cluster with three big servers under Debian
with KVM as hypervisor with good results.
@all: Sry for this off-topic posting !
I can confirm that the above mentioned USB WLAN stick works perfectly under
Debian and Trisquel 6.0 as well.
@mYself: Frankly it was not very clear to me that you were not against
ThinkPenguin :)
If you want to tell me that finding free hardware is
I think we are moving too far away from the original topic but anyway:
@Danfun64: Could you elaborate what Ken Silverman and the Buildengine have to
do with Zandronum ? AFAIK all doom ports share the original released doom
engine and had some parts removed.
The build engine is a completely
Yes, this should do it.
I have some broadcom crap in my used Dell notebook as well and share you pain
;)
They are pretty terrible...both performancewise and in terms of stability.
One thing I forgot to add: Forget about playing the Xonotic mod with your
notebook GeForce chipset. It was dog-slow on my E350 with GeForce 9500GT and
is not really fast on my AMD QuadCore (4x3GHz) on a GeForce 650. I suspect
that even a 680 would have its issues with it.
By the way! How to edit a topic?
This is not possible since the forum is not a true forum but more another
form of representation of a mailing list :)
Kinda hard words IMO against Think Penguin. Always keep in mind that Chris
does not only donate some part of the income to Trisquel but also needs to
investigate hardware for compatibility which can quickly change if the vendor
uses another chipset.
But in general I would agree with two
*ggg*...no cat fighting here ;)
I thought my first posting was clear enough ! Hence I asked
@mYself:
Thanks for posting...I was neither aware of Zandorum, nor of Brütal Doom :)
Will test soon
@a_slacker_here: Even if it is somewhat a resource hogg, you should try out
the Xonotic mod posted over here at Trisquel:
The FSF has a pretty clear definition of freedom but on my system I decide
what to do :)
A good approach to test things with a propritary driver without messing up
your freedom OS is using a live distribution like Kanotix. At least that is
what I would do when I run a pure Trisquel
@lembas: what is the point in replying when one has nothing to reply ? ;)
/me seriously asking...
@EricxDu:
totem does not exactly have the best reputation as media player. I also
usually use either SMPlayer or VLC. They both provide sufficient buffering to
get a got experience when playing
@zRokh:
The more complete explanation behind this:
As free system Trisquel does not support non-free software such as Adobe
Flash.
The installed free replacement Gnash has limited support for Flash stuff
embedded in websites. Replacements such as Grease Monkey plus ViewTube help
but are not
AFAIK GStreamer is a multimedia framework / backend to make developing AV
applications easier. Both mplayer and VLC share libav for decoding videos.
I just mentioned that totem does not exactly have a good reputation because I
have seen several complaints in various message boards about
Lib-Ray seems to be a good alternative for those who want to produce HD
content. For the consumer site I still both fail to see good support in at
least some applications (e.g. XBMC) and good reasons to use Lib-ray instead
of (lets say) a MP4 / MKV contrainer with identical codecs (if one
@opon4: Thanks for clarification ! Patented is the right term. Sorry for
choosing the wrong word. But in the end this does not change much the mayor
point of my posting :)
There are open free options like Opus, FLAC, the Ogg stuff but they usually
lack support throughout the available
Oh yeah...and a small follow up:
Why did you write that MP3 is not a video format ?
I was purely speaking about codecs which include audio as well as video :)
I played around with the updated version a bit and like several of the maps.
The music so far sounded nice and well matching.
Things I would consider:
- Crossbow with no shooting sound (may be experiment with the soundfile I
provided you). Crossbows are neither inaudible, nor is a silent
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