[Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquel

2014-03-21 Thread josh
Does Trisquel usually install without problems? I have copied the download to disc twice now. On this machine, where I DO NOT want to destroy the gnewsense operating system, the first disc loads the installer but that won't respond to anything but the arrow keys - and they caused my hard driv

[Trisquel-users] Trisquel

2012-09-09 Thread Josh T.
I am very impressed with Trisquel. It's clean, and pretty polished. If you're unhappy with it, do something about it. Collaborate to make it better, or use something else. Best of luck to you. Regards, josht

[Trisquel-users] Upgrade to 5.5

2012-04-23 Thread Josh T.
I'm running version 5. Is it advisable to switch repos to 5.5, and dist-upgrade?

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Binary firmware and your freedom" at DistroWatch

2010-06-17 Thread Josh Martens
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 09:10 +, Antonio Gallo wrote: > For me the real question is: what is the brain? And then: is the brain > completely free? In our case the brain is the OS, that can ask the external > devices to do what he (the OS commanded by the user) desire. > > For me, it’s not a una

Re: [Trisquel-users] Advertising in trisquel.info

2010-06-12 Thread Josh Martens
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 07:39 +0200, ph4re9o...@gmail.com wrote: > The fact that large amounts of people believe something doesn't make it true, > > look at religion. > Now, I agree with quidam's rationale, that it would be deeply corrosive for > Trisquel's relations with educational adoption an

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel is adware?

2010-06-12 Thread Josh Martens
> The beast is still out there, and until he's defeated, we'll need to abide > some of his methods to get ahead of him. Error: anthropomorphization overload. What on earth are you talking about?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Advertising in trisquel.info

2010-06-12 Thread Josh Martens
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 22:20 +0200, ph4re9o...@gmail.com wrote: > Excuse me but what exactly is so wrong with "Pr0n" that is on the same > category with something as nasty as "Non-free programs" or "Ads that require > a Flash player" ? Humans in all cultures have expressed sexual modesty. http:

Re: [Trisquel-users] I Want To Install The ATI Drivers

2010-05-01 Thread Josh Martens
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 01:51 +0200, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote: > > I would think that would say some people who were enslaved as were > > blacks in the 1800's. Would they say that now? > > There are still slaves nowadays. This is true. > Tell a deeply underpaid hand worker > in a underdeveloped

Re: [Trisquel-users] Atheros WiFi Keeps Disconnecting - Need Better Support Please

2010-04-22 Thread Josh Martens
I had to get the stable version here for kernel .32 and install that, then all my problems were fixed. http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/#Releases On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 02:41 +0200, das...@gmail.com wrote: > lspci shows this for my WiFi: > > 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros C

Re: [Trisquel-users] use of Trisquel with wubi?

2010-04-08 Thread Josh Martens
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 19:54 +0200, roep...@lavabit.com wrote: > For reasons that should be obvious, Trisquel's LiveCDs do not include Wubi. > We do not want to the user to continue to depend on Windows even as they use > our fully-free distro. And here I was thinking that wubi was an input sys

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am fed up with YouTube!

2010-04-06 Thread Josh Martens
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 20:21 +0200, roep...@lavabit.com wrote: > "Fair enough, but you do believe that climate change is occuring right? I > mean, the weather we are getting in Canada is extremely unseasonal and > erratic." > > This conversation already has nothing to do with Trisquel, but no,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ibus frustration

2010-03-23 Thread Josh Martens
I found that just ibus-gtk solved the problems, but anyway thank you very much. On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 02:44 +0100, sirga...@gmail.com wrote: > r system is updated, they may be installed already and you can go > ahead ___ Trisquel-users mailing list Tris

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ibus frustration

2010-03-23 Thread Josh Martens
Awesome, thank you so much! I'll do it right away. Thank you. On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 19:10 +0100, sirga...@gmail.com wrote: > Daemonax, install the following packages, activate iBus and restart your > session: > > - ibus-gtk > - ibus-m17n > > I tested and it solves many problems with iBus, inc

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 3.5 Awen release announcement

2010-03-23 Thread Josh Martens
> > All packages were updated, including: > > * Linux-libre kernel 2.6.31 > * Xorg 7.4 > * GNOME 2.28 > * OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 > * Mozilla based Web Browser 3.5 > > You can find the 32 and 64 bit installable Live CD images in the > download section, along with the source cod

Re: [Trisquel-users] A couple of issues:1)

2010-03-06 Thread Josh Martens
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 22:34 +0100, flop...@yahoo.es wrote: > A similar issue is observed in a folder with .jpg files on a external drive. > Among more than a hundred files, a few ones do not initially display a > picture of their content but only a standard icon (a tree with a sunset as > bak

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 3.5 Release

2010-03-05 Thread Josh Martens
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 08:31 -0500, Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo wrote: > El vie, 05-03-2010 a las 03:21 +0100, akirashinig...@gmail.com escribió: > > [...] > > > > After going to System > Administration > Language Support > Install / > > Remove > > Languages, adding support for Japanese, then lo

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 3.5 Release

2010-03-04 Thread Josh Martens
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:59 +0100, flop...@yahoo.es wrote: > A couple of issues: > Another small bug, when I remove the "show desktop" button, and make my panel black and transparent (as I like it) there is a small white dot left on the panel that doesn't disappear and can't be removed. I had to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 3.5 beta

2010-02-23 Thread Josh Martens
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 04:21 +0100, roep...@lavabit.com wrote: > Thank you, Øyvind. Your version is beautiful. > > Here is a screenshot of my desktop with this background. I think it looks > good enough: http://i50.tinypic.com/2z889r8.jpg The probelm is simply the brightness, that version is muc

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 3.5 beta published

2010-02-23 Thread Josh Martens
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 05:55 +0100, roep...@lavabit.com wrote: > I've finished the art I've been working on, all under GPL. Download it, try > it out, and offer honest feedback. I've strongly decided on the color green > for this set, to commemorate our efforts to keeping the disk size of the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Restricted codecs in

2010-02-23 Thread Josh Martens
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 06:53 +0100, bf...@bellsouth.net wrote: > I'm in the United States where there may be legal issues with certain codecs > & libraries, such as libdvdcss. I also read that the VLC player, which is on > > the roadmap for future releases, may be illegal here. I didn't see a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Understanding why we are

2010-02-21 Thread Josh Martens
> Look at our project; we're the second most important free distro after > gNewSense, but we don't even have art ready for the next version. I'm > finishing up a background, login screen, and usplash that I will submit for > review tomorrow. Well maybe if someone would write up some guides

Re: [Trisquel-users] Confused - trying to pick

2009-11-10 Thread Josh Martens
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:43 +0100, ayob...@gmail.com wrote: > Still, if this is the case, you can just tell people where to download > Trisquel, can't you? Distributing is not allowed, but downloading it yourself > > is. > __ What? Why would you not be allowed

Re: [Trisquel-users] Confused - trying to

2009-10-31 Thread Josh Martens
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:29 +0100, techgeek...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the info... I'll look into it. If it seems I can use Trisquel > without a problem :) :) :) :) :) (and then some). I really don't think it's sensible to submit to unjust laws. I live in NZ and am pretty sure we've impor

[Trisquel-users] UXA

2009-10-13 Thread Josh Martens
Has anyone here been able to get UXA working with Trisquel? My machine has an Intel 965 graphics card and I'm running the 64bit version 3.0 build. When I add the line: Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" into xorg.conf and restart xorg, things start to go very slow for me and many things don't work. ___

Re: [Trisquel-users] swfdec 0.92 and youtube

2009-10-09 Thread Josh Martens
There is the firefox plugin 'unplug' which is GPL'd and lets you easily download videos from multiple sites. I think it'd be better in the future if the browser did not come by default with plugins that are still being heavily worked on. ___ Trisquel-us

[Trisquel-users] swfdec 0.92 and youtube

2009-10-08 Thread Josh Martens
Has anyone noticed that youtube videos don't seem to be working? For example this won't work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jknynk5vny8 But featured videos seem to be working like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoPBqde-M8E&feature=fvw Anyone else having this problem? I'm guessing they'