IIRC VirtualBox Guest Additions which you will need to use are non-free so
don't. The generic free software way to achieve the same result with any
GNU/Linux virtual machine would be over the virtual network using one of a)
VNC b) enabling XDMCP in the greeter (GDM in Trisquel's case) and ru
So there's no need for shadow passwords in GNU/Linux then?
You're right that the best place is your head.
However, IMO the method you describe will merely prevent the Script Kiddie
style bots which try common passwords. Other than those all the method you
give does is introduce another documented level of cryptographic hashing to
what will mostly
This looks a bit like:
http://itsfoss.com/solve-ntfs-mount-problem-ubuntu-windows-8-dual-boot/
After Reading some more of The 'Fine' Manuals, including Debian's docs then
here:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made
I stand corrected, many binary packages are copied verbatim - so Thank You.
Of course, the checksums being the same is of itself not enough to go on. A
fully sel
Trisquel recompiles (aka rebuilds) all the packages from source on Trisquel
servers. You can tell this because all the packages are signed with just the
Trisquel key and 'apt-key list' only has the Trisquel key showing.
Yes Trisquel has to trust that upstream hasn't put anything in the publi
For those waiting for a more recent kernel I note we now have
linux-generic-lts-saucy
In the repo.
There's both 'open source hardware' and 'free hardware' definitions (see last
year in this forum for links). The open source hardware definition is about
zero fee (gratis) use of the hardware design. Free hardware OTOH is more
closely aligned with free software. Although AIUI they accept
The iptables capability which is what the kind of firewall you talk about
uses is built into the kernel. Just it isn't set up to deny ports by default
in Trisquel.
Trisquel does, however, ship with an Application Level Firewall enabled by
default - AppArmor [1]. This protects you if somet
It's really the fallout of a (IIRC) 2012 consultation on what sort of
standards the UK Government should use. FSFE sent a mailing asking people to
write in. The conclusion was open standards first.
The UK, like the rest of the EU, has a large part of its private/real economy
made up of SM
The hardware audio buttons are between the Esc and Blue 'ThinkVantage' button
at the top righthand part of the keyboard area.
If you install and configure package powernap you can save battery. By
default it will push the X60 into powersave mode fairly quickly, if you also
add a Stage 2 action to suspend after a few minutes then your X60 will waste
less battery being there when you're not actively using it.
For desktops Coreboot list support for two current AMD CPU motherboards here:
http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
However, you're going to be left without 3D support unless you want to
introduce non-free code in the form of an nVidia GPU VGABIOS. Both of the
write ups seem to ind
ISTR an FSFE newsletter lauding a French user enforcing their right to buy a
laptop without Microsoft Windows. So, please, whatever you do buy - don't
pay 'Windows Tax.'
Because the keyboard on the netbook I bought secondhand earlier in the year
gives me wrist pains in extended use I bough
Personally I just ask people about their use cases first. There's an awful
lot of people, like the friend who I recently influenced into using Trisquel,
for whom the many things free software _can_ do are more than they need.
Of course I always discuss the freedoms. But, people do tend to u
LibrePlanet says the PCI card is not supported by LinuxLibre
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre:ATM_SOLOS
Two proprietary firmware blobs are involved. One of them is a FPGA
bitstream. According to the free hardware people they can only be synthesized
with proprietary software so the fir
Also Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
His two best known classics from Project Gutenberg. Both have influenced
people like Ghandi and the founders of the British Labour movement.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205
Think Fast, Thinking Slow by Daniel Kahneman - it's his popularization of his
work which got him the Nobel
Justice by Michael J. Sandel - an influential Harvard political and moral
philosophy course turned into a book
Sorry, you're just rationalising what you do with a security argument. If it
were true then the FSF would accept running non-free Java 1.4 applets
providing the security manager was configured to disallow network etc access.
There are no differences in the theoretical abstractions of the two
to the page. It's just a
matter of how I work (see my previous comment for an explanation), and not
because I would like to be spiteful.
I urge you to accept and work with the normal collaborative nature of a wiki
page. It will make the pages better than you can achieve alone and perhaps
give them a life beyond your own interest it the project.
> Thank you leny2010 for taking the time to write a lengthy reply, trying to
help me. I really appreciate it.
Thanks for the thanks. Good manners are always appreciated.
Regardless of the correctness or authority of the rest of what you say
personal attacks are against the Trisquel Community Guidelines for good
reasosns. Please desist in your misbehaviour.
Screenets data licensing was changed to be freedom friendly see
http://trisquel.info/en/issues/5984 As of Trisquel 6.0 the program is GFSD
compatible.
GFSD problems are bugs, if you find one please open an issue.
If what you're wanting to do is prepare the pages for later release as
publicly editable wiki pages then the easiest solution is to edit them on
your PC using a plain text editor such as gedit then copy and paste it into
the wiki when you're ready. There'll just be fixing up wiki markup typos
As has been said gnupg, Gnupg for Windows (though for obvious reasons I have
never looked into whether there's a portable variety of it). In addition K-9
Mail and APG from F-droid.org for Cyanogenmod / Replicant / Android.
Be warned that K-9 Mail only does what it claims is PGP/INLINE . Its
All the laptop keyboards I've seen remap some of the keys as the numeric pad
on pressing a Fn+/something/ sequence. Look for small numbers around the UIOP
JKL; and M,./ keys. The /something/ key will say something like NumLk or
have a mini numeric pad logo on it in the same color as the Fn k
You can modify the Panel with Super+Alt+Right-Click on it. If you do that
just to the left of the Notification Area the menu that pops up will include
Add To Panel as would have been used to add Gnomenu to Gnome 2. Wether it
will work if Gnomenu is still built for Gnome 2 I don't know.
Except that you get to System Settings from the Trisquel button it's exactly
as per the Gnome 3 manual.
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.3/mouse-mousekeys.html.en
If I were you I'd install the package gnucash and read their Tutorial and
Concepts Guide here http://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=guide . Then set up
a set of accounts to organise your personal finances and run them for a bit
just to get familiarity with the basics of double entry accountin
@boaz given what you say I'd go from the quoted issue where it says if it
goes wrong to run the following commands
sudo apt-get install -fy > /tmp/install.log
cd /
cat /tmp/install.log | grep "different from the same file on the system" |
cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs sudo rm
sudo apt-get install
According to this http://media.libreplanet.org/u/libby/m/denis-carikli/
Replicant developer Replicant is a freed Cyanogenmod. The main difference
used to be that a CM base install included the blobs for things like WiFi,
Bluetooth, GPS etc. The Google Apps etc were not included in CM's
dis
Following the advice of the Replicant developer who spoke at this year's
LibrePlanet I have a Cyanogenmod with only F-droid apps set up. A smartphone
acts as a medical device for me (per my disability) on four counts. Including
one which requires GPS, otherwise I'd be on Replicant.
And yes
For anyone wondering what to do now with their Xbox and Kinect this is
helpful for the Kinect
leny@trisquel:~$ apt-cache search kinect
freenect - library for accessing Kinect USB camera -- meta package
libfreenect-demos - library for accessing Kinect USB camera -- demonstrations
libfreenect-dev
Are you saying GSM because of something you know that isn't featured
elsewhere? GSM is an old protocol, end point to mast security is not up to
the requirements of today e.g.
https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218866/Researchers_show_off_homemade_spy_drone_at_Black_Hat
3G OTOH AFAIK h
$160K is equivalent to three less than IT industry average annual salaries.
You couldn't actually employ three people for a year for that amount because
there'd be other costs on top. So it's peanuts.
The money goes to SPI (Software in thje Public Interest) the US registered
non-profit wh
The Bochs / Qemu VGA BIOS is free (LGPL).
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/lxr/source/bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-README
I checked the license of the i128 driver in the Trisquel repo and it is also
free.
Duly backed, thanks Chris.
Looking at your Xorg.0.log I notice you're on the default kernel. The
solution might be as simple as installing a newer one as
nouveau is in development. You have a choice of package:
linux-generic-lts-belenos
Which is a Trisquel supported 3.5.x kernel. Or if that doesn't work or you
want
I have just installed the 6.0.1 beta on a spare machine. Like Debian
modification releases (the digit after the second point) and as per Ruben's
announcement it is just an update of the install CD to the latest maintenance
levels. Perhaps including a few improvements that are yet to hit the
I've filed a bug against Prism Break for the re-listing of Trisquel here
https://github.com/nylira/prism-break/issues/536
Trisquel was delisted as a consequence poor understanding of what a FSF GFSD
distro is and the incorrect assumption it used Ubuntu binary packages.
Even though I've said
By the time you've paid for all the things you need in addition to the single
board (e.g. SD card and power supply) you will have spent more than the cost
of a second hand x86 / x86_64 netbook. Which you give you the added
advantages of WiFi (test it first) and a battery for a kind of UPS.
The differences between Debian and *buntu or more to the point Trisquel are:
- Choice of default desktop. Unlike the Microsoft Windows world, where there
is one desktop per release, GNU/Linux offers a choice of different desktop
experiences. Debian provides a choice of the main players whic
OK, I don't actually know the answer because the package helpers handle all
this for you. I just know where you're supposed to be able to find it (as I
said I tinker).
My understanding of maint-guide is that
Yes, I know from experience of another netbook I wouldn't use the things that
don't work on the U135DX even if they did.
It's supported in Ubuntu 12.04 which is the release Toutatis is derived from.
Seems reasonable to assume the page should say Trisquel 6.0.
'Big Up' to Chris and s/his team for going for RYF. I'm very happy to see
that they've contained the certification cost within what would be UK quality
I don't think that actually self-compiling all the source necessarily follows
from the free software freedom to have it. One small part of Trisquel, the
kernel, passed a million lines of code years ago, so what benefit do you gain
from merely compiling what you are unlikely to have read? Wh
I was approximating just having one difference of opinion at once. :-)
Yes, Theology, the study subject, is referred to as a science in older
English (C19 say) texts. However, Quirilo (Q) used the terms religion and
faith in conjunction and they are not scientific by any standard definition.
I tested & bought it. It's a MSi U135DX MS-N104, the WiFi works, Integrated
Intel Gfx works with 3D, Sound works, Ethernet works. But the Bluetooth and
the SD slot don't. The Touchpad is limited to basic PS/2 mouse operation (as
in no multi-touch, finger scroll, or gestures). It's 64-bit c
Thanks Chris, that's really good news.
Thanks, you have given more info than I found with my searches, which is
helpful.
In my last email reply I forgot to commend you on thinking again about your
use of these games.
On a more personal note your questions and this thread have helped me clear
up my thinking around whether to take up a close friend's invitation to
volunteer at The National Museum of Computing (
I had spotted this thread before. I too have been having problems for some
time. I've gone through a similar - try something, it seems to work, then a
while later I discover I still have the problem.
My latest change again has worked for a few weeks but I can't be certain yet.
I switched
Your inference, that I presumed you have no other hobbies was not an intended
implication of my writing. More that a new replacement pastime for one you
drop is often easier to deal with than removing one and being left with your
remaining hobbies. That isn't always true, just often enough t
I don't read it very often but I've seen an article by RMS in the Guardian
(UK mainstream broadsheet paper guardian.co.uk ) where he criticises Google
for privacy invasion wrt Android. Saying while it is better in that most of
the code is free software, users often lose that in practice, so
I recommended it because:
It is a known good process to me. It worked for me on my machines during beta
even when others were reporting problems
It is possible for Internet file transfers to glitch in transmission in ways
that TCP/IP won't detect but the .deb package tools will. It could s
First there were bugs against it at one point and I'm not sure of the status
of all of them. Last I heard people were reporting success if they got to
the latest 5.5 maintenance first.
So burn a 6.0 install CD in case things go pear shaped.
Do
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
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