I heard they have a massive presence in data centers with the LTS releases.
Only old people still watch TV.
Praise be to Parabola, which allows you to tippy toe along the bleeding edge
with a system that won't betray you.
Now, as far as BLAG goes, is it true the Gdnewhat guys are now working on
BLAG? Their website refers users to BLAG and Gdnewhat proved long ago they
could get a fully free Redha
Thanks icarolongo & Gereon. I forgot Parabola already had Icecat. I'm
switching to it momentarily since Iceweasel-libre has the Australis UI and
Icecat doesn't (yet).
This is excellent news! Any word on whether GNU Icecat might also appear in
Parabola at some point? I am really looking forward to a Firefox variant with
all of the DRM bits removed.
"And mind telling me how did Debian hurt the free software world?"
1. At boot, Debian displays a message that my network card driver is missing
proprietary firmware. Essentially, Debian is ADVERTISING proprietary firmware
for my network card. What is so ridiculous about this is my network car
The following claim:
"I am white"
does not imply that I am black, unless the listener is irrational.
Netgear firmware is closed. That's a fact. Case closed.
"Using the term "closed" or "closed source" implies the term "open source",
which should be avoided."
Bullshit. You could just as easily have assumed an implied synonym for my use
of the word 'closed,' such as 'locked,' rather than assume the antonym for
the word 'closed,' such as 'open'. T
Software, whether free or closed, can have vulnerabilities. If the software
is closed, the buyer of the software has no recourse other than to wait on
the vendor to issue a fix for the vulnerability, assuming the vendor has any
intention to fix such vulnerabilities.
A recent example is the
dudeski said:
"Yes, I see. It's got a silly, completely unenforcable clause in there. Heh.
Suppose my immediate vaguely childish reaction is akin to who gives a shit..
The code is still out there. You can grab it, stare at it and modify it."
YOU are certainly free to distribute code with a
KDE for sure, because they do it right. Did KDE follow Gnome and toss the
desktop in place of a touch interface (just like Win8) Nope! They kept the
desktop interface, added a netbook interface, added a media center interface
and also added a touch interface, or are working on one. No matter
You always find the coolest things. I use (and LOVE) Lato now because of you.
Thanks.
It depends on the license of the tuning fork.
"And umm didn't the feds use a firfox js 0 day just recently?"
Yes, if you were running Tor on Windows, using an outdated version of
Firefox, with javascript enabled, then you were definitely at risk.
I still use Tor and was never at risk for the recent exploit, for numerous
reasons.
Use dd to write an iso the your flash drive. Here's an example:
sudo dd if=trisquel_6.0_amd64.iso of=/dev/sdd
'if' stands for input file, or the iso you wish to copy
"of" stands for output file, or where you wish to write the iso file to.
The device name of your flash drive may not be /dev/sdd
It sounds like Qupzilla can't handle direct connections to tor. Install
privoxy, and point privoxy to tor via the following line in privoxy config:
#forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
Removing the "#" sign in the above line in the privoxy config will allow
privoxy to s
ahj
"Only a fool would tell himself that using a proprietary version of a
program, rather than not using a program at all is a better solution. In
virtually every instance it is better to be inconvenienced by not using a
proprietary program at all than using it."
Then you agree the smart
"In systems you do not control, you are in control of those that control
those systems."
Blatantly false. Were it true, I could merely say the word and the entire
administration at the college would do as I say.
RMS began creating the free software system on closed, proprietary, non-free
I do not betray myself in systems within my control, which is precisely why
the systems within my control are 100% free. It's really that simple.
Andrew asked:
"Are you taking these tests in-class?"
No, all of the tests are done from home, even the finals.
"But remember that using someone else's computer is like using a network
service - you don't have control of what happens to your data."
I am already plotting on this for the next
I am hardly betraying myself in this instance, because the educational system
is not within my control. Were the educational system within my control,
there would be no proprietary software in it, for NUMEROUS reasons.
I would be betraying myself were I to use the separate system with the
p
Andrew said
"the problem here is that with a test that requires proprietary software, the
ability to provide evidence of completing the exam becomes difficult (because
you lack the freedom to control your computing)."
I don't know where in the world you are, but it doesn't sound like you ar
I can give an example.
I am taking a class whereby tests required for the class REQUIRE flash. Gnash
doesn't work. For example, if I attempt to read the online chapters in Gnash
there is no text to read. Each chapter also has labs which can be done from
home by connecting to the online labs
I have no idea, but clues may be found in the differences between Abrowser &
Icecat. Abrowser comes with plugins to play all kinds of media, whereas
Icecat does not. Abrowser also seems to track Firefox releases more closely,
whereas Icecat is still at version 17, I think. Parabola includes I
The name of the ppa is 'gnuzilla-team.' Instructions, for Ubuntu, are found
here:
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/IceCat
I am no developer. However, even though I have reservations about Trisquel
forking from Ubuntu, I do believe it was a smart move to fork from such a
popular distribution. At the time Trisquel was formed, Canonical did not
appear as they appear now, and had not made so many moves contradictory
My biggest fear here is Canonical's/Ubuntu's NIH syndrome, from unity to
upstart to Mir. If the rest of the community sticks with standard desktops,
systemd & Wayland, where will that leave Trisquel? I would rather see
Trisquel follow the community than Ubuntu, but I have ZERO trust for
Can
Icecat is GNU's fork of Firefox, while Iceweasel is Debian's fork of the
same. (The folks in the Debian user forums will tell you Iceweasel IS
firefox, except for the name.)
Iceweasel will allow you to install non-free addons, whereas GNU's Icecat,
has a separate page of addons, all of whic
The only reason I ask is because mp4s look more like slide shows than video
clips on the netbook. Strangely enough, they play perfectly on the desktop.
The desktop runs nouveau and the netbook runs intel. So I think the mesa
version (any mesa pre-9.0 I think) is at the bottom of it.
It's a
Trisquel includes mesa version 8.0.4. However, I notice there is a
mesa-xxx-xxx-quantal version at 9.0.3. I would like to install the newer mesa
version, but I am not sure of the proper way to do it, as in, are there other
packages I would need to upgrade at the same time?
You are SOO preaching to the choir.
Google pretty much told their whole story when they purchased Doubleclick.
Its not just FSF campaigns that get overthrown by those with power and
influence who can therefore arrange to get what they want.
This is just one more step in the end game, which is to turn the Internet
into cable TV where every viewpoint you see will be carefully orchestrated. I
will unpl
Ok that sounds exactly like what I am looking for. I am going to follow your
example step-by-step because I will remember it once I see it with my own
eyes. I will take good notes too for easy reproduction down the road. I don't
want a repo here. I don't have the space. I will copy all the de
Ok, here's what I've found. In Trisquel, the two packages Apper/Packagekit
wish to update are kdelibs5-data & kdelibs5-plugins, which are the two
packages I installed from the compilation. Each of those app names have
subfolders in the KDE directory, which has the control file. Here's the
c
I don't really want to pin the package on hold. I want to be able to receive
any Trisquel updates after I have installed the custom packages, since I can
always rebuild it down the road. And since the helpers have already been
integrated, it could be the next kdelibs pushed out to us will hav
DNS has already written helpers to free KDE Parabola-style, which is a good
thing, because I really don't know what I am doing as far as helpers and lack
that kind of skill.
Thanks so much for the tip. I'll poke my nose in the Debian docs and see what
I can learn about debian/control.
I have rebuilt kdelibs on Trisquel, incorporating one of the Parabola
patches. Once I installed the newly compiled packages, Apper notifies me an
'update' is required, with said update wanting to replace the exact two
freshly compiled packages I had just installed. How can I install custom
I am not distrubed that so many don't care about free software. How is it any
different than so many other issues? There are smokers who won't quit
smoking, alcoholics who won't stop drinking, people who don't exercise, junk
food junkies, etc. There are many people who don't do their best to
Thanks so much. I did submit it, but only after reading that link, so I did
include the link back to the Trisquel website. It's a very simple wallpaper
for the KDE Plasma Netbook interface:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Trisquel+Liberty?content=158540&PHPSESSID=1e2b92e1fc6db9d919b37b3c
Is it ok to distribute a wallpaper made with the Trisquel logo on KDE-Look.
org, or would it violate the copyright on the logo?
I just sent them an email thanking them for making my life easy and not
making me have to jump through hoops to get my hardware working, although
that was in reference to the Atheros wireless NIC I put in my netbook. I also
referenced this article in the email.
Please, anyone who benefits f
I am running Trisquel 6.0 w/Gnome 3 on my netbook, which is an Acer d255e,
which has dual core 1.66 Ghz atoms. I upgraded the ram from 1 GB to 2 GB and
replaced the Broadcom wireless NIC with an Atheros. (Thanks Chris for the
recommendation!) Gnome 3 works perfectly and even feels 'light' on
sudo aptitude install cpufrequtils
sudo aptitude install indicator-cpufreq
then run
indicator-cpufreq
An applet will appear in the system tray, providing two categories of
information. (I only see these options in KDE when I right click on the
applet):
CPU speed - mine show:
2.60 GHz
1.
I will be all over Guix once it's stable and can build KDE4.
Set up a chroot on your better powered desktop and have it build the binaries
for the low powered one.
It's not source code. It's firmware. This link:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-April/036766.html
contains a link to:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/
which is ALL firmware. I recognize it because it could be built into the
kernel on Gentoo.
Someone posted the following in the comments of Slashdot, claiming it is the
license of this 'code:'
---
REDISTRIBUTION: Permission is hereby granted, free of any license fees, to
any person obtaining a copy of this microcode (the "Software"), to
install, reproduce, copy and distr
Parabola is S-L-I-C-K, especially if you like KDE4. It has the latest 4.10.1.
However, I've never been able to install Parabola from the iso. I have to
install Arrch then migrate to Parabola, following the instructions found
here:
https://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/Migration_From_Arch
But i
Konqeuror, with the webkit engine, is actually an excellent browser, I have
found. Isn't the webkit engine the same browser engine used by Chrome?
The only possible complaint about Konqueror with the webkit backend is the
browser finger print is very unique, which isn't a good thing if you wi
"Why don't you build one?"
Exactly! It was far cheaper for me to order parts and pay someone else to
build it, than it was to buy one outright. Additionally, I was able to
research all of the hardware to insure it all worked with free drivers. If
you research, then order your parts, you can
No offense to the OP, but I will stick with Trisquel & Parabola, thank you
very much.
First of all, it is extremely important to me that I run a 100% free system.
Second of all, as far as KDE goes, there are some non-free parts and/or
recommendations of non-free software, that Trisquel is w
I always put the following into .Xresources and my fonts look perfect no
matter in Trisquel, Debian or whatever. Supposedly, these settings are what
Ubuntu uses:
!{{{XFT
Xft*dpi: 96
Xft*antialias: true
Xft*hinting: true
Xft*hintstyle: hintslight
Xft*rgba: rgb
Xft.lcdfilter: lcdde
I'm getting nothing on the torrents either. I only torrent Trisquel &
Parabola these days and make torrents available 24/7. I'll remove the
Toutatis torrents until the official release I suppose.
What are the '-fsf- versions about? I've never seen those before. Aren't all
versions of Trisquel '-fsf' versions, or FSF approved?
mYself said:
"That's why I'm asking you to proof-test the first "real" Release Candidate
of Toutatis and share your thoughts about it on this thread."
I probably don't qualify for this proof-test. I use the net-install image,
then aptitude purge a few things from that, including ubuntu-mini
Agreed. Trisquel is quality, so is worth the wait.
Actually, I look for the GPL, instead of caring how the software itself is
labeled.
"Also, without subscribable lists like Adblock Plus has, it won't be anywhere
near as effective and accurate.
Finally, I'm not convinced that this is a full answer, mostly because I don't
really understand it."
Privoxy has a very long history. It was originally known as the JunkBuster
pro
Finally I am back. I switched to Parabola while I was gone. I've had a couple
of very minor issues with it, which I have mostly managed to work out. Aside
from VLC, everything works perfectly. (I prefer smplayer anyway.) Parabola
has MANY very nice perks and runs faster than Gentoo hardened d
I don't think the author gets it, particularly due to this line from the
article:
"Over the last few years, Richard Stallman has denounced cloud computing,
e-books, cell phones in general, and Android in particular."
Correct me if I am wrong, but how can RMS warning me about these technolog
Okey dokey. I'll try that next.
You know, this is driving me NUTS, because I've got to fix these bugs in my
Gentoo systems too. I've set up a local overlay, named the '4Freedoms'
overlay. I haven't done anything to it yet. But I know once I have both of
these Konqueror bugs fixed and submit
OK, I get the same error when using this command:
patch -p1 -i khtml-fsdg.patch
It's actually khtm-fsdg.diff
After changing the name of the command and issuing it in the directory
kde4libs-whatever-version/khtml/html, the output is always this, whether on
Brigantia or Toutatis:
--
What about artwork for Trisquel? Is there an email address to submit it for
consideration?
Michael:
I am not sure I understand your reference to using patch instead of sed. How
can the patch app know what to do to the source files, without a list of
instructions? Or, are you saying I can copy the two patches from Parabola,
then make whatever changes are necessary (for example, ch
Ok. Sed is easy, at least as far as deleting text, as in the first Parabola
patch posted in this thread. For the KDE 4.9.3 sources, that patch would be
done like this:
sed -e '578,617d' htmp_objectimpl.cpp
(assuming you were already in the same directory as the file)
The links to the Trisquel helpers for the next release are helpful. I first
checked the source for KDE 4.9.3 on Gentoo Hardened. It didn't seem that
anything had changed as far as these patches go. It should be no problem to
do this for Brignatia & Toutatis as well. One patch should apply to
I found out about the package helpers and bzr by nosing around on this site
last night. I am WAY out of my league here, because I barely know a wee bit
of bash, and I know nothing at all about sed nor awk. However, I do enjoy
learning new things. I can test again and again before I submit an
Is this the end result we are looking for, as far as the Konqueror 'About'
page:
[ http://oi47.tinypic.com/delmqs.jpg - Fixed Konq ]
That's Trisquel Brigantia. It should be no problem to fix the other bug,
following the example Parabola patches posted earlier in this thread. I only
added t
I can see one of the bugs in the source now. There is an html page that
appears when you first open Konqueror, that says "Be Free' & shows links to
the home folders, network folder Trash & Bookmarks. Above those links, there
are 4 more links:
Starting Points
Introduction
Tips
Specifications
I just checked the Konqueror 'About' screen. This is on Gentoo Hardened,
using KDE 4.9.3. It states the following:
"Web browser, file manager and document viewer
C) 1999-2008, The Konqueror developers
http://konqueror.kde.org";
I probably need to boot into Trisquel and check it there, or down
I had wondered if Parabola had altered some part of KDE, because I noticed
parts of KDE were replaced when I migrated to Parabola from a fresh Arch
install. (I've never been able to boot the Parabola iso from USB, so I
installed Arch, then migrated to Parabola per the instructions on the
Pa
I am curious about the Konqueror bug. The problem is Konqueror suggests
non-free software, by recommending Adobe Flash on certain websites. My
question is, what methods are necessary to fix this bug? Could it only be
fixed by a programmer or could it be fixed by searching and replacing text i
The OP is rude, but also does not reflect the reality of the world. Ask
yourself this:
How many people do you know who switched from 100% non-free system to 100%
free system in one switch?
I don't know anyone who did that. I myself didn't do that. I went from a 100%
non-free system to ove
Uh, you just proved my point. Here's a direct quote:
---
Doesn't the GNU project support an individual's free speech rights to call
the system by any name that individual chooses?
Yes, indeed, we believe you have a free speech right to call the operating
onpon4 said
"I wouldn't say that. There may be a lot of free software, but an unfortunate
majority of supporters of this software are open source supporters."
I agree with this, except I think much of it is due to the commercialization
of free softare. The rise of Ubuntu among those looking
Sir Grant said:
"Please see:
GNU/Linux FAQ: Many other projects contributed to the system as it is today;
it includes TeX, X11, Apache, Perl, and many more programs. Don't your
arguments imply we have to give them credit too? (But that would lead to a
name so long it is absurd.)"
Thank y
icarolongo said:
"I prefer say only "Trisquel. One free operating system with GNU and Linux".
I rarely say GNU/Linux, the most of times I use "free operating system"."
Call it what you wish, as long as what you call it isn't false and as long as
it doesn't violate the license. Whether you c
Actually, were I to name my system based on the projects which contributed to
it, the name would be:
GENTOO/GNU/GRSECURITY/KDE4/PORTAGE/QT4/LINUX.
And that's a ridiculously long name.
Here's the deal. Those who insist on calling the system GNU/LINUX are not
only living in the past, but are
As far as I know, there is nothing in the license that would dictate what I
should call my system. Calling it a GPL or GNU licensed system, is quite
factual, particularly when I can provide the stats that clearly show that's
what it is. This is especially true in the case where I specifically
My point is not to deny anyone credit for software they wrote, nor is my
point to mislead people into thinking the Linux kernel is a GNU project. It
would be more correct and much less confusing if I called my system a GNU
licensed system or a GPL system. For me, it really IS about the licens
That goes without saying, for me at least. Any closed and/or proprietary
anything is a huge gaping security hole (sooner or later) that leaves you at
the mercy of a vendor (whose priority is profit, rather than the security of
your system). I REFUSE to put myself in that situation.
Whereas
Forget Virtualbox & VMWare. They both require out of tree kernel modules that
don't play well with the kernel. If your processor has the kvm extensions,
use qemu-kvm. You can use Aqemu as a very nice user interface for qemu-kvm,
although qemu-kvm is easy enough to run from the command line as
Well whatever is done to fork Trisquel off of Ubuntu needs to continue. Going
back for years, I have always found Ubuntu to be a bug-ridden, unstable mess,
which is why no Ubuntu install ever lasted more than 24 hours on my machine.
Trisquel isn't like that. It is as if Trisquel stabilizes Ub
Exactly! Count the licenses of installed software on any GNU system and the
GPL family of licenses will be overwhelmingly represented. Using my own case
as an example, if a presidential candidate won an election with 85% of the
vote, we would consider that to be a landslide. The same is true
Right now I quad boot the following:
Trisquel Brigantia w/KDE
100% Free Gentoo Hardened Stable w/libre kernel
100% Free Gentoo Hardened Unstable w/libre kernel
Gentoo w/BFS scheduler w/radeon firmware blob
Gentoo Hardened Stable is what I use always. The Gentoo BFS w/radeon firmware
was more a
I prefer the term "GNU System' because it most accurately describes what I
have. I've been doing a bit of a license audit on my GNU system and this is
what I have found:
85.5% GPL licensed (GPLv1-3 & LGPL 2-3)
17.82% MIT (X Windows System mostly)
6% BSD (vixie-cron, poppler-data, libogg, lib
I just checked my hardware on h-node, even though I know it all works with
free software & deblobbed kernel. The output was as follows:
--
The following devices has not been found in the database:
can you please insert them?
videocard - Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450/6350]
Uhh, Netcraft confirms, but I want the dirt. Here is what the (ex)developer
said:
"You may ask why I made this decision to stop the development of Ubuntu
Tweak, I may write 10,000 words to describe how I start this project, how I
feel happy from this project, how I feel bad from this projec
Wheezy is frozen and due for release early next year. However, if you know
Debian, you know the freeze of Testing is more stable than a typical Adbuntu
release.
If you need a more recent kernel on Debian, there is always backports. I
think the present kernel in Squeeze backports is 3.2. How
Debian does have older software this is true, due to their policy. However,
that's exactly why Stable is truly stable. I chased the latest code for
years, but now I am completely over it. I don't mind older code, as long as
it isn't too far behind. When I was on Debian, I switched to the
so
This is just my opinion, but I never liked Ubuntu, not even from its earliest
days. It was always too buggy. (Although, if you get a black screen at boot,
editing the modeset on the kernel command line in grub.cfg will usually give
graphical windows.) The only thing I learned from Ubuntu was
That chart makes it look so easy.
I just counted the number of licenses found on my Hardened Gentoo install,
all of which are located at /usr/portage/licenses. The total number of
possible licenses is 638. How much time would it take me to read through all
638 licenses to determine which li
I find any use of flash to be disturbing.
Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability
Check it out:
Earlier this year, the Free Software Foundation announced a hardware
endorsement campaign for hardware that respects the rights of its owner (no
DRM, runs Free Software, support for open formats, no or freely licensed
patents, etc.). Now, they've announced that the Lulzbot AO
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