I'm interested in helping if we use Scribus - I have experience with it, but
also experience with the proprietary-competitor-which-shall-not-be-named.
If we were to get a good x86 tablet for example capable of running Trisquel,
we'd need to do some engineering, I think, to make the experience
comfortable.
Consider, for example, the bottoms at the top of windows to close and
minimize windows - those are small buttons and not touch-friendly
Here's my understanding of vrms-
Debian has their "main" repository which they claim is all free software and
then "contrib" and "non-free" repositories which have their respective
freedom issues - either non-free dependencies or data or maybe actually being
non-free. Debian claims contrib
Packages in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS not found in Trisquel 4 LTS in the default
installation:
More info can be found here:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines
1) app-install-data-partner - for installing things from Ubuntu's par
Well compared to Ubuntu, Trisquel only removes packages that are not free
software or that recommend non-free software, as far as I can tell, as per
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made
I can see your point if we're talking about converting a newer Ubuntu to an
older Trisquel, say
Ah the filter is called "Not Installable". You may have to add it if it's not
there - Settings --> Filters --> New --> Name it "Not installable" and only
check that option.
However the problem then is that if some of them get removed they want to
remove stuff you actually do need. On a defa
Also, the location of the Trisquel-keyring is incorrect, it's not
/var/lib/keyrings as the guide says, but user/share/keyrings. But there's an
issue, the guide has you installing the keyring from the repository without
actually having the keyring to verify that the keyring wasn't tampered wit
I think a better idea is to use apt, which has a filter, I have to look it up
specifically, for installed packages that aren't in the repository. What that
means is packages that were in Ubuntu but not in Trisquel and are thus
non-free. This can be accomplished in Synaptic as well, if you go
Thanks! Quite useful. Especially that last section at the end listing the
non-free packages. Do those change every release, though?
I do hope the switch is made. The old Add/Remove really is crummy compared to
the Software Center or PackageKit.
As was mentioned, the driver does not respect freedoms so we cannot encourage
its installation. I have a similar issue on my notebook's internal Wi-Fi card
(made by Intel, though, not Broadcom) so what I did was purchase an
inexpensive external card - quite a large number of those have free s
Apologies, but I forgot a few steps afterwards.
sudo apt-get autoremove will remove no-longer needed packages, and sudo
apt-get clean will clean up cached downloaded packages.
I've been working on a process for converting existing installations of
gNewSense to Trisquel LTS. I know the gNewSense team has been working on a
new version for a while now, but I think this could also be helpful as a
general guide to convert from an existing Ubuntu to Trisquel, for example
My wireless card requires non-free firmware "blobs" in the kernel to
function. A solution is to purchase an insertable wireless card -
considerably more of them work with free software compared to internal ones.
They also, at least the ones in the stores near me, tend to not be
particularly
So I have this idea for the future of Trisquel - switching at the very least
the old Add-Remove menu out for something more modern. The current Add/Remove
doesnt handle PPAs well, and it's hard to add new programs to. A bunch of
metapackages are also incorrect (gambas2 for example) and I end
Well I use XChat-GNOME, which has a nicer GNOMEier interface to XChat, but
it's a great program. I think.
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