Regarding patents: formats like the MPEG formats are widely understood and
there is a lot of Free Software to run it. That's similar to .doc and OOXML
formats. However, the main issue surrounding those formats is patents... For
any developers in the US, or countries that cooperate with the
Debian sticks with ESR releases (Wheezy will have Iceweasel 10) but I'd
assume Ubuntu doesn't because they like having bleeding-edge software.
As for Abrowser/IceCat versions, I don't really worry too much because I run
with JavaScript disabled. Looking at Mozilla's Security Advisories, it
You've agreed to certain conditions when you enrolled.
I suppose it depends what you agree to. I have agreed to certain conditions
for being able to use the computers at my university (which I did read). None
of those conditions made me agree to the conditions of the software that they
Agreed - Mozilla discontinuing support shouldn't affect what Ubuntu or
Trisquel do, if backporting is (or can be) done. Does anyone know if Abrowser
backports security patches? I'm not sure myself.
Another thought would be that perhaps people other than Ruben could build
Abrowser, or at
Wow, that's the same as my university. We have to use Cisco Packet Tracer in
an exam but it makes it difficult to study because I can't study at home.
I've been in contact with the unit coordinator, with no luck. However, I'm
going to see if some of my friends will complain about it as well.
Quick suggestion: you can enter formulae into LibreOffice Writer directly,
using Insert Object Formula.
I used to use Microsoft Office last year (before using Trisquel), and
formulae from LO import fine. I think I may have had to use .doc to make it
work, but I can't remember.
PDF is
Hello and welcome. :)
I used Debian and Ubuntu for a few months before installing Trisquel. A lot
of other people here probably have used other distributions as well.
Wine is being used in ReactOS, a free replacement for Windows. Apparently
ReactOS might ship with some non-free software though, which is a shame.
Anyway, to me I consider Wine to be similar to Gnash. Gnash is primarily used
for running non-free ActionScript, but at least that's better than
A lot of users are seduced into running proprietary software, mostly at no
fault of their own. Gnash and Flash alternatives are listed as high-priority
projects for this reason.
I definitely have a lot of sympathy for Gumboman. I consider myself lucky
because I uninstalled Flash over a
Similar story at many other universities. I currently go to university and
I'm studying IT.
The programming course which I'm doing does C# development. I have been using
Mono, which is okay because it is entirely Free Software (but it could be a
patent trap for anyone who implements or
ex-Windows user here:
Except for the occasional font issue, I find that LibreOffice has almost
perfect support for Microsoft formats.
Of course I recommend that you eventually move to the OpenDocument formats
(.odt, .ods, .odp, .odg, etc.) but nobody's forcing you. :)
As for Chrome,
Agreed on the replacement fonts. The only issues I've ever had were to do
with documents that used tables for layout, and used Calibri as a font. When
I opened it with LibreOffice the table looked very messed up, but I soon
realised that changing the font size would fix it.
In general it's
At the end of each semester students are able to provide feedback to the
university. I will most certainly provide some feedback then!
Unfortunately the university has links to Cisco and Microsoft and so I doubt
that they would change their stance without major opposition from students.
I
I'm fairly sure that's the same wireless card that I've got in my laptop. I
don't use it because I don't have the free firmware, which can be
inconvenient.
I've been considering buying a USB wifi card, when I get the chance someday.
You could check out this webpage:
Wow, that's a GREAT story with a bad ending. :(
It shows that Microsoft doesn't mind giving things if it means locking people
in for the long term.
Fedora ships with proprietary firmware, which is probably why it doesn't
work.
AFAIK that's the main issue that prevents Fedora from becoming an
FSF-endorsed distribution. That and they use the name Linux not
GNU/Linux.
Yeah, wireless is a pretty large issue for Free Software.
Thanks for the advice Chris. That's definitely a good point about teaching
concepts. I'll speak to a few of my lecturers and see if I get somewhere.
I can't say I'm expecting great results, but at least if I can make a good
point it could make people think about it.
Well hopefully this will push people away from proprietary software. Some of
the ideas coming out of companies like Apple and Microsoft are very
dangerous. UDIDs, DRM, and restricted boot to name a few others.
I get the feeling that governments will start relying on technologies and ban
I had no problems installing VLC and playing patented codecs such as MP3, all
using free software. :)
I'm also running Gnome Shell - it was very easy to install:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-session
Of course not everybody has 3D acceleration which is the main problem with
GNOME
From http://bitcoin.org/
The software is a community-driven open source project, released under the
MIT license.
Also:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License
GNU uses the term X11 license instead of MIT license, but it is listed as
free. :)
Ruben is getting slower and slower with updates and isn't really showing
that he can be reliant...
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made
Feel free to make a distro yourself. It's all free software.
excellent thread about Stallman on the Linux Action Show that eventually had
to be
You'll need to provide some extra information if you want help fixing your
problem.
Abrowser should be based on the latest Firefox (or normally not far behind).
So HTML5 should work fine.
Out of interest, what isn't working?
You might want to do
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
to make sure you have the latest updates.
Can you give more information?
1. What websites are you visiting that cause these problems, 2. What is your
user-agent/build-identifier (type about: in location bar)
3. Have you tried Safe Mode? (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode)
Also maybe try these:
Although I don't recommend nvidia cards, I must admit that the nouveau
project is doing some great work. I get 3D acceleration on Trisquel 5.5 so
GNOME Shell works fine.
Wow, a lot of GNOME 3 bashing...
You might want to try using the Clearwaita (Clearlooks) theme which has
GTK+v2 and GTK+v3.
I'm using Trisquel 5.5 (and I have Xfce installed) and it works fine.
Clearlooks:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Clearlooks-Phenix?action=contentcontent=145210
Brigantia is based off 11.10:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisquel
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