I experienced this -- twice!
First time: I updated DAVdroid on my Galaxy S3, with the latest stable build
of Replicant, which I had been using since its release September, and
Replicant immediately goes into what appears to be an endless reboot loop.
Second time: I wiped the 'data' and
The '.icedove' directory doesn't get made until you launch Icedove for the
first time.
You don't need to launch it. Just copy your '.thunderbird' directory into
your home directory and do either one of the following.
a) Rename the '.thunderbird' directory to '.icedove'.
OR
b) Make a
Other than for hibernation, swap space is kicked in when your RAM gets used
up.
You'll be fine as long as you don't do anything that causes your 4 GB of RAM
to fill up, like graphics or video editing or genomic sequence analysis.
We should also recall that Debian was originally funded by the FSF. :)
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch01s01.html.en
If you're not limiting the subjects to issues related to free software, I
recommend Richard Feynman's books. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is
wonderful. I belive all of Feynman's autobiographical books were transcribed
by his friend, Ralph Leighton, from tape recordings of Feynman
You might consider softening the opening sentence. Despite the word please,
it might sound aggressive, especially given how many people sometimes
insincerely use the word please as a substitute for hey, asshole.
Maybe you could open with something like, I'd like to raise concern over the
I recently did an upgrade of my friend's Ubuntu 10.10 server to Trisquel 6.0
by manually changing the /etc/apt/sources.list file and then doing a whole
lot of wrangling with aptitude. I eventually got it to work. It involved
1) running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade,
2) finding all the packages
I have convinced 2 people so far.(
I think it's great just to make good examples of ourselves by publicly
rejecting these big, centralized services -- especially services that are
known to comply with massive state surveillance of users. It's hard to
convince others (I can't even convince
It's always possible that I've misinterpreted, but here's how rms put it in
his article Linux and the GNU System
(https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html):
'...the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called
“Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically
Here's a recent interview with rms.
http://roaming-initiative.com/mediagoblin/u/tralfamadorianorator/m/gnu-an-operating-system/
Key quote: GNU is an operating system... millions of people are using the
GNU system, but mostly they don't know it because they think it's Linux.
Here's a recent interview with rms.
http://roaming-initiative.com/mediagoblin/u/tralfamadorianorator/m/gnu-an-operating-system/
Key quote: GNU is an operating system... millions of people are using the
GNU system, but mostly they don't know it because they think it's Linux.
GNU does have a usable kernel, it's called Linux.
GNU is the name of the operating system. When Linux is used as its kernel,
Linux is a part of the GNU operating system.
The name of the operating system was coined in 1984, following the old
tradition of naming that gives a nod to its
You're wrong, and here's why. The name GNU does not refer to the toolchain.
The name GNU refers to the operating system as a whole. Appending the name of
the kernel is already a compromise.
The GNU toolchain is a part of the GNU operating system.
Misconceptions
don't become true just because they are common. When something is
popular it does not magically become right. If an article on Wikipedia
is wrong due to popular misconception, we should help its moderators
understand why it's wrong so that it can be corrected.
Some people are
It doesn't hurt to annoy the Wikipedia moderators about it, especially when
Wikipedia is helping to propagate the popular misconceptions. Those
moderators are partly responsible.
In a lot of articles, the term Linux is used to refer to the GNU operating
system. Whenever it gets corrected, someone who monitors the GNU/Linux distro
pages almost immediately undoes the correction.
Maybe if we all work together and do it in a reasoned way, with persistence,
and without
It is precisely because so many people don't care that we must make that
speech and have that debate. More speech is always better than no speech. The
best way to counter bad speech is with more speech.
As far as WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC are concerned, you don't need to worry
about nonfree firmware, because I'm pretty sure that firmware isn't included
with Replicant. I use Replicant on my phone tracking device, and it does not
have working WiFi, Bluetooth or NFS.
More speech is always better than no speech. Those who think GNUser's speech
is bad should combat it with more speech rather than silence it.
You wouldn't need to read through all the code -- just look at the parts that
use the libraries you're interested in investigating.
For example, if you want to search for instances of 'libgeo' in the source,
you might try running the following inside the root of the GIMP source
directory.
This vulnerability exists on all operating systems, not just GNU/Linux
systems. That's why encryption is a good idea.
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/full-disk-encryption-install
Nobody here is extremist. In this community, it makes more sense to replace
the word extreme with principled. Individuals that protect their freedoms
by using free software are helping themselves without hurting anybody in the
process.
I suspect an issue with a graphics device driver. What graphics device do you
use?
If you feel like building GIMP from source, you can try the attached script.
I haven't actually tested this script. What's in the script are really just
my notes on what I needed to do to build GIMP on a fresh installation of
Trisquel 6.0.
Here's the script:
#!/bin/bash
# Build script for GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.8 on Trisquel 6.0.
GIMP_INSTALL_DIRECTORY=/opt/gimp
if [ ! -d $GIMP_INSTALL_DIRECTORY ]; then
RANDOM_TMP=$RANDOM
mkdir -p /tmp/gimp-$RANDOM_TMP/share
sudo mv /tmp/gimp-$RANDOM_TMP
I think purging a package using apt-get purge only removes system-wide
config files.
Can someone tell us where the user's gnome-panel config file is located?
I still love my gnome2 and compiz 0.8, so after I installed Trisquel 5.5, I
installed MATE from the mate-desktop.org repository. Then
To avoid breaking any dependencies, you can also install everything
(including new build dependencies) in a separate directory using the
--prefix option.
I still use Trisquel 5.0 (dagda), but I want to use the newest release of
GIMP, so I build its newer dependencies, glib, gtk+, babl,
You mean crackers. Let's not buy into the mass media's persistent misuse of
the word hacker.
With help from some GIMP devs (Martin Nordholds and Mikael Magnusson), after
several weeks of trial and error, I've finally gotten the hang of building
GIMP 2.8 in Trisquel 5.0.
Install the build dependencies.
sudo apt-get install fontconfig gtk-doc-tools intltool libcairo2
I wish I could make some edits.
In step 15, where it says With this edit, it should say Without this
edit. And there shouldn't be a + in front of Libs.
When GIMP 2.8 is built with any prefix other than /usr or /usr/local, a lot
of plug-ins won't work.
I asked about this in the GIMP IRC channel today, and user mikachu helped me
fix it with a simple edit.
add the following to the Libs: line in the file gimp-2.0.pc.
-Wl,-rpath,${libdir}
In
One last note that should have been included in my first reply:
Before trying to build GIMP, install at least the following.
sudo apt-get install fontconfig gtk-doc-tools intltool libcairo2
libdbus-glib-1-2 libexif-dev libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
libgtk-3-0 libjasper-dev
In case you feel like building GIMP 2.8 yourself, here are the packages I
needed on my Dagda system.
atk -- git://git.gnome.org/atk
babl -- git://git.gnome.org/babl
cairo -- git://anongit.freedesktop.org/cairo
gdk-pixbuf -- git://git.gnome.org/gdk-pixbuf
gegl -- git://git.gnome.org/gegl
glib
On Dagda, up until just a moment ago, I was having issues with choppy video
playback.
Using the following /etc/xorg.conf file fixed it. I can now play my HD Ogg
Theora copy of Louis CK's comedy special again!
Section Device
Identifier Configured Video Device
Driver
I tried changing the xorg.conf settings, but I wasn't able to get the issue
sorted out in Brigantia, so I installed Dagda. Everything works great now.
I didn't file any bug report because I don't know what was causing the
problem. I guess I'll stick with Dagda until someone else figures out
I'll try the nomodeset kernel paramenter and report back on the results.
Thanks, lembas.
nomodeset didn't work.
I tried booting twice and got a blank screen. The system did not seem to be
responding to the keyboard. CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't reboot the computer, and the
num lock key did not turn on the light on the keyboard.
I'm going to try adding Option DRI false to
I'm going to try adding Option DRI false to /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see
what that does.
Darn. Setting option DRI to false does not work. I'm out of ideas.
I recently installed Brigantia on a Dell Dimension 4500S. This desktop
computer was, until the upgrade, running another GNU/Linux distribution
derived from Ubuntu natty.
After the upgrade, I've been experiencing a kind of crashing that I don't
know how to describe properly. My screen goes
For the past 6 months, I had been using Mint 12 on this computer without GPU
hangs. (In my previous message, I said the GNU/Linux distro I used previously
was derived from Ubuntu 11.04 natty. I was wrong. Mint 12 is derived from
Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric.)
I have noticed a pattern tonight. This
Scratch what I said about this issue happening while typing. I rebooted about
five minutes ago, and the GPU hang occurred while I was reading a Wikipedia
article.
I was not typing anything and I was not moving the mouse.
You can also build from source. This is my usual procedure:
In case you don't have the build requirements yet:
sudo apt-get install build-esssential ncurses5
wget
http://www.linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/LATEST-3.4.N/linux-libre-3.4-gnu.tar.xz
tar xf
You can also build the kernel from source. Here's my usual procedure.
If you don't have the build requirements:
sudo apt-get install build-essential ncurses5
wget
http://www.linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/LATEST-3.4.N/linux-libre-3.4-gnu.tar.xz
tar xf
Yes, the -j option will be recognised.
Cheers!
If you use [pre]make menuconfig[/pre] instead of [pre]make xconfig[/pre], you
won't require the QT libraries.
I just checked my cookies for the first time in many months. I'm surprised
that I have well over a hundred cookies stored. I think I'll follow your
example and use a short whitelist.
Thanks for link to Panopticlick on the EFF website. Very helpful.
UC Berkeley made a Firefox add-on called Priv3, released under a BSD license,
which aims to block just the tracking code from social networking websites,
including Facebook.
Here's the add-on on the Mozilla website:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/priv3/
And here's the
I've been doing this kind of micro-marketing for the past three or four
years, mostly in the San Francisco suburbs. I had grand dreams of seeding an
explosion in GNU/Linux adoption, but I've started to grow disheartened
lately.
The people I've shared GNU/Linux with have adapted well to
Hi, megurineturilli. Is ath9k in the output of lsmod?
Does the the ath9k module load at all? Or did you build it into the kernel
when you compiled it?
By the way, I've been using kernel-libre 3.2 for the past few days, and I've
noticed a considerable performance improvement in my older hardware. An old
computer I have with an Intel i845 video device is now playing most HD videos
reasonably well.
For example, the HD Ogg Theora video file
I think jbar is probably right. You can still build the ath9k driver now and
load it as a module. The source can be downloaded here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
Next time you build the kernel, if you use make menuconfig to generate your
.config file, you can go to the
Just a quick update. The whole issue of hibernation and suspend failing
sporadically was actually my fault. I made some really dumb modifications to
the scripts in /etc/network/.
The modifications I made called macchanger to change the MAC address of my
wireless device every time the
Thanks for the encouragement, jdenz! When I have some time, and if the issue
persists, I'll attempt some more structured testing and share the results.
I experienced a few sporadic failures after my previous post. I did update to
kernel-libre version 3.1.2, however, so I don't know if that was the cause.
At one point, hibernation failed least three times in a row, and resuming
from a suspend to ram occasionally failed too.
I have since
Strange. Hibernate has stopped working again. s2disk displays the progress of
the hibernation process to 100%, and then I get a newline with , it hangs, so
I power off the computer by pressing down the power button for a few seconds.
An attempt at resuming from hibernate fails with a frozen
I edited /etc/default/acpi-support and changed the line
SUSPEND_METHODS=dbus-pm dbus-hal pm-utils
to SUSPEND_METHODS=acpi-support dbus-pm dbus-hal pm-utils
(I added acpi-support)
Now everything is working fine again. I don't remember, but I may have had
this edit in the file before, when I
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