The ppas could still be added, though with a bit more manual work; it's
not as easy as, for instance,
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sparkers
You'd have to go to the launchpad page, locate the 'deb' and 'deb src'
lines for the ppa of interest, add them to '/etc/sources.list', and add
the gpg
I've tried a lot of desktop environments. I don't like MATE, Cinnamon or
anything else except Gnome 2.x. Scientific Linux for example still uses
Gnome 2.x and they are supported until 2017 I believe as an OS for CERN.
Trisquel 6.0 looks great like it is. I did however notice that in the
I did however notice that in the Privacy section there is a box about
sending data to Canonical (from the Ubuntu derivation obviously)
Where exactly so it can be removed?
I've tried lots of distros; let's go with Debian as the basis for
future releases.
Privacy section? Where is it?
Debian? Trisquel is already low on resources and taking on Debian is a whole
beast on itself. Linux Mint has a Debian edition, but it is VERY behind and a
bitch to maintain. If you thought Trisquel releases were slow, double or
triple that with a Debian move.
A benefit of an Ubuntu base is
Well, I think Trisquel is great and I just want it to switch to debian for
its own sake.
Staying with ubuntu is risky and maybe it leads to a dead end for free
software lovers one day.
I agree with you saying ubuntu is the best choice at the moment (!) but we
should consider future times.
icarolongo: It's in my Systems Settings under the System section at the
bottom. If you don't see it in your install, it's probably because I checked
a box to make it visible to me somewhere after my fresh install of Trisquel
6.0. It's the exact same privacy section feature Ubuntu has had
I totally agree with you quantumgravity. I started using Ubuntu in 2006 and
thought it was really a great idea. But when they recently made the
corporate/fascist type changes, I was outta there. It'd be nice if companies
could be ethical and have values but the US law precludes that, they
Blue J:
I think there's a lot of people around here that share your feelings about a
Debian-based Trisquel being the best thing ever ... I'm certainly one of
them.
But it's clear that this is very unlikely to happen anytime soon, and it
seems to be mostly related to the workload involved
Here's something I'd like fixed in the next release: when you click the main
GNOME menu the first time after starting up, it takes a long time (about 1-3
seconds, really, but it ought to be instantaneous) to load, because of all
the images that need to be retrieved. Then each item in the
I'm still somewhat new to linux systems, but I've found that ppas work well
with Trisquel and are a painless way to install software not in the
repositories (sage, lightspark, etc) or get needed updates for outdated
software in the repositories. I figured these work flawlessly strictly
I'm pretty sure that almost everyone agrees with kernelKurtz and mostly with
Dave_Hunt. I'm not here to put rocks in Trisquel's development path but, as
long as the other desktop environments don't have full accessibility, I think
it's wise to continue with GNOME, the fallback version if
Hi,
I almost always use the windowing environment, though console access
would be nice if it were easy to set up. I would like to see the
Trisquel network install with an accessible console option, like the new
Debian Net Install has. In the Wheezy net installer, the user types a
single
How important are visually impaled persons? Is it a priority to be able to
fully control your computer without actually seeing the screen? How usable
are these different windowing systems?
Cinnamon by default uses 3d, but there is also a 2d mode which uses up extra
CPU. In that case if you cannot run it with libre drivers, is to go with the
Mini or MATE route. Cinnamon uses GTK3 and is based on an older Gnome 3 while
MATE is GTK2 based and based on Gnome 2.
Someone else here
if Cinnamon is, as you say a more mature and vital project than is
Consort, maybe making it accessible is as simple as adding the at-spi
stack that already works with GTK3? It could just be that Linux Mint
doesn't include this stack? If, even with the at stack installed, an
instance of
I'm as important a human as anyone with working eyeballs! It follows
that I should have as much control of my computing as someone who
happens to be able to read a screen. Some sort of windowing environment
and the console must be accessible by means of alternate inputs and
outputs.
Yes you are, Dave, and you shouldn't have to say it for it to be true.
We're all impaired (not impaled, Telstar, for f's sake ... :)) and regardless
of the flavor of our impairment, any project should take Real Accessibility
seriously. From what I've read and watched, that's more true of
Le Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:19:34 +0200 (CEST),
tegskywal...@hotmail.com a écrit :
Trisquel 7 (or 6.5) will be based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and hopefully
released a few months after. It was smart for the Trisquel team to
bring stability by being LTS only and ensuring a rock solid libre
distribution.
Hey t3g.
As a Fluxbox and Openbox user, I may not have as much experience as you do on
these desktops. May I please ask a few questions?
Cinnamon: I believe Cinnamon is GTK3/Gnome3-based. Doesn't Cinnamon use 3D
rendering? If so, isn't that the same problem as Gnome-Shell for those
Any system I use must have a working Orca screen reader. The GNOME
Fallback, as hacked by Rubin et al, works very well with Orca (at least
as well as does the un-hacked Fallback); I prefer Trisquel's layout to
Ubuntu's. If customizing Fallback is really the cause of some delays in
getting
Trisquel LTS 4 6 8 - release in 2014 or 2015.
I prefer GNOME 3.10 or 3.12 (4.0) release in March 2014.
And fallback can be Consort with GTK 3.
Trisquel Mini is for old computers or with small resources. It can run with
128MB of RAM. LXDE is better for this - but we have others options like
Let's go with whatever GNOME is latest by March 2014 for those who can
run the shell; Consort for the 2-d desktop.
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