Hello. What an interesting thread :)
I just tried gNewSense 3 and it runs fine on my hardware, but there is one
catch not related to the hardware but still very painful and important - NO
recent web browser. The problem is that gns3 is not compatible with IceCat 17
which itself is fairy
CPUs also have some microcode burned into them.
No, because coreboot (a free software BIOS) will technically run on a handful
of desktop x86 systems out there.
The dream distro for me would be 100% kosher Slackware.
Dragora probably gets closest
http://www.dragora.org/en/index.html
Oh. my. goodness.
Squeals in delight.
Thankyou.
The thing that confused me was that Wheezy works perfectly on the same
machine.
As far as I know, gnewsense 3.0 is based on squeeze and not on wheezy;
This might be the explanation.
It would appear, after having tried every distro on the FSF list, other than
BLAG, which is all but dead as a project, that Trisquel is the best looking
and easiest to configure. With Cinnamon running instead of Gnome3 it's
positively delightful.
When you say
Trisquel doesn't include non-free software although only runs on
architectures where there is some non-free microcode
is the non-free microcode referring to the BIOS?
A quick driver question.
After a few days of using Trisquel I thought I'd give gNewSense a try. With
Trisquel everything on the target laptop works out of the box - on gNewSense
there's no wireless, no ethernet and the screen resolution is wrong and not
changeable.
I'm somewhat confused,
I assure you that Trisquel does not use non-free drivers. I managed to
reproduce all possible problems which could arise from lack of firmware on a
single computer in my school: no ethernet, no wireless, black screen after
GRUB (640x480 if I pass nomodeset to linux). Got to love h-node, eh?
Hello,
my recommendation: just stay with trisquel and all is fine :-)
The old GNS is too obsolete, like krofna said.
Did you try the gns 3 beta?
I had it another way, gns first (incl. being offline for a while, had to get
sakis3g and stuff, no proper browser (afair)).
Beta is pretty OK. I like
Or because Trisquel is using non-free drivers?
Trisquel doesn't have any nonfree drivers.
The same thing happened to me, although there are more than two of them and
some of them are old enough for Trisquel-mini.
The only hardware I've needed to buy is a $10 wireless card.
By Windows 8 or even Windows 7 standards, pretty much all of my hardware is
ewaste.
Thanks for that.
Yes,
You tried gNewSense 3 released in the last mounth? This is based on Debian 6
Squeeze from 2011.
Trisquel 6 Toutatis is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise from 2012.
Both is 100% free, without proprietary software, drivers and firmware.
Assuming you're already using gNewSense 3.0...
(I don't know the technical details of what happens, in terms of hardware
recognition and drivers auto-installation and auto-configuration, for each of
the mentioned free distros. And, I don't know how much, and which, of each
parent distro's
I tried both Trisquel and gNewSense, but couldn't get gNewSense to work with
my video card and monitor resolution. Being able to get Trisquel to work was
what made the decision for me.
gNewSense is really only useful if you have a MIPS computer (like the one RMS
has), since Trisquel only supports x86. Like others have said, it's old
(though not quite outdated yet; it still keeps upstream support for another
half a year or so). I don't know the version numbers or anything,
Could be due to the kernel. Trying a new version might help. There is
information and instructions on jxself.org/linux-libre
The thing that confused me was that Wheezy works perfectly on the same
machine.
I was hoping that gnewsense would work as well as Trisquel as I really don't
like Canonical.
When Ubuntu first came out I thought it was about the best thing I'd seen on
a computer and pushed it and wrote about
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