Re: [Trisquel-users] Tehnoetic X200 Tablet and T500 now available

2016-11-19 Thread silentdreamer
Thanks. Peace.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Could a Lutris fork be used to create a libre replacement for SteamOS?

2016-11-19 Thread taknamay
> Sure, the command line package manager is always the back-end for downloading and installing application software. At that level, I presume Lutris is just running APT commands, the same way Add/Remove Applications does, right? I suppose so, is Lutris specifically designed to work well

Re: [Trisquel-users] What other forums so you use and recommend?

2016-11-19 Thread jason
I think there is supposed to be a gnu in there somewhere... https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html

[Trisquel-users] What other forums so you use and recommend?

2016-11-19 Thread mkl80
Hello forum. That's my question as in the title. Imagine that I want to became more pro in linux, linux Sysadmin, programmer and so on... what forums do you use? what do you recommend? note: more like technical linux forums not chats, I don't have much time to waist. Best regards to all

Re: [Trisquel-users] interview with alimiracle

2016-11-19 Thread jbar
Thanks for the link and thanks, alimiracle, for all your work in free software.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tehnoetic X200 Tablet and T500 now available

2016-11-19 Thread onpon4
> Whatever FUD means, I just know it's bad, as in, BS, but I assume the first letter represents a certain four letter word. You know, you can look these things up rather than making assumptions. You do have the Internet at your disposal, after all. And yes, the first letter does happen to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tehnoetic X200 Tablet and T500 now available

2016-11-19 Thread silentdreamer
this is so sad, especially to someone who doesn't understand all this stuff, to have to sift through a bunch of info to try to determine WHO'S telling the truth! Knowing RMS has commented on the situation, it seems I should consider his words, which I will read again. I don't know if

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tehnoetic X200 Tablet and T500 now available

2016-11-19 Thread calmstorm
How Interesting, here is my response,

[Trisquel-users] Re : backup software

2016-11-19 Thread lcerf
What error message do you get? Are you restoring the whole backup (I successfully did that the last time I changed my laptop) or just part of it from Nautilus contextual menu ("Restore Missing Files..." or "Revert to Previous Version...")?

Re: [Trisquel-users] backup software

2016-11-19 Thread davidpgil
I like backintime. Has a GUI and CLI and easy to use and just works. It use this for backup and restoring individual files. For a disk image backup I use clonezilla.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Could a Lutris fork be used to create a libre replacement for SteamOS?

2016-11-19 Thread onpon4
> What about gaming control software developed for libre game consoles like the Ouya and Pandora? I don't know about Ouya, though I'm pretty sure that software is all proprietary, but the Pandora doesn't offer anything special on that front. The "MiniMenu" interface isn't all that useful,

Re: [Trisquel-users] backup software

2016-11-19 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I currently have a backup script that runs once a month in the first Friday from my user's crontab. The script is short, and uses: * Rsync (latest versions downloaded from Guix). * GNU Tar. * Whiptail (for dialog boxes). * mktemp (from GNU Coreutils). * basename (from GNU Coreutils). The

Re: [Trisquel-users] Could a Lutris fork be used to create a libre replacement for SteamOS?

2016-11-19 Thread strypey
I'm quite serious about trying to get this up and running over the course of next year. Anyone keen to get onboard? For now I'm going to go with the working title GOLD GNU/Linux: Gaming On Libre Distribution >> I think the backend should just be your package manager. > I think there are

Re: [Trisquel-users] Introduction

2016-11-19 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Welcome PeaceGuy! Greetings from Brazil. :) I also do some digital painting, although I'm not a professional, and although I don't have those digital drawing tables (I plan to buy one someday too, :D). I use MyPaint, but I have seen artists doing awesome paintings with GIMP and Krita.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Could a Lutris fork be used to create a libre replacement for SteamOS?

2016-11-19 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Note that, for free/libre software to be considered as such, society must be able to build and run it using **at least** solely free/libre software. Also, for a game (or software, in general) to be allowed for inclusion on a free/libre system distribution, their non-functional data (in short:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ututo XS: what about non-free software

2016-11-19 Thread stas . mihaylenko
Yes.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tehnoetic X200 Tablet and T500 now available

2016-11-19 Thread tct
I'm sorry to see yet another ThinkPenguin minion trying to convince people that it's "FUD" what others and I have proved with facts. FYI, Parabola (the only free distro installed on EOMA68-20 computers) had to update their article about EOMA68 because the original article was propagating