> ... which made me think that if and when Heads is added to the list, it
> would be a replacement for Dyne:Bolic.
Heads and Dyne:Bolic have very different purposes. I don't really see
one as a replacement for the other.
> But it looks like Dyne expressed
> an intention to release a new version o
> That would be awesome! Do you have link to this info?
Duh. You did provide a link. Sorry for not reading.
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> No Trisquel version exists based
> on Ubuntu 18.04, so I shall have to wait. Drat.
You could just do a fresh install of Trisquel 8 in the meantime.
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> From what I remember, the problem I was having with the first one
> was similar to yours an the replacement worked fine.
I ordered a batch of five so that I could lend them out to people who I
set up with Trisquel. All of them perform poorly.
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> Does this apply to all PPAs then or just a subset that are hosted on
> Launchpad?
Aren't all PPAs hosted on Launchpad? The command to add a PPA is
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:name/ppa
where "name" is a Launchpad user. "PPA" seems to just be a name for the
personal repositories that Launchpad
> I think due to Trisquels popularity amoung the Free Software
> community, it should start incorporating more installtion options that
> allow for a multimedia workspace situation.
Here's a possible roadmap in three stages, each of which could be
beneficial even if we don't make it to the next st
> I'm definitely not
> very comfortable configuring all these things myself. I tiried with
> Trisquel 8 and I could get something working but then it would break.
Do you mean configuring JACK? That's what I find challenging. I find
Cadence and Catia to be more user-friendly than qjackctl, but even
> First, can you tell me the output of the following commands? You only
> need to bother with the last two if it turns out the pulseaudio isn't
> installed.
> Then, I have a few questions.
I've had some time to look into this further today and have managed to
answer most of my own questions, so n
> Does somebody knows the difference between these two ISOs of Trisquel ?
> https://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso
> Date: 2018-04-18 02:54.
> http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso
> Date:2019-03-27 01:53.
The latter fixes this bug: https:/
> I just found out that theres a backports repo that has ubuntu studio
> apps that works with Ubuntu 18.04 which would be compatible with
> Trisquel 9!
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/BackportsPPA
Yes, there's actually not much in there for Bionic,[1] but I am using it
to backp
> This exchange convinced me to try to get Trisquel working with audio
> production again. To make this work I installed the KXStudio repo to
> get Ardour 5 and the latest related JACK, etc.
KXStudio's PPA doesn't support Ubuntu 18.04, so at this time it's not
helpful for Trisquel 9. I initially w
> I'm actually using Ubuntu Studio 19.04. I am trying to get the most
> productivity out of my workstation at the moment. Would LOVE to have a
> working Trisquel setup, even if I have to go install the 18.04 based Ubuntu
> thread.
My hope is that by backporting newer versions of the most popular
m
> Nobody here could help me with the fact that the audio and WLAN do not
> work on my computer.
Sorry, I tried. I'll make another attempt, but it seems like your
hardware issues might be outside my level of knowledge.
It sounds like you might be running a newer kernel than you were last
time I as
> That's very good news, so there's no hardware failure. Next, you should
> try Parabola, the libre version of Arch: https://www.parabola.nu/
No need to reinstall. https://wiki.parabola.nu/Migration_from_Arch
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> Unavoidable?
Start with a netinstall.
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> Will Trisquel 9 have this functionality? If not is
> there a way that perhaps we could include "xfDashboard" in the next
> version of Trisquel?
Even though Xfdashboard was written for Xfce, I'm pretty sure that it
can work in any desktop environment. It is not in the Trisquel 8 repo,
but it is i
> I manged to gain significant productivity from using the "Misson
> Control" that exists on MacOS. On Gnome this i called "Activities
> Overview".
Personally I prefer using a dynamic tiling window manager like i3 rather
than deal with the annoyance of trying to figure out where all your
windows a
> It doesn't seem like GNU FM/ Libre.fm is getting much development
> energy any more,
Unfortunately it looks like you're right. The last sign of activity I
see is a question from you that has gone answered for two months. This
is a shame, as I feel like the concept behind these projects has a lo
> How do I keep youtube-dl up to date? Videos are not downloading,
Trisquel 8 uses the version of youtube-dl from this PPA,[1] and it
appears to be behind the version that fixes the recent issue with
downloading YouTube videos. At tomorrow's Freedom Friday meeting I'm
going to suggest backporting
> https://invidio.us/watch?v=V-SyMjgNBQA says "The media could not be
> loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the
> format is not supported."
That's geoblocking. See https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues/151
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> That's geoblocking. See https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues/151
And https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues/185#issuecomment-425655145
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> Maybe I overlooked this, but why doesn't Rhythmbox open up from the Mate
> menu?
It's a bug. Workaround:
$ sudo pluma /usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop
and change
^_Name=Rhythmbox Music Player
to
Name=Rhythmbox Music Player
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The source package qttools-opensource-src has libqt5opengl5-dev as a
build dependency.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/bionic/qttools-opensource-src
libqt5opengl5-dev is provided by the source package
qtbase-opensource-src
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libqt5opengl5-dev
The source packa
> What's Bionic based on - Jessie? Stretch?
Ubuntu's releases are based on snapshots of Sid.
> In Buster, I do not see any qtbase-opensource-src package,
It's a source package.
https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/qtbase-opensource-src
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> Is there a tiling window manager like i3wm for Trisquel?
i3 is in the Trisquel repositories.
$ sudo apt install i3
> Can you tell me about the various tiling window managers and a little
> bit about each?
I've tried three tiling window managers:
Enlightenment is actually a stacking window ma
> What should we install to get networking working?
$ sudo apt install network-manager
If using the command line, use
$ nmtui
to connect. If if using a desktop environment or window manager with a
systray
$ sudo apt install network-manager-gnome
and run
$ nm-applet
or add nm-applet to your
> deb https://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ flidas-security main
> deb-src https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/trisquel/packages/ flidas-security main
> Can I just remove the line with the old address? I suppose the
> flidas-security repository in the following line is just the same, isn't
> it? (even
> NordVPN add-on.
Is this what you're referring to?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nordvpn-proxy-extension/license/
If so, it is proprietary software. I recommend either configuring
OpenVPN for use with NordVPN so that you don't need their addon, or
switching to a more freedom-fr
> As an aside, I tried copying my .mozilla > abrowser file from another
> machine to my main computer, and that didn't work, for some reason.
Did you go to about:profiles to make sure that your original profile is
set as the default?
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> I'm assuming the profile in use is the one that I want to keep, and that
> the "Profile: default" can be removed?
If everything about your current profile looks correct and you're sure
that you don't need the other profile then nothing bad will happen if
you delete it. However, I might keep it.
> Thanks guys! I installed i3.
Nice!
> Would you tell me how to access wifi
If you're using MATE+i3, I would add "nm-applet" to Startup
Applications. If you're using i3 on it's own, I would add
"exec --no-startup-id nm-applet" to ~/.config.i3/config.
That's assuming you want a graphical soluti
> add "exec --no-startup-id nm-applet" to ~/.config.i3/config.
Apologies for the typo. The path is ~/.config/i3/config
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> I ran "sudo aptitude install trisquel-gnome" and said "Y" to the
> recommendation aptitude gave for install. Now my panel is gone in MATE.
> Also, I my "panel" is gone in my Gnome shell. What happened? How can I
> fix this?
I think that package might be left over from when GNOME 2 was Trisquel's
> I would like to know if I can "pre load" the menu when I boot so it
> becomes faster in the first time I click it.
I've never tried this, but there is a program called preload that runs
in the background, learns which programs you launch frequently, and
learns to preload these.
$ sudo apt insta
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/60.3.0/
I have some scripts to facilitate installing from the tarballs provided
at that link.
https://notabug.org/chaosmonk/mozilla-tarball-install
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> I'd like to install Trisquel on it but want to know if there's any
> potential conflict with the hardware and if anyone has recommendations
> for potential conflicts with the software.
Most hardware components should work fine. The two that sometimes don't
are WiFi and graphics. As GNUser says,
> Isn't Icecat behind shcedule by now? I seem to have received Tor Browser
> updates more recently than last Icecat version.
From today's Freedom Friday meeting:
2019-05-31 09:22:48 quidam in other news, I'm finally done with icecat 60.7
2019-05-31 09:23:03 quidam it is built and I'll p
> I just realized that I have an older version of GnuPG on Flidas. I
> checked for updates, but nothing for GPG. Are there a lot of programs
> on Trisquel that I have to manually install to update?
This is something that confused me too when I first started using
GNU/Linux.
Trisquel is a long-ter
> Not really complaning, just stating why, I would love to reverse to
> Trisquel 7, to me was just fine, and I do not care about security
There's a Trisquel 7 ISO here.[1] However, it will not receive any
security updates, so I would only use it on a machine that you don't use
to connect to the In
> a possibly large history
Would the terminal emulator make a difference in this respect? Using a
different terminal emulator wouldn't impose a limit on the size of
~/.bash_history, right?
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> Well, I'm new to Linux and still didn't really understood
> console/terminal. I saw a video about urxvt where they were saying
> it's the best with most "advanced features".
I usually use mate-terminal, followed by gnome-terminal and
xfce4-terminal. In other words, the default terminal emulators
> Different kind of "history" (maybe the term is not proper): I am
> referring to how many lines the commands you executed can output in the
> terminal before the oldest lines are lost (scrolling up, you will not
> reach the first command you executed after launching the terminal
> emulator).
I se
> There used to be several boxes you could check/uncheck for various
> settings (including Javascript) at the startup page.
The page you see when you open a new tab is called about:home (you can
also get to it by entering "about:home" into the URL bar. The current
about:home in Abrowser is Firefox
> Also some site stop working just using one of the security/privacy
> settings that's on the front page.
Then (a) don't use the setting, or (b) don't use the site.
Unfortunately, a lot of websites are not freedom- or privacy-friendly.
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> Yeah it was just wierd that in Abrowser I could have several addons on
> wihtout breaking the site, but IceCat's settings immediately broke it.
Like any program, it's certainly possible for Icecat to have a bug.
However, it is not abnormal for a site to work in Abrowser but not
Icecat. Apart fro
> I have no idea how to reinstall the "plymouth-theme-trisquel-logo"
> package. Could you please give me some hints, where to find it,
> installation steps ...
If you're comfortable using a terminal, you can (re)install any package
with "sudo apt install [name of package]", so in this case
$ sud
> When I used the right Alt key with any combination, my computer
> shutdown. I thought this might be an issue with my dwm configuration
> but I was not able to find the issue. Then I thought about testing in
> Mate and I was so surprised to find out sometimes right Alt + any
> other key would brin
> state 0x10, keycode 108 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
Okay, the operating system really is receiving an "Alt" and not
something weird. Do you have another keyboard, like USB or bluetooth,
that you could connect in order to verify that the problem only happens
with your laptop keyb
> Once connected to a USB keyboard, the problem doesn't show up, while
> with the laptop keyboard, it actually shuts down.
Sounds like a hardware problem then. If the laptop is under warranty
then see if the vendor can replace the keyboard. Otherwise, do an
Invidious[1] search for your laptop mode
> I tried running
>
> sudo apt update
>
> and noticed that even some PPAs failed to authenticate (something to do
> with the Hash Verification).
Can you post the output of
$ sudo apt update
and the output of
$ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
and the contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list
?
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> From [1], try
[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15505775/debian-apt-packages-hash-sum-mismatch
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> Hash Sum mismatch
From [1], try
$ apt-get clean
$ rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
$ apt-get clean
$ apt-get update
> # Uncomment this lines to enable the backports optional repository
> # deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ flidas-backports main
> # deb-src http://us.archive.trisquel.i
> My sources.list looks like this now
> __
> # deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ flidas main
> # deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ flidas-updates main
> # deb http://@SECURITYHOST@@SECURITYPATH@ flidas-security main
>
> Shit... it means I have been going without security updates for some
> time now. After correcting it I got 137 updates, onve of them I
> noticed was Abrowser which has been receiving regular updates
> nonetheless.
I received an Abrowser update today as well, so that might have been a
coincidence
> But I can't seem to get Frost to run or FMS.
I'm not familiar with either of these programs, and doing a web search I
see multiple programs by these names. Can you link to the websites you
got these programs from?
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> These programs are pretty much only downloadable while on the Freenet
> network, so I can't provide a link. Although I believe if you search
> "Frost Next", I believe theres a github to download it.
Okay, I don't use the Freenet and don't have time to learn how at the
moment, but I might be able
> I have found that this problem is related to "vevo" videos, as per other
> channels don't show this message.
For a while I thought the Vevo videos just didn't work in Invidious, but
it turned out to be geoblocking
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> How bizarre -- remove the usb installer during mid installation?!
Yeah, it's a weird one. I had run into an issue the graphical installer
on Macbooks where I'd get a grub error when connected to the internet. I
wonder if there's something odd about the SSDs used in some Macbooks.
> I will just
> Please see the attached screenshot.
It says that your Java version is fine, but that you are missing JavaFX.
Try installing it with
$ sudo apt install openjfx
and see if it works after that.
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> 1. This happens in Abrowser, IceCat and "Web".
Does it happen in Firefox? (I'm not recommending to use Firefox as your
browser, just as a way to troubleshoot Abrowser).
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> /scripts/init-premount/plymouth: line 38: /sbin/plymouthd: not found
> /scripts/init-premount/plymouth:line 38: /bin/plymouth: not found
> /dev/sda2: clean, 63170/60989440 files, 4134501/243940096 blocks
> /scripts/init-bottom/plymouth: line 18: /bin/plym
> After Upgrading to Abrowser based off of Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3
> (latest version as of today), I am unable to search. The browser loops
> indefinitely.
>
> I am using Icecat for the time being. Anyone else having this issue?
Ugh. Just upgraded. I'm not having the search issue, but I'm having
o
> So, i saw the kernel version was at 4.4.0-143 I see other distro's
> with Kernel at 4.18 and above. So, is anybody would like to explain
> to me how the 4.4.0-143 can be secure?
Trisquel 8's kernel is based on Ubuntu 16.04's kernel (Trisquel removes
the proprietary blobs). Ubuntu's 4.4.0 kernel
> I am trying to install GNU Health on a fresh Trisquel 8 system and it
> looks like there is some problem with Python pip.
The problem is that including pip would violate the GNU Free System
Distribution Guidelines,[1] which state:
"A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaini
> A couple of days ago Transmission stopped working. It won't seed
> finished torrents and stopped downloading a half-finished torrent.
> When I add new torrent, it won't even fetch metadata. I've tried both
> with and without the VPN connected, same result.
My torrents are still seeding in Transm
> thank you very much for your comments. I will forward them to the GNU
> Health team so that we can find the better way to install GNU Health
> on Trisquel (.
It would be good to come up with a convenient way to install GNU Health
without relying on a third-party repository. It seems contradictor
> I would imagine that for many packages, Trisquel's devs are having to
> strip out Ubuntu stuff that didn't even exist and wasn't even a
> problem with the original Debian package.
Not really. Freedom-wise the differences between Debian and Ubuntu are
(1) Debian's default kernel is blobless and (
> I've found quite the opposite over the years - Debian just works,
> whereas trying to run Ubuntu is usually an endless series of strange
> work-arounds for dealing with all the unusual decisions Canonical
> makes.
You might be right. I haven't used Debian or Ubuntu extensively, and
I've only dir
> And is someone there who would be able to build such a package? Or should
> we wait till the GNU Health project does this?
I have seem some projects package their own software and distribute it
as a standalone .deb package, PPA, or apt repository. If the GNU Health
team wants to do this, it woul
I found this guide[1] helpful in setting up a basic server to serve
static web pages. Here is a basic summary of the first steps.
Install Apache.
$ sudo apt install apache2
Configure the firewall.
$ sudo ufw enable
$ sudo ufw allow 'Apache Full'
Determine your IP address.
$ hostname -I
In yo
> The Trisquel netinstalls are currently broken and have been for months:
> https://trisquel.info/en/issues/25533
> It's sad; it means there's no way to do a minimal install currently.
The graphical ISO has a "text install" option that is the same thing as
a netinstall. The graphical ISO on the do
> Yes, I didn't mention it because it too is borked.
Even the one I linked to?
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> I used ifconfig to determine that it wasn't wlan0, made the adjustment,
> and now I'm in business.
I'm not familiar with conky, but in my i3blocks wifi script I use
device=$(iw dev | sed -n 2p | awk '{print $2}')
to get the name of the device so that the script works with any WiFi
card.
sign
> Update: qBitTorrent is now downloading files, on two separate torrents. So
> it does seem to be a problem specific with Transmission on Trisquel 8, not
> torrents on Trisquel 8 in general, nor Transmission in general (working fine
> on MacBook on the same net connection).
Transmission is working
> Indeed. But currently I am using Abrowser because NoScript is currently
> not available to IceCat (because of the version I think).
What version of Icecat are you running? I'm using NoScript with Icecat
60.7 with no problems.
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> it did not work. Here the error message:
> python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
I'm not sure where you got this tarball from so I'm not sure whether it
is the right one or why it doesn't have setup.py. The GNU Health
downloads page[1] has multiple tarballs avai
> IceCat, while I'm a huge fan of the concept, doesn't work on most
> pages that I want to look at. It's basically a slightly more graphical
> version of ELinks.
Icecat is definitely much more than a graphical version of elinks. It is
as capable of rendering pages as Firefox ESR. The reason why ma
> > $ sudo apt purge transmission && sudo apt install transmission
>
> Hmm, that seems to have worked. No idea why, but thanks for the tip. I
> would have tried that before posting here, but for some reason I thought
> Transmission was part of the default desktop package, and that if I tried
> to
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> now I have the client, now I need to install the whole system:
>
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/gnuhealth-latest.tar.gz
>
> The same way as the client should work, am I right?
Well, the few couple steps are the same,
$ wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/he
$ sudo apt install lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
$ gksudo lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
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> How do I know if it's an executable tarball or a source tarball?
The executable tarballs contain the architecture (i.e. gnulinux-i686 or
gnulinux-x96_64) in the file name.
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> Do you happen to know if the loading screen
> image/animation is changeable as well? The
> image/animation which is presented before the login
> screen.
I have never tried myself, but this[1] might help.
[1] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/customize-boot-splash-screen-logo-linux/
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> $ ./install-from-tarball /path/to/tarball
>
> should "tarball" in ".install-from-tarball" be exchanged for the filename of
> the tarball? Like:
>
> $ ./install-from-tor-browser-linux64-8.5.4_en-US.tar.xz
> /path/to/tor-browser-linux64-8.5.4_en-US.tar.xz
"/path/to/tarball" should be replaced wi
> I noticed that when the computer had been idle and got locked there was a
> different login screen then the one I changed. Do you know anything about
> this?
mate-screensaver doesn't have a feature to change the background of the
lockscreen. In 2017 a patch was added that makes it so that the
ba
> thanks again for your comment. I will try these steps and let you all know
> if it works. Although I think that the pip problem will come again :-(
> because some changes in the operating system are needed:
pip is just a package manager. Anything that can be installed with pip
can be installed w
> Now the only thing missing to customize is the dialog
> box on Lock Screen =D If anyone here has any tips,
> please do shout out!
Sorry, I'm not sure how. I use i3lock-color[1] instead of
mate-screensaver.
[1] https://github.com/PandorasFox/i3lock-color
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> Does using that program give you a different login
> dialog box than the one in MATE Lock Screen?
It's a completely different screen locker. The link has screenshots.
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> I install all the required packages mentioned there,
> except sassc, which isn't available in Trisquel repos.
> So installing from source, doesn't work...
It looks like sassc wasn't added to Ubuntu until 18.04, so it won't be
included in Trisquel until Trisquel 9. However, Trisquel 8 appears to
> So, for the specific example you gave, the user of
> Belenos who removed the "trisquel" metapackage and
> updates to Flidas should still have a working GNOME
> Flashback (at least if I correctly remember what is
> Belenos's default desktop environment). That said, and
> as I wrote before, I am u
> Hi everyone, new the forum here and looking to become a Trisquel user.
Welcome. :)
According to this answer,[1] the Ubuntu 16.04 installer works in this
situation. Since Trisquel 8 is based on Ubuntu 16.04, the Trisquel 8
installer might work too.
If it doesn't, you might have to chroot from a
> "The software on this computer is up to date. However, Trisquel 8.0 LTS
> is now available (you have 7.0)."
> Three options are now available: Settings..., Upgrade... and OK
>
> When I push on Upgrade nothing happens.
Trisquel 7 stopped receiving security updates last April, so you should
defin
> Trisquel 7 died in 2018. My... how time flies!
April 2019, not 2018.
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> Ty, but I don't click on possible hack links
Now that you've drawn my attention to it, I'm confused by that link,
because it appears differently on the forum[1] from how it does on the
list.[2]
[1] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/hello-1#comment-141687
[2] https://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/
> At while the first installation, it did not freeze so I was able to
> install it on SSD. But after the installation, on the login page (at
> the center of the page, there are a text box and Trisquel logo
> [photo2]) I entered the password but the password was denied.
I just searched for "cryp
> My community friends and I have been preparing some beginner's documents.
I hope you'll share them here when they're ready.
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It seems that the same countries have been blocked from GitLab since GitLab
moved to Google Cloud Platform.[1][2] This doesn't affect third-party
instances like framagit.org or self-hosted instances, but note that in this
respect GitLab's own instance is not more accessible than Github.
[1]
> Hello. My iPhone has succeeded tethering with Trisquel 8 via USB cable
> directly by default. I am currently using Trisquel 8 mini with the x60s (btw
> librebooting succeeded, maybe, thank you very much) and I cannot do it with
> mini. Currently some problems are preventing it from WIFI access (I
> I am going to get the recommended Wifi card in the near future.
I highly recommend it. I find that a $7 PCI Atheros card works much
better than a $30 ThinkPenguin USB dongle, and now that you've installed
libreboot there's nothing stopping you.
> Both Wifi and USB tethering worked for me in Tri
> I might... get some cheap smart phone for tethering.
Since you were able to libreboot your X60s, I think you would not find
it too difficult to install Replicant. You should be able to find a
Replicant-supported device[1] for pretty cheap. I have found that USB
tethering works pretty reliably wi
> I lost the Graphical User Interface.
Can you be more specific? Do you get a black screen, or can you log into
a command line?
> From that new installation (trisquel 7 or debian) I could access the
> (old Operating System) trisquel 8
Are you saying that you now have a dual boot, where one part
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