I don't trust PPAs normally, but this one was linked to by the GNU Project
website.[1]
ZykoticK9 said:
> IF, ppa-purge is available - you could re-add the PPA then remove it using
ppa-purge, to get back all packages to the default repos version.
Thanks! That's just what I needed. Worked lik
Abrowser's addon database works like a wiki. If something's missing from
there, you can add it.
It's only things like DVDs that are forbidden this way. Patented formats like
MP3 and MP4 are patented; developing or using software that implements the
idea violates the patent and can get you sued. Both patents and laws against
circumvention of digital restriction mechanisms effectively cen
The main differences are how fast they are, how big they are, what their
range is, what version of Linux they need, and what they plug into. Some of
the newer ones can work with old versions of Linux, but because the necessary
firmware was proprietary until recently, you need to add on the fi
That would be because the deblobbed versions of Linux don't have the firmware
or driver included with them. You said you're using Debian; Debian has all
non-free firmware blobs in separate packages found in the non-free repo. I
don't know how exactly it's packaged, but my educated guess is a
It really is a misuse of Javascript. I don't know what it's doing, but it
could be easily done with PHP, whatever it is.
From what I've heard, the Hurd is usable and stable (doesn't crash) now, but
still not as good as Linux for most users. Apparently is has special features
of some sort, but that's a low-level thing that would only be of interest to
a small number of people. It probably also doesn't have as mu
The other key for Compiz is the Super key, which usually has a Windows logo
on it.
GNOME Shell with these extensions:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/578/slingshot-app-launcher/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/156/quit-button/
Then install the docky package (sudo apt-get install docky) and start it up.
That seems to be pretty close to ElementaryOS, though this
Trisquel 6 is based on Ubuntu 12.04, and Trisquel 7 will be based on Ubuntu
14.04. I don't know when Trisquel 7 will be out; Trisquel 6 didn't come out
until I think 6 months after Ubuntu 12.04, but that was before it was
switched to LTS-only, so it might be faster this time.
What kind of v
I was asking about the GPU, not the CPU. But if it's an AMD (Radeon) video
card or integrated graphics controller, that might be your problem with
multiple monitors. All AMD/ATI video cards have poor support in Linux-libre;
they require a proprietary firmware blob to work fully. Perhaps your
Then your wifi adapter doesn't work with Linux-libre. The solution is to get
a new one that does; the easiest way is to buy one from Think Penguin:
http://libre.thinkpenguin.com
A USB adapter is the easiest choice; HP is one of the companies that often
produce laptops that are defective by d
Yep, Intel graphics are the best, in fact; Intel actually provides proper
free software support for them.
Probably didn't mean MB. There's a computer I've used before that has 256 MB
of RAM and it's able to run Xfce and LXDE just fine. Double that to 512 MB,
and it's able to run a relatively lightweight web browser easily as well.
PDF is an open standard, but there's actually some nuance to this: some PDFs
don't follow the standard and can only be read with Adobe Reader (some sort
of digital restriction mechanism, as far as I know). Luckily, most of them do
follow the standard. FSFE actually has a whole site dedicated
You can't make a digitally restricted PDF without Adobe tools, so any PDF you
make will be standard.
You can't. You would just have to complain to whoever gave you the PDF.
IBus is really finnicky on Trisquel for some reason, and I haven't the
slightest idea how I got it to work properly (I previously used it on other
systems; Trisquel 6 is the first time I've had this problem). My best
suggestion is to try playing around with the settings, because as I said, I
If it helps, here's a few screenshots of my IBus settings:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/1ofx3
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/28lkj
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/cv8wg
Huh, I never even considered that. Well, I'm glad to know what caused that!
I have that microphone. It works well for me. Here's a recording done with
it:
http://www.datafilehost.com/d/bd3f6639
The only problem I have is I sometimes can't select it as an input source;
rebooting solves this problem. I think this is probably a GNOME bug rather
than a problem with th
I searched "anthy" in Synaptic, and I see that I have these packages
installed:
anthy
anthy-common
ibus-anthy
libanthy0
I don't know whether these came with Trisquel by default or I installed them
myself.
Did you try rebooting? Also you could try using the shortcuts.
What the heck, might as well share the game engine I developed.
The Stellar Game Engine (shortened "SGE", which I say like the English word
"sage") is a free/libre (GNU LGPL) game engine for Python I wrote. From my
understanding, it's like Love2D, but for Python. Basically, it handles a ton
There's really nothing to take a screenshot of, so no. I could take
screenshots of the Pong example, but it just looks like Pong. :)
I say "free/libre" or sometimes just "libre" to be unambiguous. You may also
want to point to the Free Software Definition. Just say that Flash is
proprietary, you refuse to run Flash on ethical grounds, and that therefore
you cannot watch their videos, so they should switch to an HTML5 playe
That's the 3-clause (Modified) BSD License, so yes, it's free.
Implementation samples? I'm not sure what that means, do you mean examples of
games made with the SGE?
Actually, I added a screenshot of the Pong game I made with the SGE (included
with the SGE as an example) to the About page, so that it looks a little more
lively.
Usually deblobbed Linux supports hardware rather well, with the main
exceptions being hardware acceleration and wireless.
For video cards, if you have Intel integrated graphics (e.g. Intel GMA or
Intel HD), that's good; these graphics controllers are supported with
free/libre software direc
The live CD has version 3.2, so in other words, it should work in Trisquel if
you upgrade the kernel to 3.5 (sudo apt-get install
linux-generic-lts-belenos) or 3.11 (sudo apt-get install
linux-generic-lts-saucy).
Right, that's the difficulty. I'm not very familiar with them, but it is
possible to download the packages from another computer, transfer them with
something like a USB stick, and then install them without an Internet
connection. Alternatively, wireless can do the trick if the computer is ab
Actually, there's a tool specifically for this kind of job called
apt-offline. There's a post about it from Magic Banana here:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/installing-packages-without-internet-connection#comment-48959
It's installed by default on Trisquel 6 -- which I think is a mistake (and it
looks like Trisquel 7 is going to fix that mistake), but anyway, if you're
just seeing a black box after clicking the "click to play" button, the SWF
file is incompatible with Gnash. Gnash's Flash support is pretty
Also, try turning off Gnash; HTML5-based fallback is pretty common for video
players.
Go to menu->Add-ons and go to Plugins. Next to "Shockwave Flash", change it
from "Always activate" to "Never activate".
You have apt-offline on both the offline system and an online system. You
generate a key from the offline system, transfer that over to the online
system, and then use that with apt-offline on the online system to grab the
packages you need. Then you take those packages back to the offline sy
HTML5 doesn't have digital restriction mechanisms built into it yet (and
there's a campaign by the FSF to stop the inclusion of digital restriction
mechanisms into the HTML5 standard), so no, it won't.
The advantage of HTML5 is obvious: it's an open standard, and it doesn't
require propriet
Of course they are! Python is a basic component of GNU/Linux systems these
days; all kinds of software is written in Python. The only one in Ubuntu
systems I know by name is IBus, but I'm sure there are several others; I know
that Fedora's installer, Anaconda, is written in Python (or at leas
Ah, games are less likely to work than movies. They tend to rely on a lot
more ActionScript.
Note, though, that these games include proprietary software in the form of
ActionScript code, so they're not a good choice even if you have a compatible
free plugin. The same goes for HTML5-based ga
Trinity is a fork of KDE 3.5, so unless there were proprietary components in
that version of KDE, there ought to not be any proprietary components in
Trinity.
I'm sure µTorrent is technically better than Transmission in some way, but
consider what you're doing by surrendering your freedom for such a minor
practical convenience as better efficiency. If you do not value your freedom
more than practical convenience, you can easily lose it.
That would be sensible, though in practice I think they tend to use
free/libre fonts for this.
I've only used PiTiVi and OpenShot.
OpenShot is reliable, but doesn't have a lot of features. It's kind of
comparable to Windows Movie Maker.
PiTiVi is much more powerful, but I've had trouble with exporting the videos;
it seems a lot of formats supposed to be available just don't work.
I
As far as I'm aware, there is no reverse-engineering effort with AMD GPUs,
which means paradoxically that AMD cooperating half-way is even worse for our
community than not cooperating at all, like Nvidia does.
It's possible to host custom repositories, e.g. PPAs for Ubuntu-based systems
like Trisquel.
You might be happy with Minetest, but that doesn't change the fact that the
non-free world has much better games than the free world in much greater
numbers.
Games are a tough category to win at with freedom. Any two games are usually
sufficiently different that one cannot easily replace th
Keep in mind that there are tons of gratis, non-commercial indie games, too.
Most of them don't get source code releases because their authors didn't
think of the possibility that it could be important.
I don't think not being able to get rich is the problem with commercial
games, though. I
I've tried Chromium before, and I honestly don't get what the big deal is.
Far as I could discern, it isn't any faster or more lightweight than Firefox
these days.
*shrug* It's about what I expected. I'm glad there was a response at all, and
at that, a huge one for this site; it was on the front page of this site's
articles for a long time (something like a month and a half) because of all
the comments. Most was negative, but some was positive.
I highly doubt that's the reason for Debian being successful... are you
forgetting that most GNU/Linux systems out there don't have a policy at all,
and only around 10 in total are more strict than Debian?
I don't know the history behind Debian's success, but I'm sure it's not as
simple as
There's not a huge difference between the usefulness and success of projects
that describe themselves as "free software" and projects that describe
themselves as "open source". "Open source" is more popular, so that's why
there are more success stories where the developers use the term "open
I'd like to point out, to people like t3g, that the dismissive "you're
trolling" and "what are you doing here?" statements are not a unique aspect
of this community. I've experienced them at length from open source
proponents and proprietary software developers at an open source community I
You misread that. I was speaking to people who might use the dismissive
behavior as an example of a fault in the free software movement in general,
not to people who speak in that sort of dismissive way.
Technically possible and legal in the U.S. because font faces can't be
copyrighted here (not so for some other countries, like the U.K.). Might
result in a loss of quality if it's not done carefully, though.
ATI and AMD cards are all crap with free software. None of them support 3-D
acceleration. It could be solved much like the problem with Nvidia cards if
there was a reverse-engineering effort, but as far as I know there is not a
major effort to reverse-engineer these GPUs. I guess a lot of peo
If the videos being HD isn't needed, you could of course size the videos
down. WinFF can do that, and I'm sure there are others.
ivaylo wrote:
> HTML5 is part of any modern browser. The problem is that few websites
support it
Define "few". I've found that most mainstream sites support HTML5 as a
fallback, including YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, and several others. The only
mainstream site that doesn't support HTML5 is b
That's rather like saying that surely free programs are more easily cracked
because you can see exactly how they work. Other than clients checking each
other, which has been mentioned, the server is ultimately in control, so it
can do whatever sanity checks are necessary to prevent cheating.
That's not SaaSS. A server for a game connects several players together,
which is something you can't do on your own computer. Only single-player
games can (and should) be done entirely on your own computer. Multiplayer
games will actually commonly transparently launch a local server on your
ivaylo said:
> Vimeo (I cant confirm if this is still true) refused to load HTML5 on
> Gecko based browsers, because they lack H264.
I don't know about other Gecko-based browsers, but Firefox and its
derivatives have supported h.264 via libraries available on the system for a
while.
ivaylo
Uh... you did see the name of the GNU LGPL, right? Notice "GNU"? It was
written by the FSF for the GNU Project. It's a free software license. It's
the GNU GPL, but with the copyleft restrictions weakened for strategic
purposes. It makes no sense for PiTiVi or any other program that isn't a
If a decision made was a reckless one and causes a major security hole,
that's a bug. The bug is the security hole, not SSH being installed by
default, but the cause is SSH being installed by default.
A bug that is ultimately caused by a programmer or packager's poor decision
is still a bug
elodie said:
> It's open source. Far from free software.
What world are you living in? On Earth, this statement makes no sense
whatsoever.
Every single program you mentioned is *both* free/libre *and* open source.
All of them are under licenses approved by both the FSF and the OSI. The GNU
GNOME Classic is a set of extensions made by the GNOME team a few releases
ago to replace GNOME Fallback, which at the time was discontinued. That
announcement just means that Ubuntu GNOME is including the Classic session by
default; it's not something new.
No, MB wasn't talking about copyleft. MB was talking about the copyright
monopoly of the license text itself. In fact, the GNU licenses are all under
a simple license which allows only verbatim copying and distribution of the
license in full.
Not mentioned previously, "GNU" is also a tradem
I'm not familiar with the service, but it sounds like it facilitates
collaboration on a single document. Is that correct? If it is, this is a job
that your own computer can't do on its own, and therefore the service is not
SaaSS.
All crowdfunding services take a portion of the funds raised; that's not
unusual.
On a side note... HOLY CRAP, someone just donated roughly $500 today! With no
perk! I don't know for sure who it was, but that sent this campaign just $10
away from its goal. That is amazing and highly appreci
> Yeah, like that "personal computer" thing and that "internet" thing were
just passing fads. I actually laughed out loud when I read this. Thanks for
that ;) Wait, are you actually serious?
More like how light guns were a passing fad, or like how motion control was a
passing fad. These are
And now the goal has been reached!
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/update5
What you're proposing is a terrible idea from a security perspective. There
has to be some central control, because that's the only way the Debian
packaging system can be secure.
The solution to a lack of time to check and pull fixes isn't removing the
checking, but rather giving more peopl
That's a hypothetical example based on the assumption that someone malicious
could make any change, which they can if they can implant the right malicious
feature into the right package upgrade. There are all sorts of ways they
could prevent further Trisquel upgrades from fixing the problem,
> But for a malicious feature to actually work, I think it must be secret.
And it can be. If you have the capability to change the software on
Trisquel's servers, you can make it do something malicious and also prevent
future updates. The user who installs this malicious update would never
Possibly, possibly not. One way to hide it would be to modify the update
reminder program to pretend to download updates, or to point to a different
APT repository. It doesn't matter; they're vulnerable to whatever malicious
features have been added in the meantime.
I don't think you fully
I don't know what you're talking about, KeePassX is cross-platform. Also,
KeePass2 is written in C# (i.e. needs Mono).
The only thing I've seen of Peazip is that it isn't able to open the ReTux
archives because it forbids including "|" as part of an entered password. I
have nothing against Peazip, but I don't see why you would exchange a more
capable archive manager for a less capable one.
I don't see a graphical archive manager there. Perhaps you misunderstand what
p7zip-full is? Archive managers such as File-Roller use this to open
encrypted 7z archives.
> There's got to be an alternative to closed-source Skype and WhatsApp.
Yes... it's called Jitsi. Or you can use Pidgin. Either through any XMPP
server, or in the case of Jitsi, through meet.jit.si (I gather that the
latter is easier, but haven't tried it yet).
That was a response to Magic Banana, not you.
File-Roller supports using unar now and has for quite some time. I don't know
about Engrampa, though.
> You turn your head to the left and see whatever is to your left in the VR
environment without having to do it with your hands.
Yes, and this is not generally useful for game design. It's a novelty, and
it's much more complex than the more traditional alternatives, plus it
requires special
> I remember being told in the 90s that because those were "specialized
equipment that not everyone has", I was wasting my time with teaching
activists to use websites and email lists.
There's a big difference between something that is only useful for particular
kinds of games and something
> flatscreens don't offer anything significantly more useful than CRTs for
desktops and TVs
This is completely untrue. There are two major reasons LCD screens became the
norm rather than CRTs: they're much more power-efficient, and they're much
more lightweight. In fact, CRT screens are bet
> I recall reading about its use in training for employees in some occupation
(medicine?), acting as a kind of simulator.
I see two problems with this:
1. Any simulation done this way is not the same as actually doing the job.
You don't actually feel anything, so how could it be? It's still
You're mistaking unar (command-line version of The Unarchiver) with unrar.
There is no such thing as "unar-free". unar supports all versions of RAR.
New update:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/update6
> Onpon are you referring to Ring?
No, XMPP is an IM protocol that Pidgin, Jitsi, and several others support,
but not Ring. Ring is another perfectly valid option, though (I haven't tried
it).
Right, when you reach that limit, the device can't be used anymore, or at
least can't be written to anymore. That's what I was referring to.
Parabola is rolling release, so it's very bleeding edge. This is not
necessarily a good thing, though; it means that regressions are common, so
it's not a very beginner-friendly distro.
I would definitely recommend supporting EOMA. You can still pre-order from
the second batch on the CrowdSupply page:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
It's not perfect, but I think these standards are the future of our
computing.
As far as I understand, Skype's proprietary protocol has not been
reverse-engineered, so it is not possible to chat through that network
without Skype. You'll have to use an alternative network (e.g. XMPP).
Just flash drives. Actually, any flash media (also including SD cards, for
example, and even to a lesser extent most SSDs). What Magic Banana refers to
is that any given bit on flash media can only be changed so much before it
becomes useless, so writing to flash media effectively brings it t
You should talk to PyPI's developers about implementing this as a warning
(not as a refusal to download packages). You might also want to check for
different classes of licenses.
But there are some parts of your script that don't make sense:
1. "version = info.keys()[0]": What "info.keys()[0
I've added an "Ideas" page to the Hexoshi website:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/update7
https://hexoshi.gitlab.io/ideas.html
You're not going to find anything that's new, freedom-respecting, and has a
modern speed. The EOMA68-A20 card is really the best you can do right now.
For using it as a desktop computer, it will only set you back $120, so it's
perfectly affordable, and it's upgradeable (there are already fast
Oh, also, regarding schematics, my understanding is all the schematics are
available. I'm not familiar with this stuff, but I think this would be the
schematics for the A20 card (it's an upgraded version of the A10 card):
http://git.rhombus-tech.net/?p=eoma.git;a=tree;f=pcb/allwinner_a10/pcmc
Trisquel uses whatever Ubuntu uses.
I guess you probably can still use Upstart if you really want to, but why
would you? It's pretty much abandoned at this point; Ubuntu isn't using it
anymore.
What problem are you trying to solve by not showing anything on the screen?
Surely you can't possibly think that the insanely tiny amount of CPU usage
caused by playing an animation or printing text is slowing down your boot
time significantly. It's problably something like a millisecond. It'
The only games that should ever be on the default install of any system are
simple ones like Minesweeper and Klondike. Different people like different
games and can install them on their own later.
New update: Special characters
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/special-chars
I just want to point out that following Debian Testing would be largely
pointless, and it's not what Ubuntu does. Testing freezes non-security
updates at some point so that it can become Stable, then that release becomes
stable and a new Testing release is made, so it's not a smooth rolling
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