Re: [Trisquel-users] debian 8, can not installed non free software stop graphic to work?
radeon 4000 $ glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: Yes $ nvidia 8400 gs $ glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: Yes $ both on debian 8 libre main.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot Developer Leah Rowe Attack gnu and rms Again
"Extremism" boils down to "ideas and action we really don't like". In other words, it's a meaningless propaganda phrase much like "intellectual property". I remember someone demonstrating just how meaningless it is to call someone an "extremist" by saying something like, "I'll use whatever means necessary to stop people raping children, so I guess I am an anti-child-rape extremist". In recent years, the word "extremist" tends to be used as a synonym for "terrorist", another meaningless propaganda phrase that also generally boils down to "ideas and action we really don't like". The word chosen depends on the context, not the thing described. When a suicide bomber blows up a school bus in Israel it's "terrorism" by an "extremist", but when CIA US drone strikes murder hundreds of children it's "collateral damage" by "defence forces" (even though they're doing it in other people's countries so it's actually offence not defence). http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h041202.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8695679/168-children-killed-in-drone-strikes-in-Pakistan-since-start-of-campaign.html Calling people "extremists" implies they are willing to use violence to achieve their goals. Since it's obvious that nobody would protest against proprietary software by assassinating corporate CEOs or blowing things up, this is simply an ugly smear. Using this kind of hyperbolic language makes it clear that LR either doesn't have a very firm grip on reality, or more likely, just doesn't cares much about truth or nuance. If I was a Libreboot developer, I would be nodding and smiling, backing slowly away, and getting ready to fork the project. BTW I agree this belongs in an "off-topic" area, but does it really have to be called the Troll Lounge? Could we possibly have two forums, the 'Troll Hole' for actual trolling, and another one for conversations relevant to the Software Freedom movement, but not specifically to Trisquel, called something like 'Off-topic Lounge' or even 'Software Freedom Lounge'? I am guilty of starting off-topic threads in the user forum because I'm not trolling, and I refuse to start them in a forum area called the Troll anything.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot Developer Leah Rowe Attack gnu and rms Again
Extremism does not equal violence; an extreme action is any excessive action, meaning any action that goes beyond what is necessary to achieve one's stated goal, and the actions taken by the founder of Libreboot are definitely extreme, by that definition. Firstly, because we have not yet been presented a single shred of evidence for the FSF having done anything wrong; secondly, because, even if they did do those things, throwing a fit and acting like an immature child will only serve to bolster arguments for the use of proprietary software, because nobody likes a crybaby, and ad hominems are very effective "propaganda" tools. Yes, we often associate extreme action with violence, but that is not intrinsic to the word itself, and is itself part and parcel of the same propaganda of which you accuse the people who are criticizing Rowe's overreaction to this entire situation. Unless people are explicitly condoning violent actions, don't lump them in the same category as those that are, by calling them both "extremists." The first step to truth is to call things by their proper name.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to Uninstall Trisquel
One swap partition can be shared between several GNU/Linux distributions. However, I believe hibernation becomes a problem (for sure running another distribution after hibernating does not allow to recover). Besides hibernation, the swap can be emptied (although it is not necessary) between reboots, like the RAM is, and reused by another distribution. My /etc/fstab has this line because my swap partition is /dev/sda1: /dev/sda1 noneswapsw 0 0 One way to know the number of your swap partition (do not write 1 if it is not the first partition!): $ sudo parted -l
[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to Uninstall Trisquel
A binary language is a language with two letters that are usually denoted "0" and "1". Two letters always are enough: a mapping can be defined from any other alphabet to (long-enough) sequences of "0" and "1". Most digital systems use that language: on a CD, 500 nm wide pits and lands represent the two letters, most digital circuits (in particular in a processor) only consider two signals: high or low voltage; etc. All that said, when we write about "a binary", we are actually talking about a file whose content is directly executable by the processor, i.e., a file only containing extremely simple (i.e., low-level) instructions. Those instructions are the assembly language. Like any other language, the instructions (the letters of the language) can be mapped to sequences of "0" and "1". But that is not the point. The point is: humans can only read/write tiny programs in an assembly language. Most of the programs we use are written in high-level languages (mixes of English and mathematics), that are far easier to work with. Programs in high-level languages can then be automatically translated (a process called "compilation") to the assembly language the processor understands... but that human beings cannot understand anymore (unless the program is tiny). Also, it basically is impossible do do any significant modification to a binary. Almost all proprietary programs are only distributed as binaries, i.e., human beings cannot read/write them. On the contrary, a free software program grants access to the source code (in the high-level language the program was actually written in): the user can study the program and can modify it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] I installed librecmc on a new router, but the oddest thing happens
> can someone tell me how to change the wifi password/wifi name in librecmc? The same way as it is done in OpenWRT. So, you could use OpenWRT wiki: https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/wireless You need to edit /etc/config/wireless file using vi, could be done through ssh
Re: [Trisquel-users] I installed librecmc on a new router, but the oddest thing happens
The same way as it is done in OpenWRT. So, you could use OpenWRT wiki: https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/wireless You need to edit /etc/config/wireless file using vi, could be done through ssh
[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to Uninstall Trisquel
If that is the only line output, then there is no error. This line just explains, at the beginning of the log what "(WW)" means, what "(EE)" means, etc.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot Developer Leah Rowe Attack gnu and rms Again
Calling people "extremists" implies they are willing to use violence to achieve their goals. I don´t think that it necessarily means that an extremist will use violence, I think it means that the person will do everything to achieve its goal. But I don´t think Stallman would do sth. unmoral to achieve his goal. I would not call RMS an extremist, I would call him persistent. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4zx1br/why_do_so_many_people_hate_the_fsf_gnu_project/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot Developer Leah Rowe Attack gnu and rms Again
"I would not call RMS an extremist, I would call him persistent." I agree. Also, I would not call RMS an opponent of "intellectual property", I could call him an opponent of proprietary software, because like the term "extremist", the phrase "intellectual property" is NewSpeak, has no precise or useful meaning, and only serves to get in the way of clear communication. This is the point I was making in my comment. BTW 0d54770d, please read the link shared by the OP, then read my comment again more carefully. Reading my comment as an attack on the FSF and its supporters (including myself) is totally the opposite of what I was saying, and your comment is a classic case of what activists call 'heated agreement' ;)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot Developer Leah Rowe Attack gnu and rms Again
That's a given with the harassment claims against Ruben and Trisquel being his side project.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel
how many high-level languages are there? are Bash and Python in that category? Often I see many programming code names like those, so I imagine they're part of that whole group.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel
Keep at it. One day people will say things like this to you. You will be just as amazed as I am when people say them to me ;) https://www.xkcd.com/627/
[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to Uninstall Trisquel
"GNOME System Log" is just a log viewer, by default in Trisquel (not Mini). Assuming it really is installed on your system, you can launch it from the terminal or from the Alt+F2 prompt: $ gnome-system-log LightDM is Trisquel's default display manager. It is automatically launched when the system starts. I was just telling you that you need not reboot when the screen gets scrambled. You can just restart the graphical session with the following command, which you can execute from a text session (such as the one you get with Ctrl+Alt+F1): $ sudo restart lightdm But, before that, you could copy some logs (if there is anything interesting there, it is probably written when the screen gets scrambled). And you could take a look at whether a process is guilty of using much CPU and/or memory: $ top
Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel
I didn't find anything called LightDM.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Another future for libre computing?
Yes, when I saw this I thought pretty much what onpon4 said. I wish them luck, but the price is definitely steep. The low price was a big selling-point of the EOMA for me, even at the cost of high performance.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to Uninstall Trisquel
There literally are countless high-level programming languages. Most of them are unpopular though. Bash and Python are high-level programming languages. They are not compiled though, i.e., Bash/Python programs are not turned into executables (written in the assembly language that the processor understands). They are interpreted: when you execute them, a separate program (the "interpreter") reads the Bash/Python programs you execute and transforms the next Python/Bash statement to execute into assembly instructions. @purists: I know there are Python compilers too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel
I never knew about the Alt-F2 thing! How useful! Thanks for sharing that tip. I have thought for a while that it would be great if something like that could be built into the taskbar in GNU/Linux desktops in some way, so new GNU/Linux users can see what's going on under the hood, and run commands, from within the default interface. Switching to a terminal or opening a virtual terminal window becomes second nature eventually, but for people who've never used a computer without pointing and clicking, it can be quite intimidating at first.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot Developer Leah Rowe Attack gnu and rms Again
> extremism You wanna know what extremism is? Putting ketchup on effing spaghetti! I saw it with my own two eyes, I kid you not, to this day I have still not managed to recover. ketchup on spaghetty.. I mean, gee, what's next, pourin' cocacola in your soup? My god, people are goofy.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Jack and other programs
sure thing, you are not the first to ask me this, apparently that was an issue with alsa in the past, not anymore, not here at least.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Jack and other programs
do you still get per application audio controls?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Jack and other programs
neat, thanks
Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel
It didn't explain anything. I went to the documents, found some logs, have to find which one might show any info about the screen prob.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel
> One way to know the number of your swap partition (parted) or, without sudo, lsblk, so you save 5 seconds of your time :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Jack and other programs
pulseaudio is buggy as hell on the current stable version of Debian. I confirmed this with several different laptops and desktops. At first I searched for a solution to fix it, then I realized all trouble goes away (and with absolutely no downsides) when you apply a "apt purge pulseaudio). Alsa FTW ^^
