Re: [Trisquel-users] Screen Resolution
Anyone knows why can't I enter to my desktop? I created a new profile, but it just doesn't work. If I found a solution I'll post it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 will include nonfree games... courtesy of Rubén
Well, yesterday I created a thread talking about some digital game distributors that offers games without any form of DRM, but they are not open source. In my opinion, a game it cannot be treated like a application, also Scummvm. It's like hey, don't put VLC on repositories, it can read non-free video codecs!. But then, VLC it's an awesome video player, just as Scummvm is an awesome oldgame simulator. A game is not something that you are gonna work with, it's entertainment, there is no need, apart from modding it (a huge list of PC games have modding tools), to change anything on the original source. That is my opinion, at least.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ghostery or Do not track on Abrowser
Thanks man, already done it. I'll stay like this for some time, and let's see if collision gets something. By the way, before Trisquel I also used Better Privacy, that removes supercookies and flash cookies after closing the browser, any alternative to this?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 will include nonfree games... courtesy of Rubén
My understanding is that Trisquel GNU/Linux can be bundled with FotAQ data because Trisquel would honour both FSF guidelines and the spirit of the licence of FotAQ data.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Screen Resolution
Can you log in a terminal session (press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to have one)? If it works, try executing 'startx' afterwards.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 will include nonfree games... courtesy of Rubén
The FSF recommends a license with a similar restriction for fonts, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SILOFL, it's not a problem when distributing a distro containing other packages. (Fonts are clearly works for practical use which they consider equivalent to software for freedom issues.) pgpvK2F80XQax.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ghostery or Do not track on Abrowser
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:01:39 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Well, that collision extension gets my a tracking data. Hi, collusion DOES NOT get your tracking data, it only DISPLAYS the cookies that have been saved on your machine in a graph that shows what sites you actually visited and what other sites have saved cookies during that visit. For example, you may NEVER go on Facebook, but when you visit the CNN site, you'll get Facebook cookies on your computer (unless you block them somehow). Beef Taco is a collection of don't track cookies: it will keep those cookies on your computer so that the tracking websites will know that you DON'T WANT to be tracked and won't save any other cookies in your browser. Best, -- Stefano Fortune of the day: Blow it out your ear. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] LTS Hardware Enablement Stack 6.0
Greetings, I would like to put up the topic of continuous graphics and driver stack pushing on track with you users of this fully-libre GNU/Linux distribution. Since we are based on upstream Ubuntu Debian GNU/Linux after all, it is good to know about upcoming changes within maintenance process ahead. I have noticed some packages being built with version bump of 12.04.2 within Toutais' repos already, however we better watch out for related kernel work (3.5.x | and yes I am aware of two additional personal package archives of jxself and dns with recent linux-libre). I do state this mostly because I assume new packages were meant to be incorporated into toutatis-security toutatis-updates repositories, instead of not-recommended not-adequately-treated backports repository. Post Scriptum: One more week till hugely expected Trisquel GNU/Linux Toutatis realease comes handy to solve possible issues coming with this update pack. Correct me if I am wrong and / or Rubén is fully occupied. [In case you Rubén read this, I want to express my gratitude for swapping Bazaar-based developer's corner with one made possible by Git.] (= FYI 1. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2013-February/000166.html 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack 3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 will include nonfree games... courtesy of Rubén
A collection of games which contain free software and freely licensed media* is at https://libregamewiki.org/ *A free media license allows distribution (including commercial use) and manipulation of media. Releasing derivate works under the same license (copyleft) and attribution to the original author(s) can be enforced by such a license.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What if we win?
If the industry is moving away from applications and more SaaS through your web browser, what happens next? Technically all the processing is done on their servers and if they are running a GPL license, the terms of that license do not apply since it isn't technically running on your computer unless it is JavaScript. The Affero GPL was supposed to fix this, but no one is really using it and projects that do like Status.Net are being replaced by ones like pump.io that are under an Apache license. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/statusnet-identica-and-another-blow-agpl Why would he move away from the AGPL? I'm not attacking it but I am asking you, the free software wizard. Did he want more entities besides himself contributing code back and the AGPL scared them away?
[Trisquel-users] Technically, Trisquel 6 now also supports Secure Boot?
As you may have noticed, Ubuntu 12.04.2 came out the other day with the 3.5 Quantal kernel enabled by default and support for Secure Boot: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/02/14/ubuntu-12-04-2-lts-released/ Since Trisquel 6 is being released very late and will migrate in those changes, doesn't technically Trisquel now support Secure Boot as well since it is using the code from Ubuntu and the GRUB settings? Is Ruben going to keep it in there or rip it out and replace it? What are your feelings on this? Is it good thing for those who bought a Windows 8 laptop and want to try out and potentially dual boot with Trisquel? Adding Secure Boot support was kinda necessary by some becuase without it, GNU/Linux systems could potentially be locked out in the future.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ghostery or Do not track on Abrowser
One way would be to write a wrapper script to your browser which would clear /home/`whoami`/gnu/.gnash/SharedObjects/ The battle for privacy in a web browser is very hard. But very much worth fighting. Some of the threats include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
Re: [Trisquel-users] LTS Hardware Enablement Stack 6.0
This is why I have been pushing hard for jxself and/or DNS to deblob the lts-quantal (3.5) kernel for 12.04 to potentially avoid issues. At least offer it as an option alongside the normal one if we need it. At this point, should 3.5 be installed by default like the latest Ubuntu 12.04.2 ISO? It would be nice to have the lts-quantal kernel package in the Trisquel repos by the time 6 is released.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 will include nonfree games... courtesy of Rubén
Complaining about ScummVM only being useful for nonfree games (though Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky are not nonfree, from my understanding, I'll ignore this for now) is a bit absurd. ScummVM's code (i.e. the game engine) is all free; the only parts that are ever nonfree are game data, i.e. the scenario, art, voices, and sounds, which are non-functional. Compare this to emulators of video game consoles, which are only useful for playing nonfree games using the exact same nonfree software they use on the original consoles. Or DOSBox, which is only useful for running nonfree DOS programs (such as the original nonfree engine to run an old adventure game). Kicking ScummVM because its main purpose is to be used with nonfree non-functional game data is like kicking PrBoom because its main purpose is to play the original Doom, which is nonfree. As an aside, I see SirGrant suggesting in that bug report removing ScummVM but keeping Flight of the Amazon Queen, but that's absurd; Flight of the Amazon Queen needs ScummVM, or the original proprietary game engine, to function. There is one legitimate concern, though: the description of ScummVM shouldn't suggest the nonfree game data options, only the free game data options (Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 will include nonfree games... courtesy of Rubén
ZSNES is free software (GPL) but its sole purpose is to play ROMs of the Super Nintendo. It can play free games in addition to proprietary games so its more of a user choice in the type of game you use. You can use free ROMs only with ZSNES if you want and stay away from the commercial ones. But let's be honest... who uses a SNES emulator and doesn't play the classics?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu Fonts License
Will someone please ask the FSF to inspect this license? I've deleted the Ubuntu fonts from my computer for now until their free status can be verified.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 will include nonfree games... courtesy of Rubén
I started this, and maybe wrongly 'cause english isn't my native language, but this is how i understood it: You may not charge a fee for the game itself but You may charge a reasonable copying fee for this archive You can only sell this game independently of its value, as a basic copying service you provide, so a reasonable copying fee is what is expected. In other words, you can't sell these two games for whatever price you feel like. The reasonable makes these two games nonfree. I hadn't thought of the free engine + nonfree Non-functional Data issue. But you know, this sounds absurd to me because... WITHOUT NON-FUNCTIONAL DATA THERE IS NO GAME! The graphics and sounds are also what make the game what it is. You cannot compare them with say... desktop wallpapers and sounds!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 will include nonfree games... courtesy of Rubén
You can only sell this game independently of its value, as a basic copying service you provide, so a reasonable copying fee is what is expected. In other words, you can't sell these two games for whatever price you feel like. The reasonable makes these two games nonfree. What you missed is the part where you can cheat this by simply bundling it with something else. The SIL Open Font License has something vaguely similar: you're required to redistribute fonts licensed in such a manner with a program. See: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SILOFL I hadn't thought of the free engine + nonfree Non-functional Data issue. But you know, this sounds absurd to me because... WITHOUT NON-FUNCTIONAL DATA THERE IS NO GAME! The graphics and sounds are also what make the game what it is. You cannot compare them with say... desktop wallpapers and sounds! Similarly, without the movie there is no movie. When I say non-functional, I mean that these parts of the game don't do anything. The game engine (i.e. the program that allows you to play the game) does do a practical job. The game data, on the other hand, is artistic, so we don't need to treat it the same as a computer program. In particular, though it isn't likely due to the way ScummVM is written (apparently a lot of hacks for individual games; I haven't looked at the source code myself), it is perfectly possible to use ScummVM as a base to create a new game. Similarly, the Freedoom project was made possible by the Doom engine being free, even though the Doom non-functional data remains nonfree.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Seahorse / Evolution Problem
Are these Trisquel installations up-to-date? There have been many upgrades (at least for 5.5) in the last weeks. I had problems with enabling HTML reading by default (when I opened Evolution, the first message was HTML-only, perhaps problematic, and Evolution went unstable: I couldn't scroll the list of messages or read them, in the same folder; other folders behave well), so I disabled it. Everything went back to normal. I talked to Lavabit support team (Pete S.) and they (he) said some Trisquel users reported the SSL verification problem with Seahorse and Evolution; perhaps upgrading what you can could help you. If not, I don't know where to start diggering... perhaps running Evolution from a terminal; see if any error messages are shown.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ghostery or Do not track on Abrowser
I always recommend RequestPolicy -- https://www.requestpolicy.com/ -- for controlling cross-site requisitions. I started using it after throwing the non-free Ghostery away, and I found out it is even better; it blocks those requisitions and is GPLv3. I don't remember if Ghostery did more stuff than that. RP's future versions will have support for, let's say, complex listing, so one (or many people) could make lists of privacy offenders. I choose to block every requisition by default (it comes with predefinitions for widely-used websites), accepting only the ones I really want. I mostly only read things, so without advertising and tracking I am mostly happy :-) It could disturb financial transactions if improperly configured; be aware. It's wise it to disable requisitions blocking the first time you buy something with it, keeping an eye in the Requests List so you can add the needed requests to whitelist. But remember: if webmasters change things later, you It could disturb financial transactions if improperly configured; be aware. It's wise it to disable requisitions blocking the first time you buy something with it, keeping an eye in the Requests List so you can add the Requests to can fall victim of unawareness.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ghostery or Do not track on Abrowser
I tried requestpolicy for a while, and I found often it took some experimenting to get things to work right here and there. It may be the safest option, but (at least for a naive user like me) it was too much work, and I would also accidentally let the wrong requests through sometimes when toying with it. If you have it working great though, then more power to you.
[Trisquel-users] Re : What if we win?
The Affero GPL was supposed to fix this Plain wrong again: One problem which the GNU Affero GPL does not address is the problem of Software as a Service (SaaS). It is impossible, as far as we know, to address this problem with a software license.
[Trisquel-users] Re : LTS Hardware Enablement Stack 6.0
As far as I understand Ubuntu 12.04.2 ships with Linux 3.2.0.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 will include nonfree games... courtesy of Rubén
Mr. Boat, I think there are many kinds of games, not just for entertainment but for edutainment as well. A person who loves games may at some point want to learn how those games were made. A game developer who releases the code of her games under libre licenses is supporting the learning process of people who want to create games. Making small changes in the source code of an already functional and useful application or game can be very constructive. As for the graphics and other assets that are consider non-functional, and for that reason not necessary to be free, I don't agree with the FSF. Those non-functional components are part of the cognitive ergonomics of the software which help optimize human interaction with the system. As such, these non-functional components should be libre as well so that the community in general can share them and build upon them. In games, these non-functional components are specially important. Remove these from a great game, remove its graphics, music and story, and to an end-user the game may seem like a piece of crap, even if the source code is beautiful.
Re: [Trisquel-users] LTS Hardware Enablement Stack 6.0
Magic is wrong again: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Secure-Boot-comes-to-Ubuntu-12-04-2-LTS-1804203.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] LTS Hardware Enablement Stack 6.0
Oh and this too since it is official https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop#PrecisePangolin.2BAC8-ReleaseNotes.2BAC8-CommonInfrastructure.Ubuntu_Kernel_3.5.0-23.35 By default, the 12.04.2 point release will ship with a newer 3.5.0-23.35 Ubuntu kernel from Quantal, and a matching X.org stack. This is based on the 3.5.7.2 Extended Upstream Stable Kernel Release. The purpose of providing a newer kernel in the 12.04.2 point release is for hardware enablement.
[Trisquel-users] Linux-libre 3.8 RC Kernels Available
Just something I thought I'd share for those who like to compile things themselves. You can now download and compile the 3.8 RC deblobbed kernels: http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/ These are still RC kernels (meaning not a final release, obviously), but I'm sort of glad that there are 3.8 RC libre kernels out, as I'm running hardware that wasn't supported on 3.7 at all (namely an nVidia GeForce GTX 660, which nouveau didn't support on those kernels. I don't recommend doing this, it's RIDICULOUSLY unstable). So yeah, have fun or whatever you want.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Screen Resolution
It seems like it is a Gnome problem, I installes openbox and works without any problem.
Re: [Trisquel-users] LTS Hardware Enablement Stack 6.0
It would be nice to have the lts-quantal kernel package in the Trisquel repos by the time 6 is released. Don't worry; It will be.
Re: [Trisquel-users] LTS Hardware Enablement Stack 6.0
You rock man. Next time I am in Seattle I owe you a beer and maybe a lap dance at Little Darlings. :-)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Seahorse / Evolution Problem
Yeah everything is up-to-date. I don't know where to start either. I have been on the evolution mailing list and the only suggestion I received was that something is causing my nss database to have problems. I think that's under ~/.pki/nssb or somewhere similar. I've tried pulling those files out and letting seahorse rebuild it(don't know if that's the right thing to do) but it didn't help. I do have to say that this is a frustrating thing about using a distro that is a repackage of another distro. You have problems that are upstream and then you end up chasing bug trackers and things from those. To complicate it even more we're based on an older release of Ubuntu. I've found that people like to recommend that the problem is fixed in the newest version of Ubuntu, which of course doesn't help anyone using Trisquel all that much.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Donation
As far as processing transactions for donations has anyone looked into using ACH payments? I don't know a ton about them and I know that many companies use ACH to pay their vendors. I found a project that looks like it might be worth looking into. It's called OpenACH and can be found at openach.com Looks pretty flexible as a payment option. I'm not sure how flexible the software is or what kinks might come up.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Screen Resolution
Perhaps purging and reinstalling it would help?
