Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on SteamOS?
I wonder what the free software community thinks of this device? http://www.gcw-zero.com/specifications If I understand correctly only the wireless firmware is non-free (the graphics should be supported by a free driver). Not sure about the BIOS though.
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
Overall it seems to me that people in UK shouldn't have too much of a problem getting to one of the events in Europe if they really wanted to. I'm very sceptical about the event in germany. I will be there, but I read somewhere on the internet about the location it takes place and about the people who make the event. Nothing wrong with them, but I think it's a very tiny group and I expect a very tiny event. For me, this is no problem, but I doubt that traveling from UK to germany because of this is worth the effort.
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
I'm also organizing a series of events in Sofia, Bulgaria. I wrote a couple of days ago, asking for them to be added to the list, but they still aren't and I haven't received a reply. If you're interested and you can read Bulgarian, you should see this page: http://www.libtec.org/bg/2013/gnu30/
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
... US only has one event. Europe has two (Germany and France) ... Isn't that stereotypical. ;) There are 4 events in 5 European countries listed. Czech Republic France Germany Romania Moldova Also, I'm organising in Bulgaria, which is also in Europe.
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
I hope to attend the one in Kitchener. Thanks for the info Lembas and Chris.
[Trisquel-users] NVIDIA release documentation to help Nouveau Project
Wonderful news friends! http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2013-September/014480.html
Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271
Use sudo when copying. sudo cp /path/to/fw/file /lib/firmware
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ark unar (RARV3) integration not working in Toutatis
Sorry for may late reply. It's Trisquel 4.1 with Gnome2 desktop, if that's what you'd like to know.
Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271
thank you for the insight. Where should my fw files be when I copy? right now they are sitting on my desktop. your help is truly appreciated!
Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271
*to/fw/htc_9271.fw/lib/firmware
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on SteamOS?
I know about that; it's basically just a less powerful and keyboardless version of the OpenPandora (even though it's made by different people), and it shares all the same problems: no wireless or hardware acceleration without nonfree software, designed to play nonfree games via emulation, and made by people who think nonfree software is a bonus. The last two apply to every open source handheld out there to date, and I would expect any future open source handhelds to continue the trend. The core problem with these devices is that they are designed by gamers, for gamers... and these gamers play nonfree games. So even if they claim to be in support of open source, they only use free software for the purpose of playing these nonfree games: making emulators efficient, convincing developers of proprietary indie games to port, etc.
Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271
I tried to no avail cp/home/fr33z3w1zar5/Desktop/to/fw/htc_9271.fw/htc_9271.fw/lib/firmware
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
Overall it seems to me that people in UK shouldn't have too much of a problem getting to one of the events in Europe if they really wanted to. The only way I could get to either is if I walked/hitchhiked to the South Coast (from Birmingham), then swam the channel and then walked/hitchhiked to wherever in France/Germany the meeting is. Then reverse it to get home again.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software replacement for iTunes
I really does not know if this is about searching for a free software replacement for iTunes on Trisquel, on the way one should buy music, so I'll try to answer both. First, the closest FLOSS iTunes replacement I am aware of is called Nightingale, which is a fork of Songbird, made of a frustration that the original developers stopped supporting/providing GNU/Linux builds. Also, Nightingale does not come with any proprietary parts, that SongBird will ship by default, including addons, with are AFAIK free too. For buying music, there are many ways of doing so, including, but not limited to buying CDDAs, Vinyls (for exceptional audio quality), and FLAC encodings. I personally does not buy music since the albums I usually want are not available anywhere, so I am downloading them using the Internet (legal in some parts of the world, including the one I live). My favourite website of doing so is RuTracker.org where these albums are usually available.
Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271
The command you entered it incorrect. Just follow what I already wrote above, it's not that hard.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on SteamOS?
It seems that one of the motivations for Valve creating an OS is that they can create a custom distro based off of Ubuntu (rumored to be 12.04) and create a walled garden for their services. The stories say they wanted to improve the video and audio support in the Linux ecosystem, but is it just for proprietary video firmware and drivers? If its just for that, it sucks as the improvements will only be for that specific OS. If they put the time and money to work with ATI or Nvidia to improve the free drivers and re-release back upstream, then that would benefit everyone. I highly doubt that is their intention though. Still, it would be nice considering most of their work is cut out for them by using Ubuntu.
Re: [Trisquel-users] how to install ath9k-htc-firmware for Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271
Perhaps the terminal is not your forte. Try gksudo nautilus
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on SteamOS?
Trisquel includes emulators too, like Zsnes and Scummvm. We had this discussion once if there's a problem with those old roms. Many people in the free software movement share my opinion that playing these roms is acceptable; you may think differently but you can't blame this project for something even trisquel does. No wireless or hardware acceleration is true for many pc's out there and though I would recommend buying such a pc if someone doesn't need neither wireless nor hardware acceleration. Also these pc's are very often designed to use proprietary software like windows. No problem for me if I don't have to use it and can install something else.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software replacement for iTunes
JXSELF Respectfully, your answer is not what people from other places in the world want to read. That is, smart ass answer from a guy of your caliber and intellectual. Not everyone has that kind of FREEDOM and Choices in their own countries. What they are looking for Is: an advise, and if you could provide guidance and knowledge on what software to use, that it is FREE FROM DRM. Other wise just leave your smirk replies in blank. Unless, you are motivated to be a wise guy on your own reconnaissance. Which I believe that is the case. Respectfully Jodiendo
Re: [Trisquel-users] Your thoughts on SteamOS?
Trisquel includes emulators too, like Zsnes and Scummvm. Yes, but the Trisquel community isn't centered around them. Take a close look at the OpenPandora website and you'll notice that emulators are heavily flaunted; it's the main purpose of devices like these. Also these pc's are very often designed to use proprietary software like windows. No problem for me if I don't have to use it and can install something else. That's not the case with these devices. They are built with one particular OS in mind (SuperZaxxon for the Pandora, OpenDingux for the GCW Zero) and porting a different OS is non-trivial. The OpenPandora has no proper 100% free OS running on it; just SuperZaxxon, Slackware, and a pseudo-Debian environment inside of SuperZaxxon, and as a side note, when I brought up the idea of making a 100% free OS work on the Pandora, there was a lot of negative response and no indication that anyone was interested.[0] The community in general is hostile to the free software movement and thinks it's extremist.[1] So in reality, if you buy one of these devices, you are going to be entirely on your own with a device that is less powerful and less durable than a very cheap netbook you can get at Wal-mart, is certain to have the same limitations you risk having with said cheap netbook (no 3-D and no WiFi), and has no completely free OS properly working on it. If you use the OS they designed it for without the nonfree bits, many games won't work, and the maintainers of them won't care because it works for everybody else; and you will have to manually scour the forums and software repositories to find free software. And if it isn't the OpenPandora, you won't even have a (crappy) keyboard built into it for all that trouble, and if it is the OpenPandora, you will spend more money than if you actually got a more powerful laptop from Think Penguin. No matter how you look at it, buying one of these open handhelds with the intent of running only free software on them would be incredibly foolish. [0] http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/11076-request-completely-free-os/ [1] http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/14049-respects-your-freedom-certification/
Re: [Trisquel-users] NVIDIA release documentation to help Nouveau Project
Exciting news anyways. Perhaps if there were more middle-fingers raised.. (;
[Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
I haven't tried Mini, but I'm thinking about switching when the new edition comes out. How do the two compare? How do Midori and Abrowser compare, for example?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
I use Mini on my netbook. It is much faster than all the other desktop environments I have tried on it (GNOME Fallback, GNOME Shell, KDE, Cinnamon, Unity...). I find the Trisquel theme and the transparent taskbar quite pleasing to the eye, too. Midori is very fast, compared to abrowser. I tend to use both. All in all, Mini is a fast and nice-looking environment. Some settings can be hard or impossible to found, though, but there's always a way (console or through other DEs). I use Cinnamon on my desktop.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
Mini. Because I use it on an old laptop (secondary) computer, in which GNOME wouldn't run as well or as fast as LXDE. Besides, I stopped using GNOME, a long time ago, for being unnecessarily heavy. And, I think that Xfce is the best DE, that now exists, in terms of speed vs. functionalities trade-off. (Rubén says that GNOME has more accessibility options, for the visually impaired and such. So, for those persons, it makes sense to use it. But, for the rest, I don't think that GNOME is that much of a DE (even if it has more functionalities) ever since Xfce appeared. Midori is not an option for me, nevertheless... It's missing a lot of (very useful) functionalities that Abrowser has. And, if you browse a lot and want a decent experience, you'll have to use the latter. (Which, with a light DE, like LXDE, is not a bad combination.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
I use both. I use Trisquel on my desktop and Trisquel Mini on my netbook.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
In my opinion Trisquel Mini only with 256MB or less.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
Desktop(2004) Celeron 2.5Ghz running Trisquel 64-bit with 1GB of RAM DDR. Laptop(2004) Pentium M 1.8GHz (32-bit only) running Trisquel 32-bit with 1GB of RAM DDR. Laptop(2008) Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz running Trisquel 64-bit with 2GB of RAM DDR3. Desktop(2011) Core i3 3.10GHz running Trisquel 64-bit with 4GB of RAM DDR3. I always prefer Trisquel because it is complete (with GNOME Fallback or GNOME Shell). Mini is fast but need many changes to be good to daily use.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Watching Vevo videos without Gnash
Bingo! Found a GPL Firefox addon that does the trick: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-all-html5/?src=api
Re: [Trisquel-users] NVIDIA release documentation to help Nouveau Project
Just imagine what we could do if we actually stood up now. Unfortunately almost nobody is. We got Linus to give NVIDIA a stern yelling at and all it achieved was was documentation on stuff that wasn't needed.
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
Yes- maybe. But what about France? I also was trying to compare it to someplace nearby in the US. If you compared it to the west coast you'd be significantly farther away.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Watching Vevo videos without Gnash
Excellent! Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
Clearly I'm not a native... umm however I did only really quickly skim that list in my defense. Germany and France popped out at me. I am aware of two others on the list (Romania the Czech Republic). I also know where they are on the map (well, Europe, anyway). My mind doesn't recall Moldova. Not even 100% sure how to pronounce that. Can't say I've heard about it much (at all?) in the news either. The US doesn't really do a great job in the world geography department and I probably know of more countries than the average American (doesn't really say much though). The US also hasn't really done foreign languages until really really recently. They only really started implementing the teaching of foreign languages from a young age 15 years ago or so. I just missed the 'foreign language is required' bit beyond a handful of classes between 6th grade (11 year olds) and high school (14-18 year olds).
Re: [Trisquel-users] You're Invited: GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon
What exactly is preventing people from going to these events? It doesn't appear to be distance or cost. Is there some huge financial barrier I'm missing or visa requirements (last I checked that wasn't an issue any more, I thought)? I understand if it's too expensive in general vs the benefits of going. I get that. I'm figuring on spending about $100 USD for 4 days to get from where I am in the US to Boston. I also get that some people aren't in a good position, because of school, economic conditions, etc.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Playing video freezes my netbook!
I have not yet addressed the resume script or made a hot-key to set brightness, but I am happy to report that my battery life fully doubled by deactivating the NVIDIA ION.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Playing video freezes my netbook!
It's the acpi_osi= (everything other in unimportant). This switches off the dedicated (NVidia) GPU, using only one graphic chip at a time. You can check this by entering lspci|grep VGA which should not output anything if the dedicated chip is not in use. Also, I recommend SMTube over MiniTube, which I had previously happened to use. It is much better in design, and rather than using its own built-in player, it redirects the video stream into your favourite media player (Totem on Trisquel, and MPlayer on Trisquel-mini). Related information, incl. installation instructions can be found here.
