Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider
Great, I'm glad to read this.
Re: [Trisquel-users] making a free bios for a present notebook x86 mainboard?
Loongson 3A is slower than Core 2 Duo in my X60t. All 3B boards listed at http://www.loongson.cn/devsys.php have AMD GPUs, same as for 3A. Making custom laptops for 100% free systems is not practical unless you can sell many thousands of them. pgpTJTCQcziQn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider
Parabola for the YeeLoong is not bleeding edge, it's unmaintained with mostly broken and obsolete packages. gNewSense is the only FSF-endorsed distro with current support for MIPS. In my experience, YeeLoong 8101B used ~12W of idle power. Several ARM single board computers will use much less total power at 100% CPU use (with much lower idle power: they have good power management). pgpMCR8BPbx4y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?
nux wrote: I have read it and I think it's largely confused nonsense. Imagine selling pens with conditions about what you can write with them; that would be noisome, and we should not stand for it. Everyone buys pens with the understanding that there are laws covering what you can write with that pen. If you write and publish hate speech or incitement to murder or riot, can you not expect consequences? Absolutely, yet it would be absurd to attach usage conditions to every pen sold upheld by contract law. Democratically elected laws exist to prevent the crimes that you mentioned. Andrew.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider
I wish to change my email But it seems impossible because I have a lot of programs Containing in the source code and in the Binary version my email Greetings and respect ali abdul ghani
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider
From: m...@mtjm.eu (Michał Masłowski) Parabola for the YeeLoong is not bleeding edge, it's unmaintained with mostly broken and obsolete packages. gNewSense is the only FSF-endorsed distro with current support for MIPS. Thanks - I haven't read the appropriate trees yet :-) gNewSense will be quite good enough for me. In my experience, YeeLoong 8101B used ~12W of idle power. Several ARM single board computers will use much less total power at 100% CPU use (with much lower idle power: they have good power management). Yes, naturally, IIUC lower chip count. I'm looking forward to the Mali reverse engineering making it to mainline (which debian-arm reports as close). Then with Freescale documenting everything else for some of their SoCs we might see something from the community. Maybe even an arm64 box (just wishing mainly).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider
+1
Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?
I'd also like to point out that if the conditions are attached to the pen, by the manufacturer of the pen, the rules are not chosen democratically; they are decided by a dictator.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider
The FSF's only criterion for listing email providers is that they have to be usable without any non-free software, and for that mail.ru qualifies. Perhaps mail.ru snoops on your emails, but if your emails are unencrypted, that can be true of any provider. That's why you should use end-to-end encryption, no matter what.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider
I use Runbox. They're based in Norway, which gives a better legislative framework than many countries, and their servers run on renewable hydro energy. https://runbox.com/ and https://runbox.com/why-runbox/email-privacy/ for privacy info.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?
nothing about the pen is chosen democratically... I guess that's not the point.
[Trisquel-users] Best free software video card available that also does 3D acceleration?
Please help. :D I'm going to build a computer.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best free software video card available that also does 3D acceleration?
Go to www.h-node.org you will find the supported hardware just make sure that it was tested on Trisquel, not Debian
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best free software video card available that also does 3D acceleration?
I'm getting the Asus F2A85-M/CSM motherboard because of coreboot support. But here on the FSF site it says Hardware 3D acceleration will not work with this setup. https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/systems Does that mean even if I get a card that works with free software and has 3D acceleration, that it still won't work with that motherboard?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best free software video card available that also does 3D acceleration?
No graphics will work on that board unless you use blobs in boot firmware (and maybe a discrete PCIe card which stores them in a different chip), then only the VESA driver will work unless you use a non-libre kernel with more blobs (or a supported PCIe non-AMD card). If you are getting it because of coreboot support, get also a supported APU: Richland is not supported. pgppwgcv5QcbA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best free software video card available that also does 3D acceleration?
You may want to get the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT which will currently give you the best price/performance ratio within graphic cards (until the reclocking is properly implemented in Nouveau so newer cards will get a comparable performance against the NVIDIA binary driver). It can be purchased for example here (beware that some of these shops can be fraud). However, the best graphic card can be considered to be the GX2 variant, which does have two onboard GPUs but I don't know whether this will give you any benefit (i.e. how Nouveau handles cards that have two physical cores). In case you'll go after a blobby Intel motherboard, you should rather use an integrated GPU found in compatible processors. However, graphic cards from NVIDIA are still useful in case some game/program will refuse to run with an integrated Intel GPU (rare).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best free software video card available that also does 3D acceleration?
According to WOT,[1] that site is a scam. Just so you know. [1] https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/worldbuy.biz
[Trisquel-users] Lowrisc cpu in a notebook?
Lowrisc http://www.lowrisc.org/ is making a free hardware cpu board about 2 – 5 times the performance of the raspberry pi. When for sale, will it then be possible to build a 2, 4 or 8 cpu core, what ever it takes, free mainboard with the performance of an intel duo core notebook mainboard, assuming that gpu, wifi, display, etc also are free hardware?
[Trisquel-users] camera/camcorder that supports webm or ogg
Do you know of any cameras that save videos as webm or ogg?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Lowrisc cpu in a notebook?
it looks like the CPU is really free at the HDL level, while most commercial CPUs do not provide that level of freedom. This looks like an opt-out for non-free microcode that runs on a CPU. In this case we have free microcode that can run on a FPGA, but the tools to create a bistring are nonfree. It is important to write a free software FPGA toolchain, if we really want free freedom at the lowest possible levels of hardware.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?
There are laws covering these things already. There is no need to also put them into licenses and contracts etc. Just as it's a bad idea to, say, enshrine U.S. export law into your license as a condition that you then not share with people in certain countries: It expands the scope of U.S. policy to anyone getting a copy of the software, no matter where they are which is not a good idea - even if you happen to love U.S. export control law. You may only do the things with which I approve of becomes a slippery slope.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What are your thoughts on the BadUSB source code release?
Everyone buys pens with the understanding that there are laws covering what you can write with that pen. But laws vary from country to country. Taking the laws and policies of one country, enshrining them into the agreement for anyone to use those pens, no matter where they are, has the effect of propagating that policy worldwide. Why should the laws of one country override those of another?
