Re: [Trisquel-users] uruk gnu/linux 2.0 beta-2
I put this feedback on the wrong thread, so I'm reporting it on the thread about Uruk-2.0-beta-2 for completeleness. Please feel free to ignore this. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/uruk-gnulinux-20-alpha I like the look and feel of Uruk 2.0-beta-2, and I look forward to the final release, but I can't keep using it on my Aspire One (click on my name to see the full specs). Even with the new SSD drive, the performance is just too patchy. If I have more than one browser tab open, I immediately start to have problems, including typing text and nothing happens, or a random selection of the letters I typed appear. Maybe 1GB RAM is just not enough for Uruk 2.0, but ideally a distro like this would run on any box that can run XP, which is what the Aspire One came with when I bought it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] [Poll] Should Trisquel 9 be Based on Debian?
After a decade or so of running GNU-Linux on the desktop, I've learned the hard way that the newest version is *not* always the best version. My first distro was Ubuntu, and I always used to upgrade to the latest version as soon as it come out. But this did not give me the most stable OS, even if I did have more current versions of various apps. "Trisquel, if it is to remain in sync with Ubuntu, should follow the current Ubuntu LTS." The whole point of an LTS is that it provides Long Term Support. https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life Because Trisquel 7 was based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, it will continue to get security fixes and other critical updates until early 2019. It's still a perfectly usable OS, in fact it works a bit better now on the same hardware than it did when I first installed it. As long as Trisquel 8 comes out before 14.04 support ends, we will be fine. Trisquel 8, like Ubuntu 16.04, will get critical updates until early 2021. By that time, Trisquel 9 will be out, and will get critical updates for it until early 2023. How many of us will even be using the same hardware by then?
Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I stop distro-hopping?
Thanks Magic Banana. I must have been reading some old Debian documentation that has been rendered obsolete by changing technology. More details about these details of partition managements and some relevant history can be found here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/57780/do-i-only-need-one-swap-partition-for-multiple-linux-distros-and-other-questio
Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation
Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel
"I use [Guix] in Trisquel 7" How did you install it? I searched for Guix in both Add/ Remove Applications and Synaptic. No results. Also this ... https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ ... is not really what I need. I need a "for dummies" intro, 1-2 pages of text answering these questions; what is a "Guix" and what's it good for? Explain like I'm 5.
Re: [Trisquel-users] [Poll] Should Trisquel 9 be Based on Debian?
On 27/10/17 22:12, wrote: > I think Trisquel 8.0 should be Trisquel 9.0. I was afraid that this moment would eventually come. That the delay of Trisquel 8 (more than one year) would grow to the point that it would be suggested to wait for the next Ubuntu LTS release - and that it would have a point (75% of the time has already passed, so why not to wait for the remaining 25%?). Except that there is no reason to think that Trisquel developers would work faster on the next Ubuntu LTS release that they were working on the present one. So, my view on it... it would mean more delay on exchange for nothing. -- Ignacio Agulló · agu...@ati.es 0xC6AB2D51.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU Ring on Trisquel
Can we make grups for chatting in this app ?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : I met RMS yesterday. We talked about Trisquel 8, this is what he said...
I like the course materials very much! Actually, I have it in my list of favorites for quite some time. ;) lc...@dcc.ufmg.br writes: > I'm a teacher and I enjoy explaining stuff. > > Same thing for me. You may find useful the slides I use to teach > less, head, tail, cat, tr, wc, cut, paste, comm, join, sort, uniq, > grep, sed (focusing on the s command) and awk: > > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda3.pdf > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda4.pdf > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda5.pdf > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda6.pdf > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda7.pdf > > Their LateX Beamer sources: > > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda3.tar.bz2 > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda4.tar.bz2 > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda5.tar.bz2 > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda6.tar.bz2 > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda7.tar.bz2 > > > http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/data.tar.xz contains the data and the > solutions to the exercises in the slides. The context is that of > pre-processing data for future analysis (the rest of the course) and > not system administration. Anyway, the commands are the same. > > Do you have material I could use to improve my course? > -- - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre. Por favor, veja formas de se comunicar instantaneamente comigo no endereço abaixo. - Contato: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#vCard - Arquivos comuns aceitos (apenas sem DRM): Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV. - Arquivos comuns aceitos e enviados: CSV, GNU Dia, GNU Emacs Org, GNU GIMP, Inkscape SVG, JPG, LibreOffice (padrão ODF), OGG, OPUS, PDF (apenas sem DRM), PNG, TXT, WEBM.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is and when trisquel 8 will be released?
I am probably going to have to wait for my preferred configuration and will try again with vanilla Flidas in the next few days. If there is anything else that I, as an "average joe"/autodidact with extremely uneven skills, can do to help, please don't hesitate to ask.
[Trisquel-users] Fcitx doesn't work
I'm a language nerd. I need to be able to type lots of different languages, because sometimes discussion of words come up in conversation. The default input method (ibus?) doesn't work at all. I add input methods in Region & Language > Input Sources, and I press Super+Space to switch them as indicated, and the keyboard still writes Latin characters instead of Cyrillic. Fcitx has more input methods and works for me when I type Japanese with fcitx-mozc, but no other languages (like Russian, Hebrew or Greek) will work. The input method will be switched, but the keyboard will not type different characters. Things I want to be able to type: - Japanese - Chinese - Korean - Arabic - Hebrew - Cyrillic This worked on Slackware.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU Ring on Trisquel
You should think on install packages with two packages manager, dependences are different in many cases and can take file problems. The problem is not Guix on self, the problem is install packages on differents packages managers and different repositories.
[Trisquel-users] Re : I met RMS yesterday. We talked about Trisquel 8, this is what he said...
I'm a teacher and I enjoy explaining stuff. Same thing for me. You may find useful the slides I use to teach less, head, tail, cat, tr, wc, cut, paste, comm, join, sort, uniq, grep, sed (focusing on the s command) and awk: http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda3.pdf http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda4.pdf http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda5.pdf http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda6.pdf http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda7.pdf Their LateX Beamer sources: http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda3.tar.bz2 http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda4.tar.bz2 http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda5.tar.bz2 http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda6.tar.bz2 http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/slides/mda7.tar.bz2 http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/data.tar.xz contains the data and the solutions to the exercises in the slides. The context is that of pre-processing data for future analysis (the rest of the course) and not system administration. Anyway, the commands are the same. Do you have material I could use to improve my course?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Guix on Trisquel
Probably one of these talks: http://people.bordeaux.inria.fr/lcourtes/index.html#talks
[Trisquel-users] Re : How do I stop distro-hopping?
Sharing a swap partition is only a problem if you want to hibernate a system, boot another system, and, later, try to recover the first system from the hibernation. If you do not need to that, one single swap partition is enough. As far as I know, primary/logical partitions make no difference performance-wise. Something to keep in mind to be able to easily shrink a filesystem (e.g., through GParted): it must be shrinkable, unlike XFS, which is Trisquel's default filesystem for /home (for a reason: it is often cited as the most efficient filesystem to read/write large files). LVM does not "make it easier to resize partitions" because it is above partitions and disks. It makes it easier to (re)allocate storage (without altering the partitions and the disks)... for those who learn how to do so. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html is a starting point.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is and when trisquel 8 will be released?
well i sped abot 14 hours overall on this distro so far.
Re: [Trisquel-users] I met RMS yesterday. We talked about Trisquel 8, this is what he said...
You should definitely learn Bash and there are many tutorials around the Internet for that. You should lean basic usage for command-line tools like grep, sed, awk, diff and patch. You should also learn how Deb packaging works, for which there should be tutorials on the Ubuntu and Debian wiki, and probably in other places too. General understanding of how GNU/Linux systems work is good to have. Stuff like file system hierarchy, mounting, partitioning, types of file systems and file owners/permissions. Also, it's probably not mandatory, but it may be useful to have some basic knowledge how C/C++ programming and compiling works. If you (or anyone else) is really up of for doing this, I'm open to help by giving gratis lessons on the above (or related) topics - I'm a teacher and I enjoy explaining stuff. :) The effort to help Trisquel development is useful, although in my opinion it would be more useful to develop a better beginner-friendly installer for Parabola, because it seems to me that's the main thing that Trisquel/Ubuntu do better and make them more beginner friendly. I think the general architecture of Parabola/Arch is better overall and Parabola is already well maintained.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where is and when trisquel 8 will be released?
Nvidea Geforce GT 630
Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel
I use it in Trisquel 7. ;) Regarding the issue of actually building GNU Ring using the Guix recipe, I'm currently trying to fix it. For more information on what must be done in order to make the work easier, see the package recipe itself. It has some TODO comments that show the technical/maintainance challenges remaining --- besides of course having the recipes accepted by Guix project (which isn't a challenge, because they are very friendly). As a plus, if one wants to, you can drop by the #guix IRC channel, and tell them that you want a non-programmer guide on how to make recipes for Guix, and if someone has time to, they'll teach you the basics of both GNU Guix and Scheme. Also, both I and Quiliro "quiliro" Ordóñez went through the basic steps suggested by #guix. Last, there is also https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ (to see/read the book, click on the "Full text!" link), which as far as I know serves to teach basics of programming to everyone, as a plus teaching it in Scheme. stry...@disintermedia.net.nz writes: > Does anyone know if Adfeno uses Guix on Trisquel 7 or on the 8 alpha? >
Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk GNU/Linux 2.0 (Alpha)
Is it System D distro if is system D no Thx!
[Trisquel-users] Re : Uruk GNU/Linux 2.0 (Alpha)
Could be that Mate Compiz is enabled by default in Uruk 2.2 or not ?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Fixing partition error caused by making USB live disks with Disks
Yes, that's right. It takes the USB right back to a tabula rasa, allowing me to create a new partition, and restore an .ISO to create a boot USB. In answer to my own question, the bug that stops me deleting partitions might be avoided by making sure I remove all partitions, and create a new FAT partition, before using 'restore image' to make a boot USB from an .ISO.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk GNU/Linux 2.0 (Alpha)
"1GB RAM is not really comfortable" True, and I'm looking at buying a RAM upgrade, or just using this netbook as a CLI-only system. But it's worth pointing out that Trisquel 7 (with the default DE) still gave me significantly better performance than the Uruk beta I tried. Even running Debian live off a USB gave me better performance. I figure this is something the developers might want to know, so thanks for the contact info :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] I finally managed to install Trisquel 8. But it was quite hard to install and run. Any solutions?
I had the same experience as Dave. As reported on another thread, I used Disks to make a Trisquel 8 alpha live disk on a USB, but it woudn't boot at all on either of my oldish laptops (non-UEFI). It seems like I have a choice between switching to Debian, or continuing with Trisquel 7 (and maybe trying Guix).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel
Does anyone know if Adfeno uses Guix on Trisquel 7 or on the 8 alpha?
