Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about fully free computers
I agree with your post Heather, particularly loved this bit: >As your X60 (or whatever you are currently using) becomes older, you will also grow >and learn how to use less resource-intensive software that may take a bit more practice and skill... One more thing, the OP mentions "powerful machines." The real question is what you want to do with the computer. Beyond the marketing hype and as far as my use case is concerned, there are only two types of computers: fast and slow*. A computer is slow when I have to wait for it and fast when I don't. This will depend on what you wish to compute. Based on the above, I've used old computers which were mostly fast and new computers which were mostly slow. * Not sure where I read this argument online, it was a well written post too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] System76. A step in the right direction.
gnuga...@gmail.com wrote: System76 are disabling Intel ME and all, I think, models that they sell. People with more knowledge than me, could this lead to librebooting these systems or is more needed. Needless to say they are doing this from a security point not a FreeSoftware point. If this is characterized as a step in the right direction, I think that this is ultimately a smaller step than is really needed. A significant step in the right direction is to provide POWER-based computers more users can afford. I say POWER-based because: - as far as I know, POWER CPUs are already up and running in desktop computers and doing real jobs in a competitive way to what Intel/AMD chips are doing. I'm sure there are other CPUs that can do work like this too, and I have nothing against them, but I don't know as much about the details of those efforts. - free software benefits from being more portable. Thus free software benefits from identifying and fixing bugs due to being written (without cause) to assume endianness, instruction set, and other processor-dependent details. - I believe current POWER-based systems running GNU/Linux can implement a cryptographically-signed free BIOS (or something that functions to get the system hardware running) where the user holds exclusive access to the keys, not some other party. Users are free, of course, to decide to keep another party's key(s) in the keyring. We in the free software community insulate ourselves from the horrors of Intel ME and workalikes (hereafter "ME") by diversifying where we can run free software. Our best response to Intel/AMD is to reject them utterly and reassess what they have to offer if and when they resume developing chips we can trust. We are not well served to try technocratic means of working around ME by keeping the malware in the system but avoiding it. POWER-based computing is a viable means of reaching these ends.
Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 8
>I later looked in the Parabola PKGBUILD for RetroArch. I saw that they >completely removed any connection to the addon repository on RetroArch's >website, and they provided no free replacement. They just neutered the >software completely. I could not run free ROMs in the emulator, and I >could not experimenting with writing my own free ROMs either. >If the addon repo for a program is not good, you should provide a free >replacement. You shouldn't just rip it out. >I don't remember if there were other programs they did this with, but to >see what they did in the package build soured me. They prevented me >from accessing a free program. If you had a problem, why didn't you raise the issue? It would have been more useful than waiting 18 months to call the devs lazy on the /Trisquel/ forum. The only record I could find for Retroarch: https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/1014 >I never said they were lazy, I'm just afraid Parabola is going to go >into disrepair because some major devs left to start their own pet >project. You *did* say they were lazy. You wrote: >* sometimes a free package will be removed because they're too >lazy to make a free version of its plugin repository, and your-freedom won't let me add it back There are 12 hackers and 15 hacker-fellows listed on the Parabola website, how exactly does this suggest the distro is "going to go into disrepair?" > Dogfood. I'm not peddling any product, and you are not polite. . I am surprised by your continued denigrating remarks toward the work or perceived shortcomings of others. Based on having browsed through your interesting personal website I wouldn't have thought this would be the case. To be frank, your comments about Parabola and its devs remind me of the denigrating comments I read about Trisquel and Ruben on this forum from time to time. Nothing useful comes from that.
Re: [Trisquel-users] System76. A step in the right direction.
It may not have seemed like an important point to Marketing. But the first post of the Reddit thread linked above, by their engineer, mentions it by name.
Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 8
> * I find almost every package I need on parabola repos. Anything that is not > there is usually available in AUR (just need to carefully check licenses and > makepkg files). Never had a problem with "your-freedom" either. Can you give > some examples? RetroArch is available. Some emulators, in the form of addons, are proprietary, and some are free software. When I tried to install one of the emulators that were free software according to Debian, it gave an error. I later looked in the Parabola PKGBUILD for RetroArch. I saw that they completely removed any connection to the addon repository on RetroArch's website, and they provided no free replacement. They just neutered the software completely. I could not run free ROMs in the emulator, and I could not experimenting with writing my own free ROMs either. If the addon repo for a program is not good, you should provide a free replacement. You shouldn't just rip it out. I don't remember if there were other programs they did this with, but to see what they did in the package build soured me. They prevented me from accessing a free program. > * I don't follow things closely, but it does not seem to me that Parabola > devs are lazy at all. Quite the contrary. Take a look at > https://labs.parabola.nu. All bugs I've encountered are quickly resolved. I never said they were lazy, I'm just afraid Parabola is going to go into disrepair because some major devs left to start their own pet project. > As to the other distros, I have limited experience. I find Debian to be solid > > and can easily be configured to whatever my needs are. I don't want Chromium code to creep in. There is a controversy over whether it is free. > Trisquel is great and better for most gnu/linux newcomers. I enjoy Trisquel's > > community too, but that is unrelated to which other distros I play or work > with, or whether I even use Trisquel. Dogfood. -- Caleb Herbert OpenPGP public key: http://bluehome.net/csh/pubkey signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] how to upgrade to belenos from 6.0
> I know this doesn't help you right now, but I strongly recommend have > separate partitions for / (root - your OS) and /home (your user files). This has caused problems for me. Right now, I have only 595.6 MiB in /, and my system keeps alerting me about it. -- Caleb Herbert OpenPGP public key: http://bluehome.net/csh/pubkey signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel, Debian and Free Software
Yeah, I had a similar experience with Motif dependencies for a program I wanted to use. This is another reason why I won't use Debian; they don't have my back, they don't even use the same definition of 'free'. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel, Debian and Free Software
Also, Debian includes stuff which might require some proprietary code, like Chromium and Electron, which Parabola removed for this reason. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Trisquel-users] Apache started to resolve IP addresses to their canonical names in the raw access logs on November 25, 2017
My ISP uses Apache-controlled servers. My cPanel Raw Access logs contained IPV4 addresses exclusively until November 25, whereupon the server software began resolving those IPV4 addresses to their canonical names. That change rendered their server data irretrievable, but for the Internet history of the servers, which I can for the most part still retrieve with Dig (installed for Trisquel as "DNS Query Tool" (homepage: http://jodrell.net/projects/gresolver) or with another popular Internet search tool. For some canonical names, especially the ones ending in ...example.com, many Dig resolutions are to 92.242.140.21, which is a UK error handling site, essentially useless for discovering the original IP address of the site requesting HEAD / HTTP data from my domain. A few .RU canonical names are similarly irretrievable or resolve to a number of servers, hiding the folks who have no other interest in the data on my site, and who are still attempting HEAD / HTTP requests in spite of being blocked with my domain's .htaccess file. As the IPV4's and their servers have been requesting HEAD / HTTP data since September, 2016 through intermediate .RU, .LV and .NL domain URL's with no useful results, they are probably pestering other domains also. Apache's recent S/W change makes it more difficult to track their IP addresses and servers. George Langford
Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 8
https://librenet.gr/posts/516f15b0ba4b0135daba2a7a465d :>love it
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trisquel 8
Yes. That should just work good. Backup first maybe.
