Re: [Trisquel-users] Minifree's Libreboot X200 laptop comes with Trisquel pre-installed. Now with other keyboard layouts available, and free stickers
The current ratf is 1 to 1.18. 25 € = 29.50 $.
[Trisquel-users] After installing Trisquel 7 dual boot with Ubuntu , Grub is asking for password to boot Ubuntu
I've recently installed TRISQUEL 7 alongside with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I'm enjoying Trisquel so much, but after the first reboot Grub is asking for a bootloader password only for Ubuntu, it looks like the disk has been encrypted by I didn't do anything like that. Can you guys help me out with that?, I have no idea what to do. I tried my Ubuntu username and password but it sends me back to GRUB. THANKS
Re: [Trisquel-users] Binaries-free movements back-ending in RPM sources?
GNU GuixSD is source based system distribution. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] Binaries-free movements back-ending in RPM sources?
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/hd-scania-systems-free-software-enterprising Do you remember I have earlier announced the similar idea? This binaries-free movement is also to stronger certify you are using free software, executives i.e. runtimes are in the sources, manuals and docs are in the sources, and every of these sources are browsable and auditable in my upcoming servers, both Git and packages repo, and you are free to exchange between RPM sources and Git files. Note, Gentoo is accepting any forms of sources, that is just leaving Gentoo not successful, therefore I hereby need to instead unify and uniform my own system into RPM sources.
[Trisquel-users] Binaries-free movements back-ending in RPM sources?
Ututo was our first GNU system but dormant at the very beginning and was sources back-ended; Parabola is our most cutting edged GNU system that is rolling, but binaries back-ended; Fedora, our RPM system that focuses in freedom, no apps or repo are nonfree but the kernel is, installing RPM sources (SRPM or .src.spm of acronyms) is not too easy. Debian, and derivatives like Trisquel, Uruk, Devuan, as much focus in freedom as GNU systems and Fedora, and have own sources format, .dsc, but not too practical for daily uses, and only sysadmins, autidors, even developments need these .dsc sources. As binaries back-ended as Parabola. So we DO need an GNU system that is sources back-ended, using RPM sources is best, but liberating the src-oss pools of openSuSE Tumbleweed (instead of Fedora, within Freed-ora kernels Fedora is enough to be an GNU system); but kernels are come from the Freed-ora RPM sources. Porting pacman (from Parabola) to RPM sources as a CLI frontend, and like Uruk also offering zypper (from the liberation sources of openSuSE Tumbleweed), dnf (Fedora), Guix package manager (GuixSD), urpmi (Uruk), finally Emerge/Portage (Gentoo). Using Qt as our default graphical language, and hence isolating Gtk+ apps and desktops, but also Gecko apps like A-browser, Icecat, Iceweasel, finally large apps like office suites, KDE 5 and its apps (but marble-qt is in main, that isnt dep on KDE libraries); YaST2 apps and Octopi are also needed to be isolated, which I commit to the simplicity like Parabola, for my beginners' derivatives you are free to reuse YaST2 and Octopi. Wine and its front-ends are also needed to be isolated.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Minifree's Libreboot X200 laptop comes with Trisquel pre-installed. Now with other keyboard layouts available, and free stickers
25€ ($50 US?) is a lot just for UK Dvorak by default. I'll most likely just reflash. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : I'm happy that Trisquel 8 is finally being developed, but I won't have time to help. I wish everyone good luck :D
When people send stuff to my home computer, I reject Word attachments by quoting Tim Berners-Lee and requesting PDFs. At work, I always save documents as OpenDocument Text. Interestingly, ODT files are smaller, and it's easier to spot them in a pile of Word documents because of the file type column. Name File Type - How to Send Email Word notes OpenDocument Text So, all I have to do is look for the file names that are all lowercase and have longer text in the adjacent column. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm happy that Trisquel 8 is finally being developed, but I won't have time to help. I wish everyone good luck :D
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. They are very honest and understandable. > I'm a poor college student who is forced to use nonfree > software by my work and college. I have a windows laptop that I use for these > > occasions. Yeah, this makes sense, although I would not go as far as owning a Windows machine or bringing it into my private space. If a job application is only online, for example, I insist that the company provide the computer to run their crappy job application software on. I'm a poor college dropout who occasionally has to use the computer terminals at work. However, just like operating a cash register computer terminal for work, it's not my computing. In fact, company policy dictates that an employee must never do their computing anywhere in the building under any circumstances. User freedom is therefore not affected by proprietary software at my job. > I also carry a cellphone, despite my general agreement with > Stallman's criticisms of them (I am not an important enough person for people > > to agree to make any special accommodations for). I'm too poor to afford a cellphone. The break room at work has a landline I can use, and I carry a list of phone numbers in my pocket in case I want to call someone. There are also payphones available in case the break room telephone is in use, and I keep quarters on hand, but I never need to use them: When I go to the break room, everyone is glued to the computing devices in their pockets. > Anyways, enough rambling (I had some good tea!). What kind of tea? It's cold here, and I have been drinking lots of red tea. -- Caleb Herbert OpenPGP public key: http://bluehome.net/csh/pubkey signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix usage
Big hugs, ADFENO! You are so diligent. Thank you!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel
I was also confused when I started using GUIX. ADEFNO provided a very helpful answer: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/guix-usage#comment-119341
Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel
...silly question. I installed guix and installed a package. however, I can't figure out how to execute the package i installed... Kind of embarassing... :/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel
Great post. So far Guix seems like exactly what I wanted. I love Trisquel and use it as my main desktop but I hate the the packages are so outdated. Using Guix helps me get around that without needing to deal with PPAs, rolling releases and/or switching to Parabola/Arch which I was dreading to have to do since many commands/ways of doing things are different on Arch.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Minifree's Libreboot X200 laptop comes with Trisquel pre-installed. Now with other keyboard layouts available, and free stickers
Good news. MiniFree and Leah E Pluribus Unum. Keep up the good work.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Minifree's Libreboot X200 laptop comes with Trisquel pre-installed. Now with other keyboard layouts available, and free stickers
libreleah = money
Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm happy that Trisquel 8 is finally being developed, but I won't have time to help. I wish everyone good luck :D
I've been using Trisquel 8 for weeks. It's basically ready with just a few things to wrap up. However, if you are unwilling to use it until the official release and want to use a similarly accessible distro in the meantime, Ubuntu would be a better temporary compromise than Mint. Ubuntu quarantines much of its proprietary software in its "multiverse" and "restricted" repositories. It should not have these repositories at all, and disabling them still does not make it a fully freedom-respecting distro, but it is better than Mint which makes no effort to clarify whether software is proprietary. Also, you would be able to migrate from Ubuntu 16.04 to Trisquel 8 once it's released without reinstalling.
Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm happy that Trisquel 8 is finally being developed, but I won't have time to help. I wish everyone good luck :D
I'm curious why you use "Mint"? I've been thinking around what GNU/Linux distribution should use instead of GNU/Linux-libre because of firmware problem and I was found that "Fedora" is the best choice. According to FSF: https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html , Fedora "Unfortunately, the decision to allow that firmware in the policy keeps Fedora from meeting the free system distribution guidelines.". Except these firmwares, Fedora is Free software distribution. Debian was not so good enough for me because of Emacs's documents excluded in the main repository. And if you included non-free repository for sake of using non-free firmware, you will face an awkward situation that non-free software is around you with ready to install. Anyway, if you want to use Debian in minimal non-free firmware as need only, you might be do it manually which was described in the Debian documentation/wiki and you can install Emacs form source in order to get Emacs documentation. For me, I've use non-free Laptop that was HPG32 with Fedora and Fully free Lenovo Laptop X200 with Libreboot and Trisquel 8 alpha and happy with both.
[Trisquel-users] Re : I'm happy that Trisquel 8 is finally being developed, but I won't have time to help. I wish everyone good luck :D
If you must use your own computer for college/work, you should complain, explaining the free software philosophy, that using proprietary software is against your values, and suggesting to achieve a similar work using free software. At college, that will be easier: professors usually have a hard time saying no to a student who proposes to work harder.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Minifree's Libreboot X200 laptop comes with Trisquel pre-installed. Now with other keyboard layouts available, and free stickers
It looks a nice product. Although when reading the thread I have the impression of having a déjà vu :D I wish your future customers are satisfied with these news from Minifree. Good luck : )
[Trisquel-users] Minifree's Libreboot X200 laptop comes with Trisquel pre-installed. Now with other keyboard layouts available, and free stickers
Hi everyone :) Minifree has recently (re-)launched its Libreboot X200 product. This is a completely libre laptop, which comes with 100% free software by default, from the BIOS to the operating system. It comes with the free Libreboot[1] boot firmware and Trisquel GNU+Linux by default. This product is fully endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. Richard Stallman himself also uses Libreboot. If you're looking for a laptop that respects your freedom, privacy and security, then this is for you. We are launching this at a reduced price, compared to when it was previously sold: https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x200/ More information including specifications available on the Minifree website. New additions recently: - Other keyboard layouts: previously, this was available on request, but not guaranteed. We now guarantee it, for a small fee (25 EUR). We also provide the option for Dvorak layout. - "Libreboot Inside" palmrest stickers now included by default, at no cost. [1] https://libreboot.org/ PS: There are also other Libreboot X200 suppliers. See https://libreboot.org/suppliers.html We are listed on that page, as are others. Minifree is also endorsed by the Free Software Foundation's "Respects Your Freedom" certification
Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm happy that Trisquel 8 is finally being developed, but I won't have time to help. I wish everyone good luck :D
I can't speak for anyone besides myself, but I'd like to share my thoughts. Since internalizing Stallman's essays, I've experienced a lot of conflicting feelings about what course one should take. Please, don't let this project contribute to your anxiety! I think on some level, we're all here because we want to see the world be a better place. I think that if you don't have your health and well-being, you can't help anyone else! I understand how it feels to experience pressure regarding one's choices in software. A project like this is both technical and philosophical in nature; on the philosophical side, we spend a lot of time discussing and thinking about what it is to use software ethically. I think most people here have concluded that it is unethical to propagate the unjustified developer-user hierarchy, and so it's perfectly natural to feel some form of guilt or anxiety about doing computing that doesn't reflect that conclusion. But, I want to say, don't let it consume you! I want to be just like Stallman, living a principled, uncompromising life doing what I think is right. But, like you, I have things going on in my life that prevent that from happening. I'm a poor college student who is forced to use nonfree software by my work and college. I have a windows laptop that I use for these occasions. I also carry a cellphone, despite my general agreement with Stallman's criticisms of them (I am not an important enough person for people to agree to make any special accommodations for). I'm a big believer in doing the best that one can with the hand they've been dealt. And, without getting too political, I believe that there are problems existing in society that cannot be solved by consumers making different choices. You are not a bad person for not setting yourself on fire to keep the world warm. Anyways, enough rambling (I had some good tea!). I'm curious about what's prompted you to switch to mint. Are you concerned that this is a dead distro, or do you have any software packages that you need updating for? Perhaps you have new hardware that isn't compatible with the Belenos kernel? If you need some particular software updated, let me know - I may be able to help you get the version you need working on Trisquel. Take care!
Re: [Trisquel-users] net neutraility is being threatened yet again...
The FCC Is Using Garbage Lobbyist Data To Defend Its Assault On Net Neutrality from the garbage-in,-garbage-out dept By now it should be clear to most Techdirt readers that new FCC Boss Ajit Pai envisions a future where there's little to no oversight of giant telecom duo/monopolies like Comcast. Pai has wasted no time making that dream a reality since taking office, having killed plans for more cable box competition, undermined FCC attempts to stop prison phone monopolies from ripping off inmate families, and paved the way for killing net neutrality. He's made no mystery of his overarching goal: replacing functional FCC oversight of broadband providers with the policy equivalent of wet tissue paper. If you spend twenty seconds with Pai's voting record (like that time he voted down holding AT accountable for actively helping crammers rip off its own customers by making scams harder to detect on customer bills), you'll discover his positions have one consistent beneficiary (tip: it's not you). You'll also note his arguments are often comically disconnected from the actual facts. Like that time the FCC boss declared that Netflix was the real enemy of net neutrality -- simply because it operates a content delivery network. Or the time he insisted meaningful consumer protections would inspire Iran and North Korea to censor the internet. Or the countless times he's insisted net neutrality killed network investment -- despite that claim not being supported by objective data, SEC filings, quarterly earnings or ISP executive statements. And while it's one thing to actively disagree on policy, Pai has consistently engaged in countless, easily-debunked falsehoods to justify his positions. Which is ironic, since pretty much every speech Pai makes involves him promising to bring more "sound economic analysis" to FCC policy making. Take this recent speech (pdf) given to the American Enterprise Institute (which takes substantive funding from the large ISPs that benefit directly from Pai's policies): "I have long been concerned that economists haven’t been systematically incorporated into the FCC’s policy work. Instead, their expertise is typically applied in an ad hoc fashion, and often late in the process. We are taking a major step to correct that. A month ago, I kick-started a process to establish an Office of Economics and Data. This Office will combine economists and other data professionals from around the Commission. I envision it providing economic analysis for rulemakings, transactions, and auctions; managing the Commission’s data resources; and conducting longer-term research on ways to improve the Commission’s policies. My goal is to have the new office up and running by the end of the year. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge the prior work done by Jeff Eisenach and others at AEI in providing the intellectual foundation for this office. Again though, if you track Pai's votes and real-world actions, you'll consistently find a comic disconnect from this breathless, self-professed dedication to sound data and economic policy. In fact the very same day Pai was giving that speech, his Chief of Staff Matthew Berry took to Twitter to proclaim that new data suggests that Title II (the legal underpinnings of net neutrality) has reduced telecom sector investment by $5.6 billion: BREAKING: @FSFthinktank releases new estimate that Title II has decreased broadband investment by $5.6 billion. https://t.co/rsdrwcx2LM — Matthew Berry (@matthewberryfcc) May 5, 2017 The source of that data is the Free State Foundation (FSF), a think tank that takes consistent funding from large broadband providers like AT and Comcast (and tries to obfuscate that fact). This isn't objective science. It's farmed data pushed by a lobbying arm of the telecom industry. And when you head over to the methodology of that report you'll note a fairly selective window chosen to support the group's position: "USTelecom publishes data on broadband capital expenditures (capex) for each year dating back to 1996. Using this historical data, I collected figures on the previous twelve years before the Open Internet Order was adopted in February 2015. I picked 2003 as the first year because the market had just collapsed from the dot-com bubble and total broadband capex was at its lowest point since 1996. I established a trend line from 2003 to 2016, which created a linear pattern over the first 12 years before the Open Internet Order and estimated what we could have expected broadband capex to be in 2015 and 2016 without Title II public utility regulation. One, the office of a former Verizon lawyer citing an ISP-funded think tank using data from an ISP-funded lobbying organization -- should be nobody's definition of "sound economic analysis." Two, Twitter users were quick to point out that the FSF
Re: [Trisquel-users] net neutraility is being threatened yet again...
The Worst Lies From Yesterday's Anti-Net Neutrality Speech Libby Watson 4/27/17 5:48pmFiled to: Beltway Bullshit https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-lies-from-yesterdays-anti-net-neutrality-spee-1794717829 Yesterday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his plan to repeal the 2015 Open Internet Order, which prevented internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking or prioritizing certain traffic, and reclassified providers as “common carriers.” Up to that moment, Pai had kept reasonably quiet about how he planned to dismantle net neutrality, saying only that he favored an open internet but opposed the reclassification of ISPs as common carriers. Pai’s announcement took the form of a poorly-reasoned attack on net neutrality, which was later posted to the FCC’s website. He warned that net neutrality’s proponents actually had a “longstanding goal of forcing the Internet under the federal government’s control,” attacked the internet advocacy group Free Press, and even name-checked the Drudge report. It was a full-throated defense of his indefensible position on net neutrality—a position that only the strongest free-market libertarians and people whose paychecks come from Comcast or Verizon could support. Of all the points contained in Pai’s rant, four particularly egregious lies stood out to us. 1. Net neutrality is worse for online privacy Pai argued that reclassifying ISPs as common carriers and therefore returning them to FTC jurisdiction would be the “best path toward protecting Americans’ online privacy,” because “the nation’s most expert and experienced privacy regulator” would be regulating it again. As we’ve pointed out repeatedly, the whole reason that ISPs and Republicans pushed the idea of restoring online privacy oversight to the FTC instead of the FCC is that they know the FTC’s regime is weaker, and that agency can only go after violations after they’ve already happened. The FCC, on the other hand, has the power to issue rules preventing violations before they happen. The FCC privacy rules that Congress just obliterated were undoubtedly stronger than the FTC status quo, because they required opt-in consent before ISPs could sell your browsing history. 2. Net neutrality has harmed broadband investment In yesterday’s speech, Pai repeatedly claimed that net neutrality has reduced investment in broadband infrastructure, citing a study by the Free State Foundation that claimed the 2015 net neutrality order has cost $5 billion in broadband investment. The Free State Foundation is a conservative think tank with ties to ALEC, the shady group that pushes conservative policies and even writes model legislation in the states. More to the point, the Free State Foundation has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the two biggest telecom lobbying groups: the Internet and Television Association, formerly the National Cable and Television Association (NCTA), and the Wireless Association, formerly the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA). Between 2010 and 2014, the latest year for which funding figures are available, NCTA gave $375,000 and CTIA gave $280,000, according to tax documents accessed through the Center for Public Integrity’s Nonprofit Network tool. Both are among the strongest opponents of net neutrality; NCTA represents ISPs like Comcast and AT, who stand to gain the most from repealing the rules. Organizations that aren’t financially supported by telecoms see the investment numbers a little differently. An analysis by Free Press provided to attendees to Pai’s speech yesterday shows that ISPs’ capital expenditure increased more after net neutrality was passed than in the two years before it. Comcast, too, has invested 26 percent more since 2015 than it did between 2013 and 2014. The same arguments about how net neutrality would hurt investment were made in 2015, and they were wrong then, too. Business continues to be extremely good for ISPs; so good, in fact, that AT had $2 million in cash lying around to drop on Trump’s inauguration. Indeed, ISPs themselves happily boast of investments when they’re not whining to regulators. The CEO of Charter Communications told attendees at the UBS Global Media and Communications conference in December 2016: “Title II, it didn’t really hurt us; it hasn’t hurt us,” according to a Reuters transcript of the event. Comcast, which today announced an increase in internet subscribers, boasted of its “consistent investment and innovation” and how it planned to “double the capacity of our network every 18 to 24 months” in an earnings call in January; Comcast executive Michael J. Cavanagh said the company would“increase our investment in network capacity” during 2017. That doesn’t sound like it’s suffering under the weight of a regulatory burden 3. Net neutrality accentuates digital redlining This is related to Pai’s claim
Re: [Trisquel-users] net neutraility is being threatened yet again...
Calmstorm Bad news about net neutrality. Ajit Pai just granted the wishes of his friends at AT, Comcast and Verizon: The FCC voted along party lines 3–2 to gut the Net Neutrality protections. The cable and phone companies can now slow down their competitors’ content or block political opinions they disagree with. They can charge extra fees to the few content companies that can afford to pay for preferential treatment — relegating everyone else to a slower tier of service. We cannot and will not let Pai have the last word on this: Free Press is suing the FCC and demanding that Congress overturn the vote. There’s a lot more to say and do on this, but here are three things we’re encouraging people to do right now: Urge Congress to overturn the FCC’s vote. Support our lawsuit against the FCC and our organizing efforts by donating. Tune in to our Facebook Live conversation at 4 p.m. EST today. RSVP here. Pai’s decision will hurt everyone. But let’s be clear about who will suffer the most: The loss of Net Neutrality will have a disproportionately severe impact on people of color who rely on an open internet to challenge systemic racism, seek out educational and economic opportunities, combat dehumanizing narratives and fight for justice. We won’t stand for it and we know you won’t either. More soon, Candace, Dutch, Lucia and the rest of the Free Press Action Fund team freepress.net P.S. The FCC just destroyed Net Neutrality. To fight back, urge Congress to reverse the vote, support our work and sign up for our Facebook Live conversation today at 4 p.m. EST. The Free Press Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization fighting for your rights to connect and communicate. The Free Press Action Fund does not support or oppose any candidate for public office. Learn more at freepress.net.
