Re: [Trisquel-users] About Raling Linux Drivers and Trisquel 5.5

2013-02-06 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:57:13 -0800 (PST), Jason Self ja...@bluehome.net wrote: That does seem odd indeed. Which binary blobs do the copyright holders state are under the GPL? Check out the kernel source code - It's all there. Which bit of the kernel source code? There's a lot there :-) Do

Re: [Trisquel-users] About Raling Linux Drivers and Trisquel 5.5

2013-02-06 Thread mikko . viinamaki
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=blob;f=WHENCE;h=96142c28d3e1e6d8b9f422bef27970f58661c9e2;hb=HEAD See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Loadable_kernel_modules_and_firmware

Re: [Trisquel-users] About Raling Linux Drivers and Trisquel 5.5

2013-02-06 Thread Bob Ham
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 10:46:08 +0100 (CET), mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi wrote: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=blob;f=WHENCE;h=96142c28d3e1e6d8b9f422bef27970f58661c9e2;hb=HEAD This is completely insane; it makes no sense whatsoever. As I understand

[Trisquel-users] help cant install trisquel 5.5

2013-02-06 Thread wlados22
Hi all i am a gnu/linux enthusiast from Slovakia and i like to install trisquel 5.5 next to my gnu/linux debian. I downloaded 64bit live-cde trisquel 5.5 brigantia with gnome desktop. I started the ubi-installer. When i choose language, click next, then it opens up dialog with error.

[Trisquel-users] syslinux.cfg

2013-02-06 Thread Aniyan Rajan
Hello, I have a squashfs based distro in my usb stick. It is Trisquel-mini-slaine. In the root folder of the usb stick, there is a syslinux.cfg. The contents are below. It looks like it is for showing a grub like menu. But there is no menu displayed while booting. Could you please help me to

Re: [Trisquel-users] [off-topic] donation needed to improve accessibility

2013-02-06 Thread tegskywalker
Well if he does pull this off and is a success over time, then hopefully the hard work improving accessibility for Sonar gets pushed upstream to the Debians and the Fedoras and Archs. If it does, then good for him and his hard work wasn't in vain.

[Trisquel-users] I will be using Trisquel 6 with Cinnamon

2013-02-06 Thread tegskywalker
Trisquel 6 is being released very soon (thank god) and I am curious if any of you have tried Cinnamon. I'm thinking with Trisquel 6 that I may make the switch over and the last few days I have been running it on an Ubuntu 12.04 box with success. I really like that it has low memory

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hey, I need some help :)

2013-02-06 Thread mono
Hallo, i didn't use that yet, but System Settings - Startup Applications might be what you are looking for

Re: [Trisquel-users] I will be using Trisquel 6 with Cinnamon

2013-02-06 Thread onpon4
I like GNOME Shell, personally. Xfce if 3D isn't available. Maybe that fork of GNOME Fallback mentioned a while back (Consort) will turn into my 2D choice when it's available.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hey, I need some help :)

2013-02-06 Thread rakubx
Found this : Preferences-Desktop session settings label 'Automatically started apps', but I did not find an option to add a new app, it's more for daemons. I added all my favorite programs to the task bar, cause autostarting ALL programs just eat your memory and I don't need all of them at

Re: [Trisquel-users] help cant install trisquel 5.5

2013-02-06 Thread wlados22
i solved the problem. i created free new partition then the ubi-partman was fully functional. Thanks to support on irc.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem installing printer

2013-02-06 Thread john . wilkins21
Have just had a very bad visit to the dentist but once I've recovered will give it a go -thanks

Re: [Trisquel-users] help cant install trisquel 5.5

2013-02-06 Thread mattij . lammi
Glad to see you got it working. Welcome to our community!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem installing printer

2013-02-06 Thread chris
That is the complicated way to do it. You should be able to use the same instructions for Ubuntu and it'll do all the work for you after asking a few questions.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hey, I need some help :)

2013-02-06 Thread pamelatorent
Thank you http://lxde.org/irc and http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXSession was very helpful. I was to lazy to edit everything manualy so I add Xfce desktop :) It is as fast as LXDE but have autostart option and can use Gnome and KDE aps. Thank you again

Re: [Trisquel-users] [off-topic] donation needed to improve accessibility

2013-02-06 Thread chris
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/262604?c=activity He goes on to explain the value of free software for anybody who is questioning his motivation.

[Trisquel-users] [semi-off-topic] Intro book to GNU/Linux Free Software for non-technical users

2013-02-06 Thread chris
[off-topic] Intro book to GNU/Linux Free Software for non-technical users I thought I would post the first chapter to a book I'm going to try and put together. With the number of GNU/Linux users growing there has never been a better time to release a book geared toward GNU/Linux with a free

Re: [Trisquel-users] [semi-off-topic] Intro book to GNU/Linux Free Software for non-technical users

2013-02-06 Thread chris
Here are the topics I've thought up so far: http://pastebin.com/BYBbDy78

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hey, I need some help :)

2013-02-06 Thread rakubx
By the way LXDE faster and need less memory.

Re: [Trisquel-users] [semi-off-topic] Intro book to GNU/Linux Free Software for non-technical users

2013-02-06 Thread christian
I have a comment, and I'm prepared for it to not go over well: I think you should make a serious effort to avoid polarizing language, especially early on in the book. To be clear, I'm not at all looking to argue the truth in calling Microsoft the arch enemy of free software. I'm saying