Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble Performing a Restore of a Backup to New Computer

2016-07-21 Thread john_harvey
I dug about a bit and found this solution to my problem: " Troubleshooting Permission Denied Errors Some versions of Déjà Dup will not correctly restore files stored in a folder that you did not have write access to when you backed them up. After the restore completes, you will get an

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread adfeno
One thing that was somehow surprising was seeing the wide one-liner in the donation page that represents its history. But that's OK since one can use less to view it instead of gedit. I thought the site used Semantic MediaWiki. But I guess that keeping the current approach is also a good

Re: [Trisquel-users] The future of Libre Computing: Crowd Funding Campaign Starts Now

2016-07-21 Thread luke . leighton
thanks :) still have to get another 87 computer cards before we reach the first critical threshold (MOQ 250 computer cards)...

Re: [Trisquel-users] T450 Dual-Boot

2016-07-21 Thread jasonpr16
Hey so I got it to boat. The BIOS settings that was off: Secure boot off and Legacy Only

Re: [Trisquel-users] Github uses non-free software network service?

2016-07-21 Thread jadedml
You aren't running GitHub's software on your computer-- it doesn't affect your freedom. What Onpon said, basically. Non-free services can be bad, but aren't bad inherently.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Github uses non-free software network service?

2016-07-21 Thread onpon4
It makes no sense to describe a service as non-libre. GitHub's code being libre or not affects the owners of GitHub, not GitHub's users.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Github uses non-free software network service?

2016-07-21 Thread joaopedroabreudesouza
"the source code to GitHub isn't released publicly, and thus it is a non-free service." " This isn't necessarily bad, of course." what??? why how can this not bad??

Re: [Trisquel-users] Github uses non-free software network service?

2016-07-21 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Perhaps the F-Droid project is referring to the non-free JavaScript? See: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Github uses non-free software network service?

2016-07-21 Thread megver83
yes, maybe. Not for the ones who fight for a free web.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Github uses non-free software network service?

2016-07-21 Thread jadedml
GitHub is an online service-- the source code to GitHub isn't released publicly, and thus it is a non-free service. This isn't necessarily bad, of course.

[Trisquel-users] Github uses non-free software network service?

2016-07-21 Thread megver83
I found like in 3 Github clients for android in F-Droid saying that Github runs propietary software. Is that truth? Did you know that? Should we use Gerrit instead? https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=github=com.github.mobile=2

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread adfeno
I just found the possible cause of the bug. It seems that the donations page has the thousands units separated from the hundreds by a comma (","). It's OK, but if one tries to use this with awk, it doesn't like it and simply discards it. It was quite a puzzle actually, but it came to my

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble Performing a Restore of a Backup to New Computer

2016-07-21 Thread john_harvey
Legimet, rsync looks a bit above me, for now. But thank you. I'm wondering if I will need to un-pack a backup file and copy the files I want out of it. Deja-dup users: is that possible? Thank you. Zem

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble Performing a Restore of a Backup to New Computer

2016-07-21 Thread john_harvey
Well, restore from terminal did not work. "Sudo deja-dup" brought up the Backup procedure, but when done I again got a list of the files that "failed to load". Which was all of them. I then tried "Restore to specific folder". I selected the "Home" folder. It seemed to be working and

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread legimet . calc
That copyright file that everybody points to is automatically generated. Of course it couldn't find everything! But now if you now look at the copyright file, located at http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/c/chromium-browser/chromium-browser_51.0.2704.79-1_copyright and

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread mcz
I tried the update through the configuration panel (Full Trisquel install, only added Gnome Shell). While I didn't have an automatic prompt, it worked that way for me (and on the cli). Outdated packages is "normal", it's part of the bargain. As long as the vital bugs are fixed, it's ok for

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread legimet . calc
https://hub.docker.com/r/kpengboy/trisquel/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
What is the bug exactly? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Trisquel-users] Re : I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread lcerf
Well, that is possible. Would you find the possible bug in the following command line that generates the Wiki table on https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/financial-information ? $ printf '{| class="wikitable"\n! Currency\n! 0 to 1 year ago\n! 1 to 2 years ago\n! 2 to 3 years ago\n! 3 to 4 years

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread ewlabonte
So is Ubuntu 14.04.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to remove programs

2016-07-21 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Another thing you can easily and absolutely risk free do is clean the apt cache.sudo apt-get clean Of course, if you first make backups, then resizing the partitions is risk free as well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to remove programs

2016-07-21 Thread sv . tony
I see. I've no idea how I got this very small home partition. I'll have to remove the old kernel images next time I'm running out of space, if I can't find any other solution. Thanks for your help.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to remove programs

2016-07-21 Thread onpon4
Expanding it would be risky, so if I were you I would wait until your next upgrade. Then what I would do is abandon the approach of having a separate /home partition and just make it all one partition (this is what I do now). That amount of space should be fine as long as you periodically

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to remove programs

2016-07-21 Thread sv . tony
Thank you. That freed more than 5 GiB, according to the program. It should last for a while. Still, the partition's total size is only 13.97 GiB, so I'd like to find a way to expand it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to remove programs

2016-07-21 Thread greatgnu
> it gives me the following message: "device is busy. Pardon my comment but I don't know your level of expertise.. You are not trying to do that within your normal Trisquel session, right? To do that you will need to use a live DVD / USB

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to remove programs

2016-07-21 Thread b . mckay
This command will relieve you of all old kernel versions, giving you more space: sudo echo $(dpkg --list | grep linux-image | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -V | sed -n '/'`uname -r`'/q;p') $(dpkg --list | grep linux-headers | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -V | sed -n '/'"$(uname -r | sed

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to remove programs

2016-07-21 Thread sv . tony
I decided to expand the partition for "/" but I've encountered an issue. I'm using GParted and it won't let me unmount it or modify it. I tried unmounting with the terminal using sudo umount /dev/sda1 but it gives me the following message: "device is busy.(In some cases useful info about

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread Ignacio Agulló
lc...@dcc.ufmg.br, Xov 21 Xul 2016 12:33:05 CEST: If you excluded the donations marked as "2 years ago" (which were actually made between two and three years ago), then our sums should match. Which means your sum should match mine, of course. :-P

[Trisquel-users] Re : I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread lcerf
If you excluded the donations marked as "2 years ago" (which were actually made between two and three years ago), then our sums should match.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Can not find alternative to this program for GNU

2016-07-21 Thread lcerf
The headnote of the article you point out answers your question: Since this article was first published, Sun (now part of Oracle) has relicensed most of its Java platform reference implementation under the GNU General Public License, and there is now a free development environment for Java.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The future of Libre Computing: Crowd Funding Campaign Starts Now

2016-07-21 Thread eemeli . blasten
Congratulations on reaching 40k!!!

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-07-21 Thread vitacell
Trisquel is dying, some bugs still not fixed, autoupdater crashes, some packages are outdated. This is one of the best free software distro, and hope it survives. This is a lot of work for very few persons.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The future of Libre Computing: Crowd Funding Campaign Starts Now

2016-07-21 Thread luke . leighton
the goal is actually to reach certain MOQs (250 for Computer Cards). $150k was actually based on equal ratios of cards, desktops and laptop housings. this was, in retrospect, rather naive :) add up the numbers on the computer cards, divide by 250, use that as a ratio to multiply up the

Re: [Trisquel-users] The future of Libre Computing: Crowd Funding Campaign Starts Now

2016-07-21 Thread luke . leighton
managed to get in touch with him, thank you!

Re: [Trisquel-users] The future of Libre Computing: Crowd Funding Campaign Starts Now

2016-07-21 Thread adel
It's reassuring that you have not had any big problems with Parabola. I will back up regularly so that if something goes wrong, I can use a different computer until I figure out how to get Parabola working properly. Thanks for your reply Eemeli.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The future of Libre Computing: Crowd Funding Campaign Starts Now

2016-07-21 Thread adel
Haha, it's cool that you linked here

Re: [Trisquel-users] The future of Libre Computing: Crowd Funding Campaign Starts Now

2016-07-21 Thread adel
Thanks budy