Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

2016-09-09 Thread commodore256
Too bad their website is down and the Github clone hasn't been updated in 2 years :( I guess nobody wants to make a GPU IPCore because the patent-free designs are too old to make into an ASIC that enough people would actually want. :/ I guess a free GPU IPCore is unfeasible at this point,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

2016-09-09 Thread dguthrie
well it was always horrible so i'd choose a different one. like the one in the link i just sent you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I saw some posts about an operating system called qubes os on this website,

2016-09-09 Thread dguthrie
Indeed, Qubes OS is more secure by design, and very usable (I have used it). However, it includes the firmware blobs. Qubes is designed to limit DMA issues that may arise, especially from wireless cards and USB, and they make the argument that you still have to trust the libre firmware. To be

Re: [Trisquel-users] The GIMP CMYK support

2016-09-09 Thread commodore256
I hear they're not even messing with CMYK or NDE until they port to GTK3 and they're not going to port to GTK3 until they finish the GEGL Port.

[Trisquel-users] I saw some posts about an operating system called qubes os on this website,

2016-09-09 Thread calmstorm
one of them had a crazy troll. the rest had some information, but here's what I am going to ask, would it be a good idea in the future to make a libre version of qubesos? or does the licensing make it impossible? just curious. I mean if it is extremely secure with the blobs, imagine how much

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and yahoo.net

2016-09-09 Thread calmstorm
Is it slow and clunky? the only thing I don't like is when you type in search bar for searx it takes two tries for it to go through sometimes. Other than that though it seems like a good search engine. Although, maybe as time passes it will get better. 10.0 version of searx is out. maybe

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

2016-09-09 Thread commodore256
I mean old PowerVR, wouldn't the patents be expired? Also, GPL-GPU uses 90's tech, so you might as well use references from 90's Voodoo and PowerVR.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

2016-09-09 Thread dguthrie
PowerVR :-( That's horrible. It's not possible to build off PowerVR as it is proprietary. Instead it should build off this: https://hackaday.com/2014/08/19/open-source-gpu-released/.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

2016-09-09 Thread commodore256
Yeah, BSD is good, even Stallman doesn't see a problem with it because the copyleft people get to play with it. I think there will be more free IPCores that can add missing functionality. Like there could be a implementation of a fusion of PowerVR and Voodoo design for the GPU with more

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo and yahoo.net

2016-09-09 Thread dguthrie
i find it slow and clunky and that it is hard to get good results. you can set duckduckgo but the results are still bad.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove "su"/"sudo"/"root" timeout?

2016-09-09 Thread energy . d
My suggestion with the option 'timestamp_timeout' is only for sudo timestamp... ...just to clarify my last post.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove "su"/"sudo"/"root" timeout?

2016-09-09 Thread energy . d
If i get what you want you should run the command... man 5 sudoers ...there you should read the explanation for following sudoers option: timestamp_timeout But for sure feel free to ask here again if that leaves questions for your problem!! ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

2016-09-09 Thread dguthrie
I don't see it as necessarily a problem to use BSD licensing. For instance the hardware might need to combine certain proprietary designs, which might be beneficial considering the dire lack of free hardware available, and the design might need to combine a proprietary connector for

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

2016-09-09 Thread commodore256
It's BSD licensed. Sure that will make it open to ASIC designers to fork janky shit into it, but I can see crowd funding projects on something like Croudsupply to make a Raspberry Pi style computer and I'd like to see a UMPC-like device running it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : The GIMP CMYK support

2016-09-09 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Replying to the last message since I don't have the first/original message that started this discussion. I have experimenting with how GIMP works with color profiles, and it seems that it can open images made with different color profiles, using the corresponding color profiles (as long as you do

[Trisquel-users] Re : The GIMP CMYK support

2016-09-09 Thread bernardlprf
I know m8 ;) Also update on about this post: I have tried to contact the guy who created the cmyk proposition but he didn't respond and I have also tired to contact the admins but not responses either so I think the website is dead. To bad the website had a good idea. I wonder what

[Trisquel-users] Re : How to remove "su"/"sudo"/"root" timeout?

2016-09-09 Thread lcerf
That is what I had understood: never use 'su', 'sudo -i' or 'sudo -s' then. According to http://www.howtogeek.com/116757/8-ways-to-tweak-and-configure-sudo-on-ubuntu/ trinux is right: setting, with 'sudo visudo', "passwd_timeout" to 0 makes 'sudo' always ask for a password.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

2016-09-09 Thread dguthrie
I think it is a good idea, providing that the designs are free and all firmware is free. This is because we need to be able to stop hardware backdoors etc. I think it would be great to have something that is powerful and competitive with Intel so that we aren't dependent on them.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to remove "su"/"sudo"/"root" timeout?

2016-09-09 Thread dguthrie
SU is switch user. You can do "su yourself" and switch to a new login of "yourself". This is not something that we can make the password time out of immediately.

[Trisquel-users] Thoughts on J-core?

2016-09-09 Thread commodore256
For those unfamiliar, the J-Core is a free implementation of the SuperH CPU of which was used in the Sega Saturn, Dreamcast and some old RISC servers and their mindset is instead of paying for licensing from ARM to make a CPU, they just collectively dump resources into an architecture who's