Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about fully free computers

2017-12-03 Thread fbits
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

Re: [Trisquel-users] System76. A step in the right direction.

2017-12-03 Thread J.B. Nicholson
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

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 8

2017-12-03 Thread fbits
>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

Re: [Trisquel-users] System76. A step in the right direction.

2017-12-03 Thread trisqit
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

2017-12-03 Thread Caleb Herbert
> * 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

Re: [Trisquel-users] how to upgrade to belenos from 6.0

2017-12-03 Thread Caleb Herbert
> 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

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel, Debian and Free Software

2017-12-03 Thread Caleb Herbert
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

2017-12-03 Thread Caleb Herbert
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

2017-12-03 Thread amenex
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

Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel 8

2017-12-03 Thread intheforest
https://librenet.gr/posts/516f15b0ba4b0135daba2a7a465d :>love it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trisquel 8

2017-12-03 Thread greatgnu
Yes. That should just work good. Backup first maybe.