Re: [Trisquel-users] Netinstall Libreboot T60

2018-12-09 Thread igorfree
I had difficulties booting the netinstall iso on my librebooted X200. This is how it worked for me: 1. Put the netinstall iso on a USB drive instead of burning a CD 2. In the built-in grub choose the option that says "external" instead of "USB" When choosing the option that says "USB" I

[Trisquel-users] Re : Problems after update

2018-12-09 Thread lcerf
The idea is: if there is something wrong in a configuration file in ~/.config, then renaming that hidden folder and restarting the session (no need to reboot the system) makes you go back to the default configuration where the problem does not occurring. You can then manually reconfigure

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Popcorn Time Legal?

2018-12-09 Thread calmstorm
Meh, who cares if popcorn time is legal or not? Copyright is abused to death anyhow and quite frankly is being taken to the umph extreme. Calling it piracy is just dumb. Since when has sharing a copy of any software caused a ship to sink? Since when does it cause lots of people to die? Or

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU/Linux installation on libreboot machines

2018-12-09 Thread calmstorm
Hmm... I never have had that problem with suspend even with trisquel 7. Trisquel 8 I imagine could be different, but more than likely its something of a bug. Hibernate however works very badly on trisquel 7, so I assume the same can be said for trisquel 8.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems after update

2018-12-09 Thread Mason Hock
> When I corrected that everything booted as it was in guest. Do you mean that panel/shutdown/etc is working like it was in guest? If so, what problems are you still having? If Orca is still enabled, here's how to disable it. https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/disabling-orca-screen-reader

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems after update

2018-12-09 Thread curati
Correction - we are getting somewhere. I noticed that the default was booting as trisquel (instead of mate on the screen where you select your username) When I corrected that everything booted as it was in guest. I'll continue playing - hopefully will get it sorted

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems after update

2018-12-09 Thread curati
I tried something else I booted up a guest login and then copied all the information in the .config file. I then pasted that into the ~/.config file in my area. But it still doesn't boot properly, even though it did when running in guest. There must be something else which is also

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems after update

2018-12-09 Thread curati
Maybe I didn't do it correctly I tried using this command mv ~/.config ~/config.bak I then tried rebooting the machine It took a long time to boot, but I experienced similar problems. Although I'd now lost my default background so I knew something had happened. I then navigated to the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Should I ignore learning Java and other programming languages that use the Java virtual machine (JVM)?

2018-12-09 Thread les . reading
Hi, If you want to be a back-end developer learning how to use SQL properly will be worth doing. Both MariaDB & PostgreSQL are free projects and both have their own variations of SQL and methods to use objects compiled from other languages. The main thing is that SQL doesn't really go in