http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Autostart
ISTR the system and user based LXSession autostart:s have
Trisquel-mini instead of the Lubuntu in the example path there.
Sorry! Quite by accident you happened to hit on a form of words often
used by a local minority to open bartering in my youth.
I suggest you go here
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/about
And either get their GPG key or use the contact form to speak to
Thinkpenguin direct. Chris has posted here
From: onp...@riseup.net
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter Love it!
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:18:44 +0100 (CET)
Where are you reading $44? I'm reading $24.97:
https://mediacru.sh/XHRkfMW0wYXG
My tests show $24.97 via Tor, $40.59 from the UK, $44.00 from Sweden.
I
Please open an Issue/Bug - handbrake for Toutatis was taken from a
ppa. From Trusty onwards it's in Universe so the Trisquel
arrangements need changing.
The Compiz in T7 is a binary copy of the Ubuntu package and isn't on
the T7 install DVD, so upstream is in fact where you should report the
bug. Further AIUI adding your name to a bug on Launchpad improves its
chances of getting attention from Ubuntu - so it's worth doing.
Leny
From: legimet.c...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Arduino Free software friendly?
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:05:41 +0100 (CET)
Just go up one directory and you'll see two directories with source.
Oh, thanks - I've just skimmed it and it seems you are right. My
excuse is I was doing
Apologies for this being a bit of a brain dump, but here's what I know
related to your question.
The Arduino software is free software and the hardware designs are
available under a free (of some sort) license. There are several
arduino related packages in the repo. Do an
apt-cache search
Oh, and a search turned up and AVR plugin for Eclipse[1]. If you want
a full fat GUI IDE for your C/C++ Arduino development, including
sketches if arduino.cc is to be believed[2].
[1] http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Plugin_Download
[2]
+1
Ending up using Trisquel GNU/Linux took over 20 years of two steps
forward one step, one step back progress for me and I still falter at
times. A suitable fully free system wasn't available for much of that
time and isn't always now. So e.g. I still have to use Debian for ARM
based Maker
Yes
A fair number of WiFi chips need non-free software which Trisquel
being free software only doesn't provide or support. So this is most
lilely your problem. For now use a wired connection and then either
get a free software compatible USB WiFi from this list:
I use the mailing list interface to the forum. So I wasn't trying to
gainsay you - my inbox refreshes just worked out that way. We've both
made perfectly good first line guesses so Anders is doing right by
trying both.
If you look at the upstream bug which will fix this it's scheduled
for inclusion in 14.04.2 which is due February 2015. The Trisquel
Issue is marked Upstream pending that.
The Trisquel 6-7 upgrade method is documented here
http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-devel/2014-October/000869.html
But I don't know if it'll work with Triskel (KDE). So do those
backups quidam mentions in the instructions.
--
Andrew 'Leny' Lindley
GPG Key fingerprint = AB3F DF36
More testing has shown, that wifi transfer rates vary and sometimes
the wifi disconnects. Placing a router antenna at another place did
not improve the wifi connection.
I think, I will return to the isp router. You wrote, set mode to
40mhz. In wireless network master - device config -
Yet Another +1 for Orca on behalf of my Dad. It was important to his
sense of independence for a goodly amount of time.
I guess my only concerns are 1: Is it likely to have any compatibility
issues? 2: Is it likely to have many bugs or reliability issues? And
3: Will I be able to keep the software up-to-date?
Given it's such a new offering and LibreCMC is a new distro the best
answer I can give you is as far as
Maybe @Chris from Thinkpenguin will answer, in the meantime:
The Reddit criticism is mainly from people who don't believe the
freedom is first priority. As one commenter points out the age of
the chipset is not really a detriment if the speed is adequate to your
Internet connection's speed. The
For those who know I use ADSL and are wondering why bought one. Have
you heard what RMS says about the UK and followed recent news here? I
need a trustworthy router as an endpoint for the VPN to Sweden I
bought. Theresa May and other friends of the Viewers and Listeners
Association can go
Like many males when under stress I favour what psychologists call the
'distraction strategy' and installing GNU/Linux is my favourite
vehicle for that. So e.g. the installs I did in the late beta,
early RC phases of Belenos were more to do with my Father getting to
the stage where he no longer
And now I'm using a real keyboard...
If you want to run the risk that it might be that all you can do is
see how pretty T7 is by booting the LiveCD then:
In the past (around the vintage of your machine) I found iMac optical
drives finickier than many others. So after md5sum or gpg --verify
-ing
It looks like the Tor Button is still packaged with the [optional]
Icecat. But Icecat is not the default browser as was initially
planned.
Trisquel Mini 7.0 uses LightDM not LXDM so it can't have the problem.
Leny
I see no reason to comment on the sort of dyspeptic bile which is
classically associated with lonely single men who have consumed too much
booze. I recommend you ignore it.
As to your performance problem - running which apps? There are many
which will put a strain on a 512Mb computer,
On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 21:16:09 +0100 (CET)
fr...@openmailbox.org wrote:
You mean the apps I use could be the main problem ?
It's right that I sometimes use two or three apps at the same time :
GNOME Mplayer for music and abrowser or midori for browsing for
example. I also often use audacity.
This is the page (and the 'Supported Printers' link there) [1] to goto to
find out if a HP printer is supported by the free software hplip
driver. You might need a version more current than in Trisquel 6.0 if
your printer is more recent. There are a couple of methods to get the
latest version on
From: myself...@opmbx.org
You don't have to verbally offend me just because I'm speaking from
experience and haven't searched online for an answer. Yes, it looks
like the problem is upstream, however, ever since Gnome Fallback
turned default in Trisquel, the Indicator Applet _has_ problems
From: m...@mtjm.eu (Michał Masłowski)
Parabola for the YeeLoong is not bleeding edge, it's unmaintained with
mostly broken and obsolete packages. gNewSense is the only FSF-endorsed
distro with current support for MIPS.
Thanks - I haven't read the appropriate trees yet :-) gNewSense will
be
From: svh...@gmail.com
Have you bought something from the webshop? Where do you get software
for the Lemote Yeeloong 8089B 8.9? Do you know the power consumption?
The link was given by someone else on this list/forum a little while
ago. I ordered one from there about a week past, it was
Trisquel removes all known privacy invasive features of Ubuntu. If
you find or hear of new ones, file a bug.
Prism Break had a lynching mob for Ubuntu for their privacy invasive
features. And by the well known feature of such 'justice' derivatives
were caught by contagion - just like a
Some points:
- What's your problem with riseup and A/I user base mostly being
activists? That's not a good reason not to use them.
- $61.80 is _not_ expensive for an email service which even the
goverment where it is can't legally pry into. Two coffees a month -
come on!
- You can use
Running your own mail server on one of these
http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6254519313.html
(i.e. a Lemote Yeelong at a = singleboard price) is a more freeom
preserving proposition.
Leny
AIUI some organisation paid big money for the reverse engineering and
coding involved in porting coreboot (free bios) to the x60 because
they really wanted it for a big contract. And money along with dev
time skills are the main limiting factors in why we don't have more
supported laptops /
We'll have to agree to differ.
Much the same thing here[1] was an out of date glib. If you're
running 32-bit on 64-bit it _might_ be a missing library.
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170648
From: svh...@gmail.com
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-broadband-router-gnu-linux-tpe-nwifirouter
is a free router. It is a tp link tl wr841nd router that has librecmc
http://www.librecmc.org/librecmc/wiki?name=TL-WR841ND
installed. Thinkpenguin says, the
From: n...@blueyonder.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] US Patent Office Grants 'Photography Against A
White Background' To Amazon
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 06:11:43 +0200 (CEST)
If I remember correctly, abuot 8 or so years ago, someone in America
applied for a patent to cover the act of
From: gra...@openmailbox.org
Sorry, I forgot...
Don't worry about it, neither of the two incidences (one is lower and
isn't yours) actually make me look as boring or as foolish as I
actually am :-).
From: milind...@gmx.com
After doing a little reading, it would appear that Netgear, D-link,
and Cisco have some sort of backdoor. If you're concerned about
router security, I'm guessing DD-WRT or some other open source
firmware is something to consider.
From: arielxgbar...@gmail.com
So cheap £40 routers are entirely unaffected? (obviously appart from
backdoors.
As per the DD-WRT homepage, the bash bug doesn't impact a typical
router even when it's installed (which you can with community WRTs
like LibreCMC) because mostly there's no network
From: n...@blueyonder.co.uk
'Er, the phrase prior art springs to mind.'
USPO allows patents on human genes so why not metabolic reactions?
All it will take is an expensive patent attorney. :-}
Leny
From: gra...@openmailbox.org
'Then won't it be illegal to breathe?'
Only if I won't license the patent to you. Which I'll do for no fee
for most people. The people we don't like is an entirely different
matter. E.g. Bill Gate's license fee will go towards paying for more
free software. How
Thanks, I must admit when I did the research on this one I didn't
read absolutely everything to see if it was new, but I couldn't find any
record of these admin logins being known.
There're other outstanding security problems with this particular
model and many users will have a worse similar
For your convenience a copy of my blog entry from here:
http://andrewlindley.co.uk/2014/09/30/diary-on-needing-a-sledgehammer/
pMy disability apportions me a healthy dose of
randomness. Accordingly this weekend I had a firtle in my ISP provided
broadband home router and the GPL source bundle for
To which I'll add: Debian Wheezy armhf hasn't patched yet either, so
Ruben's not alone. And there was another bash USN overnight, so as
bash is Trisquelized we can assume Ruben would work on that for
Toutatis first as it's the stable release.
To which I'll add: Debian Wheezy armhf hasn't patched yet either, so
I'd better clarify that as 'hasn't patched to the latest level.'
Trisquel uses AppArmor which is an easier to configure alternative to
SELinux. E.g. last time I looked in Toutatis the supplied Samba and
CUPS are running under AppArmor profiles to help protect against
zero day attacks. I suggest you learn this instead (Search the web).
Well said leny2010.
Thanks :)
From: adel.af...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] is email a communication protocol?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:50:54 +0200 (CEST)
Thanks a lot Leny; that really helps.
STMP, POP, and IMAP are free, right? And then there are other
proprietary alternatives (as you said)?
I'm not sure
There are all sorts of things it could be and you should suspect
before Thunderbird. So some first questions:
Have you checked your ISP and email provider's service status pages?
If not do so.
Does it happen everytime you send an email or vary in any way?
E.g. time of day / week
Have you
From your first quotation I wasn't the only one to be misled by your
tone.
Agreed. ISTR from around 2013 Trisquel was then 7 or 8 years old. If
it's that old and the actively contributing community is small then
you've got to figure that the 'build a community' mode of some [often
successful]
I'm asking because the July Phoronix round up of free software driver
GPU performance has it that the 650GTX is the Fermi/Kepler card with
gpuclocking support and I'm lusting after the triple head it would
bring.
So, if you're using this combo is it stable-ish enough?
From: D. A. H. dh...@freedommail.co
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Where are all the security updates?
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:23:20 -0400
I tried an upgrade of Trisquel 7, and apt-get cannot download any
updates from us.archive.trisquel.info (404 not found) on all.
I'm currently
From: adel.af...@gmail.com
Subject: [Trisquel-users] is email a communication protocol?
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 21:17:20 +0200 (CEST)
It's a free communication protocol, right?
IMO email, formerly e-mail or electronic mail, is a communication
method not a protocol per se. Protocols are used
From: blade.vp2...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Where are all the security updates?
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:16:24 +0200 (CEST)
greenman you said what I want to say
This is the truth with regret.
I think we should Move to parabola
As Ruben indicated the delay is a temporary
From: legimet.c...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Where are all the security updates?
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:47:44 +0200 (CEST)
Where is this new infrastructure Ruben talked about? If people are
going to help out, there needs to be some code, but I don't see it.
The bones of it are
From: legimet.c...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Where are all the security updates?
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 23:07:43 +0200 (CEST)
I agree with you, the developer should be reachable and not ignore
everyone. This is a free software project, and people should be able
to contribute. If
Not generic firmware, this particular firmware. 1-2K GBP is sort of
what a geenrous boss might offer in kind to an employee to 'rescue'
that amount on their own time when the source has been lost. Yes, if
you're actually paying commercial rate for it - no way. I guessed,
perhaps wrongly,
I can run the Triskel 7.0 Live CD with the qemu-system-i386 command which is
much the same thing. Sounds like you might not have defined enough virtual
machine memory. 2G is recommended for modern desktops, so that'll definitely
be plenty if you can spare it.
I think you've missed that I've been discussing this in the manner of
a Medical Examiner dictating the details of the corpse she's
dissecting. Like many Brit's I leave editorial to peoples' own
intelligence, they can easily presume from me being an Associate
Member here and FSF I am committed
Try using the word gratis next time. Everybody here will know what
it means and at least in the UK its a loan word that's been in common
usage for ages and ages.
Anonymous means I can't pay.
I don't have a direct answer to your question. However, there is
probably some paid web space in
IMO wrong order Chris
#1 financial resources
All the others are reliant on them. Always has been the case.
That's why I buy from you when you have the sort of thing I need,
take out appropriate Associate Memberships, sponsor fundraisers etc.
Software freedom won't happen on the sector
Maybe crowdfunding would be a good idea?
It is, but we also need things like a huge raft of small free
software businesses using all the different business models in
April's document on them. Amongst my friends in proprietary stuff
students being 'Linux(sic) until graduation' is a joke. In
ISTR the coreboot notes on the X60 saying something about a security
processor. Probably it'll have it's own ROM and thus qualify for the
auxillary processor exception in RYF. Possibly that's the culprit.
I'd expect something like that to have difficulty phoning home over
the freedom
I'm not sure if we're just having a combination glass half full/half
empty and semantics argument. However, I'll explain why I affected
the nonce term 'legally free.'
GNU FSDG rightly excludes both blobs and obfuscated code under free
licenses because they interfere with users' meaningful
I have some mid-priced Logitech 2.1 speakers that had me thinking that
once after an upgrade. Turns out they needed switching off and
leaving unplugged from the PC for five minutes - just something in the
amplifier circuitry playing up and it was coincidence. I suggest you
try the same, might
From: gary02121...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] When will I have support for my
wireless? :( RT3290
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:03:01 +0200 (CEST)
I just got the free driver, thanks! How do I use it now?
Looking at the actual code and firmware myself it's a really bad
licensing
The Debian page[1] for the driver talks of them removing the firmware
from their kernel, so presumably it's non-free.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/rt2860sta
Yes, but they are Cuban cigars. :-)
I'm in broad agreement with you. However, at present Trisquel
development is pretty much Rubén alone. So until those of us who are
making fools of ourselves :-) on trisquel-devel make the grade and we
have more devs then it's Hobsons Choice really ('Like it or lump
it.'). By all means chat
What is the purpose of storing someone's IP?, doesn't it change
every
day or something, unless they have a static IP, which most people do
not?
The NSA will probably be able to cross reference it with
Goggle/BookFarce cookies or something like that. :-(
FWIW in the past I've advised Drupal for medium to large enterprise
customers who have the resources to deal with the version sheer you
get with Drupal's various author plugins on subsequent upgrade.
Other than that I go for TikiWiki CMS which although inappropriately
licensed under LGPL is
The polkit-kde-1 thing was fixed in 6.0.1.
Cool. Then who can close the ticket I opened on that very subject?
https://trisquel.info/fr/issues/10293
I didn't know about that one. I've emailed SirGrant who is able to
close Issues.
Actually, the 6.0.1 package doesn't depend on polkit-kde-1, but the
7.0 one does. So I don't think it's fixed in 6.0.1 yet.
I did a Triskel install from the 6.0.1 netinst and didn't need to put
polkit-kde-1 on. It might be that the actual package dependencies
haven't been fixed. However,
It should still be added as a dependency. I installed from the regular
Trisquel iso and installed the triskel package. (I have both GNOME and
KDE)
Rubén said in the developer meeting where Triskel was dropped that
defect support was now limited to the packages on Trisquel install
media, all
... As in fix R6 bugs in the R7 alpha. we can always tell a user to
move to the latest release.
Leny
I'm sure if someone were to develop a better look and submit the
patches on trisquel-devel they would be welcome. Fiurther the R7
alpha is out, so the code base is there to work from if someone wants
to re-theme Trisquel . If people don't have those skills then
becoming an associate member
The mention of Kubuntu was to indicate that a distro with a lot more
developer resources took ages to fix the same problem with their
kubuntu-desktop metapackage (and haven't backported it either). If
they are 'lack lustre' in fixing this sort of thing in a timely
fashion what is a 'one [part
The polkit-kde-1 thing was fixed in 6.0.1.
I test installed Triskel 7 today. Some rough edges but it seems to
have inherited pretty directly from Kubuntu this time e.g. Amarok is
the default audio player and there's an empty cruft Firefox short cut
in launcher favourites. IMO it's still
Oh good! I'm perfectly happy with that, and IIRC Linux Action Show
described it as 'one of the best Gnome 3s we've seen.' YMMV.
People with jobs don't have time to post on internet forums in most
cases. It's just that simple.
I'd expect you to say that Chris, you work for yourself. The
experience of myself and friends is U.S. megacorp offices are often
much like the UK. There's an awful lot of facetime B/S.
The only non-essential peripheral it has is an external hard-drive.
If it's a USB HDD turn it off when you're not using it. USB HDD
controllers sometimes lock up, e.g. after a couple of days, and some
MOBOs don't like misbehaving USB devices.
When I say non-essential I mean everything USB
First, the source ISO is there so you can study and change the source
for the programs on the install CDs as per Freedom 1. You can't
build the whole of Trisquel from it because that's tens of thousands
of packages which won't all fit on one DVD. You could build a
Trisquel install CD from
The bug you quote is for Natty, most likely it's not that.
Try making yourself a member of group video and logging out then back
in again. That should fix any permissions problem you're having.
Without the key information of what you're thinking of developing and
what the target environments are any advice will be vague and
approximate at best because it is always a case of horses for courses.
That said I can say definitively from the free software point of view
not Java or anything
It is a perfectly witless proposition, has the fool never heard of
the Tragedy of the Commons?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
OK, From What I Know / AFAICT you would create the same
infrastructure layout as Trisquel but use the Trisquel repos as your
upstream not the Ubuntu ones. Your package helpers would tailor
specific packages to give you your distro's branding, desktop etc.
Hack makeiso.git to build your own
However...
The essence of the above is that all you're doing is creating some
custom packages and building an install disk using them, the rest is
stock Trisquel. Ruben has said Trisquel will be getting community a
repos. So in principle you could create your custom packages and put
them
I've just upgraded my machine to test and I've managed to watch the
first three videos I chose. I've got Abrowser 30,
xul-ext-youtube-all-html5 (from the repos) and have visited
youtube.com/hmtl5 and turned HTML5 on. I've not got Gnash, Linterna
Magicka or any of the other Youtube methods
Have you tried the increase screen brightness key as recommended in
the instructions for this eventuality? Fn+Home on mine.
This key might 'wrap,' i.e. go black just after you reach max, in
which case there's a command line fix also in the instructions.
Failing that there's a guide to
If you format your USB HDD ext3 then other people who use legacy
systems can access them if they search DuckDuckGo for
microsoft windows ext fs
apple mac os x ext fs
There's no need to compromise your own software freedom. I suggest
you recommend they upgrade to Trisquel as a first move as
magicbanana wrote:
I agree. NTFS-3G is free software (GPL license).
Except the U/S Patent Office allowed M$ a patent on FAT on silicon
drives years after FAT was publicly available because a different
type of media constituted a novel step. At the time (early 90s IIRC)
M$ set the price as
I 3 my Gluglug too. Props to ahj for mentioning them here before
they got RYF certification[1]. I got a bargin as a result.
[1]
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/gluglug-thinkpad-x60-w-coreboot-mini-review
mdunivan wrote:
What should one recommend to replace Citrix's XenApp Server?
LTSP is supposed to be popular in education. http://ltsp.org/
Have you tried a search yourself? The first non-sponsored link in a
DuckDuckGo search for ' open source toolbox opc server ' seems to
mention several.
You've posted here, so I'll assume you can still connect a different
machine / device to your network and get the Internet at the same
time you can't with the Trisquel box.
My first guess is you've done exactly as you've implied in the thread
topic and had both wireless and wired connections
yesTrisquel 6.0.1.
Please describe how you created the startup disk and what form the
inaccessibility takes.
legimet wrote:
VirtualBox Guest Additions which you will need to use are non-free
so
don't.
Not if you're on 6.0 and you install the packages in the repos, but
I
wouldn't use it anyway.
Thanks for the correction. Checking the web I'd remembered
correctly, they were non-free back before
IMO there's a significant element of how recent the distros last
release was in the Distrowatch rankings. Which given the central
portion of their homepage is given over to recycling distros' release
announcements most recent first is unsurprising. Or to be more
direct, I consider it
So... is there any way I can connect to ADSL using free
{soft,firm}ware?
Short of getting a big research grant to test all the ADSL routers
with GPL software in existence there is no way of answering that.
SoC manfuacturers are crap, to give you an idea there's probably over
a thousand
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