I thought it was MPL2?
Kinda off-topic, but what do people here think about pale moon? It's a fork
of firefox esr, but they plan on keeping the javascript implementation up to
date, but not support web rtc. Is there freedom concerns? If so, is there a
GNUified version? It feels pretty fast on my T400. I didn't
Hey, I installed the Trisquel 9 testing build on a T400 that I just bough
that I'm too scared to try to libreboot.
Anyway, I noticed openarena segfaults when you try to play it and I've
noticed Fceux, nestopia and higan is in the repos (along with wine) and
there's very few excuses to use
>Does it really have to be in your house, or are you just exaggerating to
hammer home the point about Discord?
I suppose it's part exaggeration to make a point, but on the same token, you
are trusting somebody else and there's no real way to see if they hold your
values to heart like the
I tried parabola and it wouldn't even install.
Yeah if Eric Swartz can do that in 1995 with 4MB of RAM, trisquel could do
this no problem. Hell, the best animation was all done analog and the best
animators today have a very analog mindset even though they're using digital
tools.
That made me think if there was a cartoon short about a Trisquel User
watching Twitch in mpv and as soon as they turn on Javascript, their PC
bursts into flames. Oh that would be funny.
Reminds me of this short made in the 90's on an Amiga.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=Sj9Lxu-pO6g
and maybe with musl too. Alpine Linux uses musl and it's pretty fast. eglibc
hasn't been updated in 5 years, so since then debian moved to glibc. So I
think it would be cool if Trisquel used musl, it would use less RAM and it
would remove temptations to install non-free software like
>The modern web really is an hellscape of lazily engineering and often
user-abusing Javascript.
Oh, yes, I can't stand the modern web. Funny enough you can run some modern
websites without Javascript like old.reddit.com or m.facebook.com.
>Given your knowledge of hardware, I assume you
First, I want to say my hardware specs aren't optimal, I just really wanted
to get going and my tube of thermal paste is spent after putting the cooler
on to test it. My CPU us a Pentium 2.7ghz with 2MB of L2 Cache and can only
support SSE3 and I only have 2GB of RAM installed. That is
Oh, you didn't know? It says it in the roadmap section.
"Go Open Source (except the mining algorithm)"
Well, it defiantly doesn't respect freedom if it isn't even classified as
"open source. Get your voodoo magic black box shit out of here.
Imagine of there was something like a "you must not use this for terrorism"
clause, how are you really going to stop them? It would also set a bad
precedent for GPL licensed software. Not only would this be GPL incompatible
even for linking, but it would increase the liabilities for GPL
It seems redundant because if they use it for harm, they can get sued anyway
and even if they couldn't, people wouldn't blame the software, they would
blame the user.
A lot of free software users' love for freedom goes beyond the realm software
and have noticed no matter what the
You shouldn't really care as long as it respects the four freedoms (of which
it does) or if you're a developer and want to link software from another
license.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#Definition
Might I ask, what drew you to Trisquel specifically?
It's like running a game in an emulator. (actually, it's exactly like that)
The Emulator itself is libre, but the game more than likely isn't. Though I
have messed around with compiling test ps1 programs.
If you want to support libre games, if you find them, send them some coin.
This NES
I suppose unless you use it for reverse-engineering and figure out how that
Actionscript worked. But yeah, the same has been said for Javascript.
Everybody in the free software movement speaks for free software as
individuals.
I joined this site years before I bought a system that's freedom friendly.
Even then, It's not complete yet, I'm still trying to find money to complete
it.
When I joined, I was mildly interested about a 100% libre system. You know
kinda like those people that make videos about Windows 98
I use Rhythmbox, it's good if you have meta-data and you want to organize.
You could also use a console based music player, but they're not really up to
my standards the last time I used them and I forgot what that reason was. I
think it was it lists by artist, but I want to list by album
The whole point of Trisquel is to be a 100% libre Debian.
Running it in WSL defeats the point. Though I would find it amusing if
ReactOS implemented a WSL (or would it be an RSL in this case?) Having a
libre NT isn't a bad idea, I suppose you could in theory run 100% libre code
on ReactOS.
I like pale moon, but there's a drama with MPL trademarks. It's really good
though, It's like Firefox ESR in another direction.
For browsing without Javascript, I'd recommend you use Netsurf. It's only
50MB when you launch it.
I don't know much about Chess, but for an XMPP Client called
You mean reverse engineering? Yeah, I love reverse engineered projects like
GNU was. Though Gimp was never trying to be a Photoshop clone. If I could
spare the cash, I would pay the Gimp Project and Kdenlive what Adobe normally
charges. Money gets stuff done.
Example: Say if you watch a video or read a book on how to do x in Photoshop
or Premiere and you're like "Hey, let's see if Gimp or Kdenlive can do that".
You get the idea, you just implement the idea in something else. I know
there's plenty of guides on free tools, but that's not what the
Oh, I didn't know how important in-engine scripting was to the FOSS
community. Had I known that I wouldn't have said anything about Quake. What
about a re-implementation of the asset scripts?
I thought JFSW was GPL
https://www.gog.com/game/shadow_warrior_complete
That's funny because just yesterday I ran a game distribution platform that
will not be named in Wine so I could download all the games I bought that
have free implementations of their engine either feature complete or in the
works and I
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Well, that sucks because I feel the IPC from Core2 and pre-Zen Chips are like
the new Pentium 4, they're trash.
Though, I think the dual opterons can still be usable depending on how
multithreaded your workload is and can afford the electricity, but there's
stuff to look forward to like
Will Libreboot ever support a board that supports a CPU with more IPC than a
Core 2 Duo/Pre-Zen AMD?
A similar thing happened with the AGS engine, it was under an artistic
license, but it was dependent on a MS Lib, so it took them a while for them
to implement a replacement.
https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine
Engines almost never go free anymore mostly due to non-free middleware like
Unreal and Unity where you can't free the engine even if you wanted to. Well,
at least we got Serious Sam now.
I think the agreement was more complicated. I think making non-free software
free is just as hard as making free software non-free, you have to get
everybody that contributed to agree, but it would be a hell of a lot easier
with unreal engine 1, because that's when they had less people
With Nautilus, you just need to right click on it and go to "properties" and
it tells you what codecs, frame rate, bitrate and sample rates are being
used.
There's also ffmpeg (or avconv) -i media_file_name.whatever
I just found this and it pleases my inner audiophile.
http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=results=1%20=382
It's been 20 years since the 1995 revision, so most the software patents
should be expired by now though the last revision was made in 1998, so the
latest revision is only a few years away.
I find it odd that I saw on a post that's a couple years old that you don't
support MP3 because of
Well, the software has been free, I just hear the Free Software community is
scared of Software Patents. Teisquel is based on Ubuntu LTS and I'm not sure
if the last LTS had patent-MP3 support.
I'm not using trisquel now, but I look forward to trying it with a free bios
once I save my
I got it from this post:
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/why-dont-free-systems-support-mp3
It looks like that post was made on the year that would be the 20 year mark
for the initial MP3 standard, so it might have became patent-free a few
months after that post.
Oh, OK, I see.
Yeah, in 2018, the last patent on MP3 should expire. Even though that codec
is so shitty, the best implementation is "LAME" and even that is lame. Flac
is where it's at with ogg being the king of lossy audio.
The only reason why Boycotts fail is because it's not mainstream. My take is
to make it mainstream. Make it as mainstream as #PerformanceMatters.
They don't see political ideologies and hatred of publishers for having a 95
year monopoly on content or ogolipolizing all mainstream media. All they see
is "people are consuming our content without paying because they're cheap".
It's more productive to get a lot of people to exploit that
Well, if you file share, you tell them you don't pay for things. If more
people played by their rules and sent the MPAA letters saying you'll never
buy a movie as long as it has DRM and while they have DRM, you'll refuse to
add mindshare by talking about DRM Movies and not even pirate it.
It may not be doable and even if it is, it's probably not worth doing.
Why it may not be doable: Few new Laptops have an Express Card to rig an
Adaptor and hackery with the Mini Pcie Slot that the Wifi Card uses is
whitelisted thanks to the infinite wisdom of the FCC.
Why it may not be
We're talking about paying for non-free content that's DRM-free and
compatible with a 100% free software stack. (minus wine for extracting asset
files that works in free engines) We're not talking about piracy.
You can only record unencrypted programming though. So most cable channels
are a no-no. (unless you're recording analogue cable)
I don't obey the law because the law is right nor because I'm scared of Jail,
I do it to play their game. If they don't want to sell DRM-free, fine, I
don't have to buy from them.
I wish there was a campaign from many very mainstream sources that used
twitter and facebook hashtags where
All I know of is...
Gog: They have games that are compatible with free engines and
reimplementations of free engines. They also have DRM-free documentaries.
Humble Book Bundle: They have two book bundles right now, Peanuts and Make.
Comixology: They have a selection of DRM-free Comics, but
oh, the prototype was $1,500. $540 sounds good :D
I don't know much about CMSs, but have you considered Typo3? I hear it's
Enterprise Grade stuff.
I'm not talking about a MMORPG, I'm talking about "Bill's PC"==Cloud Storage
for Pokemon and if you have your own private server, you use your own cloud
to store your Pokemon. But, yeah, they could make an engine that "just so
happens to be compatible with Pokemon Roms". Be it with a rom
That's pretty awesome! I hope nintendo doesn't descend from them like locust
and they probably would especially since the assets are in the repo. A better
free implementation would be if it was ported to C++/SDL2 and it was
free/contrib where it would point to address points in a rom
I wish the Pyra would take off. I hate smartphones and I would rather have a
class of mobile computing that's dead in the consumer market, a UMPC, but I
don't think they can enough people willing to spend $1,500 for a dual core
machine just because it's a fully open modular platform with a
It's based on Gnome. I'd have to say, the Manjaro implementation looks
amazing! It looks like what Windows 10 should have been.
Yeah, but there are legal issues with sharing copyright & trademarked content
content like the music notes, wave tables, images, dialogue, in-game
scripting, etc. I've looked at the github page and except for the wave
tables, (of which I couldn't find) it's all in there.
Like I said, a
Mint==Ubuntu with even more non-free software
I don't know why there aren't any nonprofit game developers that develop
games with libre engines. By "non-profit" I mean they make money, but the
primary goal is their mission and it could be lobbying to make cracking DRM
legal and reverse engineering game engines.
I get what you mean, I see free software supporters as a spectrum thing
instead of a binary false dichotomy. There are are people that are dependent
on non-free software and can't afford the switching costs of spending
downtime to learn something like Blender, but appreciate the free
The license sounds free.
https://github.com/VerticalResearchGroup/miaow/commit/dafd39709dcc78e2a2c4f643dd7d4e4901219aa4
Also, it is software, Verrlog code is software.
Most Developers go for the convenience like the "I have to use Adobe" world
of Content Creators. When it comes to Games, they use middleware that have
re-licensing restrictions and in a lot of cases, making non-free software
free is just as hard as legally making a non-free fork of GPL Code,
How about a Free Philosophy page? You can have Games be a subpage on that and
have sticky topics on "Evil Consoles", "Windows DRM Games is a lesser evil of
Consoles", "DRM-Free/non-free Windows Games is a lesser evil of DRM Windows
Games", "DRM-Free/non-free games on a free OS is a lesser
That's pretty cool, I just looked it up not even 2 hours before I saw this
post.
Deus Ex... One of the best games ever made. A lot of people are really pissed
off about the "augment your pre-order" mess with mankind divided. I really
wish somebody would reverse-engineer Deus Ex, I would make monthly donations
to said project.
Actually, It's FCC regulations that forced IBM to Whitelist their Wireless
Cards.
I have a possible solution, but it involves using non-free utility once and
then you can remove it once the job is done. (well, I only know of non-free
utils for this, there might be free ones that I'm not
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