Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7.0 LTS reviews

2014-11-18 Thread davesamcdxv
Try GNOME Boxes (if it's in the repos)!

Re: [Trisquel-users] JavaScript code must be eliminated, not just made free

2014-11-17 Thread davesamcdxv
I'm unethical because I create websites for paying clients that is custom to them? Unethical? It might be, see OP Because of that reason? As sure as eggs is eggs no

Re: [Trisquel-users] Budgie desktop 0.8 released. Looks interesting.

2014-11-17 Thread davesamcdxv
...I haven't even gotten around to trying out DDE yet! Probably this weekend.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mounting USB devices

2014-11-16 Thread davesamcdxv
Is gvfs installed?

Re: [Trisquel-users] JavaScript code must be eliminated, not just made free

2014-11-16 Thread davesamcdxv
Well, we're not getting rid of it but, anyway, I think listing it as something we could and should do without is OK, just in case it ever becomes viable (though for that to happen I think hard work will be needed in other areas. i.e. coming up with a better alternative, a new world order

Re: [Trisquel-users] JavaScript code must be eliminated, not just made free

2014-11-16 Thread davesamcdxv
it is a tool that can be used for good or bad and it is up to the user to not abuse it. Not how I'd describe most Javascript out there.

Re: [Trisquel-users] ath9k not free?

2014-11-15 Thread davesamcdxv
We would!Whether it'd be comfortable and easy to use right after the install (and beyond) being a different matter altogether, of course! Having said that I wouldn't say Debian doesn't care about software freedom. They do, just not enough. Far from it, perhaps.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-15 Thread davesamcdxv
Proper HTML works here.

Re: [Trisquel-users] trouble with exaile install

2014-11-15 Thread davesamcdxv
You can add Trisquel 6' repository to /etc/apt/sources.list (by adding a line there deb http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel toutatis main, then update the repositories (sudo apt-get update), install exaile, and then disable the repository (by commenting/adding a # at the start of the

Re: [Trisquel-users] More focus should be put on server installations

2014-11-15 Thread davesamcdxv
Yeah, just don't expect privacy. And having said that there are a lot of uses in which on is fine without it, just like how CCTVs might not be in one's house, but the police have a right to put them in public places. The important thing is users have the right to privately store it and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Advice Please: Trisquel Suddenly Booting To Blank Blue Screen.

2014-11-15 Thread davesamcdxv
Try apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade .

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't load 7.0

2014-11-10 Thread davesamcdxv
Does ctrl-alt-f1 bring you to the command line? If it does, does removing the NVIDIA driver (apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau) work? It might be that Trisquel 7 but not 6 has got problems with your NVIDIA card.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Future of Gnome Classic

2014-11-09 Thread davesamcdxv
GNOME Flashback: https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GnomeFlashback Well and alive (at least in Ubuntu and Debian) and recognised by GNOME.

Re: [Trisquel-users] ABroqser Flash not working

2014-11-09 Thread davesamcdxv
exactly what the page I linked to says :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-09 Thread davesamcdxv
I think they'd look like complete 4r53h0l35 doing that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel v7 - where is my unity?

2014-11-09 Thread davesamcdxv
I'm pretty sure it never was (it's just that you needed to configure compiz before getting Unity to work - what was called the Unity Session was really the Compiz Session, except that in (vanilla) Ubuntu user directories are given config files by default that tell compiz to use the needed

Re: [Trisquel-users] hp Deskjet 940C not detected by Belenos

2014-11-09 Thread davesamcdxv
Is system-config-printer-gnome installed?

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to find new installed apps?

2014-11-09 Thread davesamcdxv
What did you install?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
Because Debian Squeeze is as old in the software world as The Cinema Show- Aisle of Plenty is elsewhere? :) Well, for starters none of the 2 computers I've got have hardware that will 100% work perfectly with it, yet Trisquel 6 works perfectly with both.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
Avoid non-free and contrib and Chromium and you'd probably be as free as Trisquel is. And Linux-libre would be a wee bit of a plus point, I guess.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
I think you can just take Trisquel's new presumably fixed Bash and install it there.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7.0 does not have amd display driver

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
Would removing xserver-xorg-video-radeon do?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot get widescreen resolution and use multiple monitors in Trisquel 7, like I could in Trisquel 6

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
Try removing xserver-xorg-video-radeon

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot get widescreen resolution and use multiple monitors in Trisquel 7, like I could in Trisquel 6

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
Does removing xserver-xorg-video-ati work?

Re: [Trisquel-users] ABroqser Flash not working

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
Viewtube never quite worked for me there:(

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
The Debian kernel hasn't got a nonfree part - I know that which is why I called it a wee bit of a plus point rather than a must:)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
-I haven't got any problems withy Verison 7 -You can stay at 6.0.1 -Not that it matters as long as you stay free (not something too hard to do in, say, Debian, or I think Fedora (and thus CentOS as well?))

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
It's not bad and I'm not saying it is. I'm just referring to the image Arch on which it's based seems to have (which isn't actually bad but difficult). As for me, I tried Parabola but the first time I did I installed plasma 5 and couldn't get Wi-Fi to work (which was also the case in

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-08 Thread davesamcdxv
PErsonally I actually think Pacman is more powerful and elegant, even if the equivalent to apt-get autoremove is something like pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt) (taken from the Manjaro wiki from which I always copied and pasted the command during my time with Manjaro).

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm back.

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
My distro hopping got cut a bit short when I moved to Free systems (hopping between 7-10 distros including Fedora and Debian most of which I'll never use (i.e. Dragora)?). But if all distros out there were free I'd certainly be the distro hopper I was just before I settled with Manjaro (and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Nouveau Full HD tutorial?

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
Couldn't seem to find a solution https://www.google.com/search?q=Nvidia+GTX750ti+nouveau+resolutionie=utf-8oe=utf-8 . Maybve all you can do (sadly) is remove nouveau.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel v7 - where is my unity?

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
In Trisquel 6 installing gnome-session did the trick. Try that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Toutatis vs. Belenos

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
Trisquel 6=Ubuntu Precise Trisquel 7=Ubuntu Trusty And not much else, really, as far as I know.

Re: [Trisquel-users] ABroqser Flash not working

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
Trisquel doesn't use Adobe Flash becuase Adobe Flash is not Free Software. Here's a solution (and it ain't Flash for the aforementioned reason): http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/67499/watching-facebook-videos-without-flash

Re: [Trisquel-users] [Abrowser] Unexpected Error, not able to sync

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
What about IceCat? Oh and what's ABrowser's user agent?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web (browser) aka Ephiphany

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
Sorry, should've directed you to ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging instead. It's certainly there!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software in Schools

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
My shool started using Mandriva when I was a 4th grader (I'm in 10th grade now) and replaced it with Ubuntu Jaunty the year after that and with Edubuntu Precise last year. Sadly, Windows was never removed, and now that IT has been removed from the new Indonesian curriculum (a move as

Re: [Trisquel-users] So far, so good with one little glitch with Tor

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
They aren't as simple as symlinks, though.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm back.

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
That because a kernel is irrelevant to what a desktop graphically does!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

2014-11-07 Thread davesamcdxv
You can use 5.5 (Brigantia), and have an /etc/apt/sources.list that looks like this: deb http://oldarchive.trisquel.info/trisquel brigantia main deb http://oldarchive.trisquel.info/trisquel brigantia-updates main deb http://oldarchive.trisquel.info/trisquel brigantia-security main But it's

Re: [Trisquel-users] long-term sustainability of Trisquel -- what if we lose core developers?

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
Perhaps it should be rephrased what if we lose the developer?:) Should that ever happen I hope the old images and repos will still lie in a repo somewhere.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
By removing Nouveau (sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau) ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web (browser) aka Ephiphany

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
It isn't?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
I'm not sure (sorry), as far as I know, though, no. That'd mean that your GPU's doing nothing (or not doing everything it is capable of), though (I think). To be honest my post was a wee bit of a guess (hence the question mark). All I can say is that it's best to reinstall the package,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on a iMac?

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
Try the username live (and is there a guest session? Perhaps you should try guest as well) Anyway Unetbootin should work. I don't think Apple computers support booting from USB, though (or was that Macbooks?). In which case you need a CD that can boot the USB drive. I'd reccommend you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on a iMac?

2014-11-06 Thread davesamcdxv
Oh, and note: If you want to do a debootstrap there's a trisquel-mini metapackage for you to install when you chroot into the installation. Not that I ever install it like that (I always install something like trisquel-baseXorgLxterminalSynapticDesktop ShellNetwork ManagerUpowerDMother

Re: [Trisquel-users] Toutatis Brightness control

2014-11-05 Thread davesamcdxv
Regarding those commands which get longer with sudo, if one uses: sudo su -c THE_SHORTEST_FORM_OF_THE_COMMAND will it also work?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel v7 - where is my unity?

2014-11-04 Thread davesamcdxv
Unity 2D is gone as of Ubuntu Trusty.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel v7 - where is my unity?

2014-11-04 Thread davesamcdxv
It ain't that bad! I had it onone of my Trisquel installations for a few months!

Re: [Trisquel-users] What happened to compiz fusion in Trisquel?

2014-11-04 Thread davesamcdxv
The version Toutatis had had more plugins, though, and one of them (blur) persuaded me to stay with Compiz 0.9.5.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 and new homepage - gratz!!

2014-11-04 Thread davesamcdxv
November 2016 at this rate, I reckon (that's a serious answer).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7: how to install compiz?

2014-11-02 Thread davesamcdxv
Having finally gotten around to trying it: Here's the answer: By using the packages meant for Trisquel 6: So open (with sudo) the /etc/apt/sources.list file, and add a new line that reads: deb http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ toutatis main Then update the repos (i.e. by doing sudo

Re: [Trisquel-users] How do I install Trisquel on a flash drive? I want it to behave like the Trisquel on my laptop.

2014-10-28 Thread davesamcdxv
I'm just a bit curious but would a USB hard drive survive the normal amount of re-writing non-live systems have and be about as protable (and harder to lose:) as flash drives? So can I treat USB HDDs as normal HDDs?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Which is it: Abrowser or GNU IceCat?

2014-10-25 Thread davesamcdxv
well, since LibreJS seems to be designed to block both certainly non-free JS and possibly non-free JS, the problem might be with LibreJS.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 will be released next week.

2014-10-24 Thread davesamcdxv
To me, it's been as good as released for months :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Which is it: Abrowser or GNU IceCat?

2014-10-23 Thread davesamcdxv
The Web pages don't display properly thing in Icecat is because of the addon called LibreJS, which blocks (possibly) non-free Javascript. You can turn it off and have web pages display properly like Abrowser (which doesn't bring addons with it, including LibreJS, while Icecat includes

Re: [Trisquel-users] It was nicer when I could move things between menus

2014-10-19 Thread davesamcdxv
Or you could try http://mate-desktop.org/

Re: [Trisquel-users] IceDove replaced Thunderbird.

2014-10-17 Thread davesamcdxv
Icedove (the one I installed according to the link I provided above) has certainly got it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] IceDove replaced Thunderbird.

2014-10-16 Thread davesamcdxv
For those on Trisquel 6: http://mozilla.debian.net/ (The instructions for Squeeze works, I haven't tried the one for Jessie).

Re: [Trisquel-users] How toget Trisquel 7?

2014-10-16 Thread davesamcdxv
De jure, they're not released yet. De facto, everyone seems to be saying that it works fine. http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/ Personally, I( think the most proper way to do an installation would be to https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap , that's just me, though:)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Help! GUI doesn't install????

2014-10-10 Thread davesamcdxv
There may be problems with your CD. Anyway, I suggest burning it to a flash drive instead, using something like unetbootin (which can be searched for on the web). Unetbootin supports non-free distros, though. There's a version http://www.aligunduz.org/FUSBi/ that doesn't list non-free

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for an email provider

2014-10-09 Thread davesamcdxv
If memory serves me having -s in the account name made it impossible for me to register. Perhaps you're having a case of just that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adding a 3rd monitor?

2014-10-04 Thread davesamcdxv
Would trying Arandr (available in the repos I think) work?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0.1 (with recent updates) just hanged on me big time!

2014-09-23 Thread davesamcdxv
Maybe grabbing a new kernel from http://jxself.org/linux-libre/ will help.

Re: [Trisquel-users] City of Turin ditches Windows for Ubuntu

2014-09-16 Thread davesamcdxv
'FAT-MAN with the long beard' lost an opportunity to promote GNU/LINUX in that part of the world Either that or he didn't quite get such an opportunity at all..I think it's the latter.

Re: [Trisquel-users] canon Lbp3050 trisuel show that it's installed corectly but when i try to print nothing hapen .... what can i do ??

2014-09-16 Thread davesamcdxv
Free as in freedom, not price.

Re: [Trisquel-users] If you're looking for a Trisquel compatible desktop machine...

2014-09-15 Thread davesamcdxv
To be fair it's not that difficult to look for Libre-software-compatible desktop machines.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu to Trisquel Mini Help Request

2014-09-14 Thread davesamcdxv
He's got a Dell.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is ClamTk a good package? Should I even bother with anti-viruses?

2014-09-08 Thread davesamcdxv
I know I'm nitpicking but K-Meleon, Libreoffice, and an old version of Clementine on Wine aren't proprietary :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is ClamTk a good package? Should I even bother with anti-viruses?

2014-09-08 Thread davesamcdxv
Ah, yes, my bad!

Re: [Trisquel-users] SystemD (I like old sysv, I hope some tech distros stay sysv (or bsd init)). Grsecurity vs Security Update Treadmill

2014-09-07 Thread davesamcdxv
Regarding OP, what are you doing here, then? Install GnewSense 3 if you want sysV's init!

Re: [Trisquel-users] repositories not found (aptitude update failed)

2014-09-07 Thread davesamcdxv
Try replacing http://nl.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ with http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/

Re: [Trisquel-users] SystemD (I like old sysv, I hope some tech distros stay sysv (or bsd init)). Grsecurity vs Security Update Treadmill

2014-09-06 Thread davesamcdxv
Linux is selling its soul to the give me convenience on my terms or I'll go elsewhere To be fair that happened ages ago with proprietary blobs (drivers or firmware or otherwise), Chrome, Adobe Flash, Opera proprietary games, Pipenightdreams(If I remember correctly), RealPlayer, Skype and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freeslack (a little off topic)

2014-09-05 Thread davesamcdxv
Ubnfortunately I'm going to be the lazy one here waiting for someone to come up with a resulting distro.which is a very exciting prospect!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Allow switching between kernels in GRUB

2014-09-02 Thread davesamcdxv
Try kernel PPAs.

Re: [Trisquel-users] install a full Trisquel on a USB flash drive

2014-09-02 Thread davesamcdxv
Here's my suggeston: Get a USB Hard Drive and install there instead. I've never tried that, though. IS it less risky, Chris?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Help with installing Trisquel on MacBook?

2014-09-02 Thread davesamcdxv
Try a proper CD. Perhaps try having Super GRUB2 disk on it (I'm not sure it boots to the USB drive, though). A more surefire option is The Plop boot manager (burned to a CD). It's not free though since it can't be used commercially. But I know it works.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-09-02 Thread davesamcdxv
I'm not especially religious, but my point was exactly that, the false gods will be phased out over time, not incorporated. There is no reason someone could not create a program that handles flash securely for example. From the looks of it, unfortunately, that's doesn't seem to be happening

Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-09-02 Thread davesamcdxv
the false gods will be phased out over time, not incorporated Let's agree to disagree, then.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-08-31 Thread davesamcdxv
If only Ruben had chosen a name that started with A, or a number.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

2014-08-30 Thread davesamcdxv
The BSD community's (I guess) view is that since the firmware blobs run on the devices (rather than the computer itself) it doesn't matter. The FSF's is that since it's present on editable storage medias (e.g the HDD), it matters.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Munich gives up on GNU/Linux and free/open source software

2014-08-30 Thread davesamcdxv
If you don’t think Linux is about creating a secure environment, then find me one Dev who thinks allowing third party executables to be installed with a double-click should be permitted in their distribution With that logic Genesis, Yes, ELP, and Jehtro Tull are all only about the money.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't believe I missed this, but ODF won in the UK to be default

2014-08-29 Thread davesamcdxv
Somehow I'm thinking about what could've been had the UK not decolonised itself yet before this decision..

Re: [Trisquel-users] I know this is silly, but is there a GNU replacement for mspaint?

2014-08-23 Thread davesamcdxv
Yes, and I think any sane person, not only you, know it ain't GIMP :) Try gnome-paint, or gpaint.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A Viewtube problem

2014-08-23 Thread davesamcdxv
Installing the YouTube Center extension solved it, but that was a workaround rather than a proper fix.

Re: [Trisquel-users] can lxde look nice?

2014-08-16 Thread davesamcdxv
Sorry about being late to the party. Yes, it can.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 - Initial questions comments.

2014-08-08 Thread davesamcdxv
1. Trusty/14.04 (By the way, Trisquel 6 was based mon Precise/12.04) 2. Admittedly I'm not sure. 3. Move ~/.mozilla/abrowser to ~/.mozilla/icecat 4. I don't know, sorry (all is well in GNOME Shell, though) 5. Yes, for anything from Trisquel 4.0 (Ubuntu Lucid) onwards. 6. See salparidise's post

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 memory leak issues

2014-08-06 Thread davesamcdxv
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2214042 It says : sudo apt-get remove libpam-smbpass solves the problem

Re: [Trisquel-users] I've seen the apple conference of 2014 and I feel outraged.

2014-08-04 Thread davesamcdxv
If you're talking about scrolling with a laptop's touchpad I've got 2 installations of Trisquel on mine, one with GNOME on Belenos and another with KDE on Toutatis (among others) and scrolling on the touchpad one way yield different results on the 2 (GNOME on Belenos being the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

2014-08-01 Thread davesamcdxv
GnewSense 3 is definitely based on debian Squeeze (6), not Wheezy(7), considering how perfectly it works with GTK+2 themes, and how perfectly it doesn't with my Nvidia GeForce 6200 GPU.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo T-61 too old for Belenos?

2014-07-31 Thread davesamcdxv
As I've said above, though, unsupported is different from impossible to use:)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Release Date?

2014-07-30 Thread davesamcdxv
The repos were the first thing Belenos had - it's been up for months now! (Though of course we can't search for packages yet, as you've correctly shown).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Release Date?

2014-07-29 Thread davesamcdxv
There's are ISOs here http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/ I think Trisquel 7 is, de facto, available, but de jure isn't yet.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo T-61 too old for Belenos?

2014-07-29 Thread davesamcdxv
Anyway, what problem did you exactly have with Belenos? Is it simply that the LiveCD underutilises your RAM (which in that case I think I recall another distro in which its Live CD would see less RAM than there actually is, but everything becomes fine once the OS is installed). And having

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Release Date?

2014-07-29 Thread davesamcdxv
Unfortunately if there is a mirror to that particular directory I don't know where it is.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Wallpapers

2014-07-28 Thread davesamcdxv
They ain't too bad (if at all)! Having said that I still think there are better ones out there.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Wallpapers

2014-07-28 Thread davesamcdxv
Having taken another look at the license file I think that too many picture didn't quite specify the licences they're in, which means they aren't quite free (yet): - The following files are licensed and redistributed non-commercially with permission from bo0xVn

Re: [Trisquel-users] ViewTube with VLC in abrowser

2014-07-28 Thread davesamcdxv
Actually having Totem installed also isn't enough to get its Mozilla plugin, you'd need the totem-mozilla package as well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo T-61 too old for Belenos?

2014-07-28 Thread davesamcdxv
Here's a workaround (not the world's best, though): When Toutatis reaches EOL, change the repository entries in /etc/apt/sources.list to http://oldarchive.trisquel.info/trisquel toutatis main (and of course, do the same for toutatis-security and toutatis-updates) since the Toutatis contents

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 Wallpapers

2014-07-28 Thread davesamcdxv
I think this is a better raindrop-themed wallpaper :) http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Blue+Rain?content=165873

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