deblobbed is not the right word
they recommend nonfree addons
and i think firefox might include drm. but it is still open source.
For an RPM-based distribution, your best bet is Fedora with Freed-ora kernel.
Fedora gets updates every 6 months like Ubuntu does. This is the time for
testing etc and I see no problem.
did you ever get hold of the pyra
But if you were using Debian on the handheld computer a resistive touch
screen would be better for clicking around all the desktop stuff.
We mean to work on support for this whole generation of Mali GPUs, which can
presumably form the foundation of support more generally in the future?
Certainly, we can use the EOMA68 as a target dev board for free software
development (like Beaglebone is sort of).
The person developing it has a life...
So has no time to develop, without funding from outside, or so I have heard.
Software costs money! :-P
The beauty of 3D printing is that you could, in theory design one yourself. I
have used FreeCAD to design and print cases for USB drives. If you find
nothing, then build and propagate! It's like growing new things.
Essentially, you throw together:
- ARM SBC such as BeagleBone
- LCD. Get one
4... yes.
We need to all relax with a cup of gunpowder green tea, and let all sadness
thoughts exit our bile ducts.
Hmm. This is possible. Unlikely, but I wouldn't leave it to chance
personally.
I also remove:
Speakers (can be turned into a microphone)
Microphone
Bluetooth
WiFi
WWAN
And, cover up USB ports, and write protect flash chip.
SORTED!
probably GNU Free Documentation License :-P
There's always vrms. :-P
I was correct:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/gnome-weather-forecast-not-available
Check the URL it gets data from, and see if it is still active by searching
around the 'nets. Perhaps there was an API change or something?
Seems like Powershell wasn't a killer app after all... They want people to
use it (perhaps for a slightly malicious intent) but the only way to get
"nerds" (the target audience) to use it is to offer it to other operating
systems, and with a soft-libre license.
meh they downvoted us... somewhere somebody is either very very miffed, or
cracking up with troll-laughter.
Capitalist free-for-all has turned friend into foe
they had a crowd-funding campaign, and , from what i can tell, they have not
shipped from that yet.
but it was a success, so soon we may well see the nitrokey storage arrive.
it's not the same thing...
purism was a scam... i do not know if this is.
but if it is, well, they fooled us good.
heh, someone upvoted you again so you now on 0. guilty person?
someone downvoted you. :-)
I have a Sony one. They can be bought for very cheap, but they run a
proprietary OS.
If you want a vaguely libre ebook reader, I think the best thing is to build
one yourself, from something like a BeagleBone Black and an e-ink screen, and
some buttons, and install a reading program. It
It could be that the web service that it gets information from has done
something funny.
I don't see why people should demand circuit design if they have not even
received the hardware yet. They are not "buying" a computer card, they are
supporting it's development.
Personally I see no problem with the design files not being made with free
software. For one, kicad is absolutely
boa sorte!
ah, but can you verify the physical integrity of your computer? then assume
it's been turned into a zombie according to this logic...
it doesn't really make sense.
I don't believe that these devices are more environmentally friendly than say
some desktop computer or laptop. But they do appear to be designed for
"upgrade-ability". I think running some desktop for 15 years is much better
than buying one of these every 5 years and handing it to someone
I think this is not the case. Continuing from user ADFENO's point.
The place I can think of regarding GPLv3 affecting real life scenario is
embedded devices, and Android devices. Routers couldn't be locked down in
such the way as they are now. Similarly reputable manufacturer wouldn't be
The disk images intended for CDs for modern systems are typically around
600M. When you install, even a simple system is typically around 250M or
more.
So, I think that the size of files dies not matter so much. As long as they
are less than 25M I see little problem.
Power management is handled by the embedded controller, which runs
proprietary fimrware. It is possible that the problem may have originated
there.
So, what parts of the design are not free software friendly? I can think of
the GPU. Are some controllers still requiring non-free software?
One option might be Firefox in Wine. Perhaps you install IcedTea
implementation that way?
Then maybe you can fool the program into making it think it is in a
compatible browser.
seems it chokes on text-speak love-hearts :-(
Some packages in Debian link to specific parts of the documentation that
recommended nonfree software. FSF does not like this one bit.
It is not the problem with the ISO. The ISO is just a means of distributing
an operating system for testing and installing. And then you install Debian
8,
502 Bad Gateway :-/
Gtk2 is outdated. Gtk3 is the feature and it is great they support it soon.
Xfce always did drain power more than Lxde and various window managers. To be
honest Gtk is not going to make much difference compared to screen
brightness, WiFi etc.
STK runs reasonably well on 8G desktop with cheap OEM Nvidia card. But only
at settings level 3. So I think the problem is these games are just too hard
for x200 to handle.
Don't ask here, ask on Libreboot mailing list/IRC.
MATE is better I think. It runs on old computers reasonably well and is as
easy, if not easier than GNOME Shell. And more recent versions of MATE have
GTK3 Support, and in future they plan to support Wayland. This is a good
option I think.
If you are just making an ISO of Debian packages, just changing the
installer, then it is still Debian, just with a slightly different installer.
If you plan to change all the packages that are offending, then you would
just be duplicating the efforts of gNewSense, which has few resources as
Microcode isn't a malware function that can only be removed by Intel. It is a
function of the chip - how hardware instructions communicate with raw
silicon.
Even if they released source code you probably couldn't change it. It could
be malicious but you're best getting a chip designed
They're fine for heavy usage every day. People use Libreboot systems for
servers and other uses.
I think at this point we are focusing on numbers rather than real-world
performance.
That is all true.
But you are best randomising it in software, as opposed to hardware. The
default could still identify you on a network, if you are only one or two of
people with such a MAC address (and if there are two of you, there is a fair
chance that the network would crash, not
Read the FAQ. This is covered in great detail.
https://libreboot.org/faq/
It's hypothetical. If your website just distributes Debian main, then what
does it offer over Debian standard installation images, since you are still
distributing Debian, which still links to documentation, and recommends
nonfree firmware in log files, etc etc?
Why don't you ask them on IRC?
Audio would probably be only a couple MB.
Because you are still installing Debian. And you will naturally be directed
to the Debian documentation in each of the packages, etc etc.
You need to compile the libreboot_util binaries from source for this release,
or just use the old binaries from last release. This worked for me.
They added it after I wrote such commenting.
No because the problems go further than the installer recommending firmware.
The documentation and non-free repositories are also significant issues for
the FSF.
None of the mirrors have it yet.
:-(
Indeed, you have to patch each ROM, as the ./flash script erases the flash
chip. The generic ROM you download from the website has a flash write
descriptor with default MAC address.
Heh, I just flashed the last beta today! What good luck.
The card you get when you join FSF. Trisquel membership has nothing to do
with FSF membership.
Ask on #libreboot Freenode IRC. Try the webchat interface.
I am pretty certain Midori isn't in Debian 8 due to a an unresolved bug at
the time of release, or something. It's in backports but I never found it to
be very stable, as it crashed on big websites e.g. YouTube and (agh)
Facebook.
Perhaps it is for the better. I don't think being able to
And IceKitty
I think Libreboot wouldn't work with Nouveau because Nvidia cards have
proprietary vbios.
...and I should also add to the above post, that Ubuntu only provides support
for the "main" repository.
Yes! If that crowdfunding campaign comes through, and Trisquel supports ARM,
maybe we'll see Trisquel on the BeagleBone Black sometime!
Well obviously OpenWRT will just have to patch this, same as other
distributions.
Since we are talking about Debian Jessie here, I'll share my experience: all
the options for disk encryption are present in the XWindow graphic installer.
Obviously, if you can do it in Ubuntu you can do it in Trisquel. (search
engine is useful)
Yes, especially for new users, the idea that "something won't work!" is
scary. More often than not they might look for it just to be safe, even when
it might be for a more obscure hardware feature.
But I do think that enabling hardware support is a good thing. But not free
software, so bad
I thought the text based installer was identical to the graphical installer,
albeit a curses interface as opposed to X windows. I have used both and I
never saw this behaviour in the text installer.
Regarding the second point, I have never seen that in the Debian Jessie
installer. Maybe that was from an earlier release?
Debian testing gets packages from Unstable after they are deemed to be
adequately free of major bugs. Then development slows down after a year or
so, as the packages are frozen and bugs are ironed out, and configurations
tested, etc.
So it isn't as "unstable" as Unstable, but it does change
Regarding documentation, though, I believe that some people file bug reports
on it for recommending bad stuff.
And it is possible that the Debian community may vote on the inclusion of
nonfree and contrib again, as according to Wikipedia they last voted in 2004
(12 years ago).
If they were
Abiword is quite bad. I thought it was missing lots of features and was hard
to use.
Maybe someone needs to nuke it and start over.
The most glaring faux pas in the eyes of the FSF is the existence of the
nonfree and contrib repositories, hosted officially by the project. The
documentation specifically says that Debian will support the use of nonfree
software. This means that if the FSF endorsed Debian as it currently
You can test a live USB; no changes are saved. You can then install it later
from that USB. Or just play around with it. The 'mini' image is much more
lightweight. The regular image uses GNOME and is the full experience.
Personally I think the full image will be more to your liking, for
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Ubuntu is based off Debian testing. It is a true 'fork' that is updated every
6 months, as opposed to Trisquel's deblobbing effort of Ubuntu.
There's no point basing directly off testing/unstable as they constantly
change as new packages are added and library versions often change. To this
I once had lots of trouble with network on Trisquel, after a netinstall. I
believe that I did choose the generic kernel too when the installer prompted
it.
I put it down to some nutty hardware problem and nuked the installation. So I
never found out what was wrong.
> (I bought my Libreboot X200 from Minifree and they supplied me with a X200
with webcam and fingerprint sensor so I have no choice).
You can remove them if this is something you would rather not have. For
example to remove the webcam you take off the front panel of the LCD and then
remove
Also: MATE icon theme.
I had intended to use it as an example in one of my comments.
That is really strange thing of me...
I'm talking about 'Super Tux Kart', the game that is like Mario Kart. This
game is full 3D and is quite advanced. I have no idea what 'Super Tux' (the
platform jumping game) is like as I never played it.
Sweet icon theme (I like the green folders from MATE)! But the question is,
are we using MATE as opposed to GNOME Panel? Personally, I am under the
opinion that it might be easier to just go with MATE with minor modifications
as opposed to fiddling around with GNOME Panel, as MATE offers a
You could try to build it from source, and install the checkinstall program
so you can uninstall it later. Or try it in a VM to be safe.
Did it ever work before or has this behavior always occurred?
Because if it has always been this way then your graphics card is probably
not beefy enough for certain games. E.g it may not have allocated enough
video RAM (note that this is separate from regular memory). And I read Intel
Did it ever work before or has this behavior always occurred?
Because if it has always been this way then your graphics card is probably
not beefy enough for certain games. E.g it may not have allocated enough
video RAM (note that this is separate from regular memory). And I read Intel
It seems like launching another X server is too much trouble. I suspect that
this is not necessary and would not solve your problems if you continue to
run some bloated environment along side the other X Server.
Have you tried using a lighter environment such as OpenBox or Fluxbox?
It is
OK, but it's your computer. You do what you like to it.
If I recall virt-manager is available. This is easier to use in my opinion
than qemu manager (from which I could never manage to launch VMs).
I think with Wine you should install the latest version anyway as support
keeps improving even for old programs. This is a problem with Trisquel too
You couldn't disable JS on Firefox OS.
Otherwise it wouldn't work at all!
So probably no. Otherwise they are just a glorified PDF reader.
Bad Firefox :-(
Use Lynx! :-)
But on a more serious note, this was warned of many months ago by security
researchers. Unfortunately people don't understand just how prevalent online
tracking is and how sophisticated it has become. I think even the people who
make up the standard probably
Isn't the script just the script from Linux-libre? Or do Ubuntu add certain
things that are not upstream, like backported drivers, which need to be
accounted for?
What issues are these? I have always found Debian to work fine whereas
Ubuntu-based distributions always have minute problems no one knows how to
fix or are not aware of. Usually when people have problems with Debian it is
not understanding some option in the installer or not understanding
I would say the bloated code base contributes to the clunkyness of Firefox.
It means it is full of security holes. It is also why it is difficult to
produce proper Firefox forks as opposed to mere spins. Look at the trouble
the PaleMoon developers had.
Certainly it is by no means accurate to
Maybe it is because Canonical don't make this clear at download, and at any
rate a typical first-time user is just going to get on with it and not
complain as they might not understand how repositories work or the importance
of security updates.
I have seen it mentioned a couple of times,
> Plus we're talking about free software, the encremental need for more power
isn't as steep, if I'm not mistaken (probably though, I don't know what I'm
talking about here).
I don't think whether a program is free software affects whether it is
bloated. For example, Firefox has been a
> Oh, I see. But how can you be sure that it's not only the main repo, and
instead a mix of main and universe?
Because they are distinct sections in Synaptic package manager. Packages like
Wesnoth and VLC are under "universe" (same as in Ubuntu) while packages like
GNU Coreutils are under
Maybe some no-brand companies in China sell noncompliant devices that won't
be sold in the U.S.? Unlikely, but nonetheless a possibility?
Maybe they would base them on old designs which have free firmware and
drivers?
You should use Tor Browser Bundle for most of your general browsing, keeping
in mind to use Tor the right way (as instructed by their website). The Tor
Browser gets extremely prompt security updates and is the best way to browse
with as much security and privacy as possible.
For logging into
> PRISM Break isn't about software freedom, it's about security, and
that's a secondary goal for free/libre software.
I think libre software is necessary but not sufficient for security. The
Prism Break website is a good resource for privacy, and I think that they do
care about freedom. One
If I recall, the prism-break website people also made privacy-tools.io
38.x ESR is end of life and icecat gets no security updates now,
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