AFAIK the JS is free, just not compliant with LibreJS.
It is based on Firefox 38.8.8 which is end of life. It should have upgraded
to the newest Firefox ESR (45.x). So there may well be security holes.
Use Abrowser or download Firefox from Mozilla instead. Also try the Tor
browser, which is also based on Firefox ESR, which is always promptly
...so says the person who promotes MATE desktop environment...
Yeah, /boot is inaccessible if you encrypt it so it defaults back to the
onboard grub.cfg which doesn't let you boot without all the commands.
I have used TestDisk to recover files on an SD card, actually.
I had an Android phone and I did rm -rf / for fun, but it deleted /sdcard1
which was where the SD card was mounted.
TestDisk is really good and easy to use.
Is it non-free? Their views on free software do not change the status of the
code. It is quite confusing.
These instructions only work for wired networks, which are relatively simple.
You will need to configure wpa_supplicant because there are many different
types of wireless networks. It's just a start before installing wicd or
similar, because you were complaining about no connection with
I often do the netinstall on Debian systems so I can use Ratpoison or other
window managers alone. I don't tend to use WiFi as it is quite complicated
from the CLI. List devices that can connect to networks: sudo iwconfig
(sometimes devices don't identify themselves sanely, I've found this
Delete SSH then.
I have a feeling that "StrictModes Yes" might stop it, though. No idea.
Savannah might be OK. I switched from Github to Gitlab and it is pretty good,
and you can run the software on your own server too.
Keep in mind that I'm not talking about services with an accounts system
comparable to Paypal. Stripe for instance is just something the website uses
to process payments, with users using a credit/debit card to pay.
I read it. There are obvioulsy problems with PayPal but there are other
online payments systems.
PayPal is a bad company for some people, which is fair enough, but its design
is good, as it removes a certain amount of risk of online payments systems.
The payments system does not have to be PayPal by any means, for instance
Stripe is used by the Humble Bundle website, and it works well
I just think they need to offer other payment methods. It's not clear they
even offer Bitcoin so I'm not sure how it's relevant.
Also regarding paying Trisquel, that does not generally involve large sums of
money. It involves small quantities (relative to the prices at Minifree) e.g.
$10. So
I never said they weren't good people, just that wire transfer makes me
apprehensive. They don't answer emails when I queried them about lack of
other payment options. Put simply, I think a middleman such as PayPal (it
does not have to be PayPal, there are others) is safer from the point of
It can run Libreboot but it is a formidable installation process:
https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/t500.html. If you don't install Libreboot it
is just a generic laptop with reasonable build quality. It probably comes
with Intel wireless though which as far as I know cannot be replaced unless
The problem with Minifree (who sell the RYF-certified laptops) is that they
only use a wire transfer as payment option, something commonly used in
internet scams and problematic because a single mistake in the account
details the money is being sent to means all your money is gone (this
I loaded the page thrice because it wasn't connecting quickly enough...
whatever.
We know it "fails the test". You are not listening to us or the people on the
Github page you linked us to. It is not a problem with GCC but something
else. GCC 4.9 won't help.
For all the trouble it is just compile G++ 4.9 yourself or use the PPA!
We know it "fails the test". You are not listening to us or the people on the
Github page you linked us to. It is not a problem with GCC but something
else. GCC 4.9 won't help.
For all the trouble it is just compile G++ 4.9 yourself or use the PPA!
We know it "fails the test". You are not listening to us or the people on the
Github page you linked us to. It is not a problem with GCC but something
else. GCC 4.9 won't help.
For all the trouble it is just compile G++ 4.9 yourself or use the PPA!
When I'm saying "the community" I am mainly referring to the community of
Trisquel.
Of course I'd rather make something that would benefit people more widely and
advocate free software philosophy in general than necessarily solely promote
Trisquel. Thanks anyway, I haven't read that
This does not belong here. The allegations are very serious, and aren't
really appropriate for us to discuss in this manner.
> I think most wont say: "hey thanks good to know", but "I don't care I want
Trisquel now"
That's wrong.
I would like them to tell us how it is going, that's all. It's better than
this walll of silence.
I don't care about these silly "snappy packages", the newest software, or the
latest and greatest technology. I care about software freedom, and Trisquel
seems to offer it.
I know we technically don't deserve anything (according to law) if we do not
financially support the project. I think
Who are you to say they all want to conform or don't care about freedom and
privacy? Most do not know. Anyway, I would say young people are least likely
to conform and be content with their lot in life. Look at the strength of
student movements for example.
More evil/less evil, I don't think we can say this. They all are bad, I don't
see why Google is worse than Microsoft or Apple.
The low-end Chromebooks are just cheapo laptops. I'm thinking more of the
high-end ones. Some have 4GB or more memory. I've even seen a 15-inch
Chromebook with 8G of RAM (I think it was an HP one?). The Google Pixel was
pretty good apparently.
So they're basically generic laptops with
Reminds me of how MediaTek complained about people reverse-engineering their
kernels...
Enigmail uses the gpg2 binary now instead of original gpg because gpg2 solves
many problems with the implementation of gpg. If you change a key in gpg,
gpg2 doesn't always update the key. I changed my gpg key password using "gpg
--edit-key" but since Enigmail uses gpg2 it would only accept
Following on, what I did was export my private key from my gpg keyring,
delete my private key from my gpg2 keyring, then re-import it. Enigmail
worked great after that.
No, systemd is very good at the job it does. There are legitimate qualms with
its design but systemd has nothing to do with the brokenness of Ubuntu 16.04.
Obviously they are aware that they want feedback otherwise they wouldn't have
produced that blog post when people demanded news.
They perhaps think that people will say "why don't you wait, do you really
need newer software" to anyone who asks for news and are content in staying
without
I know they don't owe us anything.
If they wanted to make their lives easier they could always, you know, ask
for help. And they need more people because development seems to be at a
snail's speed. What I'm saying is they don't seem to be very inclusive, small
things like giving periodic
Well, they could give us more than one single blog post. It is their
responsibility to keep interest in their project as its developers. Status
updates do not mean daily. They do not even mean monthly, just a small idea
of how things are going. Maybe it would encourage people to help,
> There is an assumption that Ruben is not working on this. Isn't it possible
that he is working very hard at releasing it and is running into some
problems that take time to fix?
Yeah well there is no communication. So we are justified to assume nothing is
happening. Remember that blog
It's made by volunteers so there is no guarantee of anything.
Something like Debian is surely more likely to keep going for years, possibly
decades from now because it has strong support from various companies, a very
large community and pool of users (relative to Trisquel) among academia and
No, you don't have to edit the file. Let's imagine the following scenario. I
run FVWM, and when FVWM is the only window manager installed, running startx
on its own should begin FVWM. Now I want to switch to Ratpoison. I delete
FVWM and install Ratpoison, then running startx starts
So, just to clarify, are you a moderator? I can't tell who the moderators are
(if there even are any), and how people become one.
Since quite a few people here are advocating the removal of this thread to
the troll hole (or maybe even complete deletion), would it not be reasonable
to say
I was saying it in jest but even if they did not bother to read them it is
pretty standard practice among internet communities not to tolerate
discriminatory language, not to make off-topic discussions etc., so obviously
they should have assumed that those rules apply.
Well, Google Chromebooks come close as they have Coreboot. They are also not
locked down that much; they can be unlocked and re-flashed with upstream
Coreboot and most support GNU/Linux reasonably well. You're also not paying
the Windows tax which is something I suppose. Yet it hasn't led to
What I mean regarding startx being problematic is that you have to specify in
the .Xinitrc what environment X should load, which is pretty intimidating for
someone not familiar with the command line interface.
If you know how I am sure it's pretty straightforward. It has been going
since the
Well, I suppose to understand Marxism you should read the Communist
Manifesto. When you read it, don't forget that it was written in the 19th
century (indeed, Marx and Engels thought it needed updating, especially notes
on literature at the time). It is quite interesting to read, and is
I can see where you are coming from but I think it is reasonable for websites
to have community rules that ban inciting violence against minorities for
instance and advocation of discrimination. I have looked at this EU ruling
and most of it seems quite reasonable.
C'est la vie...
Nobody reads the terms and conditions no matter how short they are... You
live under a rock or something?
We have free speech in principal, but this isn't what this thread ended up
being about. It became about many other unrelated things. Personally I think
the EU ruling could prove impractical but... que sera, sera.
Can't they just install lightdm, with either unity-greeter or the
lightdm-gtk-greeter, or even GDM?
Add the MATE development PPA as directed here:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installing-mate then do the following:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment lightdm
The sad thing is that these threads never get moved to the troll hole. I
think there are no moderators on these forums beyond people putting too many
'-1' votes on a comment, which is open to abuse and personal feuds arguably
more than a defined moderation system. I don't know who the
If you are having trouble create a new forum topic and elaborate further. At
least it would be related to free software, unlike this topic.
The second video is featured on the so-called "Prager University". It is
about as reputable an 'educational institution' as Trump University, a
pathetic commercial entity offering "business education", which is known to
bully people into blowing all their money on worthless courses in real
I think you are banking that I didn't watch your video. I wish I didn't
because it is a load of utter crap, but there we have it. I will tell you why
it qualifies as hate speech.
He starts with "The Zionist media". This is to feed into his racist
narratives of his other videos, that there is
Ugh... Don't defend Lenin, ever. There's little that was good about him, for
example he opposed free speech, presided over political violence, and
destroyed any force that dared oppose him, like the Ukranian Free Territory
and the Kronstadt rebellion. He was awful in the end. Not as awful as
Do you live in America? If so, why do you reserve such bad words for the EU,
even though it doesn't affect you?
And if you live in Europe, why question whether user Loldier lives in
America?
I think that if it is self-hosted by definition it should have its own
repositories if it is building its own packages.
Although I think if you wanted a distribution on a shoestring you could make
it completely source-based and just specify how things are built, rather like
the Gentoo
La Quadrature du Net! Merci beaucoup!
20/16/10
Google changed something about their website so now Disconnect does not work,
only with Bing and DuckDuckGo, and Bing is absolutely terrible. The Tor
browser has changed to use DDG by default, through the DDG hidden service.
Libertarianism got hijacked by the tight long ago. They misinterpret freedom
from oppression as freedom from regulations. It's pretty creepy. There are no
rightwing anarchists, as capitalism only exists with the support of the
state. They just want to shrink the bits of government they don't
No it does have relevance. Unless you have been living under a rock for
centuries, it might be obvious that the views David Duke espouses very often
qualify as hate speech. He was a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan!
They fucking lynch black people and go around shooting and
Also to qualify, the OS must be self-hosted and build its own packages so
that it is independent. This disqualifies Librepup.
> This is why people like you makes me sick
How can a harmless person on the internet make you sick? You have a big shock
in store for you in life. People often say things you object to. How you
react is important for how you behave towards others, and how they behave
towards you in turn.
I am no hypocrite. This is not about free speech. It is about moderation
within a set of clearly-defined boundaries, on certain sites. It is similar
to how you can't just go into some event and make a speech about whatever you
want. They might choose not to host you, and that would not be an
He's making no secret of his views. I know he is a batshit neocon, white
supremacist, antisemite, and Ku Klux Klan member. The media is biased but
seriously, if anything it is biased against progressive causes. You are
deluded, this really belongs in the Troll Hole, if anywhere.
He's making no secret of his views. I know he is a batshit neocon, white
supremacist, antisemite, and Ku Klux Klan member. The media is biased but
seriously, if anything it is biased against progressive causes. You are
deluded, this really belongs in the Troll Hole, if anywhere.
A video by David Duke? The same David Duke described by Wikipedia as "an
American white nationalist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, Holocaust
denier, politician, and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan."
What a load of bs. The guy is not speaking the truth, just a load of
antisemitic
I'm saying although Google demands manufacturers to support OpenGL, which is
free, the end result does not respect people's freedom. Sorry for not making
this clear enough.
I want to point out that moderation of comments is not an attack on freedom
of speech. What they allow on their websites is their own business. You can
voice your opinions through other means, no matter how vile and sickening
they might be. However, just remember: just because you have the
The same can be true for Android, which demands manufacturers to implement
OpenGL for fancy effects, but it is still bad for your freedom, especially on
Quallcomm platforms. It does not matter that you are supporting these 'open'
technologies if it harms your freedom. In a way, I might point
Windows 7 is basically the LTS release.
There is a problem arising with fwupd, in that the firmware is
user-submitted. Couldn't someone add a malicious firmware file?
The people in that thread are using Ubuntu 14.04 and can make it work, which
Trisquel is based on. Your problem is not GCC, it is something else. Try
redownloading the source code and seeing what happens. Reinstall all the
dependencies, and check you didn't fail to install one by mistake. I
You are missing my point. Of course these "hardcore gamers" are better using
GNU+Linux. It's just that they don't represent most people. They care about
performance over free software. We should focus on people who would be happy
now on GNU+Linux, such as children, people at school, people
Why did you need to update the BIOS? Was it crap or something?
Thanks, I'll keep this in mind.
I totally agree with this. Mint is basically a terrible Ubuntu respin. Ubuntu
MATE, Xubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME are brilliant for new users and Canonical are
great with security updates.
Bro, you might be onto something here!!
The "hardcore" gamers who are complaining about lack of games on GNU/Linux
are not the people who are going to care about freedom all that much. If they
are using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers there is no point, they might as
well just use Windows.
That is not what I asked you. Why G++ 4.9 in particular? Why is it special?
I thought it was great at first but as I used it more I found it didn't give
as great search results as DuckDuckGo. Therefore I switched back to DDG. I
think it may just be my personal bias though.
Just my personal observations.
If the driver is using a firmware blob that does something trivial (for
example some touchscreens load a file that defines the dimensions of the
screen), then that is probably not a derivative, and you can make the
argument that it just about complies with the GPL.
It gets more dubious when
Well, with NoScript you can forbid all scripts, then temporarily enable it,
or always allow for certain sites.
I think it is a better system than LibreJS because it blocks all arbitrary
code execution and you can have a whitelist of sites.
But definitely use TBB as much as possible.
Yes and no.
Some people would be perfectly fine to change. They either do not know or
when they actually find out they are afraid of anything new. In Windows world
"new" means a load of problems, like annoying pop-ups and strange error
messages; just look at Windows 10 for crying out loud.
In what way does G++ 4.9 "fail the test"? Couldn't you use the Canonical
development PPA to get the latest GCC toolchain? Any new feature added in GCC
4.9 would almost certainly be in GCC 5.x or 6.x.
According to the page:
"kworker" is a placeholder process for kernel worker threads, which perform
most of the actual processing for the kernel, especially in cases where there
are interrupts, timers, I/O, etc. These typically correspond to the vast
majority of any allocated "system" time
What's your CPU speed? You can check it in settings>about. I own an old Dell
laptop (from around 2007) and it runs GNOME Shell. This uses about 25-50% of
the CPU already, and running the package manager (updater uses the apt
process) can be quite intensive when picking lots of packages.
Officially, the firmware blobs are not distributed with the kernel (they are
hosted in the "unofficial" linux-firmware git repository), so the source code
on its own is free. I've seen people on Phoronix make this rather weak
argument.
It isn't just firmware though, it's various binary files
We are all power users if we have the means to affect our own fate.
I hope you fix it.
How? You must have done this on another operating system. So just be careful
and don't attempt to back up this way (I assume you are making a full disk
image?), and use the normal backup utility.
Try TestDisk to recover them. It will take a long time depending on the size
of the disk and
I agree. However, I think a MS Windows VM is probably better because then
there are often compatibility issues with WINE for newer, more complex
programs.
> any feather bird
So, any bird with feathers, i.e. any bird at all?
Aye, it's an op-ed. I just meant more generally they have posted an article.
It's also corporate propaganda, even more than some of the stuff that appears
there infrequently.
Actually, on second thoughts, the article's link between API and software
more broadly is tenuous at best, and the aeticle's argument has very little
substance to it.
Ars Technica have written an article about the outcome of the Oracle vs
Google trial:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/op-ed-oracle-attorney-says-googles-court-victory-might-kill-the-gpl/
They argue that the verdict, that use of the Java APIs was "fair use" could
destroy the GNU
You are a very bad kitty.
Este es el foro de Inglés. Aquí es el foro español:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-usuarios
Espero que sea útil!
You should not sacrafice your living standards in the pursuit of libre
software. Get the qualification then look at all paths for your life ahead.
I have made it more suitable for a tile by making the image twice the size,
then copying and pasting the image, and then rotating and flipping each part
so that it reflects on the x and y axes.
I do all the editing in MtPaint because it easiest to make simple pixel art
in for me.
KDE was an abomination even back then, before Plasma 5!
I think this may lead to a petty argument.
It is all very well us saying "get another job" because we do not know the
circumstances, but more generally it is true that there are other options. So
I would say get the certification if you really need it but keep in mind that
it is just a
I've created an abomination. It is like a nightmare I had: I was shrunk to
the size of a mouse and lots of screaming children were after me with
sharpened Lego bricks of different colours.
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