There's a Fortunes app on Android, too:
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=fortune=org.legtux.m_316k.fortune
http://ratpoison.wxcvbn.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Unprograms
http://ratpoison.wxcvbn.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Apps
Basically programs that are focused on the keyboard, mostly CLI programs.
It's 25 MB. So it does not have any speech assistance packages, e.g. GNOME
Orca installed. You could try rolling an ISO image with debbootstrap and
syslinux if you are adventurous.
I do not use the command line, rather, I use Ratpoison. It is a tiling window
manager that does as little with X as is possible. It has specific
key-bindings designed not to conflict with Emacs. This basically feels like
running the X Window System from the command line rather than the
To be fair, Xubuntu is also not very good in terms of consuming RAM by
default. The live CD has lots of GNOME dependencies and applications, meaning
it is just a bit bloated. If you want to see Xfce really shine (if memory is
an issue as your post seems to suggest), try the Debian Xfce Live
> with the simple and clean look of Ubuntu XFCE
That is a good idea. But it begs the question, why not just use Xfce and have
the Trisquel icon theme?
> File Manager in MATE is a joke
I would say it is not a "joke", just poorly designed in some respects. Thunar
from Xfce is pretty much the
They are all back-doored. Every single one. The separate processor that runs
the Real Time OS is basically omnipotent and basically more priveliged than
the kernel because it can control all the peripherals.
There is no current solution other than Libreboot. Even then, we do not
control the
"This video has been removed by the user"
It seems rather morbid to speculate on events after somebody's death,
especially when they probably won't be giving up any time soon. Would you
like us to speculate about your death?
I suspect this thread may belong in the "troll hole". Sorry.
I use a USB. It would be a waste of a good CD to only have the 30MB net
installer on it when you can have a full distribution installer like
Trisquel-mini.
Thanks!
Now I know it's not just me, the network installer is crap for other people:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/issues-encrypted-installation
I can't solve it either. I never got problems with Debian.
Gitlab as a code-hosting service has a 'C' grade. The actual software is free
software, which is what Trisquel runs on its servers.
Don't jump to conclusions prematurely.
Also, it is not so bad to host software on Gitlab, in my opinion. The site
can mostly be used without running JavaScript,
My point is that Canonical don't make this clear. Some person who decides to
try Ubuntu is not going to look at the security team FAQ page. They would
assume that there would be the main repository, supported for the 5 years as
advertised. So Canonical should have some sort if disclaimer
"Linux Mint uses it so it must be the best" seems to be the lime of argument
on places like Reddit.
Yes, it is news. "Long term support" implies support for all the packages in
Ubuntu for 5 years. Canonical does not say on their website "over 7000
packages supported for 5 years, but please note that many of the packages you
might actually want to use do not receive support". I thought it
It is preference. Mate and XFCE are not really functionally different.
However, I would argue XFCE is more lightweight and customisable. Mate also
has its own strangely-named applications not really functionally different
from the GNOME equivalents, and its own terminal, so although you can
Fewer users, yes, but you could argue that they are a greater prize.
Journalists, academics, scoentists use it. A University's research department
may have lucrative data. People make mistakes, even theGNU/Linux users who
may be more informed about security issues like firewall.
I just use
It seems to have originated from a passing comment on a forum topic a few
months ago.
Switch to Gitlab if you don't want that sort of thing. Source Forge are bad
on so many levels.
Nothing, it just hasn't reached the repository yet. It will be in the next
release.
It's about freedom, not because "it's their own product".
SourceForge is nasty, it is full of dubious advertising.
Also, you can create projects without JavaScript.
> degrading people
They are actively spreading pseudo-science, which is harmful both to
themselves and the people that they have an influence over. They are
degrading the Trisquel community by doing this; it contributes to the idea
that free software is for the sort of people who wear "tin
There is no debate.
What is the difference between Hunspell, Myspell and Aspell dictionaries? Do
any have better/worse language support?
Did you try to install Trisquel using the network installer? I had real
trouble with that, too. I found the installer seems to think the drive that
the USB is on is the target drive without exception. Try a CD.
They just did a chroot from the normal Tesla operating system.
Where is the evidence that MATE will be default?
If you haven't tried installing again, do that (you should probably rewrite
the media, maybe to a USB drive).
Does the computer have an AMD Radeon card? They are known to play up and just
be bad in general with free software.
Posteo, bro.
Personally, I think that while GNOME shell is a great desktop environment in
its own right, and is intuitive for people not used to using a computer, such
as young children, it just doesn't quite work in the way I want it to. I
decided to install XFCE, and it was easy to customise it to be
Good grief! There are no reputable medical professionals who advise against
vaccination. The so-called "International Council on Vaccination" are a bunch
of phonies and village idiots.
(http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/02/03/the-clueless-cite-the-ignorant/)
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE that
Ratpoison.
Conkeror.
Wesnoth.
Are you really saying that the Canonical/Microsoft relationship iehow
connected to the death of Ian Murdock? It's a ridiculous idea, you have just
said something that came in to your head with absolutely no evidence.
How is he related to this at all? He had no connection to Canonical other
I'm not sure how it recommends non-free software. They produce an add-on for
various proprietary and non-proprietary browsers. How is that different from,
say, how GNU Emacs was ported to Windows?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-October/03.html
> You get a distribution that is: * absolutely committed to free software,
every end-user application on the CD is free software
;'-(
Or on 1000 floppy disks and then claim they are for an art project
celebrating the obsolescence of old technology.
I found an old computer with Firefox 9. Back when Firefox was less of a
monster.
>*As a side note, ClamAV for example will look for Windows viruses on
GNU/Linux machines
I wonder how well Regin or Stuxnet run under Wine!
There is various sorts of malware available, just run rkhunter to see the
kind of malware out there.
The difference is that it's harder for someone to get it if they only install
software in the repository. Thanks, cryptographic signatures! PPAs, though,
could in theory serve up various
At an extreme you could just play it and then record the screen as you do so
to get round the obfuscation.
You probably could, but to be honest it would probably be easier just to
build it with the stock de-blobbed Debian kernel. TAILS users need to have
the same set of software so that they are anonymous, so it would be better
just to swap the kernel only.
I once tried Fedora
rpm install vlc
Turns up crap.
BLAG better although now extremely outdated
Thanks Red Hat! >;-(
In all honesty it's probably cheaper just to pay the 1EUR to Posteo or just
use a gratis service. Privacy is important but it doesn't mean you should
dismiss all services. For example when setting up your server you will need
to be knowledgeable about how to secure your server (firewall for
You can't run your own telegram server and they promised to make the service
free... but just didn't, in a mean-spirited way. That's what the warning is,
and while it does not mean that the client is non-free, we should reject all
centralised social media on principal (your choice though).
Personally, I avoid them because they add unnecessary bloat to the system. I
had no need for Java and OpenJDK had a badly designed icon, so I got rid of
it. I haven't used a Mono/C# program in years (coding and using) so have no
need for it. Mono/C# seems to really just be for easy access to
No, but there is an effort to make it an official version, as they did for
Debian GNU/kfreebsd (Debian with the FreeBSD Kernel). Currently it is an
unofficial port.
> What free distro
https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-supports-armv7/ Due to the number of
free drivers and firmware and the publicly available designs of the
Beaglebone Black, many distributions run on it. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is
based on Arch but is fully free. However, it is
LXQT is not really as stable as LXDE. The menus especially sometimes 'hang'
and stay there after clicking somewhere else. I would argue that it isn't
really much more lightweight than XFCE while losing some of the features of
the good LXDE panel. XFCE should replace LXDE, as that is more
I don't think that you can consider Debian GNU/Hurd to be an entirely
`separate' project. It's only `unofficial' as far as not being supported as
an official spin due to lack of support for hardware currently. It is hosted
on their servers and they make lots of reference to it in the
Agreed. Although these are pre-release specifications, it is slightly
concerning that they deemed a Broadcomm CPU of all things to be acceptable.
>AS I can see, that project is like anothers "open-source" projects.
I would argue they aren't really like these other projects in that they do
Mint got hacked because it was low-hanging fruit for nefarious types. They
did not make it easy to verify GPG signatures or encourage people to, and the
key wasn't in the web of trust. They did not update WordPress or their server
software. They also create a mess of free and nonfree
I understand this, but my point is that, save LXDE, most if the desktop
environments are on par in terms of power drain during normal use (although
KDE is a bit more bloated).
Do you have Gparted installed? If Gnome Disk Utility is recognising that a
device is plugged in, then Gparted will probably find it too. You could see
what sort of options that gives you.
It's probably dead then. Maybe it met its flash write limit or it just played
up at the wrong time, errors happen after all sometimes.
Keep trying though, if you find anything I'd be interested.
Let's be clear though that we are talking about people who are used to
computers though. They don't like change and are usually tethered to
proprietary platforms by some obscure (or not so obscure) specific program or
love the brand. They have often heard of libre software but think they
We have something better than a major studio for spreading awareness: the
internet.
An online film would be more practical.
However, such a film would need to appeal to a wide audience to be
successful. So of course, of most relevance is talking about mass
surveillance, and harming civil
I usually use a grsec-patched kernel, which helps prevent a number of
theoretical exploits, e.g. permission escalation. It doesn't sandbox software
but I think it must prevent similar exploits to Firejail.
If you are interested in systems programming, learning C as others have
commented, is a must. However, you should not jump into the deep end. From
your comment,it seems you don't have much programming experience, so I would
recommend you learn Python (v2.7 I believe is installed by default
> but the user has the option to active a proprietary repo from the settings
Debian has the nonfree repo, but it has nonfree software other than
firmwares. A better way of doing it is what Fedora has - all free software
with an exception made for nonfree firmwares.
Personally, I would just
https://micahflee.com/2016/01/debian-grsecurity/
Keystroke fingerprinting, as far as I know, must be some clever JavaScript on
the part of the website owner, so yes, Tor Browser Bundle (not Tor itself)
with scripts off will do this. Also protects against various other tracking
measures e.g. supercookies, unique system font tracking,
If all the other 'outrage' from the free software community did not change
their mind, ot the statement from the SFLC, then I doubt that the FSF's
statement will do anything. Canonical is a corporation; it knows only money
and litigation, and will only be swayed by such.
>I truly believe more free software on Windows makes more migration to
GNU/Linux (as long as the said software exists on GNU/Linux too).
I agree on this point. Before I switched to GNU/Linux (but had heard of it
and was very interested in it), I tried to use as much libre software as
> One thing that must be noted is the possibility that Microsoft won't
actually tell the end-user that he's using free software.
I suspect this also. They call it running the "Ubuntu Linux userspace"
because if they referenced GNU project, some people might investigate
further. They will
Red Hat could go after Canonical and would have legal ground, considering
they are the largest corporate contributor to Linux. They are in a similar
business model to Canonical so Canonical's loss is their gain. I'm not sure
how likely in reality this is, though.
So maybe we should have an unofficial competition to redesign some things?
For instance we could have people theme specific desktop environments, for
example XFCE or GNOME Shell!
How many students at your university are 'converted' so to speak to using
free software?
Should also add they can do it in the file manager, by pressing CTRL+h to
view hidden files and then just doing it through that...
It's one of the more informed technology websites.
It's easily possible they don't know what GNU is beyond "the tools used with
Linux". Have you emailed them? They may be interested. For instance, in this
article
They mean .thunderbird. Mint and Ubuntu include Thunderbird while Debian and
Trisquel have Icedove which is an unbranded version of Thunderbird because of
disputes over using the Thunderbird name on modified versions of Thunderbird
(Mozilla does not allow this). So in Mint you have
I recommend TestDisk
Gnome Disk Utility can see it, that is good. What happens when you select
`format disk' by clicking the icon with the cog on it at the top? Does this
option exist, or other options such as `restore disk image'?
You can install like this:
https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html
I'm not sure if you can dual-boot though.
What do you need Debian for that Trisquel does not have (they can be set up
to be exactly the same)? If you are using it for newer software (testing or
unstable?)
I think the logo is pretty unique already. I think it is probably more
important to promote the distribution, what it stands for and why people
should use it.
Ubuntu has a problem with `not invented here': they developed Unity which
people did not want or need. The same goes for the Mir
USB is probably most glaring feature missing. Most new computers can't even
install it because they use USB keyboards and mouses, rather than PS/2
devices. Not sure about laptops, though.
So for me it stays in a VM environment.
You can install virtual machine manager: the package is called virt-manager.
It is simple and provides a graphical front-end to QEMU and libvirt.
Except recompile Trisquel for POWER8 architecture.
"The competing stresses posed by balancing government intrusion and
individual rights in pursuit of a safe society will be the topic of a panel
discussion featuring MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, journalist Glenn Greenwald
and former NSA subcontractor Edward Snowden presented by the University
Does GNASH work with any websites at all? I have found that the severe
decline of Flash, and the fact that sites register it as an 'outdated'
version of Flash, mean that it is almost entirely obsolete.
Try a reinstallation first, of both dm-crypt and kernel, either using apt-get
install --reinstall PACKAGE or in Synaptic.
Then see what happens. Alternatively try the 4.2 kernel in Trisquel's
repository. See what happens.
Like 0 A.D.
Good game but incomplete, but the most recent release added plenty of fixes
and enhancements.
Others like Wesnoth are under active development but have somewhat slowed in
pace. The version in Trisquel and Debian stable is old but not too outdated.
Also, Minetest is pretty good for
Thanks for your reply. I repeated the steps with the netinstall CD, verifying
the cryptographic signatures and md5 sums of the disk image, and attempted to
install. I get the same GRUB error, so I install without the bootloader. This
is clearly a bug: it expects /dev/sda to be target disk.
>I bet MS would love to put the NT Kernel under a GPL compatible license so
they can get BtrFS working on Windows
Honestly? Why would they bother when they can already keep people dependent
on Microsoft applications? The copyright is all assigned to Microsoft so they
just don't want to and
> checked against the server hash to make sure the motherboard has not been
changed when it would be a new computer.
This is true. If you change too much about your computer more than 4 times,
Windows locks up and won't run.
While attempting to install GRUB, it seemed to have corrupted the original
installation, meaning I was not able to boot my computer into anything other
than the net installer. There is a shell included but 'install-grub' does not
exist as a command, so I can't run it after installation or
Hi, I am having a number of problems regarding installing Trisquel encrypted.
Firstly, I attempted to install Trisquel using the net installation CD. It
all went fine (allowing me to install everything except /boot encrypted using
the useful 'guided partitioning with encrypted LVM' option)
I thought their English was actually pretty good. Recordings often sound
different than in reality because the microphone tends to pick up sounds that
a person listening learns to ignore. I think he was getting worked up that
the questions were asked in a way he found irritating. Although
I would argue most people need a little bit of direction. Most people I have
spoken to accept the value of privacy, and then I ask them why they are still
using the internet as they always have. So then they become interested in
what they can do. Little things to start with, such as using
Are you having the issue with the GRUB passords for any other OS? This has
been really confusing for many people:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/grub-password-input-necessary-other-oss-booting
Basically delete the file /etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD or remember its contents
(you can only change it
The front camera does not work though, at least according to the official
list of devices.
Yes, but could a photo that you are looking at be engineered to break out of
the "sandbox" of the emulator, gain root permissions and steal
data/passwords?
If we apply it to wider software in general, when does something stop being
"art" and become software? From a freedom perspective, how
If I'm honest, I am considerably more concerned by the constant tracking by
the telecoms companies, rather than the nonfree software running on the
device. Of course, they can take control of the device remotely (although
some mobile system-on-chips have good isolation of the modem) but you
If you are using the Tor browser bundle, you can always click the green onion
in the top left, and select "new Tor circuit for this site" over and over
until you land on a good circuit. It doesn't always work but it is good to
know about.
>Also md5 isn't as reliable as gpg, from what I've read.
The download page provides an md5sum and an ASCII-armoured GPG signature.
MD5 is fine for verifying that the download did not corrupt along the way.
MD5 is vulnerable to certain attacks that makes it unsuitable for storing
passwords.
"The latest version of GNewsense" ... is hopelessly outdated. It no longer
gets security fixes so should not be used. Debian 'main' is as libre as
Trisquel. One of the only practical advantages of Debian over Trisquel is in
the 'unstable' rolling release, anyway.
Has anyone else had this problem? In fact, installing GRUB from the net
install fails whether I'm using encrypted partitions or not. Does anyone
actually use the net installer?
The so-called license on new Windows computers with it pre-installed store
the key in the BIOS so people could not sell the license key after they get a
new computer. However buying it at retail will not do this unless the Windows
installer uses some (even worse) toxic magic.
The BIOS is
1. Neither is the Trisquel kernel. Debian removes firmware in a similar way.
2. Debian and Ubuntu have similar number of packages as Ubuntu is itself a
more bloated realisation of Debian.
But obviously these are not reasons to not have a fully free version of
Debian that isn't extremely
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