DDG has set a default search engine for Trisquel. If it has some unclear
issues with privacy or something else then maybe it should be replaced with
something else one, for example Startpage.
"Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client Finally Makes Its Way Back into Debian's
Repos
After a long wait, Debian developer Christoph Goehre was proud to announce a
couple of days ago that the Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client
officially landed in the repositories of Debian GNU/Linux,
If you are worry about browser fingerprinting you vould use this add-on in
Firefox based-on browsers:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stop-fingerprinting/
"For the seventh year in a row, the search engine that promises not to stalk
your online moves puts its money where its mouth is, this year by donating
$300,000 to organizations that work towards online privacy".
Source:
Yes, IceCat and Abrowser have been updated now but I also wait for update for
Icedove email client.
P.S. Abrowser could be replaced with Firefox as Debian does it nowadays.
All of them are outdated and are exposed for security threats at the moment.
Why does the maintenance of this project omits updates although security
should be high priority?
Abrowser: 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+7.0trisquel47
IceCat: 38.8.0-gnu2+7.0trisquel1
Icedove:
Yes, no problems when Javascript is disabled. However IceCat uses Javascript
version of DDG via its search toolbar by default. DDG says that it's a
privacy-oriented search engine but if user uses it with Javascript and
without ad/script blockers so whether is concern about user privacy in
DuckDuckGo is a default search engine in IceCat. At the moment when user
search something via DuckDuckGo it loads Javascript from yahoo.net The URL
starts with https://duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net/d.js?q=abcxyz.
Besides the filter "duckduckgo.com/t/iaui?$image" found in the
Has someone any experiences with these new addons? Both of them seems to
improve user privacy and the latest also page loading speed.
No Resource URI Leak
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-resource-uri-leak/
Load from Cache
Because HTML5 canvas elements allow websites to identify and track visitors
via some API then users should hide or mask this information using following
addons for Mozilla browsers.
Canvasblocker for desktop:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/
Canvas Fingerprint
"DuckDuckGo, “the search engine that doesn’t track you,” involves its
users in the selection process as it hands out nine $25,000 awards to mostly
FOSS projects."
Source: http://fossforce.com/2016/05/duckduckgo-gives-open-source-projects/
"Snap packaging could inadvertently reveal private data in Ubuntu 16.04."
Source:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3060673/linux/popular-desktop-linux-distro-ubuntu-has-potentially-serious-privacy-flaw.html
FSF Issues Fresh Statement Over ZFS On Linux With GPL Enforcement:
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/zfs-and-linux
BlueGriffon is a editor powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox,
it's a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the
latest Web Standards. It also support many add-ons via their web site.
BlueGriffon is a fork of outdated KompoZer. BlueGriffon is not found via
Have you experiences with version 38.6?
From now on IceCat would also be Firefox although it is built by Trisquel
developers?
Version 38.6 has been released. Does it fix this problem when the latest
upgrades have installed at the same?
It should be safe to ignore message and continue to the site or simply
replace https with http (it's less secure way).
Canonical Says There Is No ZFS and Linux Licence Incompatibility:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-says-there-is-no-zfs-and-linux-licence-incompatibility-500653.shtml
If you only need DNS servers instead of your ISP ones you should familiar
with OpenNIC that is an alternate network information center/alternative DNS
root which lists itself as an alternative to ICANN and its registries.
https://www.opennicproject.org/
Check your the nearest DNS servers
The fourth point release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is now available to download.
Ubuntu 14.04.4 includes an updated hardware enablement stack (HWE). This
comprises of the Linux Kernel 4.2 and an updated X11 stack from Ubuntu 15.10
‘Wily Werewolf’. Source:
Version 38.5 has been released. Does it fix this problem?
Has someone any experiences with this security add-on? Thank to its local
delivery method, it seems to improve performance and user privacy.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/
https://decentraleyes.org/test/
Oscobo is a privacy-focused search engine that does not track you and does
not share your search history with other sites.
https://oscobo.co.uk/
Source:
http://betanews.com/2016/01/06/oscobo-is-a-privacy-focused-search-engine-that-wont-sell-your-data/
"some companies that don't seem to be implementing digital restrictions are
ASUS and Acer".
Asus works well in Trisquel exclude bluetooth and I think their bios is not a
free version. With regard to Acer, normally their wlan chipsets does not work
with Trisquel.
Live-cd is a good way to
I just saw a comment in one forum related to dd utility and its a new
feature. If user use that version then user no longer needs to use pv
command. Maybe Trisquel users will find that version in next Trisquel main
release. Currently it is:
$ dd --version
dd (coreutils) 8.21
"New version
Why do not you use Clonezilla? It's the free and open source software for
partition and disk imaging/cloning. It helps you to do system deployment,
bare metal backup and recovery. Clonezilla is licensed under the GPLv2.
http://clonezilla.org/
BlueGriffon is a editor powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox,
it's a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the
latest Web Standards. It also support many add-ons via their web site.
BlueGriffon is a fork of outdated KompoZer. BlueGriffon is not found via
This is Trisquel forum but whether this is same issue with other distros as
Debian 8?
There is only Icedove version 31.x in the Trisquel repo. However this version
is outdated and no more updates are available. Mozilla has already released
the version 38.x for Thunderbird. Then it should convert to Icedove. When
will newer Icedove found in the repo?
Yes, a new version 38.3 is now available via Trisquel repo.
One word about privacy settings version 38.x onwards. The privacy settings of
the browser on the page about:preferences#privacy There are three items
enabled by default under Location bar section. What do you think, whether
these
A basic Thunderbird/Icedove support for uBlock Origin has been added. It
allows to block ads, tracking, social buttons from a mail content so it
improves user privacy indeed. Thunderbird/Icedove version 31.8.0 is required
at least.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/pull/801
It's true the problem was caused by the add-on FireTray specially in the
systems based on Ubuntu. Now FireTray has been upgraded to version 6 and it
is fixed this problem.
https://foudfou.github.io/FireTray/#release-notes
Although this news does not relate to Trisquel directly however it's a good
for the open-source community.
Source:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/italian-military-switch-libreoffice-and-odf
However these models are not USB 3 ports available.
Are these models equipment with other than mainstream language keyboards?
Openstreetmap plugin is useful but it has one weakness - it uses http
connection by defaut. It is always better to use the secure connection when
available. You can fix this by using the following instructions.
- Close IceCat
- Open the configuration file
Finnish company Zyptonite Oy has launched replacement for Skype. Zyptonite is
an open-source and its peer-to-peer technology means your video calls are
crystal clear and completely private. Zyptonite keeps your calls connected
even in the elevator and when you have no reception. In addition,
The Free Software Foundation urges everyone to reject Windows 10 and join us
in the world of free software. Like all proprietary software, Windows 10 puts
those that use it under the thumb of its owner. Free software like the
GNU/Linux operating system treats users as equals and gives them
http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?articleId=1667697
http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Cisco+To+Buy+OpenDNS+for+635M/story.xhtml?story_id=00200016ZER8
https://www.opennicproject.org/opennic_now_leading_dns_alternative/
So OpenDNS is not yet the best viable, open and democratic DNS
You can easily set complete solution for online privacy:
http://www.blackmoreops.com/2015/07/30/complete-solution-for-online-privacy-with-own-private-openssh-openvpn-and-vnc-server/
Ruggedinbox has a few limits:
- 30 outgoing emails per day
- 1 outgoing email every 3 minutes
while Openmailbox has not these limits. Besides Openmailbox has grown
rapidly. They already have about 130 000 users at the moment.
There are also two command-line utilities for erasing disks in a default
Trisquel repo. These are wipe and nwipe.
DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) is useful for overwrite all data on the disk:
http://www.dban.org/ However it is not suitable for SSD disks. Other method
is boot using a Trisquel Live session and then use shred utility from GNU
coreutils via a command line.
I tested a bit more and just noticed one thing: If user has set auto-login on
LXDE and then trisquel-mini-data metapackage is removed and when the system
will restart next time then a login screen appears and user password does not
work anymore and user can't continue to forward. Maybe this
I use Trisquel 7 Mini and everything works well. However I want to remove
unnecessary packages and services that I really don't need for example lvm2,
dmraid, mdadm, modemmanager, ppp, btrfs-tools, jfsutils etc.
I can remove them using apt but then I get a long list of packages due to
This case has solved. I did a fresh installation using GUI installer and I
could remove metapackages except one and then I removed all my unnecessary
packages (and then apt-get autoremove command). However if
trisquel-desktop-common-data metapackege is removed then it will break
apt/dpkg
This situation is similar when the user is used Synaptic.
Problem is that these packages are installed by default via OS installation
and they are dependencies with OS metapackages. I also tested on Linux Mint
17.1 and there were not any problems there, All packages were standalone
without
User can set NTP server using netinstaller. However the installer suggests
ntp.ubuntu.com by default. Is this the best server or has Trisquel project
own server for this purpose?
There is ulatency package in the Trisquel 7 repo. Has someone tested it and
can that software improves a system performance? Inert use cfq I/O scheduler
by default but it can be changed to bfq that is as default in Trisquel. How
about prelink and preload? Should I also use them in the same
Recently, DuckDuckGo, the Internet search company with a focus on privacy,
donated $125,000 towards open source projects. Source:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2913632/opensource-subnet/duckduckgo-founder-gabriel-weinberg-talks-privacy-and-open-source.html
Has anyone tried vpnbook.com? It is a free VPN service based on OpenVPN.
Their servers are located in different countries. Their privacy policy says:
Our privacy policy is simple: We respect your privacy. We do not collect any
personal information or store any user's internet data. The only
This is one article that tells how to disable tracking in Firefox
http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/04/09/disable-tracking-firefox/ Same parameter
should also set in Abrowser because its default value is false. Icecat does
not contain this parameter.
You can not find it because parameter is not included in browsers as
Iceweasel or Icecat that following the Firefox ESR (31.x versions) But this
parameter is included in Abrowser.
Development of RequestPolicy has been stopped and RequestPolicy Continued
will replace it. It is a beta version at the moment
https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/
One alternative to RequestPolicy Continued is Policeman add-on in address:
I reinstalled coreutils package but the result is still same.
user@trisquel:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall coreutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not to
upgrade.
I did SMART tests/checks without errors using gnome-disks utility. The result
of the Overall Assessment was Disk is OK. Root partition uses ext4
filesystem.
Originally, the problem appeared when I tried to check the total number of
lines using wc command.
user@trisquel:~$ cat file.txt | wc -l
modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
This is output for marioxcc:
user@trisquel:~$ ls -li $(which wc) $(which modprobe)
261530 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr
I just noticed that wc command does not work correctly in Trisquel 7. It has
linked with modprobe. My example is shown below:
user@trisquel:~$ which wc
/usr/bin/wc
user@trisquel:~$ which modprobe
/sbin/modprobe
user@trisquel:~$ wc -l
modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
user@trisquel:~$ wc
The new version contain additional hardware support and bug fixes over the
original 14.04 release:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/14.04.2
Maybe new updates will arrive soon from Trisquel
One alternative could be Policeman
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policeman/ I have not tested
it but it has received good reviews.
Maybe Dell could be one alternative with its a new laptop model:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-offers-new-ubuntu-linux-workstation-laptop/
Has someone test this program? It seems reduce wear to physical drives and
speed-up browser. At least Icecat is found in the list of the supported
browsers. You can't install it via the default repos but there is for Ubuntu
14.04 based on distros:
Video WithOut Flash helps users watching videos without flash. This is an
add-on for Mozilla based browsers and it is released under the GPL.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-without-flash/
I found one review: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20141201#trisquel
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