I've just submitted the support request to change the forum username
Tehnoetic to Technoethical: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/22402
Any admin reading this? :-D
Libreboot will soon apply to re-join the GNU project. It is not yet certain
whether the GNU project would indeed accept Libreboot as a renewed member.
RMS of GNU and John Sullivan of the FSF have both accepted my apologies, via
private emails. With that, plus consent from Libreboot core maint
UPDATE:
The community here and in various other places where Libreboot users are
prevalent, has decidedly voted in favour of a reunion with the GNU project.
See update on the Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/libreboot/comments/66tdds/proposal_for_libreboot_rejoin_gnu_community/
Alyssa
RMS has replied, saying that he accepts my apology and that he hopes
Libreboot can work with the community in good relation again.
I actually sent my apology to RMS directly, via email. I did apologize
generally to the GNU project, on the website.
RMS generally prefers email and as far as I know he doesn't use the web.
Context:
https://libreboot.org/news/unity.html
https://libreboot.org/news/proposal-rejoin-gnu.html
Main discussion thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/libreboot/comments/66tdds/proposal_for_libreboo
t_rejoin_gnu_community/
Thoughts are welcomed. If the community agrees, I will begin the
application
Yes, the Libreboot website no longer mentions Trisquel at all, even
negatively.
I look forward to the new Trisquel release. While I myself personally use
Debian nowadays for a variety of reasons, and probably will stay that way,
I'm glad that the Trisquel project is still alive and kicking.
submit it as a patch to the docs (they're in markdown)
https://libreboot.org/git.html
Since Trisquel is basically Debian (the guide for Debian that we have, also
still works on Trisquel), you could just re-add the file
encrypted_trisquel.md, with a link for that from gnulinux/index.md, with
We may provide Trisquel by default again in the future, especially if we yet
again work with the FSF for RYF certification on newer products. At present,
Debian is the default as a matter of course (and none of the systems sold by
Minifree are RYF certified at present; we have ditched X200/T4
Hi,
We have made peace with the FSF and GNU project, on our end. See:
https://libreboot.org/unity/
For avoidance of doubt, the same willingness to resume cooperation also
applies to Trisquel, not just the FSF.
I personally wish this project well. Libreboot's website no longer negative
men
In that case, you're trusting yet another payment processor to convert your
bitcoins into fiat currency (GBP, EUR, USD, etc), and the exchange points are
usually quite shady; I trust them even less than PayPal (and here's what I
wrote about paypal -> https://minifree.org/paypal/ - paypal is e
bitcoin is difficult accounting wise:
* most accountants don't understand bitcoin
* UK specific: for EU customers, to GBP exchange rate set by HMRC (UK tax
authority) must be recorded for VAT purposes. The UK government doesn't seem
to have exchange rates for bitcoin.
(workaround is to do bit
Use KDE
https://trinitydesktop.org/
Eemeli,
Look at this commit just added to libreboot:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libreboot.git/commit/?id=0c651b42de90173206bcbfc5d5aa4e71e973177f
Can you re-compile with that latest commit, and confirm? This ought to solve
that bug "--MORE--Unknown key 0xff detected" but I don't have a m
Prices on Minifree have come back down again to the levels they were at
before. The FSF Giving Guide 2015 discount is also available.
Prices have come down once more. Combined with the 100 EUR discount coupon,
Minifree's Libreboot X200 is now considerably cheaper than Libiquity's X200,
even if you're ordering from the US.
There isn't really much choice for HDDs and SSDs.
HDD or SSD is identical, freedom-wise. You can read about them here:
http://libreboot.org/faq/#firmware-hddssd
Just FYI, the prices on Minifree have come back down again. I said it was
only temporary, to curb demand :)
By the way, you can use the coupon code "fsfgivingguide" on the site during
checket and get 100 EUR off the standard price, for all computers on
Minifree. This code is active until 31 January 2016. With each sale made
during this period, Minifree will donate 20 EUR to the FSF.
More informat
The T400 from Minifree gained RYF certification months ago, provisionally
(because it's the same hardware inside as the X200), just without an
announcement. An announcement will be made by the FSF in due course. The FSF
is busy, so it takes time.
> 90 thousand (USD), actually. For this board:
http://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/kgpe-d16.html - that also pays for another
board (ATX, desktop) that Timothy is now working on, which I hope to have
ready before years end.
And now here's me putting one's money where one's mouth is:
https://rapto
> You're accusing the maintainer of a firmware distribution – a
distribution which has stable releases, thorough documentation, and
utilities, all for the express purpose of making installation as easy as
possible – of intentionally making the installation process difficult for
his own pers
> For example, he paid something like 30 000 euros to another developer for
porting just one server board to coreboot. He simply needs to cover his
costs.
90 thousand (USD), actually.
Yes, the price rise on the site is to cover future costs. Also to curb demand
a little bit. I had huge pro
Hi,
A simple form for jump the BUG is click in navigation bar an enter...
This is a high-end server motherboard from ASUS, using current-gen AMD CPUs
(fam15h). It was added to libreboot this week (in the git repository).
This is the first time libreboot has supported recent non-ARM hardware.
http://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/kgpe-d16.html
http://minifree.org/product/lib
Anyway so, back onto the rk3288 topic.
dimkr on the #libreboot freenode IRC channel has told me that he's porting
LibrePup GNU/Linux to the rk3288 ARM chromebooks. He's almost there, and has
got it to boot, he just has to get all the packages integrated. Librepup is a
libre version of Puppy
And all it took was Jason Self to email us both, telling us to STFU. He
knocked some sense into us.
> I don't see a need for libreboot where we are going because there already
exists other free bootloaders.
Of course, this is your persective, based on the assumption that libreboot
only integrates for it. The actual build system in libreboot is quite
flexible. We've discussed in the past,
Ok, I like this response, overall. Feeling better now. I can work with this.
Progress.
People do things that are sometimes not ideal, and conflicts occur. It
happens. To respond to some of your points:
> I never claimed we accomplished anything in the area libreboot works on.
> What on ear
I can see that you're not going to give up on attacking me (or lying about
me, for that matter).
What's interesting is that you're now doing it a lot more aggressively, and a
lot more publicly for the first time.
> Francis will go on his way and do what he thinks is best and the rest of us
will go on our way and do what we think is best.
Aside from comments about distros (advice which I also took from you, and
others), savewifi.org and one or two minor points, this is the only thing
you've said in t
> I'm not the one making inaccurate statements. I NEVER said I was against
libreboot's existence.
Except, you've demonstrated it through your actions and your words.
> I just think it's time has come and gone and you could be working on
something that will be
> more useful than libreboot wi
> It's not slander when it is true and I'm 99.5% certain since I've seen the
logs
I have the same logs. The early work was not done by me, and I assumed that
Steve had used leaked datasheets, but I was wrong. It was pure RE, from
publicly available utilities and datasheets.
> However that
You can say whatever you like, and it won't change my mind about you. My mind
was made up a long time ago.
Now you're just blatantly lying to people. I'll respond to your points.
1. What? You didn't ask me for help, and I never offered it.
2. But he is, in this area.
3. No, what you did was try to take me over, and then offer to "help" me. I
responded to your offer with a link to wikipedia article
Why would I be interested in GPS? I'm not saying that it's unimportant, but
it's unrelated to the libreboot project, which is what I'm focusing on.
I reject your rejection of libreboot. The project *is* worthwhile, and *is*
doing amazing things. I'm excited about what will happen in the futur
Chris, the overall problem in all of this is still that you are selling the
very kinds of systems that you are so critical of in public. You tell people
that we need to move to fully free systems, and criticize the libreboot
project for being a "dead end" focusing on certain hardware that you
I thought you said you were done with this?
> Your taking short cuts and getting *nowhere* in the scheme of things
For this and the following text in that paragraph: again, you're missing the
point. Libreboot is providing a solution that people can use, right now at
this very moment, meeting
Except,it's actually the other way around. You made the first move. But
you're right. Let's stop this. I have better things to do, such as, work on
libreboot, and directly undermine your opposition to it in the process.
There you go again. This is why I hate you, and your company. You are
arrogant, you think that your way is right, and that everyone should just
submit to your own wishes.
Do you not think that I'm also in contact with the libre distros? I've *met*
Mark Weaver and Ruben Rodriguez (of GuixSD
I didn't want to work with you in the first place. I never asked you to
approach me. Your CTO approached me out of the blue and told me what
ThinkPenguin planned to do, and asked me to help ThinkPenguin.
When you publicly criticize my company for what it does, and then try to do
the very sa
Chris, this is actually a very good thing that you are campaigning against
the FCC's recent policy proposals regarding WiFi. I'm also against it, and
have done what little I can in support for the opposition to it. We're on the
same page here.
However, calling this "real work" to imply that
Trisquel is fine for servers. They get regular security updates upstream from
Ubuntu (for 14.04 LTS). The FSF also use Trisquel on their servers.
he only
real options.
> The work to port coreboot to them was already done (except apparently one
model,
> but you got lucky, because of illicitly obtained info, which implicates
anybody who
> bought your laptops or downloads libreboot). It's no different than us
building off
Chris, you're missing the point about libreboot entirely. Without it, there
would be *zero* viable options for systems that respect the users' freedom.
You're also dismissing the hard work that we put into the libreboot project,
every day. We've done more than your company has done, in the la
Chris, I'm going to have to disagree with you entirely. Libreboot as it is
and as it has been, is absolutely vital. Without it, we'd still be where we
were 2 years ago. What you're missing is that the mere existence of libreboot
serves as inspiration for others to push things forward, and to
I removed mention of Debian and Fedora on the C201 page. It seemed like an
acceptable compromise, if we explained how to avoid blobs, but I had a few
conversations with people and came to the conclusion that I had made a
mistake.
The page in question is http://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.ht
vita_cell, because free EC firmware.
http://libreboot.org/faq/#firmware-ec
On the other hand, it fails to meet RYF criteria because users would be too
tempted to install the blobs for wifi and video acceleration. There are RYF
endorsed laptops sold by Minifree and Libiquity which come with libreboot
preinstalled.
the video a mali GPU, there's the unreleased lima driver that we hope we can
convince the developer to release and polish (ask paulk about that). Until
then, you have to use it without video acceleration (just software rendering)
to keep your freedom
About the wifi, the built in wifi needs blobs (chip is soldered) but you can
use a USB dongle. ThinkPenguin and Tehnoetic sell these, there are also other
AR9271 dongles that you can find online. So, at least some choices there.
I've not used this laptop yet, but will get one soon. Paul Kocia
From IRC:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libreboot.git/commit/?id=d8b597f33e75d04b84be7c9d7081a3b97821617d
ASUS Chromebook C201 support in libreboot
issues:
* Needs blobs for video acceleration (in linux kernel) - optional, can do
most things without acceleration
* Needs blobs for wifi
That would be wonderful. It looks like this is using ICH7/i945 hardware, so
it should be doable.
Hi. We had issues flashing the mb11 with flashrom, and had to resort to
external flashing methods. Not really a problem, but it is inconvenient. The
mb21 worked just fine with flashrom.
Can you figure out how to patch flashrom instead? (flashrom is free software,
unlike the tool that you li
// ,
Why is TriSquel's last release so old?
The major Linux distributions use a "rolling" release cycle, every 6 months,
9 months, or a year.
Does thinkpenguin.com still support Trisquel?
I ask because I noticed that the "libre" subdomain from
"libre.thinkpenguin.com" goes away once I v
Wow. That warms my heart, it does.
// , I want to see whether I can install Trisquel 7.0 LTS Belenos on either
of these, the L512X or the MJVE2LL/A.
Has anyone had a go with these models, or models like them?
I know TriSquel is based on Debian, and Debian works on the Dell XPS L512X,
but I don't know whether anyone has trie
Chris, the FSF rejected Purism's proposal to have PureOS certified under the
Free System Distribution Guidelines. Ask Joshua Gay and he'll tell you.
(yes, I'm leaking this. It deserves to be put here)
Suffice it to say, PureOS contains software that isn't suitable for
endorsement by the FSF
It's actually irrelevant whether he's trying, because even if he tried, he'd
fail. The microcode updates are required, as is the Intel Management Engine
(read: giant backdoor), and neither of them can be replaced because they are
cryptographically signed by Intel. Both of these deficiencies a
To find out why everything Todd said was bullshit in the above post, please
read:
http://libreboot.org/faq/#intelme
It took me a big bunch of hours discovering the www to figure out, that there
will probably no T60 that works out of stock with coreboot/libreboot.
As far as i could figure out all T60 with Intel GMA have an XGA screen (which
all are untested or incompatible to core-/libreboot) , I found only o
Hi There,
I was looking at that Site, too. These are out ouf Stock for a while now.
I think getting no answer is a clear message ! There's no much buissness
going on.
Hope that helped.
Hello Together,
Id Love to try it on my own. BUT...
But, because so far I have no T60 / X60 / X60s ...
Sure, they are "cheap" on eBay..
What me really bothers is, that there is no reliable way to figure out in
advance , if the selected Thinkpad (on eBay) will be able to run
coreboot/librebo
Some of them make it a bit snappier (for instance turning off the
gpu-rendered desktop compositing by removing compton, if you have a slow/weak
gpu). But I agree, most of the changes are just personal preference, not
related to performance or being lightweight.
I also removed gedit and replaced with geany, but I'm guessing some people
here might like vim or emacs.
I already use tabs (ctrl+t, btw), but in old naitulus you could display 2
directories in the same window at the same time (both visible) using F3.
rm foo
asks for confirmation
rm -rf foo
doesn't
that was behaviour in trisquel 6. 7 lets you use rm without confirm
add this to the end of your .bashrc:
alias='rm -i'
do it now. or you might regret it later ;)
(rm -rf still won't ask for confirmation, which is fine)
since -f (in -rf) mea
F3 dual pane selection in nautilus (view 2 directories) no longer works in
T7, which is a bit annoying. Does anyone know how to get it back?
There were a few things that annoyed me, so I did the follow (see below).
Hope it helps you too.
#!/bin/bash
echo "DO NOT RUN THIS. Look at it in an edit instead and follow the
instructions inside"
echo "This is for when re-installing Trisquel 7"
exit 1
# install trisquel
sudo apt-get -y i
My system runs really smooth after doing all of this.
Also, go into gnome terminal and disable the scroll bar and menu bar.
in gedit, go to settings and turn on line numbers, and disable the setting
that creates a backup of a file before saving it. (so you don't get those
annoying ~ files lying around on your drive)
I found this recently:
http://www.innovelec.co.uk/DNUA-93F
This is the same USB wifi dongle that ThinkPenguin and Tehnoetec sells. Might
be interesting to people in the UK (they have a page on ebay, but they don't
seem to have their own site yet).
They sell the dongles here:
http://www.ebay
It's not in libreboot yet, but it will be soon.
However, it's possible to build a coreboot ROM for T60 that is blob-free,
with native graphics instead of VGA option ROM (VBIOS), and with non-free
microcode updates removed (not included in ROM).
It also has backlight support (Fn+Home and Fn+E
It's ath9k
Lista de programas
-gpxviwewr
-marble
-josm
-merkator
-gpsdrive
-grass
Mis mejores:
-gpsprune
-QLandkarteGT
y
-qgis (http://qgis.org): que no esta en los repositorios de trisquel supongo
que por que no esta en los repositorios de ubuntu precise.
http://libreboot/ now contains info.
The "another day" is closer.
H-node has nothing on this, but this user had a problem when upgrading from
Trisquel 5 to 5.5:
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/graphics-problems-after-upgrade-55
In that thread, the workaround is found: use vesa driver.
Setting vesa should be considered a last resort.
Also see (in the article): computer science education in schools.
This is literally new.
Quote:
>> The WHSG ICT department is already teaching programming to students from
age 11 and Moore notes that "in our environment, the worst thing they can do
is crash their own account - even if they co
Worth a look.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/british-school-switches-students-computers-linux-reducing-costs-and-improving-computin
Hi acriticalcookie,
On my old system, I couldn't get 3D acceleration but a newer kernel allowed
native resolution of the display.
Try updating your kernel: http://jxself.org/linux-libre
Follow the instructions on that page to install the latest version.
This may or may not solve your issue,
WordPress is pretty nice.
(use wordpress.org, not wordpress.com)
The gluglug sites runs on it.
I use mine for everything. Most of my use of a computer is text editing,
email, web browsing and the like, but I also watch videos and compile source
code, etc.
I never have any performance issues.
Mine is an X60s with the Core Duo L2400 processor, running Trisquel 6 with
Gnome 3 desktop.
The brightness is fixed at 100%. This is a limation in the "native graphics"
code, but I suspect it will added in the future.
("native graphics" or "native gfx init" or "native vga init" is a term used
in coreboot)
(it is a free VBIOS / VGA ROM replacement)
A VBIOS inits the GPU and control
inside the archive there is a file "flash_instruction".
Ignore them. Those errors are totally benign.
The distro grub.cfg is trying to load modules that don't exist in the
payload.
I have a few ideas for how to deal with this, I'll be experimenting on those
ideas later.
(for now, just press enter to get past those errors)
http://gluglug.org.uk/X60/release/X/X60_source.tar.gz
X is always a number. This is how updates are labelled.
Then there is http://libreboot.org/ but that's for another day.
See my note below (in this thread) about gdnewhat.
Your hostname in the past tells me that you use Debian. Although I don't
(won't) use this myself, the dependencies should be the same as Trisquel.
You should probably recompile it.
So install these dependencies (as per the readme):
sudo apt-get -y install libpci-dev pciutils zlib1g-dev libftdi
s/past/paste
Note, I am also "fchmmr" (same nick as on this forum) on IRC freenode. /query
me there if you get stuck.
For those who are reading this, this assumes you already have coreboot.
This won't work if you have Lenovo BIOS (there are some extra steps
involved).
--
wget http://gluglug.org.uk/X60/release/3/X60_source.tar.gz
Here is what I did:
tar -xf X60_source.tar.gz
cd X60_source/flashrom
or
cd X60
Tested gdnewhat. Doesn't work but you can now use "cat".
So you can use, eg:
cat (usb0)/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
It might link to another .cfg file. So cat that instead.
Then get the options, and adapt them. For example, I found the menu entry in
there with those options on the APPEND line.
Th
The instructions are in FLASH_INSTRUCTION (file):
WARNING!
Updating your firmware has a risk of bricking the machine.
You have been warned, and do so at your own risk.
also see: README
---
this assumes that you already have coreboot running and are updating it.
put coreboot.rom in the flashrom
The new updates (see this thread) improve things.
SeaBIOS is no longer included. GRUB can do everything (without those bugs
from before) now.
4th release.
2014 February 21st
Compiled version () (pre-compiled coreboot.rom, flashrom/bucts source code.
Documentation.):
- useful if you just want to flash the new version:
- http://gluglug.org.uk/X60/release/3/X60_binary.tar.gz
Source code () (coreboot, bucts, flashrom, grub2, memtest8
This is no longer true (or it is less true).
I'm testing some USB drives that used to fail, and they are working perfectly
now.
(see notes below about updating)
It will remain unchanged but now you can easily change the default grub.cfg
using "cbfstool" (the config is in CBFS now). I will write a tutorial about
this at some point.
cbfstool is included in coreboot source code, until ./util
I have another update planned:
Next update planned:
- enume
See my reply below regarding the updated coreboot image (plus source code).
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