No need to be sorry, i do the same..;-)
I presume it has to do that there is actually less people demanding for
tecnical help due to the fact that most Trisquel user's have had their T7
system up and running for a while and have solved their issues, so we tend to
have general discussions
Sorry Mangy Dog, my bad. I'll do my best best to follow your suggestion.
Thanks Magic Banana. I must have been reading some old Debian documentation
that has been rendered obsolete by changing technology. More details about
these details of partition managements and some relevant history can be found
here:
Distro-hopping will be a fact of life for GNU-Linux users unless and until we
have device-specific distros, or Desktop Environments limit themselves to a
set of minimum hardware requirements that isn't constantly creeping up. That
being the case, it helps to learn how to do partitioning so
I've just returned to Trisquel from Slackware because I need a system I can
depend on when someone needs me to do something with a computer.
Slackware? But I suppose for that distro, "convenience" and "features" is
different than the convenience and features of most common distros, hah.
I couldn't easily partition my disk with GNOME Disk Utiity, Parted or
Ubiquity, to split my disk into two partitions and install a
LUKS/LVM-encrypted Trisquel on the first half.
I do have a spare disk in a dead laptop somewhere. I'll just swap my disk to
use my experimental system.
That's more or less what I wound up deciding for now. Belenos fits and
is comfy for most of my everyday work.
There's also no reason in the world why you can't dual boot or switch
out hard drives just for tasks that actually require the latest and the
greatest if those aren't "everyday" for you
>They're impure
My Debian is 100&% libre, very pure, so pure it's Colombian..
Only thing I had to do to make it libre was install it..
>main repo only contains libre packages. it's also the only repo by default.
>And people in Debian are increasingly saying "Debian Linux"
That doesn't make
I'm considering just going back to Trisquel 7.
- looks good
- does what I need
- does what others need
- easy to use
If it works, don't fix it. Why did I ever leave?!
But I also want to play with GuixSD. Maybe I should make another partition.
I just hope it'll still be easy to boot my
Debian scares me. They're impure, and their packages don't focus on freedom.
They only focus on being 100% open source.
For an GNU system (or a free system) based on Mageia's urpmi packages system
you need Uruk, and based on the Trisquel kernels.
There is one named Uruk (named after an Iraqi city), based on the Trisquel
kernel but urpmi packages system.
Have you also heard Devuan, it is a deb system but kernel is nonfree and
aging, you would like to append the latest Linux-libre 4.13.8 using freesh.
>how do I stop distrohopping?
u install Debian :P
I don't know why Mageia doesn't meet FSF endorsement criteria..?
I love the PCLinuxOS slogan: "The distro-hopper stopper."
However it's not a fully free distro. Strangely, it's vehemently
anti-systemd. I'm unaware of another distro that has a "pragmatic" focus
like Linux Mint (putting freedom second place to convenience, features, and
hardware
I hope calher prediction "Trisquel is going to end up like gNewSense:
constantly not catching up to the current LTS" is not going to be true,
GNU/Trisquel is the best OS I ever used, in my humble personal opinion. I am
not a developer so my only way to help the project is to spread the word
Thanks, but I actually prefer the deb system. My first distro was a debian
2.2 potato :)
I recently had a Manjaro and I didnt like too much. You can obtain a Parabola
just applying a script to manjaro.
So I assume I would not like Parabola as well :)
For the latest free software you instead need Parabola alongside your current
Trisquel, Parabola is based on Arch package manager (pacman).
I installed it on trisquel 8. So far so good :)
I don't know but I wanted just to make an example on how we could give an
hand somehow. Compiling a kernel is not a big deal. Not so much as digging in
the C code. I want to try linux libre as well. Thanks for the link
correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can use jxselfs repo to get a newer
kernel on Trisquel? https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
There is the link to the issues. you could start from there. An example even
if related to trisquel 7: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/22926
some users complain about old kernel. Someone could compile and package a
new kernel and create a ppa repo. Ps I am not a developer from trisquel and
> Substitute Fedora's kernel with Linux-libre and you have a GNU/Linux
> distribution that is as free as Debian GNU/Linux
Is it not *more* free, since the GNU FSDG comes from Fedora, whereas
Debian's guidelines and free software definition are more lax?
I wish I could just help Trisquel, but Trisquel doesn't communicate much, and
IDK what's happening in the code because there's no documentation of what's
happening and hwat needs to be done.
SuSE TW (in contrary to SLE from the same SuSE company) also clearly isolates
nonfree repo as well as Debian, does appending Freedora also full liberate
SuSE TW (with disabling every nonfree repo) like Fedora?
For urpmi distro we already have Uruk, a Trisquel derivative, not having a
need
You could build your own:)
Arch also has no stock nonfree repo, but allowing external repo to contain
nonfree apps like AUR, and mis-tolerating nonfree drivers and firmware, so
nonfree Linux kernels.
Fedora honestly has no stock nonfree repo, but allowing external repo to
contain nonfree apps like RPMfusion, and
Thinking of Fedora, because GNU copied its FSDG from there, and GNU says the
only issue is its kernel firmware, which I should be able to easily remove.
Debian is more difficult, because it uses different definition of free
software.
Trisquel is going to end up like gNewSense: constantly
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