Re: [Trisquel-users] documentation has dead link

2017-08-16 Thread blogstory
Magic Banana, Yikes - nothing at all! LOL  Ha-ha dangers of doing something foolish at the terminal... Moments ago I realized I can assist with torrent sharing, I'm downloading the 7.0 LTS Belenos torrent to help share. I wish I had thought of this earlier. I am glad to help torrent sharing

Re: [Trisquel-users] documentation has dead link

2017-08-15 Thread blogstory
Magic Banana Hmm... Then this is explained as: > minimal prompt would be " $ " The default prompt looks something like: user@host:~$ as per http://write.flossmanuals.net/command-line/customisation/ I'll play around with that, but it sounds good - even if the laptop build has a messy prompt

Re: [Trisquel-users] documentation has dead link

2017-08-15 Thread blogstory
SuperTramp83 I watched a tutorial that had a very long cli - I think it included the computer name (very long), then something and the user name (again very long) where the prompt had to wrap around and down to the next line when the command, Arguments and Options were typed... From that I

Re: [Trisquel-users] documentation has dead link

2017-08-15 Thread greatgnu
Everything that is in your software repository is free software, and when you do a 'apt update && apt upgrade' or via GUI, the upgrades you receive are also going to be and always only free software. That is to say, as long as you use apt, there's no fear and no failure. What you need to pay

Re: [Trisquel-users] documentation has dead link

2017-08-15 Thread blogstory
Magic Banana and SuperTramp83 I thank you both. I am looking forward to the arrival of my GNU-Trisquel-Laptop, meanwhile, I am watching youtube tutorials and reading documentation. I will do my best to be skilled at the command line. This old man is not too old to learn. I am concerned that I

Re: [Trisquel-users] documentation has dead link

2017-08-15 Thread greatgnu
Indeed senor Bannanna :) This is actually one of the greatest achievements of free software in the last decade, making it grandma proof. If we want the gen pop to use it we need to make it simple, as in point and click. Not everybody is good with computers or actually interested in learning

Re: [Trisquel-users] documentation has dead link

2017-08-14 Thread blogstory
Hi SuperTramp83, thanks. I don't know anything about the command line, so I'll be searching for tutorials and manuals until I can have trisquel operating better than windows. This looks daunting at the moment. Where are the video sharing platforms and are there tutorials other than youtube?

Re: [Trisquel-users] documentation has dead link

2017-08-14 Thread greatgnu
This is all you need :P I'm joking, sort of.. Feel free to add and modify any documentation, just make sure it is free software and take care. Welcome to the forumello btw

[Trisquel-users] documentation has dead link

2017-08-14 Thread blogstory
The Trisquel documentation page: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/working-files-and-folders has a dead link for nautilus manuel: http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/nautilus.html Is making this topic here inappropriate? I looked and wasn't sure.