https://www.calyxinstitute.org/
Know it? Backing it?
jb...@mykolab.com, Mér 27 Abr 2016 17:31:35 CEST:
Are there any issues I should consider when buying an Atheros-AR5B95
Mini PCI card? Are some manufacturers better/worse than others? Will
there be any difference between products and how can I tell? Or
should I just go find the cheapest
I want to spare Jodiendo the trouble: OP, this goes in the troll hole.
Sorry, didn't mean to stir anything up.
Should I have just put this in the Troll Hole?
jb...@mykolab.com, Mér 27 Abr 2016 17:20:15 CEST:
That is really cool. Thanks for the post. Though it's out of reach
for my technical skills I would like to try it some day!
Having Trisquel installed already, it seems that there is a easy
way to install Libreboot. There's a video
You're welcome.
Be specific. What exactly do you want to do when you say "trisquelize"? What
is Ubtu?
Ok, so let's trisquelize Ubtu, only. But do it right now. It has to be
configured since when the user installs Ubtu.
Then, developers could make Trisquel libre in a time.
It is important to make it easy for the user to choose Trisquel, Software
Libre.
Thanks.
How is MATE superior to GNOME 2? Well for one thing it supports GTK+ 3 now.
They have been working on a lot of other things too.
I'm using Spideroak sync and backup. They are often endorsed as privacy and
security friendly and they might be. But they still have this little black
hole of closed software. I just heard of Syncany for the first time.
Anyone who knows about it?
Do you have other suggestions?
I would really like to setup a server and run OwnCloud by my self but so far
I haven't had the time to compensate for my my lack of knowledge and skills.
What can you say about Openmailbox regarding privacy and security? (though
the issue is cloud storage!)
I'd recommend ownCloud.
IMO it's the most polished and professional fully Free Software cloud storage
platform.
It's supported by pretty much any device (GNU|Linux, OSX, Windows,
Android/Replicant).
You can host your own server or use someone else's server (often for a small
fee).
I like
For some reasons x200 can be flash easily while for instance x60 and MacBook
2.1 can
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/index.html
I'm not sure if it's famous or not but I use Shutter a lot.
When searching for answers for the same question I ended up with
Kolabnow.com. They are amongst the few services that are endorsed time and
again by privacy and security techies. They're on the fsf list as well.
Ubtu = Ubuntu
Trisquelize = Transform Ubuntu into Trisquel. Now, it would be, to take the
control over Ubuntu to make it Software Libre, step by step.
There is a script to older versions that transform Ubuntu to Trisquel.
trisquelize.sh:
gracias
At Openmailbox.org you can 1 GB for free (including your email and cloud)
Ok, a little progress at last, regarding Icedove.
There seems to be some kind of problem with the create account wizard. If I
write name, mail adress AND password on the first page in the wizard, Icedove
(and Thunderbird) will give me a Username/Password error. It didn't help to
enter the
Their website says:
"Our online solution offers free e-mail address hosting for a wide public in
search of a high quality service inspired by a free philosophy and totally
independent of all the existing large service companies on the web. The
respect for our members' privacy is our
The minimum wage in Spain is 9172.80€/year (756.70€/month), just to put
in perspective how much a 500€/month stipend is.
Chris (Think Penguin) posted about this a year or two ago. If I remember
correctly, some people had concerns that were beyond Chris' control (I might
have been one of those people). Without suggesting cause and effect, right
or wrong ... I don't think anything came of it.
It would be
What are the pros and cons regarding privacy and security?
No progress regarding Evolution though. Evolution still refuses to connect to
the IMAP server - username/password is never in play.
I wonder if upgrading Evolution to a later version than in the Trisquel
repository would help. How do I do that? Is that safe to do?
After some reading, I find that the particular adapter I chose to buy is not
very good for GNUx apparently. I will return this one and get me a minipci
Atheros 9223 for the same price. It's the one thinkpenguin sells and it
should work fine. If not I'll get me an external one.
Tx lembas for
Are there any issues I should consider when buying an Atheros-AR5B95 Mini PCI
card? Are some manufacturers better/worse than others? Will there be any
difference between products and how can I tell? Or should I just go find the
cheapest there is?
very good point. many people don't realize the same thing about openbsd.
I don't see the point in such an effort. With the exception of blobs in
Linux, Ubuntu already separates proprietary software into designated
repositories, so it's possible to run Ubuntu without proprietary software
just by replacing Linux with Linux-libre, if that's what you want. The main
I use evolution with IMAP and starttls with all of my services. From what you
are describing it sounds more like a server configuration issue.
Yes you are right. For Trisquel 7 it won´t be a good idea. Now yes. And
considering than Trisquel 8 (as the previous versions of Trisquel) it won´t
update every package included in the repository
My understanding is that the Trisquel Helpers are responsible for pulling
packages from the appropriate area of Ubuntu and that once integrated into
Trisquel they are just in the one repository.
There's a thread on Xfce and the missing nm-applet indicator but it's locked.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/i-just-installed-xfce-and-i-love-it-im-missing-my-wifinetwork-applet
I think you misunderstand: If such a script existed for a given Ubuntu
version then the appropriate version of Trisquel has already been released
(notice that the script changes the repositories to point to Trisquel's for
example.) So the release of the script and the so-called
Quite naturally, Mate is better than Gnome 2, being maintained and having new
functionality added. It would be inane to suggest it never evolves or stays
frozen in time, although that seems to have been the goal right from the
start. How's Mate superior to all other modern desktop
Thank you! So i guess it is still free software and I can download it without
problems
gnome-fallback is one of the things I like about trisquel. extremely
lightweight and quiet, but still looks nice and doesn't feel like a lite
desktop at all. I love how its the only desktop I've used that grsec
doesn't automatically break. Even lxde does weird things but this gnome
I thought gnome-flashback ran on gnome 3? its just made to look like gnome
2. I could be wrong.
If it's to your liking and the price is rihgt, why don't you get it, install
Ubuntu 16.04 without adding non-free repositories or firmware. When Trisquel
8 Flidas comes out, install that and wipe your Ubuntu.
Hi, everyone!!!
I'm pretty new in the free software world.Right now I'm using (testing)
Trisquel in a Virtual Machine and I love the system. I'm really happy about
it. So now I'm considering to buy a new laptop and I realize, it is not so
easy. The most demanding software that I will use
Here is step by step guide to "Trisquelize" any ubuntu distro:
1. First you always want to do a back up:
GUI: Back in Time
http://backintime.le-web.org/download_page/
Command line: rsync
https://rsync.samba.org/
2.- Now download Trisquel, and MD5 file:
https://trisquel.info/es/download
3.-
The rant link is broken. Cannot edit. Here's it again corrected.
http://www.rants.org/2014/09/09/debian_install_solving_grub_error/
The rant link is broken. Cannot edit. Here's it again corrected.
http://www.rants.org/2014/09/09/debian_install_solving_grub_error/
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
"Linux Mint uses it so it must be the best" seems to be the lime of argument
on places like Reddit.
> How are normal people supposed to know this?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ :
What software is officially supported by the Ubuntu Security team?
Ubuntu is currently divided into four components: main, restricted,
universe and multiverse. All binary packages in main and
Thank you for your reply and also your tirelessly contribution to Free
Software Society. and just for clarity i belief you deserve much more
financial support than that and i was asking about legal stuff. actually i am
a little bit confused because in my country law (Iran) the founders of a
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
You can wish for magic all you want, but that doesn't make it possible. The
way GNU/Linux distributions organize their software repositories, not to
mention the basic structure of those repositories, varies dramatically. The
process of removing proprietary software from Ubuntu is not the
They should only enable main by default after every clean install.
It's pretty well explained here.
http://www.howtogeek.com/194247/whats-the-difference-between-main-restricted-universe-and-multiverse-on-ubuntu/
> If it's a concern for you, Trisquel maintains these sections, so you can
exclude the "universe" section from your sources.list if you want.
No. There is not such a thing on Trisquel 7. Everything is in one component,
`main`. https://paste.debian.net/441920
Oh, OK. Sorry, I thought they were still separate.
Hi,
I think it is urgent that users can Trisquelize other non-Free GNU/Linux
distributions.
The script to switch from other distributions to Trisquel should be already.
No matter Trisquel is not fully liberalized.
What really urgent is to configure the OS to be free with future updates
jade...@openmailbox.org, Mér 27 Abr 2016 01:15:32 CEST:
True, but it didn't say they record IP addresses.
IP addresses are routinely logged by the system. This is not
only usual, but also mandatory in most countries - so in case there's
a criminal investigation going on, the
Thank you Salman.
> Nonprofit organizations can pay salary to their employees.
I agree, but can the founder and employee be the same person at the same
time? (legally)
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
noordinaryspi...@gmail.com, Mér 27 Abr 2016 00:50:49 CEST:
Ignacio, are you using libreboot or a custom BIOS?
I haven't flashed my Thinkpads yet. It sure would be nice to loose
the wifi dongles if the Atheros-AR5B95 is on the "whitelist".
I use Libreboot. I got it following these
As a couple others have said, this is the whole reason for some packages
being in a separate repository. Anything in "universe" is officially
unsupported, which means not only is it not subject to the LTS support, it
isn't even subject to the shorter support of any other Ubuntu releases. If
I am also not a lawyer or an accountant.
I agree that paying salaries to employees that run a non-profit is no
problem. If one of those employee's is the owner (and probably also either
the President or CEO), there is nothing wrong.
The only potential problem is if the salary is
They are not non-free. They may contain non-free components whether by
default or accessible thru the official repository.
No clue. But I've verified in a Trisquel Mini installation I have on a
virtual machine; there are no lines including a "universe" section in
/etc/apt/sources.list. Maybe this information is just stored somewhere?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_%28software%29#Further_development and
the release notes on http://mate-desktop.org for far more details.
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/27/474980140/new-york-wants-to-know-have-you-been-texting-and-driving
No thanks.
My thoughts:
1.)This may sound rough, but lieberman's son should have, if he didn't
already then i guess it didn't work, told his pal who was driving to
Imagine that the founder works for the org for 40 or 80 hours a week. And so,
someone that starts a non-profit there must work for free? How do they pay
their own bills?
But when you look at the list of packages in Synaptic, you do see that some
come from main and some from universe. So where does that division come from
if sources.list only mentions main?
I agree. If the distro cared about becoming free software, you would not need
such a script--they would do it themselves. If they do not care enough, then
they will have respositories containing non-free software. This would make
them ineligible to become an FSF sanctioned officially free
Thanks. I'll get one of those and see how it works. Unfortunately I don't
have Libreboot installed, but I see you do
Stallman discussed this on his personal site back on 4/22/16:
https://www.stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html
"The idea of a tool to determine whether a driver's phone was used for text
messaging at the time of an accident is fine in principle, but it is almost
impossible in practice
Ars Technica has an article on this.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/first-came-the-breathalyzer-now-meet-the-roadside-police-textalyzer/
It's another excuse to search your belongings. Failure to comply could cost
you your license.
That is really cool. Thanks for the post. Though it's out of reach for my
technical skills I would like to try it some day!
I installed Trisquel Mini using Netinstall and a USB stick.
Grub failed with a fatal error. Solution: remove the USB stick as it is
/dev/sda.
http://www.rants.org/2014/09/09/debian_install_solving_grub_error/on:
LXDE Monitor Settings wouldn't open "Unable to get monitor information!".
This guy is just clueless. There are so many things wrong with his idea:
* You can't get records of texting without cooperation by the phone's
operating system. This includes both keeping the necessary records, and
supporting whatever signals this hypothetical device sends, then actually
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