There are many reasons to assume it is not free. Often, distros say they are
free. But by free, they mean gratuity and not freedom.
Rockbox is not a linux distribution, it is an open source operating system
that is unrelated to linux but also distributed under the GPL.
I didn't personally
I found this one https://trisquel.info/de/forum/linux-libre-and-ath9k
Then I checked the Kernel Config - Atheros Cards are disabled by default
Roboq6, you are right and even if I'm teasing with you, what you show is
interesting. More generally, most people fill full of personal information
inside forms, so just use a search engine and type their name for absolutely
everything about them.
IP Adress is one way to confirm the
Not in free software. Should there be, somebody would yank it out pretty
quick.
Chris, perhaps you should get in touch with Rockbox developers so that the
player you are selling is advertised on the Rockbox homepage.
Battery is detachable. RAM can be upgraded up to 8GB (from product
specification).
For voice call with me (with Trisquel 6.0) and friends with Windows, I use
Empathy and they use Psi. Psi doesn't have video however.
Sometimes the voice call wont start, so we try several times until it does,
switching between who initiates the calls. The situation is not ideal.
The one problem with Asus is they don't sell notebooks without MS Windows.
@Chris
They do. It depends on the market they are offered to.
I can find a lot of large screen notebooks without a preinstalled system
(actually they have FreeDos) in my local shops. Most laptops are without a
system
Several months ago guy proposed a plan for making a FSF-endorseable embedded
processor (at Slashdot). The guy goes by the alias of lkcl and as I
understand he is also working on a freedom respecting tablet (news).
His plan for a free processor seems reasonable. It looks like this is a way
Er, no. Did I say that my location was reported in the right city? When I
said it was several miles off, I mean it; it's not even in the same county.
We're talking *dozens* of miles away from my actual location. Go ahead, go to
the city/town you think I'm in by my IP address and search every
Okay, this is not your case.
But I can be found thereby.
The success of this attack (if I may call it this way) depends on the
absence of privacy and security measures in the target side, and also on his
decision to share, or not, personal information over the Internet.
Frankly, my computer is not that secure, mostly because I'm not that
Aw... Some funny quotes for my collection... Hahaha! I laugh out loud!
Hahaha!
I would like to kindly ask permission from the authors (Darksoul71 and
roboq6) to keep the 82nd, 83rd, 85th and 86th posts. If the posts' authors
wish, I can also modify the quotes as they wish (to remove IP
You don't need any special service or software to do this. You can easily do
it with your computer and nc (netcat) – a program which is installed by
default with Trisquel.
In this forum, you can embed an external images to your forum posts. With
this you can see the IP-address and
Just now I have noticed that this posts are numbered by order of appearance
in the thread, not by order of publication.
So... To make this clear, I want to ask permission for the use of the
following quote:
Darksoul71: roboq6,
Darksoul71: 1st: IIRC there is no way to delete postings here,
I found myself in this situaiton --looking for a laptop-- a few weeks ago.
Buying a computer with proprietary software --new or used-- supports people
involved in that business model. It's money that could support businesses
that are friendlier to our community.
We have to research so
Okay, you have my permission.
No, there will be point releases, e.g. 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and maybe 6.4 (like in
Taranis, which was later upgraded to 4.1).
I think it's reasonable to buy a used laptop, whatever is on it.
To muhammed: It would support them if you buy a new one, but why would it
support non-free software developers if you buy a used one? By not supporting
a free-software-compatible computer seller?
Sound interesting, thank you very much!
Linux-libre has a bad habit of blocking/blacklisting wireless driver modules,
so you cannot use your wireless card/key even if you have installed the
required firmware. People can argue that it's neccessary evil because without
this precaution, people can be easily fooled, because they will
Was it MeeGo?
They accept patches; loading such firmware without recommending it to
users is a missing feature of a very low priority.
(This is completely unrelated to PCI cards supported by ath9k, since
they don't use loadable firmware.)
Indeed. This whole thing seems that it's simply the original
Some of the videos on the golem.de website use the .flv extension, e.g. this
one about the Neo Freerunner:
http://video4.golem.de/files/1/1/1559/neofreerunner_mw_on2.flv
To find the URL using Wireshark just search for frame contains .flv instead
of frame contains .mp4.
That's one reason. If free-hardware distributors disappear or scale back
their offerings, for lack of demand, the non-free ones will have a bigger
share of the market. Curtosey of our community.
Also, as Chris said, others will see you using the hardware. People may take
that as an
@ADFENO: Yeah, you got my permission !
@roboq6: I did not give the permission to post my top-secret personal IP
adress...the NSA / FBI / local police will raid your apartment in 20 seconds.
:P
roboq6: we are watching another representation of a mailing list.
Then you must call the admin
what about this wifi card:
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN
Controller
will this be supported in trisqul?
I solved the problem by running make menuconfig and recompiling the kernel.
1. Run and set up a web server on your PC.
2. Use a special service for the domain for case of dynamic ip.
3.Give a link to the user of Skype.
4.Then s/he will open the link, the browser will run
Flash/Java/Ajax/HTML5-based Ekiga-like software.
5.Now you can chatting!
There are difficult
Or give him link to IRC webchat: problem solved.
Really, there are milions of chat solutions out there (web based or not).
I doesn't knew Coreboot isn't fully-free (e.g. contain binary-blobs).
Wikipedia states that it's released under under the GNU GPL and doesn't
specify additional licenses. It's a shame, that Coreboot went the same way
like Linux did.
Nevertheless, if I'm stated in a position to make a
Nevertheless, if I'm stated in a position to make a decision btw. a
90% free
software, or a 100% pure proprietary BIOS, I'll rather choose the
prior.
Of course that's better but this doesn't mean settling for that. What
we should be going for is 100% free, and that can be achieved by using
From what I understand, 'Trusted' Computing is built into the hardware, and
would override any Operating Systems installed. Is this incorrect?
On Sat, 25 May 2013 20:42:54 +0200 (CEST), you wrote:
I doesn't knew Coreboot isn't fully-free (e.g. contain binary-blobs).
Wikipedia states that it's released under under the GNU GPL and doesn't
specify additional licenses. It's a shame, that Coreboot went the same way
like Linux did.
For
1st paragraph.
Agreed. It's not as easy as with a classic proprietary BIOS but it still can
be done (very easily on Pixel). The Intel vs. AMD situation on the Coreboot
side is a practical (Intel) vs. ethical (AMD) choice. On the desktop side, I
would probably go for AMD (Coreboot) and
Do you know of any COMPLETELY FREE computers?
Interesting reading:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTEyNTE
I done the same thing when I bought my laptop PC. It is better to go this way
not just because you doesn't buy a new Windows license, but also the hardware
is recycled (a second chance for the computer), so you're not contributing to
the pollution of the mother Earth. Also, judging by your
+1 on the reuse of perfectly-good hardware and not causing a new Win
license to be generated.
I'm afraid the answer is no. At least not apparently by openfwwf.
Also, this lists it as no go http://h-node.org/wifi/view/en/201/
Thank you for the answer Chris. This is actually a very bad news (at least
for me), but it is understandable. I'm just asking this because, now that I
have a new job I can (and simply want) buy a new computer, and I was looking
for a all-in-one with only the power cable to connect and
There are some other completely free laptops outside the Chromebooks that
have a heavily out-of-date/low performance/incompetitive hardware, are very
expensive, an many of are incompatible with the x86 architecture. Many of
these has a proprietary BIOS that needs to be reflashed with
Sure, but I just wanted to supplement what he already said.
I recently installed Linux-libre-3.9.2-gnu.
You should be more accurate when you ask a question here. I though you
installed (not compiled) Linux-libre through PPA like the most people here
do.
There is: Don't use a computer!
Regarding microphone/line out: most laptops have an internal microphone so
the external one isn't needed (my netbook 1001px has this connection and it
works for headphones. I use the internal microphone).
I support re-use/recycling as well. Our posts here pit environmentalism
against civil liberties. This frames the issue in a strange way:
It suggests that our tiny community of free-software users could abandon
their cause --civil liberties-- to contribute to the environment's well
being.
Do this:
0. Shockwave Flash plugins (Gnash/Lightspark/Flash) must be disabled from
Abrowser's Add-ons Manager
1. Go to the video site you want to play (e.g.
http://video.golem.de/games/10750/metro-last-light-test-fazit.html)
2. In the place where video should appear, there is a title of
Trisquel Mini is a light version of Trisquel and comes with Midori as the
default browser. Trisquel uses Abrowser and a Gnash plug-in to play YouTube
and other videos, but in my experience Midori fails on YouTube, either
showing blank applet space or a perpetual loading throbber.
I've read
I dub tapes to CDs, using an Alesis iO2 Express USB audio mixer. Do USB
inputs work in GNU/Linux?
What you raise a technical issues, and some of it seems to be a
distraction: 3D acceleration, for example, is generally problematic no
matter where you look, although that's improving, but really that's an
orthogonal issue to the BIOS.
The free software movement's not about technical things, and
To some degree although your still contributing to the inflation of the value
of used laptops which came with MS Windows. Indirectly you still contributing
to Microsoft. Unless your buying a used laptop that was not licensed to run
MS Windows.
Is it possible to buy used free hardware right now?
I'd probably buy a laptop from Thinkpenguin, but even the Gentoo Penguin
Notebook is $499.00, and I'm not even willing to spend that much on a
computer.
I haven't really tried much, but one thought is to enable YouTube's HTML5
trial, which will use the alternative player for HTML and Javascript for
videos that don't have ads on them.
Another possibility if Midori supports custom user scripts (I don't know if
it does or not) is ViewTube,
I haven't looked into it recently although Asus North America will not sell
systems without an OS. We couldn't get them OS free from Asus.
Oh, right: you go into YouTube's HTML5 trial at youtube.com/html5
The problem with used hardware are it doesn't scale easily and lots of
problems are created through used hardware. Most people don't realize how
difficult it is to even properly support a small set of systems or identical
hardware. Now try doing that on a massive scale. It doesn't work.
I think you are not understood all might of the idea.
When I says Now, you can chatting!, I mean audio and video chat. Plus text
chat and file sharing.
There are many people who are forced to use Skype because their interlocutors
can not / do not want to install the SIP client. But we can
They should. We sell a USB mic. It's a standard.
hmm thanks!
Got to fix something. Do you know if the next point release is 6.1? I made
the assumption it would be 6.5. If the standard is changing it would be good
to know.
There is actually PCI broadcom chipset that is compatible with Trisquel. Not
sure if it is this one. I've spoken with the developer (I think) and (even if
I'm mistaken) I know he says that its not advisable to use the driver. It's
alpha quality. That said some users have had no problem with
When your ready to buy send me an email and I'll see what I can do. We do
generally stock extra systems and parts for most products. This is to speed
up repairs. Turn around time for repairs is usually 2-3 days or better. We're
competing with IBM/Lenovo business class service level warranty
Yes- I was at Libre Planet and saw it live. I'll ask tomorrow though. Have to
ask about something else anyway.
So shall I conclude that video calls between Trisquel users and Mac/Windows
users are impossible to achieve? So far absolutely no one has been able to
give a working recipe...
Yes- it wouldn't be a bad idea. I have thought of doing it. I'd love for us
to contribute something back to the project. As it is right now we are not.
We haven't sold that many yet though...
Maybe when I have some time I'll get in touch.
I meant on eBay or Craigslist, if an individual purchases a free hardware
laptop from you or some other company, then sells it at one of those places.
Ladies and Gentlemens, we have a winner :
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-64191
It has a 14.1 inch display (matte, 1400x1050), Core Duo processor (2GHz),
Intel Graphics (GMA 950), supports up to 3GB of RAM (DDR2), and
finallyit's supported by Coreboot . It's
Tried all the above, neither worked for me. Personally, the best YouTube
experience you can get on Trisquel is with a program called SMPlayer YouTube
Browser (it's not perfect though, because it does not support WebM). To
install it on Toutatis (Trisquel 6.0), open a Terminal window
This is really stupid, because the image and video filename differs from each
other. So, it's really just about coincidence and luck, if a video starts to
play. In theory, the flash player parses a video playlist in XML format, that
contains the direct link to the video file, but I does not
The latest version of Midori plays back YouTube fine using ViewTube or
Linterna Magica with Lightspark or Gnash. Just get the latest Midori and
WebKit via PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webkit-team
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:midori
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade
You can also use regular SMPlayer to playback YouTube links which supports
WebM as default format in
options-preferences-performance
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