There are a lot: Postfix, Exim, qmail... The list goes on and on.
*BSD, Debian, Parabola.
It's certainly interesting and I wish them well, but way above my budget; I
did the math, and if I worked 40 hours a week at my current job (I currently
don't), one of these computers would be roughly half a year's salary.
I suspect our community will not have much of an impact on its
Yea, this project is pretty fantastic!
Though, to be honest, the $3mil goal seems, er, a tad too steep for our
community.
I'm a little worried we won't make it /(;~:)\
Yea, this project is pretty fantastic!
Though, to be honest, the $3mil goal seems, er, a tad too steep for our
community.
I'm a little worried we won't make it /(;~:)\
> What is "extremism"? Having a Libreboot computer with Trisquel or Parabola?
Leah´s overreacting, but seems that no one cares.
Yea, like she's one to talk. :p
Most people consider Free Software extremism to be running a libre BIOS (I
consider it to be the natural progression)... I wonder
Dang, another double-post.
LOL! I like Terminal, it's not as scary as it was when I first tried it so
long ago. :)
Hi Mangy Dog, Thanks for explaining! This is fascinating stuff! I wish we
could remove all those proprietary blobs and replace every one with something
Free. I wish I was a programmer. Many years ago someone tried explaining what
binary is. He made it seem so simple. This stuff is so over my
I laughed when I saw these last three posts a while ago... you are absolutely
right, but alas, it is too amusing to let go die yet...
How it is done ?
The removal of non-Free bits from the kernel Linux is accomplished with the
script deblob-main, that in turn uses deblob- and deblob-check.
deblob- is inspired in gNewSense's scripts, later customized for BLAG by Jeff
Moe, and then further improved as part of the
please tell us what that is?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/
Wow that is noticeable difference. I see I have some studying to do, so I can
put together something that my poor old machine can handle, till I can
convert my Mac. I'll look at all the suggestions again and compare them. You
have all been so wonderful. :D
For those interested, there are ways to either silence pulseaudio while jack
is running, or route it through jack. Or also remove it. I didn't try any of
those yet though.
For my keyboard controller requiring non-free firmwares for midi usb, I'll
try connecting it through midi only and see
https://wiki.debian.org/Exim
> You can do most (if not all) of your computing activities not touching the
terminal.
True, but then you risk dying from tedium! :P
Misty, to clarify a little bit, or more correctly to prove the point let us
take an example. Let's use a very, very lightweight **GUI** music player -
namely qmmp
The "terminal" music player we can relate to, the one I like, will be "moc"
Now, on my old but great beasty, I open the terminal
You can not compare versions of Xfce like that, strypey. You can not compare
Xubuntu say 12 with Xubuntu (or worse yet another distro with Xfce) 16..
Try this -> install Debian Jessie (current stable) with Xfce **4.10** and
test it for a few hours, then on the **same exact** distribution
I got an error message, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented. (???)
unknown.
The (EE) is in red.
I'm interested too.What is this exim?never heard before.
Disk Self Test is complete, Disk is OK. Now onto the next thing. I'm in
Trisquel there so I can do the next suggestion. Report coming soon. Thanks.
:)
Wow Strypey, you have thought this out well with the levels. That and the
usability rating idea make a lot of sense to me. It would be nice if you
could present these suggestions to the FSF for consideration.
What is a blob? It'd be interesting to know how these things got their name.
OK and thanks. I started the self test, this will take awhile it looks like.
It seems to me a good idea to look at the specs for these programs everyone's
suggesting, to see how much memory they require before installing, Due to the
lack of RAM, then I can decide which OS I want. I'd like to try the others to
see if I like than better than Trisquel Mini, for my poor
Hmmm, considering my RAM problem, I really need to do some homework on all of
this.
Good news: your RAM is OK. If it was not, the screen would have turned red.
Memtest86+ starts over after doing all its tests: you can terminate it now.
Let us now see if the disk is OK. Trisquel has, by default, a tool named
"Disks" in the "System Settings". In it, you can select a disk
Hi, I'm on my other machine, the memtest is still going on my old one, but at
the bottom of the screen a message says it's complete, there's no errors, yet
at the top, it's still testing. Is it starting over? I don't know when the
message of being complete came up, sometime this morning.
OK, thanks for the info.
Is there a website where this information about graphics cards performance
with free code only resides? Somewhere on H-Node perhaps?
I'm interested. Never tried. Told that it's hard and risky by people I know
(and folks online like Matt Blaze and pals). Curious to hear about people's
experiences with DIY email on 100% libre distros; what hardware you used,
what distro, what mail applications etc.
"You are very good at tech. You are doing everything right."
+100!
"it doesn't get slower with each version"
This isn't true in my experience. I used to run XFCE (Xubuntu) on a computer
with 256MB or 512MB of RAM. I guarantee it won't work now with less than 1GB,
and if it's anything like Mate (also supposedly a "lightweight" desktop), it
really needs
Hmmm. Distrowatch might be saying it's "dormant" because they haven't
released a new version since 2012?
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=dragora
But it does look like they are actively working on shipping a new release
this year:
Thanks for the tip about swap files, I'll have a play with that. There's some
good info on swap partitions and swap files here:
https://www.linux.com/news/all-about-linux-swap-space
"One swap partition can be shared between several GNU/Linux distributions"
That's what I thought too, but I
Dragora GNU/Linux looks actively developed:
http://dragora.org/repo.fsl/timeline
I just completed an installation of exim on Trisquel. I am creating this
thread to see if there is any interest/experience here in setting up mail
servers before I move into testing / having the system go live. Thank you
The other downside with Tails, from a libre POV, is that it uses the blobbed
version of the Linux kernel, not Linux-libre. This is why FSF will not
endorse it. Of course, RiseUp (developers of Tails) do this for a good
reason; Tails is designed to allows its user to get on the net from any
The Nvidia GPU should work great. STAY AWAY FROM ATI, think of their GPUs as
something you should absolutely avoid.
This command should tell if there is 3d acceleration:
glxinfo | grep direct
excellent, but we place these in the lounge, the articles need the lounge :)
cli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface
CLI applications require less resources, are much faster and efficient. Sure,
they are less friendly for you will not click with your mouse in a GUI,
instead you will only use your keyboard and will need to learn a few
commands.
A few points in response to the above:
* Some distros will refuse to install unless a /swap partition is defined,
and they create one automatically if you choose 'guided partitioning'.
* If OP has only 1GB RAM, they need Trisquel-Mini, or at least a much more
lightweight desktop than
Well, Tails is Debian set to be as secure as possible by default and an
amnesic OS, that is, an OS that will run entirely in your memory without ever
touching your hard drive. The idea is the non persistence - and precisely non
persistence of malware. It routes every connection through the
The crowdfunding campaign for "the world's first ATX-compatible,
workstation-class mainboard for the IBM POWER8 processor." has just started:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstation
The company describes their new project as follows:
" Talos™ is the
Amd or ati are non free trash, all. If you want the best performance, buy
some Nvidia kepler card, such as gt730 gddr5, gtx770 4gb, gtx760, be sure for
get one with gddr5. Intel graphics (before skylake) are great but come with
surprise, those integrated GPUs comes with Intel CPUs which have
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