Re: [Trisquel-users] Please contritube to Trisquel 8!

2017-01-03 Thread eloi . igor
Why use Transmission instead of qBittorrent? The later makes much more sense to me. I can use any of those but I rather qBittorrent. I Find it more complete and somewhat of and better option, with considerable more customization power. Again I can do with both, just suggesting that it might

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 iso images updated

2017-01-03 Thread eloi . igor
What are the biggest changes so far?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Abrowser not playing soundfiles - problem with libavcodec?

2017-01-03 Thread mtlben
For your microphone / sound system issue, you may want to take a look at: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/175930/change-default-port-for-pulseaudio-line-out-not-headphones

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser not playing soundfiles - problem with libavcodec?

2017-01-03 Thread calmstorm
Nah, I think people just are tired of waiting and until then some people are staying away.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Dot matrix printer?

2017-01-03 Thread calmstorm
Try thinkpenguin. That is your best bet.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Dot matrix printer?

2017-01-03 Thread 555
Didn't find anything there. I may end up buying one from a store with an easy return policy.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LUKS + LVM without /boot in a separate partition

2017-01-03 Thread GNUtoo
Thanks a lot, I'll try that out. The next step is then to understand how to change the keyboard layout inside the GRUB part that is in the MBR... Right now the keyboard layout changes after the password is entered. Denis.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre PC users X200 , T400, C201 needs some help

2017-01-03 Thread GNUtoo
About GM45 Thinkpads (X200, R400, T400, T500): - thinkwiki.org has their specifications. You can use the specifications to find out which CPU is the fastest one. Note that not all models have removable CPUs, some models have soldered CPUs. - Replacing the CPU requires a compatible CPU, but

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre PC users X200 , T400, C201 needs some help

2017-01-03 Thread cantor
No I don't miss the point of your comment: I've a different opinion, that's all. You trust in human's strenght better than me ehehe. For Debian it's not a problem: isn't a free distro, (and I spent long time on debian, you know). Anyway every distro that makes this procedure so easy make a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Dot matrix printer?

2017-01-03 Thread mcz
I have no idea. You might have luck checking on h-node.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Dot matrix printer?

2017-01-03 Thread 555
Bump... still look for suggestions. Looking to move away from the cost and waste of inkjet printing.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Asus KFSN 4-DRE at the end of november 2016

2017-01-03 Thread mcz
Bad planning led to this: I can fit 2 fans+heatsinks (over the 2 CPUs), but those who fit are super noisy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWhB15Pm4E). Some quiter fans+heatsinks exist, but one barely fits, and if I want to fit 2 of these, I can only put a fan on each side (one blowing air

Re: [Trisquel-users] Openmailbox is out of service?

2017-01-03 Thread megver83
OK, so now openmailbox.org is working again, but Jabber isn't :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] Asus KFSN 4-DRE at the end of november 2016

2017-01-03 Thread mcz
According to the libreboot page, this config doesn't have the issue (no idea where to configure this): https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/board-status.git/tree/asus/kfsn4-dre/4.0-10101-g039edeb/2015-06-27T03:59:16Z/config.txt?id=055f5df4e000a97453dfad6c91c2d06ea22b8545

Re: [Trisquel-users] Jitsi

2017-01-03 Thread mcz
If you pay attention, the answer was already written above. It's about Jitsi Meet installed on my computer (not relying on Jitsi's servers). Plain Jitsi works, although the setup is annoying. The cool thing about a self-hosted Jitsi Meet is that it's very easy to set up a video talk.I'm

Re: [Trisquel-users] Jitsi

2017-01-03 Thread mcz
Jitsi at work is manageable, but my connection was horrible, so as I could see the shared screen, I couldn't interact with it this time. Still worth it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre PC users X200 , T400, C201 needs some help

2017-01-03 Thread greatgnu
You both clearly missed the point of my comment. Installing any proprietary software in Trisquel is as easy. If one wants to install garbage one will do so eventually. That does not make it 'very very easy to lose your freedom' if you care about your freedom in the first place. Adding the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hi everyone

2017-01-03 Thread greatgnu
Well, sure, one would need to be extremely stupid or a plain lunatic to trust sourceless binaries. I have used it as an example for a long time now for I like it as I think it illustrates properly the situation of proprietary software (in)security: trusting any piece of proprietary software

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to keep R up to date in Trisquel?

2017-01-03 Thread eloi . igor
I'm currently trying to run away from those the most I can.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to keep R up to date in Trisquel?

2017-01-03 Thread eloi . igor
I think I might give it a go. Will post the results if I succeed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 iso images updated

2017-01-03 Thread dahunt
I'd rather call it 'incomplete' than 'unstable'.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Openmailbox is out of service?

2017-01-03 Thread sleepruim
I had the same problem but for me it is solved and working again

Re: [Trisquel-users] Openmailbox is out of service?

2017-01-03 Thread onpon4
I think I've seen this happen before, but that it was resolved after a while.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre PC users X200 , T400, C201 needs some help

2017-01-03 Thread cantor
I totally agree with "Allanitomwhes": it's really simple to do this, I know many people that do this procedure without any problems, (and are beginners in Gnu/Linux). P.S. = in questo abbiamo due visioni diverse SuperTramp ehehhe ma va bene così ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Openmailbox is out of service?

2017-01-03 Thread megver83
also XMPP

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to keep R up to date in Trisquel?

2017-01-03 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Thhere's also Guix, it has lots of R-related package recipes, and as far as I know, it's easier to upgrade, easier to test these upgrades, easier to revert to previous version (provided you do have the older "generation" that had such old version), and also easier to contribute back (either by

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre PC users X200 , T400, C201 needs some help

2017-01-03 Thread allanitomwesh
You can turn on non-free in synaptic and Debian documents how on their wiki/website. Literally following a few official steps "to fix your wifi". Of course if you don't have the admin password it's not as easy but most people do since they installed debian for themselves.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New computer specs

2017-01-03 Thread allanitomwesh
He doesn't have to install parabola, just test his wifi using a live USB

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 iso images updated

2017-01-03 Thread calmstorm
Thanks for telling me that. I apologize for my ignorance. I know a lot less about programming than you. Hence my suggestion that intel me in the later generations could have some miracle happen where someone reverse engineers it to remove it completely on another thread. I have installed

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 iso images updated

2017-01-03 Thread calmstorm
Okay, My bad. I misread you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hi everyone

2017-01-03 Thread calmstorm
"But the software and the licenses are basically the same." That was my point. Libre software is so much better though. Security and privacy wise. That is why I choose free software over crappy proprietary software and even open source software.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hi everyone

2017-01-03 Thread calmstorm
Yes you have a good point, I guess I was saying when it was under google's control you could use it through free software more safely and securely, but I was mostly wrong, to think that. I say mostly, because microsoft probably is/and has made such a product ten times worse. Given