Re: [Trisquel-users] leak of windows source software. Beneficial?
"WINE and ReactOS happened before the source code leak, therefore that argument can't stand." Only for code that went into WINE and ReactOS before the leak. The provenance of code that goes in afterward would have the potential problem that IrishUSA pointed out.
Re: [Trisquel-users] leak of windows source software. Beneficial?
It appears the story, as posted by the Register, may be somewhat sensationalist: https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37283 gives a clarification. Regardless, there's probably not much that can come from it besides a minor privacy review (and Heather's spark idea, which sounds quite practical- a 100% libre Microsoft logo generator!). Not only is this a "relatively minor" leak, containing only a few items of at most tangential interest, it's still proprietary.
Re: [Trisquel-users] leak of windows source software. Beneficial?
Only thing I'd use it for is some twisted modern equivalent to what I did to the $200 winshit ecch's pee CD I didn't have to keep in a safe place any more after I successfully installed Mandrake 10.0 in 2005: I put it in the microwave for exactly 15 seconds and looked at the pretty coloured sparks and laughed. Sorry, I don't do Windows(tm).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Topic locked, huh? Follow up to making Coreboot work with full disk encryption on ASUS KFSN4-DRE
Lilos: After some time i was able to fix all my problems :) Libreboot do not work. Coreboot works ! I build with no microcode updates and with seabios! Coreboot have one bug also but in irc we fixed configuration file generation! Also no boot wait! System boot super fast ! Lilos, how did you do it? Personally, without microcode updates, it's not working. Also I do have boot wait. What is the config you use?
Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with OpenMailBox?
I don't understand why a server isn't an option for you. To me: * people I communicate with are 99% on non-free providers. So my emails are compromised anyway. * from there, Openmailbox/mail server vs Gmail/Yahoo, not much of a difference, I suppose. Well, free software on a personal server is still better. But The server might take a bit more work, for no real gains. And the libre provider can still act use your data, in theory. * Encryption is the key (pun intended), but it's not easy to understand/use. Still the best option around. Is my reasoning flawed somewhere?
Re: [Trisquel-users] leak of windows source software. Beneficial?
WINE and ReactOS happened before the source code leak, therefore that argument can't stand. As for the source code itself, it's meaningful only to see how f***ed up it might be regarding privacy. Else, I don't care since I don't use it (OK I do at work, but not willingly). It shouldn't be long before hearing more from it in the news. Or not, since it's probably illegal.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Disk encryption
Thank you!
Re: [Trisquel-users] leak of windows source software. Beneficial?
I think it's very bad news for WINE and the ReactOS project. It makes it harder for them to be able to defend themselves against claims they haven't seen the source code.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo
https://itsfoss.com/fix-brightness-ubuntu-1310/ On an ubuntu notebook I got brightness to work using the instructions.
[Trisquel-users] leak of windows source software. Beneficial?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/windows_10_leak/ Can it provide more source software for hard ware?
Re: [Trisquel-users] System 76 Is Coming Out With a Free Distro
The only suggestion I have is that they should do the same thing Debian does (since never mind Nvidia cards, many System76 machines require proprietary firmware for wireless cards if I'm not mistaken). That's already been brought up. And I'm not exactly well-known, so it's not like they're going to care what I think.
Re: [Trisquel-users] System 76 Is Coming Out With a Free Distro
No need to just leave it up to onpon4... We all how our views that are worth sharing about this.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Thinkpad 400s
Are there noticeable performance differences between the models? Such as in bootup time, launch time of major programs like the web browser, email app, LibreOffice? Are they all able to run commercial DVD movies out of the box? I've been unable to get that working myself in other distros despite their supposedly supporting this. How is the heat issue in the MacBook? Another user on this forum had taken drastic steps like drilling holes and replacing the optical drive with a copper heat sink.
Re: [Trisquel-users] System 76 Is Coming Out With a Free Distro
I think Onpon would be the right person to leave a comment on that issue page. I'd hate it to go downhill, turn into a race to downvote different views. It's crazy they have this system up. An invitation to be trollish.
Re: [Trisquel-users] System 76 Is Coming Out With a Free Distro
I think it would be helpful to educate them on what they can do to appeal to people wgho really care about freedom.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with OpenMailBox?
Thank you. I didn't know that. In light of new information, I'm going to attempt to gift some posteo accounts. UsernameV we're talking one lousy euro a month and they've been around for seven years: https://posteo.de/en
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
Thank you Adfeno. a. is not an option (as a figure of speech), as I really need this job. Terrible salary, not very interesting, but considering my limited skills and my family situation. I'd rather loose some of the freedom related to the use of Nvivo than to become a destitute man again :-) b. to my knowledge, I may be wrong of course, there isn't any free software like Nvivo. At least not the softwares you mentioned. Thank you for your help though. c. your help would be much appreciated. So ware I couldn't make Virtualbox or KVM working on my box as I mentioned previously.
Re: [Trisquel-users] System 76 Is Coming Out With a Free Distro
Thanks for sharing the link. I put my 2c in to get the discussion rolling. Would be cool if other people on this forum would blow that thread up.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
There is already quite a lot of very good libre softwares for quantitative data analysis (R, Gephi, etc.). Unfortunately, qualitative data analysis is seems not to be as much popular amongst developers. Patientia!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo
I've installed the newest linux libre kernel but nothing changed
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
Document formats: .doc vs .odt. (share, collaborate, review, coerrections etc) journals not accepting . odt or .tex Network: only MS VPNs, no access to network; disk space, resources, printers etc I have been *THIS* close to give up (on my work computer)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
Thank you GNUbahn. As you said, it is very difficult to work as a libre software idealist. At least, this is how I felt since I've started being a researcher in 2006.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
Magic Banana, thanks for mentioning KNIME. It looks very different and oriented on data mining. Here is what I would need for this project in sociology. We have to analyse thousands of sources (documents) produced mainly by or on journalists : videos, editorials, audio interviews with transcripts. Formats are PDFs (text editable or not), plain text, docx, odt, ods, ogg. Part of the analysis is done by "coding", which is how Qualitative data analysis approach calls the process of manually associating a keyword to a part of the source, few seconds of a video interview, some words or a paragraph of a press article, a certain area of a picture, a raw or a table in Libreoffice Cal. The process of coding sources must be documented. So during the coding process, analyst write memos. Sources, memos are shared amongst analysts. Beside coding and documenting the coding, a database of all the authors of sources (mostly journalists) analysed is created and completed with demographic data : name, birth date, employer, family members, studies, etc. By doing so, analysis can take into account relation between sources and certain properties of their authors and try to find patterns. Once all the data have been coded, we need a tool to create queries and a tool to visualize results of those queries. Indeed, Nvivo website is full of marketing bullshit, as lots of official websites of software editors are. They're might not be the best places to learn about a software. Nonetheless, as you can see elsewhere (for instance here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0NpJPLQ6k and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YyVySrV2cM), what's fantastic with Nvivo or other softwares of this type (Atlas.ti, MAXQDA, etc.) is that everything the whole qualitative data analysis workflow can be done in a very intuitive way without any "programming" skill.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with OpenMailBox?
Posteo actually offers the option of paying totally anonymously by cash. You can send your cousin to pay or even send cash in an envelope. The also offer encryption of all data on their disks (with the downside of no back up) I think the (little) money serves a very good purpose.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
Transana is to my knowledge the only open source program that handles qualitative analysis at the highest level. It works with text, still, audio and video and manages up to four media files at a time. I asked the developer about the chances that it'll come for Linux: He was not optimistic as it requires funding. He is most interested though, so if one of you have a rich uncle, please ask him to support libre qualitative analysis
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
I generally agree that We do not "help" users harm their own freedoms But OP has a job in research where thecolleagues uses NVIVO Now, apparently OP only has one computer and would rather keep my Trisquel and virtualise OSX or Windows than switching to OSX or Windows completely I think we are doing good in helping out. Working with research myself, I know how hard it is to be a libre software idealist.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
Ahh, I forgot: On my work computer I installed Mint due to issues like this
Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with OpenMailBox?
I like posteo.net. I haven't used it much because I do have an OpenMailbox and I also have a grandfathered Riseup from my activist days that I use very sparingly. Calmstorm, do you know something negative about them that I don't? They do cost money, but it's negligible. The problem is more that getting it to them compromises anonymity and if that is a major issue with you, you're better off with "I know about that one and it doesn't work for me" on anything as public as the Trisquel boards. I know all too many people who think I can magically pull an openmailbox clone out of thin air just because I use an FSF endorsed distro on cheap hardware and am not afraid to ask questions and make mistakes. :( Thanks for the heads up, Adfeno; dropped another quarter in Pierre's tip jar and plan on doing that instead of kicking the cat or shaking my fist at the sky whenever I feel feelings.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
Mangy Dog, thank you. I tried to use KVM, but I can't make it working on my box.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Installing NVIVO
We do not "help" users harm their own freedoms here. NVivo's is pure marketing bullshit and I have little idea of what the tool actually does. Do you analyze texts? If so, you could try the KNIME Analytics Platform, which as nodes for text analytics: http://www.knime.org/nodeguide/other-analytics-types/text-processing
[Trisquel-users] Re : Brightness on Lenovo
Again: please answer the question at the beginning of https://trisquel.info/forum/brightness-lenovo#comment-117401 if you want valuable help instead of random solutions that probably do not apply to your hardware. Have you tried to install a newer kernel from https://jxself.org/linux-libre/ (the easiest way)?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
First: I didn't evaluate how free/libre NVIVO is. I assume it's not free/libre. If somenone made the evaluation/review, and if it's really in the Free Software Directory, or in some default repository of free/libre system distributions, please tell me. It appears to me that NVIVO is currently not free/libre because of the following text: "You agree that you will not reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to access the source code of the Software. Unless the accompanying license agreement expressly allows otherwise, any copying or redistribution of the Software is strictly forbidden. This also applies to any copying or reproduction of the Software to any other server or location for further reproduction, redistribution or use. Unauthorized use, reproduction or distribution of the Software is illegal, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Offenders will be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law." (from [[http://www.qsrinternational.com/legal]]). Based on this, you can: a. Use someone else's computer to do the work, without installing any non-(free/libre) software in the person's computer. The idea here would be to do this with someone's computer that already has NVIVO for some time. Also, while being required to use this person's computer, it's a good idea to document how inpractical it was, and later on send what was documented to QSR International so that they can see how inconvenient the loss of the essential freedoms of the software is. This is one of my recommendations. b. Don't use NVIVO. Instead, use a free/libre one, like QualTA ([[https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/qualta]], note that this is a random/untested suggestion, and that no other free/libre substitute is known by be so far, I have tried to look on the Free Software Directory, on the Parabola repository, on the Guix/GuixSD repository, and also in Trisquel repository, but only found this one in GNU Savannah). This is one of my recommendations. c. Install QEMU and a system distribution that runs NVIVO with QEMU. This option isn't recommended because it postpones the problems related to the loss of the essential freedoms of the software, and since you are one of the people affected by it, it'd be best if you find (or hire) people to solve the problems, pressure the affected organization that is using NVIVO to not use it (for example, pressure the college in which you study to not use NVIVO, this can be done by using a petition to collect signatures from students), or pressure QSR International to completely free/liberate NVIVO (this last option isn't guaranteed to work since for-profit organizations tend to ignore our demands). We can help up to the QEMU part, and possible QEMU-specific issues, but we cannot help with using the (probably non-free) system distribution, and we cannot help on using NVIVO. -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre, por isso não uso. Iguais a ele prefiro GNU Ring, ou Tox. Quer outras formas de contato? Adicione o vCard que está no endereço acima aos teus contatos. - Pretende me enviar arquivos .doc, .ppt, .cdr, ou .mp3? OK, eu aceito, mas não repasso. Entrego apenas em formatos favoráveis ao /software/ livre. Favor entrar em contato em caso de dúvida.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Uruk GNU/Linux 2.0 (Alpha)
Big congrats, mates from Urukko!!! \o/
[Trisquel-users] Re : Installing NVIVO
Have you tried Virt-manager ? (has allways worked well for me) https://virt-manager.org/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
Thank you very much for your help GNUbahn! I can't install Virtualbox. It seems to be because I run Trisquel 7 (https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installing-virtualbox). I tried to configure KVM following the tutorial, but I stopped after bridging network interface, because it slows Trisquel booting to much. Any idea? As for Transana, unfortunately, the research team I joined work on PDF files (text editable or not), ODT, DOCX et MS Excel files. It's too much trouble to convert all of this into compatible formats for Transana. Besides, my colleagues uses NVIVO "classification" a lot for demographic data about interview participants (and newspaper editorial's authors in my case) and review literature authors (https://youtu.be/Xe0NpJPLQ6k?t=51m39s). So far, I didn't see anything similar in Transana.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo
Try this. echo X >/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness Where 'x' is a number (try 10 or something).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo
I tried to write echo 60 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness but it says "permission denied". I have an intel graphic HD 520, I tried also the others solutions on the forum but nothings work. Can someone help me? If my brightness doesn't go down I can't use the laptop...
Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with OpenMailBox?
my only problem with tutanota, is that they support proprietary operating systems more than free ones and that they have no debian or ubuntu support. also, it would be better if they used AGPL3 as their license, but mostly it is the first two sentences of this post that make me not happy with them. and the fact that imap isn't allowed...
Re: [Trisquel-users] A good day for freedom loving computer users
I am glad you are still around selling libreboot devices, and also that you are now selling that special adapter so I Can use wifi on my replicant device. We have our disagreements on things, but it is good that you support free software. Thank you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
I run my CAQDAS in windows under VirtualBox. It works quite well. Btw, instead of NVivo (which my department uses) I use Transana because it is open source
[Trisquel-users] Installing NVIVO
I've been using Trisquel for few years at home. Recently, I joined a research team using a qualitative analysis software called NVIVO (www.qsrinternational.com). It proprietary and runs under OSX or Windows. If possible I'd rather keep my Trisquel and virtualise OSX or Windows than switching to OSX or Windows completely. Is there any way to do this under Trisquel?
