Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop
Hi Heather :) I'm finding it difficult to remain patient as I wish to have a fully functional Trisquel OS, your encouragement helps as I can walk away from the unfinished task and read your encouraging comment, thanks. I think the grub commands will work but I will wait to chat with someone experienced with grub rescue before I leap to another unexpected error message. I finally received a email from Libiquity - so I am looking forward to a real free source Trisquel machine :) I hadn't considered a unboxing, but I will share the unboxing as per your request when the Taurinus X200 laptop arrives, cheers!
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
> If they are embracing the concept of free speech then they shouldn't have a problem with people dissenting or proposing alternative viewpoints. I didn't say the FSF would censor people, I only said that people would be more hesitant to disagree with or criticize them. Simple reasoning, really: because the forum is run by them. There would be at least a little trepidation from the members. > Otherwise, where do those people go to engage in the discussion? Presumably they just contact whoever they heard about libre software from.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop
This sounds exactly like what happened the last time I wrestled with UEFI. I'm pretty sure you did it, Ron! The install is on there safe and sound, you just need to get it to boot. I used boot repair on my friend's machine so I'm no help. Someone will be along before long to explain it to both of us. Please post a review of your Taurinus when it gets there. You're going to love it, but it's great to see your determination to free your i7 too. Just pace yourself and remember to take breaks when you need to.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop
GRUB TO MY RESCUE? 8 hours has passed since my last Trisquel screw-up. I read The GRUB list of command-line and menu entry commands https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Command_002dline-and-menu-entry-commands.html and watched several GRUB rescue video tutorials on youtube. I do not understand the commands and feel like I'm driving lost on the expressway without a city road-map for correct directions... The videos used/executed the same 4 commands: 1. set boot=(hd0,msdos6) 2. set prefix=(hd0,msdos6)/boot/grub 3. insmod normal 4. normal I would try that, but I want to know what those commands are expected to do, before I type them. The videos all showed the menu comes up either to windows or Ubuntu.
Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP
I don't think it would- although a libre equivalent must exist somewhere, since the EOMA68-A20 card has the option of Debian. I'll have a look for it and see if it isn't possible to just use that. As for nonfree kernel modules, I don't know about those either. Perhaps it's just the people with power to do anything turning a blind eye to the situation.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people. Think about that.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
If someone has the nerve to talk publicly bad about women and LGBT people then I will publicly shame them. I don't care if someone else disagree. I agree there are things should be treated privately but this kind oy thing doesn't. There are things that is worth rising your voice against. This in one of them. Especially with the amount of discrimination the world has seen in recent times. I expected better of some of you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Virtualization on a librebooted T400
You might be able to do it with 1 cpu/core for the VM, though there are reports that guest OS will crash with this setup. With both cores, you'll get kernel panics on the host OS. There may be a few T400 laptops with CPUs that work well with hardware virtualization, but they are rare. Hardware virtualization is unstable without CPU microcode updates. Libreboot excludes these, since they are non-free. You can use software-based virtualization, if you disable the KVM module in the linux kernel. Xen-based virtual machines should be fine, and offers decent performance.
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
I came from GnuWinII: http://riffwiki.com/GNUWin_II which had a significant quantity of RMS articles and enough about the philosophy that I stuck around reading long after I'd filled up on free beer. From there I went to Knoppix and other live CDs and then Mandrake, which was the newbie distro of the day, although i was excited about this new project called "Ubuntu" that was supposed to be released in another year or so. The project was abandoned a long time ago because apparently I am weird in that way too. Most windows users will grab the free beer and run. I do agree that we need some sort of a venue for people who have just discovered free software to talk, debrief, and prioritize. We also need a place for those who, like me, have benefited so much from the work of our developers that we want to share with others. The developers enjoy seeing the fruits of their labours too, but if we can teach each other, not only does it cement what we have learned in our own minds, it frees up our developers' time so they can make us more goodies. :) I still have an account at Linux Questions and used to use a lot of forum boards. College classes didn't do as much for my daughter as peer support forums did for me. I would love to see a return to that culture. Those were the days! Welcome here, new folks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Numix Square is libre now :)
https://github.com/numixproject/numix-folders a Script to change the color of those folders in /home etc I will confirm once again, this is without any doubt the best icon theme out there, very sexy and very complete. Have a screenshot, triskallenounisans!
Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP
Would replacing the kernel with Debian's break anything? I don't understand kernels well. I've also always been confused as to how non-free modifications of the linux kernel can exist without being in violation of GPLv2.
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
I'm not so sure it would make people more hesitant to criticize the FSF. If they are embracing the concept of free speech then they shouldn't have a problem with people dissenting or proposing alternative viewpoints. If you are confident that your philosophy is strong, then it should be able to stand up to the test of dissent and opposition. In my opinion, that is a part of healthy debate and should be encouraged. I have to admit that I'm a bit of a newcomer to the 'free software movement' myself. I've been dabbling a bit with GNU/Linux over the past few years, but I'm just starting to realize how important free software is. What strikes me though is how fragmented the free software community seems to be. The online discussion seems to be broken up into numerous niche, distro-specific forums like this one (great that it is, I don't mean to knock it!). It really seems to be missing a central focal point to pull the community together. Such a focal point would help to pool resources, ideas, projects among the community. It would also be more accessible and easier to find for those that are new to the concept of free software or those that aren't totally convinced, but want to ask questions or find out more about it. Otherwise, where do those people go to engage in the discussion? They're not going to go on IRC or pay money to join a closed forum and there's probably little chance of them finding a forum like this one. More likely, they're going to be snapped up by Ask Ubuntu, or somewhere like that, and they'll be given *their* version of free software (i.e. not free!). Seems to me the FSF is missing an opportunity here to be that focal point. To Arc's point though, I agree that here probably isn't the best place to make this point. I probably should sign up as an FSF member and post it on their forum - I'd be interested to see what their response would be.
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
>I has used 'gnuxino'* for at least seven years before I ever heard of GNU ans FSF - or at least noticed it. I has used da gnuxinos for 10 months, then one night Saint Ignucius appeared in my room and blessed my laptop. I has used da blobs4win for 15 years prior to that, I has not payed attention between all that muh proprietary Gomez sessions and 'registry tweak and malware ointment and defragmentibus snaike oile for da gullible' :/ But as he saw the heavy regret of a mistaken past mixed with the sudden growing relief, yet uncertain the feeling on my adept face, Ignucius said to me on that very special night of his sudden manifestation in my room: 'fear not, young apprentice of the GAHNUU way, for the time lost is regained thrice and all the future seconds will be worth triple teh hours past'..
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
Thank you. I think we all need those words of wisdom and sanity sometimes. You are, of course, absolutely right.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
I can't read the whole thread, I just wanted to thank Happy Gnu for caring. I was a closeted het female for most of my Gnu/Linux using years for this reason. This username was a mistake on my part and I almost left Trisquel because I didn't think I could handle people knowing that I was female. Meeting Leah was life changing for me. Mainstream women on the sites I frequent commonly say things like "I'd like to switch from gmail, but my husband is too busy to set up a new email account for me". Leah's personal life is none of my business, no matter how much I want to support her and defend her from hurtful comments. Chasing her and other transwomen away is denying ourselves their talent, just as we deny ourselves the talent of those mainstream women who are afraid to even ask how to set up their own email accounts. After I accidentally outed myself, Jade outed herself on purpose, either in solidarity with my embarassed self or because she was planning on doing so anyway. Ciswomen have been treated respectfully here, for the most part, ever since. I still think we have some closeted females here, just from writing style and other little things I pick up because it takes one to know one. If Happy Gnu gets banned for standing up for us, however imperfectly, the closeting and fear of being ourselves continues. I hope I have half the courage this young man has shown the next time someone says the same sort of thing about Mexican people as this troll has said about Lisa. I'm too damned grumpy to weigh in on the content of the thread right now so I'll let you get back to what you were talking about. I feel safe now.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
mv /crap_storage/whatever_this_shit_is/ /trollhole
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
Though I can't speak for many others (a few though), I tend to disagree. I has used Linux (being unaware of the GNU part) for at least seven years before I ever heard of GNU ans FSF - or at least noticed it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
I fully agree with Mangy Dog. And I am pretty sure that posters posting that sort of incoherent 'opinion' and 'facts' isn't going to change either attitude or behaviour just because somebody complains and tries to shoot back. The words to extinguish to fire function as fuel. Ignore the fire and watch it (of the forum)...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
I think you are a troll, sorry but anyone who takes the sinclair broadcast group seriously is off their rocker, and I know you watch that stuff, because that's where the talk of "social justice warriors" comes from. I don't really understand why you bother, but just stop. It will be taken offensively by a lot of people.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
Actually, I agree with you. Probably you have a good point. MangyDog
[Trisquel-users] Re : Please ban marioxcc from this forum
If anyone is offended there is : https://trisquel.info/fr/project/issues The #trisquel IRC on Freenode and writing an email to Ruben, or David. But making a public topic on "banning" such and such tperson ransforms the tread into a "collective acusation"of which i disagree.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
It is sad what our world has done to everyone but wealthy white men. and also white men in general. I disagree with white supremacy and I am a white male myself. I guess you could say that I dislike corruption and hypocrisy and injustice. otherwise my country's dangerous orange and the red knights of congress, wouldn't bother me as much. same with the cops. Freedom is supposed to be more accessible to the public than those in power and 5% of the country.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
I would agree, but being a troll as you probably know doesn't make him innocent.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
As a christian myself I am appalled by people like marioxcc's behavior. Gender superiority is both lame and false. Neither sex is exalted according to the bible, this is because both sinned and both are made in his image. But even forgetting that, you would think marioxcc's comments would be more respectful, if he is a christian, or at least, I would anyways. This tells me he is hollow inside and shallow as well. I don't know if permanently, banning him will solve the issue, but I do think it would be good to kick him out for a while. I support equal rights, equal pay, and I also think the real problem most people face in life, is arrogance, backstabbing, and physical harm. Those three things are life's biggest sins. Nothing else is even on the same tip of the iceberg. My point is that most issues the right brings up are diversions from the real root issues.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
https://xkcd.com/1357/
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
I agree, but I think many people who find out about GNU/Linux and distros come across gnu.org or fsf.org early on. If the FSF had a forum, it would definitely be noticed, and would probably be the largest forum for free software there is. Plus, mailing lists and IRC are antiquated forms of communication to a lot of people. But, I'm sorta preaching to the coir here, I suppose the best thing to do would be to contact FSF and ask why there isn't such a forum already.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
Calling people pathetic you don't know and is not involved with you is just as bad Arc.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
Hilarious. As laughable as it is, everyone's entitled to their paragraph long diatribes, either of you guys. Engaging like this just makes the forum and the individuals involved look pathetic. And, if you want to call for someone's opinion to be shut down, or to argue about whatever trite either of you are talking about, maybe go to the Troll Lounge. Don't mean to be a backseat mod, but I think it would be appropriate. Because this doesn't have much to do with Trisquel or computers, does it?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
Yet you on purpose omit the fact and even justify what happens in Mexico. Because you are Mexican. Mexicans haven't earn that many Nobel prizes or done anything successful in math or science because of sad reasons. But women haven't because you think they are stupid. (For those new I am Mexican too) I tried to teach marioxcc how his logic is bad because if we apply it to something else it is wrong. He can't accept that his retoric is clearly wrong. Anyway he just made my point. He shouldn't be here.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Please ban marioxcc from this forum
MarioXcc I suggest we call it a day..
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
>Marioxcc has clearly posted discrimination towards women and his comments are not only negative, but destructive, irrational and should not be part of this community. >He had made some horrible comments against woman and I am sad to see such ugly thoughts contaminating Trisquel community. Saying the truth that you do not want to hear is not “discrimination”. That you can not wrap your head around the fact that there have been 17 times as much male Nobel Prize laureates (something you have choose as a benchmark, not me) than female Nobel Prize laureates is not my fault. That A. Byron –who was the “first programmer” in a fairy tale told by feminists– never saw a computer in her life is not my fault, so do not complaint to me. The fault is of those social justice warriors and pro-multiculturalists that want to fool the community into thinking that the first computer programmer was a person who died decades before the first universal (Turing-complete) came into existence. Neither is my fault that those MTF transsexuals that undergo the erroneously[1] called “sex change/reassignment surgery”, pay a quack to mutilate their genitals into a deep injury that struggles to close itself and that they call this injury a "vagina" and prevent it from closing by introducing foreign objects on it. That is what they do, as you will find by doing a quick search of the academic literature. The problem here is not me, as I just bring to your field of view the facts that you ignore. The problem is that you want to pretend that these facts do not exist, because they expose to anybody how absurd your your social justice warrior world-view is. What you are doing in starting this thread is a well known tactic of the social justice warrior herd: When all the people that are present to speak are themselves, they say that they want free speech and all voices to be heard. When somebody from the outside brings some facts that bursts their bubble, then all the cries for free speech cease and are replaced by the yells that the dissenting arguments are shut as forcefully as possible. In the United States, the herd mentality is pervasive that the same social justice warriors that otherwise would cry for freedom of speech have managed to deter people with dissenting opinions from giving a speech in their university. Isn't it ironic? - If I am banned for saying the truth that some people do not want to hear into the ears that this forum is, then so shall it be, for the truth that you are afraid of is exactly the truth that you ought to hear. It would not be the first time, nor the last. You can shut your ears and close your eyes, and be oblivious to the reality, but you can not shut my voice. There will be always something to be done, and my lifetime is not enough to do it all. I have used enough of it already trying to speak to somebody who is deaf because he does not want to hear. Thus, I conclude my participation in this thread with the above text. [1]: The sex of an individual is defined in the more general way, by the gametes that the physiology of the organism gonads corresponds to, or in humans and their evolutionary relatives, by karyotype, provided the absence of anomalous localization of the SRY gene. Since we can not modify genes (beyond epigenetics) nor replace the gonads of an individual with those of the other sex, it follows that there is no way to change sex. You can find a source is basically any biology book.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please recommend a free-software Mercurial hosting service
I will probably regret it, but I have to state, that comments like this: It is a contemporary truth and an historical fact that men are more capable in intellectual matters. You can take a look at the top performers, current or historical, in any intellectual field (mathematics, physics, chemistry, Go, Chess) and almost everybody you find will be a man. illustrates a very simple - and absolutely non-intellectual - definition of intellect. I wonder if this is a case of (misunderstood) humour, arrogance or ignorance (one doesn't necessarily out rule the others). Freedom loving trisqueleurs, enjoy your weekend.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
To be fair. Unfortunately women had been mistreated in most cultures, not only western. But my point was not to point to western countries but to give an explanation on why history appears to lack women success.
[Trisquel-users] Virtualization on a librebooted T400
Hello, I would like to set up a virtual GNU/Linux-Distribution for testing purposes. I read that hardware virtualization doesn't play well with libreboot. Can anyone give me some advice on how to set up a virtualized Trisquel instance? I always used HW-virtualization, so I've got no idea which setup is good for SW-virtualization. Thanks in advance :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
Is sad to see such irrational person who misses a little history like the fact that in western countries the laws and culture are inherited by romans tradition. Under Roman's laws the women was a property of men and was forbidden to do anything if was not allowed by the head of the family. This was later adopted by Christianity and was a long history of denying women a place in culture, education and politics. So every time a woman accomplished something on something men used the bible as an excuse to dismiss or even punish the woman for learning. This happened to create a history where only "men" did something for progress. Similar things happened to the countries that were under the slavery of western countries. Like Asian, African or latinamerica countries. This is the reason why history appears to be full of "white male" accomplishments, because if someone was black or a woman then this person was punished for trying to learn. Marioxcc clearly can't see this fact even though is obvious. The reason why men did so much was not because they were superior but because they used force and power to destroy anyone who was better than them. Women, black men, indigenous, Asians and more, all were under fear. You can't actually expect they to compete in history because they were punished. But you can't be so retarded to think that they are more stupid instead of see that clearly they wore as smart but under a horrible regime. It makes me sad to see that people can't use their brains to think and be kind to others. I really don't know what to say. I can't expect marioxcc little brain to grasp all history and social problems in just one post. But I hope you learn Mario. For your own good. You can't be an idiot for ever.
[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Please ban marioxcc from this forum
I think he's a troll. You can't tell me that people still believe this nonsense of superiority. I support your suggestion.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
This is an example of why he should be banned: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/support-lisas-fundraiser-today#comment-117735
[Trisquel-users] Please ban marioxcc from this forum
Trisquel rules clearly state that discrimination is against Trisquel values. Marioxcc has clearly posted discrimination towards women and his comments are not only negative, but destructive, irrational and should not be part of this community. If he continues to be part of this forum I will take that as an acceptance of his behavior and as a protests I will never be part of Trisquel again. There is a difference between making a mistake or getting angry at someone, and discrimination. My words were not right either, and I should probably be banned too. I understand and I apologize to everyone here because of my bad language. However I stand by my position. Discrimination should not be allowed and I ask in a polite way the ban of him. He had made some horrible comments against woman and I am sad to see such ugly thoughts contaminating Trisquel community.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
Public service announcement: Go here for fully free phone OS: https://www.replicant.us/ Replicant has FSF endorsement. And go here for a (much cheaper) phone that is actually in fact libre (more libre than purism's phone): https://tehnoetic.com/tet-n2 https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-s3-phone-replicant https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-s2-phone-replicant Any one of those should suit the needs of most people. That company also donates part of its profits back to Replicant and the FSF.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
Hello everyone, The more you debate about Purism products, the more publicity they get. There is likely no difference between this phone and the generic products you get from samsung, sony, xiaomi, etc, aside from the operating system. Even Replicant phones still have non-free boot firmware in them, and this is true of all Replicant-preinstalled phone suppliers. Wifi, 3D acceleration and bootloaders / firmware are all very difficult to liberate on mobile phones. Just look at the Replicant project to see how hard it is. Then there is the issue of the modem (baseband processor) having access to main CPU and RAM (and the modem's firmware is often updateable by the celecoms provider). If you don't like Purism, then stop talking about it or making threads on forums about it. Purism's ability to raise awareness of itself is based on people like you discussing it. So my advice would be to stop talking about them. Just my 2 cents. ~Leah PS: fun fact: Purism doesn't mention Replicant at all on its announcements. Or at least as far as I can tell, it doesn't. If they were serious, they'd port Replicant to their device. Of course, I'm sure they'll take this as advice and announce "Replicant coming soon" on their marketing ;)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please recommend a free-software Mercurial hosting service
I will not engage in further discussion with you, because you are interested only in criticizing my person, instead of addressing my arguments. This is the ad hominem fallacy and is not a valid argument. Nonetheless, I fell compelled to address your attempt to spread insulting misinformation about my country, not because of you, but for the sake of other readers of this forum that may fall into your dirty trick. >For your information byou are Mexican so you are as worth or even less than a Women. I mean there are more women with Science Nobel prizes than Mexicans. I would not take the Nobel Prizes as a proxy for scientific success. Although I have no time to write a dissertation on the topic I can mention one important reason: there is no Nobel prize for Mathematics, despite that Mathematics is the discipline requiring the most intellectual capability. Anyway, for whatever merit the Nobel prize has –which in my opinion, is very overestimated– your comparison is extremely biased towards women. You compared the population of Mexico with the much larger population of women. You are giving women a huge numerical advantage. The INEGI gives a population of 120,000,000 for Mexico[2]. The world population is approximately 7,200,000,000[1]. Of these, roughly half are women, that is, 3,600,000,000. Both data points are taken in the latest available year in both data sets for consistency, and rounded to 2 significant digits. Counting the Economy prize as part of the Nobel Prizes (sometimes it is not counted) there have been 3 Mexican Nobel laureates and 48 female Nobel laureates. You can take the average population per year for both Mexicans and women while the Nobel price has been in existence, and you will obtain a similar ratio. For a quick comparison, as you proposed, using the current numbers suffices. So there is 1 Mexican Nobel laureate for each 40,000,000 currently living Mexicans, and there is 1 female Nobel laureate for each 75,000,000 currently living females. Conclusion: Mexicans are twice as effective as obtaining Nobel prizes than women overall. Mexican men are four times as effective as obtaining Nobel prize than females overall. - Also, I know and acknowledge that my country is not successful in science and engineering compared to Europe and the United States. Therefore, I would not demand that people pretend that Mexico and those countries are equal in this regard. But I am not indifferent to the current situation of my country. I put my grain of salt by being an autodidact since personal limitations currently prevent me from going to an university. The difference between this and your posture is that you and your herd of social justice warriors want everybody to think that everybody is equal. In specific, that men and women are equally capable, but this is a delusion. It is a contemporary truth and an historical fact that men are more capable in intellectual matters. You can take a look at the top performers, current or historical, in any intellectual field (mathematics, physics, chemistry, Go, Chess) and almost everybody you find will be a man. Given that you like to compare using the Nobel prize (again, that is your choice, not mine), consider that there are roughly the same number of men and women at any given moment, yet so far only 48 women have been laureates, compared to 822 men. In other words, men are 1,700% as successful in earning Nobel Prizes as women. - Having made these clarifications, the reader of this forum is well aware that the only value in your non-arguments is their humorous value. Since my work here is done, and my time is limited, I withdraw from this discussion. [1]: https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpop/table_population.php [2]: http://www.beta.inegi.org.mx/temas/estructura/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot T400 Review!
I was searching through my stock today, and I uncovered several high-capacity batteries, some of them are 100% or near that. The next batch of orders for the next week or so from 25 August 2017 will have near-new batteries, about 4-5 hour battery life. (usually I try to ship as high capacity as possible otherwise, about 40Wh or higher).
Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop
Oops - I screwed something up! Sigh, I was more frustrated than I admitted to myself. Changed UEFI Boot settings to "fast Boot" DISABLED, but before that I also set the "USB Support" option to Full Initiation. The reason was because of the way the features work, when you select the DISABLE option for the Fast Boot the USB Support feature disappears! So I rebooted... I was already prepared to share this with you: Thanks happy_gnu, that mirrors my plan I set for myself, except I had hoped my Trisquel Laptop had arrived from Libiquity (Taurinus X200) by now, then I could feel more secure that my home network was running okay, and simultaneously become acquainted with Trisquel's Terminal. Recall my earlier comment, Quote: "So I went to the DOS cmd line and executed the command: wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:M: -include:C: -quiet Even that had a unexpected surprise for me. This text from the cmd line was unexpected, quote: Note: The list of volumes included for backup does not include all the volumes that contain operating system components. This backup cannot be used to perform a system recovery. However, you can recover other items if the destination media type supports it." -End Quote- Anyway, I was surprised that the reboot gave me the option to install Trisquel!!! I had intended on going back to windows and talk with you - but, this looked too interesting to ignore. I started the Trisquel installation and the option to install alongside windows was available again!!! I asked myself if I should ignore this and back out of the installation again, but I was too happy to ignore the opportunity. I went for it and after the long time to install Trisquel completed its script it asked me to reboot, I said yes and that reboot sent me Quote: "Error: no such device: b474831e-0d52"...[long char-string] "Entering rescue mode..." grub rescue> -End Quote- After about an hour of trial and error at the post interrupt I found a boot to launch windows (it wasn't my normal drive-and I don't understand why/how it worked). So now I have more questions: 1. after Trisquel installation how can I safely check to see if the Trisquel OS is functional? 2. What is GRUB command line? 3. What emergency commands can I launch at the GRUB command line? 4. What does that earlier DOS terminal backup caution mean? I am a bit over-stressed now, and will take a break from the PC; the image as per your request is below, Ciao for today.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
That was probably wise, onpon4. TodD was all over my Diaspora* feed yesterday. No social networking for me until this blows over.
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
Honestly, even this forum is quite a bit of an echo chamber, and if the FSF was hosting such a forum it would probably be even worse, because that would make people more hesitant to criticize or disagree with the FSF. Also, people who don't already agree with the libre software movement don't join forums centered around it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
Thanks for your input, Ronmamita. I hope you find the assistance that you need for your project :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
Sure, but IRC isn't the same thing as a message board. They serve different purposes.
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
Hi happy_gnu, yes I know. I think the more the merrier and I do not run across FSF in most of my internet searches unless I specifically search for FSF or GNU. I even forgot that webpage (https://www.gnu.org/server/irc-rules.en.html), though now I recall I've seen it before, LOL :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop
OK first of all do a back up of you SSD to your 4TB drive so you don't lost your important data like your pictures and couments. 2.- In the UEFI go again to Boot and make sure to disable Fast Boot. This is because the fast boot usually prevents to boot USB pen drives. 3.- Did you create the Trisquel Live USB already? Please create it. 4. in UEFI in boot below Fast boot there is a USB support option that says partial, could you click it and show me what options you have there? OK for now I think that is enough. Hopefully the next step will be to install trisquel now :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
There are more than enough: https://www.gnu.org/server/irc-rules.en.html Ronmamita you don't need and IRC host. You need only a client like pidgin or hexchat to connect to IRC.
Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering
IBM showed their evil intentions many times... Which has me curious about what they may potentially be hiding in firmware or CMOS?
Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering
The cost factors in most things in this monetary empire system, so that is to be expected. I find this offering very interesting, because: 1. WHY (or what is the IBM connection)??? When did these corporations get interested in the free source movement? 2. > $2300 for a single CPU Talos II bundle, according to https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/purchase.html I could attempt to install it in my older model, using the existing equipment (monitor, casing, fan & PwrSupply) All to support the Free Source effort and have a Free Source home network.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
I wrote my comment on this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/6vr06u/gnulinux_based_phone_purism_5/dm2x2h2/ I decided to erase this from the comment because I don't want to give Purism ammunition to claim victim status, but I also noticed something odd: the supposed "funds raised" are $30,000 larger than all the supposed contributions added up. Take a look: https://archive.is/X70Zq I seem to recall that Purism's first couple campaigns ended with massive, unexpected contributions that just so happened to get them to their funding goal. This kind of stuff doesn't look good at all.
Re: [Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
Hi Time4Tea I am a neophyte attempting to convert to GNU and I think your comment is important and valid even if this topic was discussed many times past. Years ago I gave up on converting my home network to GNU because my efforts to get Trisquel to work properly (hardware compatibility issues?) failed. Now I am attempting this again and asked the forum for assistance. Years ago, I didn't find the forum for help... and perhaps now some of us will provide "unofficial" IRC persistent FSF forum campaigning and discussions? After I have a GNU home network I will need a IRC host, and will look into this. In the meantime I encourage GNU supporters to do what you can to reach out beyond the already converted. https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/ https://steemit.com/@ronmamita
Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop
This is another good morning with storm clouds and rain, happy greetings to all! A pleasure meeting you Heather, your kind encouragement is appreciated :) I am Ron, "Mamita" is my mate - the combined user name became a nic from seasons past when I was coaching her to use the internet for the first time. I haven't bothered to use a different nic - oops I must remember to not be verbose, thanks Heather. 1a. I shall rid my home network of the Microsoft virus. 1b. Installing Trisquel is challenging but I haven't given up. each failure brings me closer to success. sharing images here in the forum even challenged me, LOL :D I thought all the supported image formats would include the UEFI's "Print Screen" feature, but sadly that was not the case. The UEFI image is .BMP and not supported here at the forum so I launched GIMP, changed the images to .PNG and then copied those new images to my K: drive so I could upload here to the forum. 1c. In honor of Heather I named the folder and here are more images we can discuss: The 1st image is as Heather requested, from the BOOT tab - note, that is a 2.5 page length of options. thus I took 3 screenshots to display them sequentially as "ASUS_UEFI_Boot_p1"; ...Boot_p2; ...Boot_p3; and the last image is from the UEFI's "Advanced" tab that includes options for USB - I think I attempted to alter some of those options, not sure as the UEFI has a script of its own that appears to have changed some of my requests in favor of what works best? That's why I tabled discussing the bios, it's confusing but the Win7 OS still works and the USB Trisquel Boot works, so that is progress. Now for me to get a reliable backup, then C: drive free space to invade with Trisquel...
[Trisquel-users] No open FSF/GNU forum?
Maybe this has been discussed before, but does anyone else find it a little strange that there doesn't seem to be any FSF/GNU forum that is open to everybody? I mean, I would think the FSF would want to be the focal point for online discussion and debate about free software, rather than leaving that void for others to fill. They have a forum for paying members, but surely that just serves to 'preach to the converted', rather than engaging and trying to persuade those that don't share their philosophy? Where else do people go to discuss free software? (apart from on here, obviously!)
Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP
Nice! Thanks for the links- that's a far better way to do it. Unfortunately, it seems like the kernel may be some trouble. Looking at the repository here, it turns out the base is not Debian's Kernel but rather the SoC-friendly linux-sunxi; which, quite incredibly, includes the firmware and drivers for everything from Intel WiFi chips to whatever Yamaha makes- not skimping on the proprietary ones, of course. That may require some de-blobbing (perhaps the FSFLA's linux-libre scripts work?).
