Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone

2017-08-29 Thread chasepc
Thanks brother!

Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop

2017-08-29 Thread blogstory
Magic Banana, I haven't deleted Trisquel's install from sdj3,4,and 5 yet because I have a question and I'm preparing for sleep - can I simply properly prepare the entire device dev/sdj for future drive device? The sdj1 and sdj2 are not reliable full backup for windows and I wish to put a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone

2017-08-29 Thread onpon4
Yeah, Purism didn't even have anything to do with it. This is a post about it: https://hardenedlinux.github.io/firmware/2016/11/17/neutralize_ME_firmware_on_sandybridge_and_ivybridge.html And this is the actual project page of me_cleaner, the tool that does it:

[Trisquel-users] Re : 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop

2017-08-29 Thread lcerf
First of all, have you deleted Trisquel's install from the external disk, as I suggested in https://trisquel.info/forum/13aug2017-buy-trisquel-laptop?page=1#comment-120112 ? You should. GParted is pretty user-friendly: right click on the row corresponding to the partitions you want to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone

2017-08-29 Thread chasepc
It seems to me that a lot of the people here on this forum work in the computer industry and have fairly advance knowledge already. Bridging the gap between developers and normal every day users is a big task. Try and do some basic searches as if you were someone without any knowledge of

Re: [Trisquel-users] alternatives to samba

2017-08-29 Thread eloi . igor
I never thought I could see somebody unhappy with samba. I guess you never knows.

Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP

2017-08-29 Thread masonhock
The last version of deblob-* to contain drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/pmu/fuc/gf110.fuc4 is deblob-4.2, so out of curiosity I tried including that in the directory instead and running $ ./deblob 4.2 Sure enough, the script was able find all files it was looking for and complete

[Trisquel-users] Corporate mainstream media which is not in the public interest

2017-08-29 Thread J.B. Nicholson
trisquelfo...@vikings.net wrote: One question remains, why do some (if not most) people _still_ not understand in 2017 what this all is about. Why do people still strike a blow for companies (looking at you, Intel & co.) that treat you like crap. It really beats me. This has more to do with

Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop

2017-08-29 Thread blogstory
Hi my GNU friends, I am facing the Trisquel GUI atm. I stopped taking my new prescription and feel better tonight, so let's get started. The mental gymnastics needed to quickly correlate the drivenames between windows and Trisquel is difficult, as far as I can see, there is no "sda2" -

[Trisquel-users] Re : alternatives to samba

2017-08-29 Thread lcerf
About backups, if the synchronized systems are all online and you modify/remove by mistake a file, it will be quickly modified/removed in all other systems with no way to recover the file as it was, right? If so, it is not a good idea to use Syncthing to backup... but backups were not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone

2017-08-29 Thread chasepc
Yeah it's definitely deceptive marketing, in the same response he says it's 90-95% freed and then calls it a 99% solution in the same response. Anyways, glad to hear some input because those guys are good at marketing even if they are full of shit. Is this ME neutralization script

[Trisquel-users] Re : ar9271 works on debian 9 64bit main?

2017-08-29 Thread lcerf
It is.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone

2017-08-29 Thread chasepc
Thanks for the info, good stuff here.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Clock applet displays normal, not bold text

2017-08-29 Thread bobandrew
This is how the two clocks look like, the clock-applet is displayed to the left, and the clock in the indicator-applet to the right. How can I get the former look like the latter?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why big corporations are against riseup.net?

2017-08-29 Thread fil . bergamo
I think you'd better ask them directly.. ..but my guess is as follows: Given that: -riseup.net is funded by members only (not by governments or corporations); -it is always struggling to keep up the pace and pay the bills; -every account they offer needs a tiny but significant amount of

Re: [Trisquel-users] customizing trisquel.

2017-08-29 Thread jbar
Thanks, SuperTramp83 and Heather, 'heads' looks interesting.

[Trisquel-users] libre ppc notebook funding

2017-08-29 Thread toni . schultheis
https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ I was wondering if someone knows about it... They want to mak an open hardware ppc notebook, and i think its the most interesting project there is. If they succed an new laptop without backdoors would be available.

Re: [Trisquel-users] alternatives to samba

2017-08-29 Thread i_write_words
For the benefit of future lurkers, it was only necessary to give the server a static address. My clients seem to be able to connect just fine. This seems to replace all the functionality of Samba. Since I have the same username and passwords on all machines, I log into my home directory on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Clock applet displays normal, not bold text

2017-08-29 Thread bobandrew
NB: this is about the clock-applet (which can also display weather info), not the clock displayed by default on the bottom right corner indicator-applet.

Re: [Trisquel-users] alternatives to samba

2017-08-29 Thread happy_gnu
1.- You can select what files or directories to sync with wich device. But fair enough I haven't use samba. As I thought it was meant to share with windows and, fortunately we get cidmof windows in my house :) 2.- That depends on your configuration, you can backup everything. 3.- If you

Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP

2017-08-29 Thread masonhock
You're right. I should have been running deblob-main. After compressing the kernel to "linux-4.4.tar.bz2", changing line 52 of deblob-4.4 to read "kver=4.4 extra=13", and running $ ./deblob-main 4.4 13 I get Uncompressing linux-4.4.tar.bz2 into linux-4.4.tar Extracting linux-4.4.tar into

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Purism working on libre phone

2017-08-29 Thread christoph . vanecek
Hello, #Vikings: I 100% agree with your statement, especially the two last paragraphs and it's fantastic that little companies like yours and also the great community from Tehnoetic in Bucharest are delivering freedom respecting hardware to average Joe users, like me. As in many posts in

Re: [Trisquel-users] alternatives to samba

2017-08-29 Thread i_write_words
Now if I can just figure out how to share my external drives as well as my home folder.

Re: [Trisquel-users] alternatives to samba

2017-08-29 Thread i_write_words
YES Thank you! I'm into my server!!! I am still using passwords so not done yet, but everything looks great and exactly the way it did on Samba, which I don't need any more. :) doing a happy dance

Re: [Trisquel-users] ar9271 works on debian 9 64bit main?

2017-08-29 Thread svhaab
Thanks. Is this the package https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-ath9k-htc?

Re: [Trisquel-users] No background image when "Show icons on desktop" is unticked - Trisquel 7

2017-08-29 Thread bobandrew
Thanks for the hint, I'll try that.

[Trisquel-users] Re : alternatives to samba

2017-08-29 Thread lcerf
The allocation of IP addresses is DHCP's work. Their static allocation based on the MAC addresses should therefore be in "Network/DHCP and DNS". As I wrote, using GNU/Linux (even a live system: we are talking about an hardware-defined number), you can read the MAC address (or addresses if

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 post install. ??? and new to free-software ???

2017-08-29 Thread tegskywalker
"Trisquel 8 is still alpha" When this OS is based off of code from April 2016 and is still an early work in progress in August 2017, it is an abandoned project at this point.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Desktop problem - no programs

2017-08-29 Thread 43453
aloniv: "It should perhaps default to mirroring both screens instead." It could be that the mirroring is working, but not correctly because the integrated display is a hd screen and the external not. So it's not zoomed in the right way (if I open a window its in the lower right corner, not

Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP

2017-08-29 Thread gpast_panama
>It would be great if the indent width of comment replies were halved so that it would take twice as long for this to happen Seconded. >I'm not sure exactly what the output should look like since I can't find sample usage anywhere, but I would have expected to get a list of source code

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Purism working on libre phone

2017-08-29 Thread trisquelforum
I'm posting this as someone who went actually through the FSF's RYF process to the end. > There is no such thing as a middle-ground with the FSF. The FSF is _the_ libre software lighthouse. As such, it has set its own set of well-established principles that are almost written in stone. Not