Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 on a Samsung m2 SSD 850 EVO (120GB)?
I was done this using gdisk command, but this needs your personal data to be backed up to an USB SSD.
[Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 on a Samsung m2 SSD 850 EVO (120GB)?
I have the problem that the installer can't create the GRUB MBR record on a Cirrus7 Computer: https://www.cirrus7.com/produkte/cirrus7-nimbus/overview Probably because the Samsung m2 850 EVO SSD with 120 GB capacity needs a GPT partition. But neither the graphical nor the text based installer do give me an option to do anything else than writing a GRUP menu into the MBR, which doesn't seem to work here. However, avoiding to use the SSD I could successfully install Trisquel on the additional 500 GB HDD but unfortunately it is not recognised in the bios. I suspect this is the reason why I can only boot this installation without any further problems if I use some handwritten GRUB commands. I don't actually want to use the HDD installation since the better choice for the system would be the faster SSD. So only if there is absolutely no other way to use the system with Trisquel I would go for the HDD installation. So my two questions are: 1) Is there a way to create a proper boot menu for the SDD installation? (Everything other than the creation of the GRUB menu went well, if I can trust the installer.) 2) If the first option fails: How can I get a proper boot menu for the HDD? (I can't expect the user to run several boot commands in order to get the system up and running.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-Mini Desktop Environment
If you enjoy wm instead of general DE like Plasma, GNOME, MATE then you are free to match your favourite wm with LXQt, that General DE force you to run their built-in wm. Thus LXQt is the future for the later DE that you're free to match your own wm and the shell itself (LXQt for here) is enough small. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-Mini Desktop Environment
Ancient hardware just like whose processors are ia64, mips64, ppc64, sparc64, or i386 etc???
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-Mini Desktop Environment
Ancient hardware just like whose processors are ia64, mips64, ppc64, sparc64, or i386 etc???
Re: [Trisquel-users] Let me several questions about kernel compilation?
Thank you for reply. # gcc --version gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. manually? I am using linux-libre core, cause it is free. I cannot remove everything non-free. So what exactly I need? How to compile 4.13? Can I not to use current config? So will I need setup kernel options or there are default options that will work? ... I downloaded linux-source-4.4.0 and started `make menuconfig && make` . I did not use my current config. Just rested things as it was and also disabled bluetooth and irda. Now it is making 15 minutes. (Making of 4.13 stopped after 4 minutes). I think config for 4.4 cannot work for 4.13. Why there is no anywhere info about how to get config for upstream version ? I thought kernel has no any configurations set and I tried to use my current config.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-Mini Desktop Environment
Being an KDE project for Falkon just doesn't ensure it to be too bloat, and honestly Falkon just need a few Plasma deps. An OSM (OpenStreetMap) editor named Marble, also has 2 channels, one is Plasma-independent and another one is Plasma-integrated. I'm happy editing my OSM buses instructions using Marble-Qt (Plasma-independent channel), https://parabola.nu/packages/marble-qt. Running Plasma with Openbox is also recommended to you, and you would also like to run smaller Qt-written apps instead of own ones from KDE. Just like, QTerminal instead of K0ns01e, Trojita instead of KMai1, JuffEd instead of Kate or Kwrite, PCManFM-Qt instead of Dolphin, finally Falkon instead of old-school KDE browsers, and Marble-Qt instead of Plasma-integrated orginal Marble. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8
I have ssd, Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N3530 @ 2.16GHz, 4Gb RAM and I think my system boots fast. Faster then on Funtoo, Debian that I used before. $ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 13.248s (kernel) + 19.747s (userspace) = 32.995s I think to disable unnecessary services, disable kernel modules such as bluetooth, ipv6. SSD is a very important thing to speed up.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is the TI License free?
You probably want to work with the FSF on this. It's already in their queue. The preliminary conclusion was that it is at the very least GPL-incompatible (choice of law clause in section 6), possibly non-free because of the PRC provisions of section 7 (Because "you should not be required to notify anyone in particular, or in any particular way" from the Free Software Definition) and that any object code is most certainly proprietary because of 3(a). There may be other issues. Anyway, you probably want to work with the FSF on this instead of the Trisquel forums.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats your favourite video editor?
I use GNU Octave's "video" package to process each frame mathematically...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8
Yes it was directed at you... So the kernel is different... Too bad, can't make a proper comparison. But you almost make me want to change for Debian again, lol, that is a great boot time. Guess I will wait for MagicBanana to reply, I am curious if everyone is having the same long boot process...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-Mini Desktop Environment
>benchmarking Well, take a very old laptop and then install all the DEs you want to bench in whatever order and just use them briefly. Then the last one you install is LXDE, you stop and you exclaim, quite shocked: geee, this LXDE runs like hell! LXDE FTW, no doubt. But try it on very old hardware, seriously.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Want to play some games, best way to install (Trisquel 8)
Well, I would expect that the binary provided by a program creator who runs a Free Software project and does his best to provide everything under free licenses, would be a proper binary and free license compliant. But you are right :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8
I assume the question is directed to me - I'm running and been running for over 3 yrs now Debian Stable.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8
Are you running Trisquel 8 with the standard installation kernel? Or another Linux-Libre flavour? Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Needs A Name
Trixself :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8
Are you running Trisquel 8 with the standard installation kernel? Or another Linux-Libre flavour? Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Needs A Name
Irony? Self-deprecating humour?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Greyed out, ticked boxes for 'Encrypt' and 'LVM' during Flidas install (solved but weird)
BTW Yes, I have ntpdate installed. Is there no known fix for this? Shall I file a bug?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Greyed out, ticked boxes for 'Encrypt' and 'LVM' during Flidas install (solved but weird)
NTP all worked fine on Belenos. It's only since installing Flidas that I struck this problem.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-Mini Desktop Environment
Wow! LXQT actually looks really nice, much more modern than the last LXDE I looked at a couple of years ago. loldier: > "LXQt is a KDE lookalike. It has Plasma desktop and Falkon (ex-Qupzilla, the browser) is a KDE project. I think it must be a lot more resource-hungry." Ae, I think rather than just migrating Trisquel-Mini 9.0 to LXQT because it the successor to LXDE, and potentially ending up with a Mini that actually uses more resources than the Mate version, we need to figure out a way to do some benchmarking of the various desktops. If we come up with a way to rank them according to resource use while idling (looking at use of RAM, CPU etc), we can pick one that is significantly lighter than Mate, while still being usable for basic purposes, including web browsing. It's probably also a good time to take stock of the default application set in Mini, just as we did for the Flidas release of the main distro.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is the TI License free?
"The Licensed Materials being provided to you hereunder are being made publicly available by TI, even though they contain copyrighted material of TI and its licensors, if applicable. In no event may you alter, remove or destroy any copyright notice included in the Licensed Materials. To the extent that any of the Licensed Materials are provided in binary or object code only, you may not unlock, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise translate such binary or object code to human-perceivable form. The source code of such reverse engineered code may contain TI trade secret and other proprietary information. TI reserves all rights not specifically granted under this Agreement." so any blobs are not explicitly non-free. Of course, blobs are non-free anyway because they do not respect freedoms 1 and 3. As for the rest, "For the Licensed Materials provided in source code format, TI hereby grants to you a limited, non-exclusive license to reproduce, use, and create modified or derivative works of the Licensed Materials provided to you in source code format and to distribute an unlimited number of copies of such source code Licensed Materials, or any derivatives thereof, in any format." so it sounds like anything provided in source code form respects all four freedoms *legally* and might be free software. However, if it depends on the blobs to build or run then it is non-free *in practice*. So I guess the question is whether you can omit the blobs and still build and use the software, which I doubt. I'm not a lawyer and don't know much about licenses, but I don't think that this is free software. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats your favourite video editor?
On 18-06-14 11:07 AM, great...@riseup.net wrote: >All I am planning on doing is cutting clips out of videos. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Seeking Hi Everyone Thanks so much for the feedback. The ffmpeg suggestion here by greatgnu is really very good too. I love the command line and since I just need to do something simple, this might just be the perfect solution. I will give it a try tonight
Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats your favourite video editor?
I've used VLC for cutting clips out of videos. Although the quality of the clips wasn't fantastic, the quality of the original video wasn't that great either, and the PC I was doing it all on was pretty old and slow. The other thing I've seen people recommend for simple tasks like this is Avidemux. I haven't tried it myself but there is a HowTo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeKco-hiLb4
Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats your favourite video editor?
My fav one is Kdenlive, but you sould use pitivi for your own purpose. But you should first consider that the more you ask for quality and format size, the bigger the resources of your computer will be requested. This is a very simple equation.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Let me several questions about kernel compilation?
It seems that the /home/y/kernel/linux-hwe-4.13.0/scripts/ubuntu-retpoline-extract-one script does something wrong. Why don't you better fo everything manually?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Let me several questions about kernel compilation?
which GCC version are you using?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8
>my hard drive is a 7200rpm one. Could it be because I have full disk encryption? FDE here too and a 7200rpm HD..
Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8
/me sends MagiqueB all his bitcoins :) *which is not much..I'm an europoor :'(
[Trisquel-users] Is the TI License free?
Hi everyone. Since I don't have much knowledge about licenses I wanted to ask for help in identifying if a TI-licensed software is considered to be free software. The software I'm using is -> https://git.ti.com/processor-firmware/ti-amx3-cm3-pm-firmware/trees/ti-v4.1.y (see the License.txt file, that's the Texas Instruments Software License Agreement) Note that from the files under bin/ folder, only am335x-pm-firmware.bin and am335x-pm-firmware.elf can be built from source, the rest of the files have no source code (which makes them non-free). Regarding the am335x-pm-firmware.* files, are they free software? if not, which of the four freedoms of free software it's not respecting? and why? Thanks for helping.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats your favourite video editor?
>All I am planning on doing is cutting clips out of videos. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Seeking
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with OS after upgrade
>lose the sound applet in their panel They can install several different ones and try and see which one suits them better. I recommend 'volti' >and volume buttons might not work unless they are specifically mapped to amixer commands or something. This was not the case on my system. They can try and see. Older versions of pulseaudio are very buggy from my experience. One is better removing it. You lose nothing after all.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8
Ah ah ah. Tempting, but that still doesn't explain why my kernel takes 39 seconds to boot (kernel alone). Though I would maybe think about getting an SSD later. Are you using the standard Trisquel 8 kernel, or is it another Linux-Libre (maybe the one provided by jxself?). Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats your favourite video editor?
I prefer Pitivi. OpenShot is pretty nice too.
