Linterna Magica works fine on Parabola via Totem plugin (works with Midori,
Epiphany and Mozilla based browsers IceCat and the libre version of
IceWeasel) or Gecko Media Player (works just with Mozilla browsers).
Hello Chris.
I found a tablet with similar specifications (running Ubuntu) here:
http://www.ekoore.com/web/en/product/tablet-2.html
The prices for the atom tablets are much higher than the regular Android
tablets offered, so perhaps ARM would be preferable (assuming you can get all
the needed
Youtube works with the latest version of SMPlayer.
You can also select the desired quality and format in SMPlayer via
Options-Preferences-Performance.
There is also a Mozilla add-on that opens the video automatically with
SMPlayer after configuring it in the options (changing minitube to smplayer):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ext-youtube/
Twinkle is a working SIP client which I recommend (it works fine with an
Ekiga SIP account). The Ekiga software isn't functional unfortunately (it
crashes).
The point of using free software is freedom not price. In the short term
migrating from proprietary software to free software might in fact be more
expensive than paying for proprietary software licenses (but in the long term
it should save money).
CyanogenMod includes the proprietary drivers while Replicant doesn't. Either
way neither is really free as the modem can access the CPU on most phones and
spy on the user (e.g. remotely turn on the microphone and record the user). A
few phones do not provide the modem access to the CPU (e.g.
You should also try a dist-upgrade.
If unar presents the error Input data buffers border exceeded you can try
$ unar ./part1.rar
Midori and Epiphany can both watch flash content via the Totem plugin by
using the Linterna Magica greasemonkey script. Linterna Magica also works
with Mozilla based browsers and can also be used with Mozilla browsers with
GNOME MPlayer via the Gecko Media Player plugin (which can be
JDownloader is not released under a free license so please do not promote its
use.
If you wish to install a different distro in the future in addition to
Trisquel (e.g. Parabola) it is best to make a small home directory, as the
home directory also stores application settings which might not work if you
use a different version of installed packages (or the same version
Actually Parabola didn't do that which is why it is blacklisted.
Unfortunately, Handbrake on Trisquel simply uses its own encoders including
FAAC so it needs to be repackaged. I opened in the past a bug report
regarding this:
http://trisquel.info/en/issues/4237
Done. I actually thought that a normal priority was better when I opened the
bug since the software can be used without using the non-free encoder (you
can use other audio encoders such as Vorbis). Since there hasn't been any
activity it seems right to upgrade the status to critical.
It's a shame GRUB-legacy doesn't support GPT as that is what Parabola offers
by default, so if you intend to use Parabola and want everything to just
work after installation it's best to create extended partitions :)
Here is trisquel-grub.png
Simply drag both the audio and video tracks into mkvmerge GUI and select
start muxing in the menu.
mkvmerge GUI will demux the stream for you. Just drag both streams and select
the appropriate streams for the new file.
What format is the video and audio (e.g. open the file with MediaInfo)?
Debian doesn't use FSF definition for free software, but its own instead.
Ubuntu's main and universe repositories contain only free software as defined
by FSF (but some packages require cleaning up so they don't recommend
non-free software).
t3g, are you referring to the ttf-liberation package, which provides with the
same metrics as Times, Arial and Courier or to a different package?
The package is listed as part of Brigantia:
http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia/ttf-liberation
Maybe you need to file a bug?
Whenever I try to open a video file containing H.264 video using AVIDemux I
receive this message:
H.264 detected
If the file is using B-frames as reference it can lead to a crash or
stuttering.
Avidemux can use another mode which is safe but YOU WILL LOSE FRAME ACCURACY.
Do you want to use
There's also the issue that AVIDemux isn't included in Trisquel's
repositories as it is in Ubuntu's multiverse repository, whereas mkvmerge
GUI, MP4Box are included and MediaInfo will be (it is included in the
universe repository of Ubuntu 12.04).
The method I described works here as well (if you install the .deb packages
using sudo dpkg -i). See this image:
https://trisquel.info/files/Screenshot at 2012-03-16 11_02_05_0.png
t3g, unlike some people here I actually agree with some of your points. I saw
a few of Stallman's lectures and thought they were very good, but I never
quite understood how one was supposed to earn a living developing free
software.
Selling support is an option, but many companies don't
Ubuntu is offered for free wheras Red Hat costs money, so it isn't surprising
that companies switch to Ubuntu.
As for adapting existing free software projects for small companies, I wonder
how many people understand the source code of existing free software projects
well enough to be able
Magic Banana, I don't really believe Canonical these days. They seems to make
lots of announcements (e.g. a deal with Asus netbooks, Ubuntu for TV) that
lead to nothing in the end.
Most of the hardware in the Neo Freerunner is open, so companies could simply
buy the hardware from Openmoko and fix the hardware problems themselves
without needing to rely on Openmoko. Anyway, I never had any problems making
or receiving calls when using the latest Openmoko distribution
I actually took the time to watch the video (in OGG Theora). I think the
interviewers were really bad, and Stallman was for the most part quite good.
I do think though that Stallman didn't explain well enough how to earn a
living developing custom software, and some of his claims were
Magic Banana, it seems you are describing an I.T. worker setting up a
computer and configuring free software applications for a client to use. I
agree that free software provides work for I.T. staff, and that the developer
could also make money by training people to use the software, writing
The decoders are free software but they are patent encumbered (i.e. you need
a patent license to playback the file in some parts of the world).
Does the AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics (used in Cork 13.3 AMD E-350t) support
3D acceleration in Trisquel?
t3g, In your situation if you license the code that runs on the server (e.g.
JavaScript code) to the client under a permissive free license (i.e. one that
allows the client to release it under a non-free license) you are still
providing the client with all the software freedoms. If the
You can also use Evopedia (which also uses the GPLv3 license and is also
available for the Neo Freerunner).
H.264 isn't going away anytime soon since unlike WebM it can be decoded via
GPU.
Mozilla wishes to expand its browser's market share on mobile devices which
rely on video decoding via GPU, so they must support H.264 via HTML5 on their
mobile versions, since they cannot support it via the
Stallman didn't give his planned talks in Israel - he planned on speaking at
universities but the Palestinians who were paying for his accomodation
requested that he cancel the talks. They did allow him to talk in places
which aren't connected to the Israeli government.
Mozilla does support Adobe Flash - if you visit a website that requires Flash
on FireFox Mozilla recommends the non-free Flash plugin (and not Gnash).
Abrowser uses Gnash which requires Gstreamer and libavcodec (just type
aptitude show gnash-common in the terminal to see all the dependencies).
I agree with this - I think Stallman has extreme views on topics unrelated to
software which can be easily used to dismiss his views on free software and
thus he is a bad spokesperson for the FSF. For example, he shouldn't have
mentioned not bringing children to the world as a solution to
Try extracting the file via the terminal by typing unar ./part1.rar (first
cd to the path).
I use Parabola on my netbook (1001PX) as the internal microphone didn't work
in Trisquel Taranis (but worked fine in later versions) and I wanted to use
a distro which is supported for a few years without needing to upgrade. I use
Trisquel 4 and 5 on my desktop as it uses an integrated VIA
I have it installed but I have no idea how to use it. Does it appear in the
menu? The command ununrar yields nothing.
Thanks. Anyway, hibernation and suspend do work (at least via terminal) but
the clicking sound (which I disabled using hdparm) returns on Parabola.
Nope. I downloaded a newer version of the free OpenChrome driver (sorry for
not pointing this).
Hello Chris,
Do you have any recommendations regarding TV tuner cards?
The whole point of Trisquel is to have a stable release based on Ubuntu. If
your hardware requires newer packages than those offered by Trisquel (e.g.
newer version of alsa and newer kernel) you can always use Parabola until the
newer version of Trisquel is released.
If you need newer packages I recommend trying Parabola, which is a free
software distro based on Arch. The initial setup is longer than Trisquel, but
it is worth it as most packages can be easily upgraded to new versions. Bear
in mind that packages occasionally break on Parabola, so I don't
You need to install the build-essential package.
Magic Banana, if you just need the make command to show up then of course it
is sufficient to install the make package. However in order to actually make
packages, you will probably also need the build-essential package, as it
includes C header files and development libraries (libc6-dev) and
ivayo, thank you for all your efforts.
The reason I am not using Totem's Mozilla plugin despite the fact that it
works in Epiphany, Midori and in Mozilla based browsers is because the full
screen controls are dreadful. The URL of the video covers most of the bottom
region in full screen
Really? I have a memory that it used to work with Epiphany at some
point.
It doesn't anymore as you confirmed in this thread
Magic Banana, notice that the easytag-aac package is missing in Trisquel as
it is in Ubuntu's multiverse repository. The regular easytag I assume does
not support AAC files.
I hope Flightgear can be tested on whatever graphics card thinkpenguin is
offering as it doesn't work well with Intel cards:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Intel_GMA_cards
I can offer Hebrew translation (if Hebrew becomes enabled).
I tested Epiphany/Web on Parabola. Epiphany/Web uses libwebkit3 (with GTK3
support) while Midori uses libwebkit. In the last week both libraries were
updated twice. The only way to properly view YouTube on Epiphany is to
downgrade the library libwebkit3, but that library is also used by
In order to know whether the wireless card is supported please paste output
of this command:
$lspci -nnk | grep Network controller
Solved by installing gstreamer0.10-alsa and gnome-media and setting alsa in
gstreamer-properties.
What is the battery life on this netbook/notebook?
Changing mirror might help.
It's available here:
http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia/pidgin-otr
If you are using a proxy server apt needs to know about it.
Just type something like this in the terminal:
export http_proxy=http://username:passw...@proxyserver.net:port/
Which Trisquel version are you using? the link I provided is for version 5.5.
You can find on this website older versions of pidgin-otr too.
You will get updates if you install an older version yes. Anyway the newest
version is in brigantia-updates which explains the later version is
available message:
http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia-updates/pidgin-otr
I just visited the ThinkPenguin site and noticed that all the laptop monitors
had the same low resolution (1366x768). My previous laptop which I bought 6
years ago had a much nicer resolution (1680x1050 and a 16:10 aspect ratio). I
was wondering if a higher resolution (and an aspect ratio
You can install non-approved software on Apple phones and tablets if you
jailbreak. You can even install a port of Android:
http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Status
Also, older versions of the iPod music player support Rockbox:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TargetStatus
Replacing the operating
The less tech savvy will simply install software from the store that comes
pre-installed on the device. Very few will install alternative stores like
F-Droid unless a tech savvy relative helps out.
Actually there are other aspects concerning freeness of Android. For
example, even if you replace the OS by a free one it isn't enough if the
modem can be used to spy on you (e.g. if the modem can turn on the microphone
or GPS without the user's approval). Here one can see a comparison of
I'm guessing better resolution monitors aren't available then?
There's no need to upgrade the kernel (and in fact it isn't recommended as it
isn't supported by Trisquel's developers). Just upgrade Alsa modules as
described here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/InstallingLinuxAlsaDriverModules
In short, open a terminal and type:
sudo add-apt-repository
I assume you mean Empathy to Empathy as Epiphany is a browser which doesn't
support phone calls.
Here is a comparison of free phones:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Freest/SmartPhone
According to this page, the Freerunner, N900 and Nexus S have a modem that
cannot access CPU, however the last two require non-free firmware for some of
the basic functions (wifi, bluetooth). The
You could try downgrading to an older kernel version by installing
linux-image-generic package version that is supported by the PPA (3.0.0-20 I
believe) (you can find the older kernel package name by typing in the
terminal without quotes apt-cache search linux-image-generic). Then choose
The Freerunner should work well as a phone if you perform all the hardware
fixes (e.g. Buzz fix, Echo fix, Deep Sleep, Bass Rework). Then the phone is
at least somewhat attractive (you should get at least 4-5 days of battery
life for making and receiving calls). Decent audio state files
It's pretty easy to get a Freerunner. I got a non buzz-fixed one from
OpenMobil.eu (see the Openmoko distributors page:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributors) and you should also be able to
get a second hand one if you post on the mailing list or visit the irc room.
The phone is still
BBC news videos were provided when I last checked in rtmp format that can be
accessed after installing UnPlug and running BBC's non-free JavaScript. BBC
iPlayer radio shows can be downloaded using latest youtube-dl (videos will be
supported in future releases probably if BBC doesn't block
Try httrack/webhttrack (it's in the repos).
The best CD ripper I know is Rubyripper, which is a secure ripper - it rips
each file at least twice until it gets each block to ensure the file is not
corrupt which makes it slower compared to other rippers. You can select which
tracks to rip in the settings. It can be downloaded from this
You can still view the old slashdot. Just go to
http://classic.slashdot.org
or
http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1
I was trying to search for flights without running non-free JavaScript and
only found this site which seems to work without any JavaScript.
http://m.easyjet.com/m2p-ej/s/
If anyone has luck with other sites please post them in this thread.
I'm guessing when people ask perfermonace they mean some of the following
things:
Can it play back HD/full HD movies smoothly?
Can it play free software games smoothly (which ones)?
How fast is it for other tasks and is it suitable at all (e.g. how fast does
it encode VP8/VP9 video, can it
Sparkelshare uses Mono, so it's a non-no.
Check it out here:
http://libreplanet.org/2014/live/room141.html
Or here (room 141)
http://live.fsf.org/
Also, visit libreplanet IRC room:
#libreplanet_room141
Install vorbis-tools package.
$sudo aptitude install vorbis-tools
To run simply do
$oggenc -q 5 *.flac
(replace quality 5 by preferred quality).
Plowshare should work without non-free JavaScript.
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-download-file-sharing-websites-using-plowshare
Another GNOME map application using OpenStreetMap is Emerillon which is
available in the repos.
You can also use a free openvpn server.
I think you might need to restart in order to use openvpn with network
manager. Anyway, the easiest way to use openvpn is directly via terminal,
e.g. by running:
$ sudo openvpn --config configuration-file.ovpn
and then entering username and password.
I would feel much happier to donate to the FSF if it actually looked like
they were working on an OS distro like Trisquel or even an official GNU
distro and keeping up with the new hardware that comes out.
By purchasing a laptop with Microsoft Windows you already donated several
dollars to
How is the router any different from this one?
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr841nd
This router has an Atheros card supported by a free driver. Is there a reason
Libreboot or any other free distro hasn't been ported to it?
Yes I meant LibreWRT.
Yes I know that but the LibreWRT page doesn't say which non free components
are required to run it on other routers so one might get the impression that
they simply didn't port it yet to other routers. Also, searching for LibreWRT
and the router wr841n actually provides some source code
jsbean, my recommendation is never to buy recent hardware as it isn't always
well supported by free software when it is released (not all bugs are ironed
out yet or it isn't supported in older software or the older software
requires configuration in order to use the new hardware). You can
The gluglug X60 also supports 3D acceleration. I personally don't understand
the hype surrounding new processors - for me a computer from 5 years ago is
good enough as long as the screen has high enough resolution (your Acer
laptop I would find unusable because of its low 1366x768
Free software does support the new stuff - for instance Parabola supports
new hardware.
The only reason Trisquel doesn't is because it is based on Ubuntu so it is
always released after Ubuntu. And as I said before I think this is not one of
free software's main issues as one can always use
Well with such a low resolution screen you are limited to other things, e.g.
you cannot view 1080P movies without downscaling them, you cannot edit and
view high resolution pictures since most of the information will not be kept
at that resolution, you cannot write documents or surf the web
If you buy new hardware it usually requires more work to get working than
hardware that is say 2 years old and is already fully supported. Bear in mind
that even with Ubuntu you will usually need to use a non long term release if
you have new hardware which means you will need to update to a
the BBC uses DRM.
get-iplayer (and presumably also youtube-dl) access the iPhone version of the
BBC iPlayer videos which are DRM free.
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