The issue with Purism is several fold. The first issue is that Purism
conflates the terms Open Source with Free Software when they are clearly
different. The second issue is that Purism upsells its products as if they
are going to be free as in free software on day one or shortly there after
I saw this article stating that the Linux LTS kernel will go from two years
of support to six, how does this help/change things for Trisquel? Will there
be any impact at all?
The article:
https://fossbytes.com/linux-kernel-lts-releases-6-years-support/
Hi Time4Tea,
For me it is a balancing act. I didn't have a free system to begin with (like
most people) and as I said I use my system every day for personal and work
purposes; I don't buy or use systems just to tinker with. My system needs to
be stable, it needs to work, it needs to be
Midori is much more stable than it used to be, its good option for an older
system. It lacks some bells and whistles, but on an older system that likely
doesn't have a supported browser it is a good option. I also like "browser"
for Gnome (used to be call epiphany) and you can run it without
The wifi dongle from Thinkpenquin is the size of one of those mini usb thumb
drives, its very small, I have been pleased with it. I use Trisquel as a
rescue system and have used it on several ultrabooks and it should work
great, unless you have one of those systems that only has like one usb
https://archiveos.org/librepup/
Open Office is discontinued and does not receive security/bug fixes any
longer. What was the use case where LibreOffice wasn't a better option? I ask
only because I find legacy system use interesting in general.
The reality is most projects do have core developers that make most of the
decisions, that isn't weird. Purely community led projects generally fall
apart due to in-fighting pretty quickly. There are very few projects where
people not committing code can have a significant impact on the end
Agreed, if a tool doesn't meet your needs either seek out or create the tool
that does. There is no need to complain endlessly and talk about how you are
"leaving", just do so. I change other software based on my needs fairly
regularly and never say a word on their forums because it is
Interesting, I was under the impression the relationship was more formal.
Thanks for the correction.
@time4tea
The issue is that linux is so fragmented it is difficult to attract
developers for free these days, those skills are in demand. As it happens
that Rubens values before entering the work force lined up with his real
world work when he got there, otherwise Trisquel might have ended
For me it is a matter of credibility, Purism has none. After seeing all the
double speak by the main developer here in the past you couldn't pay me to
invest in their products, its simply not the way the head of a for-profit (or
any company head) should conduct himself. The lesser issue is
Yes, based on the code tracking it is clear most of it falls on him. That
said there are some bug fix submissions by others in frequently.
You can track Trisquel 8's development here
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/flidas-release-issues
Agreed, visiting the non-Forum pages clearly shows one how to contribute and
allows one to track those contributions. Ruben isn't some wizard behind the
curtain. Its also an interesting contradiction that folks complain that Ruben
has too much power and then blame him for not being more
Heather, you have a spectacular point of view.
I have been a long time user of Trisquel and a long time lurker of this
forum. I decided to become active recently due to many of the negative and
unsupportive posts by forum members who do not seem to understand this
projects history,
This OS is based on the Alpine Linux, which is not a libre distro. My guess
is that it runs blobs for wifi, gps, and so forth. At least it seems that way
from the notes posted.
I use Trisquel mini as my only OS for personal use. I am a social worker and
at work we run ancient windows machines.
My two computers are a Thinkpad X200 and I also have it running on my Acer
Icona Tab Tablet using XFCE as the desktop.
This is my latest set-up, but I have been running
@vpincini
I advised that you were misinformed, then gave you specific facts as to why
that was true. All you have done is call me "blind" and state that your
opinion is true because you say it is. For someone who has been here since
2014 it does not seem like you care all that much about
You can track Trisquel 8's development here
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/flidas-release-issues
But there is also a sticky right at the top of the forum main page about
version 8 as well...
@vpincini
What a profoundly misinformed point of view you have. Trisquel is a LTS based
release, it will never be bleeding edge by design. Trisquel is focused on
stability and longer support cycles. If you want bleeding edge you want a
rolling release distro like Parabola.
Trisquel 8 is
I use Fastmail, I switched back after giving up on Openmailbox earlier this
year before the recent "upgrade" issue. The issues with Openmailbox are
legion, but I am not going to get into that.
I am a big fan of Fastmail because of its stability, and it is one of the
oldest service
I have a fresh install of Trisquel Mini. Out of the box Abrowser is blocking
add-ons from its own add-on repository and I am not seeing any type of option
to address this. Every time I try to install an add-on I get the following:
"Abrowser prevented this site from asking you to install
Hi All, I'm having a pretty serious issue and have run out of ideas.
I did a normal system update a couple days ago. This was pretty standard
stuff, total download was about 55mb. No reboot required afterward.
However after I did reboot I am unable to gain access to the system. Here are
A bit of an update. i just tried to do a repair update using a livecd and I
am getting "can't resolve" failed errors when trying to connect to the
software sources, but i can confirm i have web access. Are there currently
any issues with accessing updates?
I think I should note that moderation can be done right if its deployed
carefully and the moderators are in regular contact with community leaders
such as David.
This forum is often a mess and is unhelpful to new users. The fact that it
took the really outlandish behavior recently to
What I would like to see is a fork of Firefox that directly incorporates the
common add-ons added by the community directly into the browser. The idea
that a browser has to be augmented with Https everywhere, no-script, and
other freedom relevant add-ons to function the way the community
Here is the problem Chris:
When pressed you admit Purism is not there yet and have done so several
times. This is always buried in a comment thread or the Purism blog. Where it
counts, what funders see, and what customers see is that you already have the
product you are actually working
I also wonder if it would be wise to go to The Free Software Foundation or
RMS and ask them to make a public comment to possibly get the word out. This
seems timely since so many articles by the tech press used the FSF
Partnership with Crowd Supply as an oppertunity to plug the Purism Librem
As others have pointed out this is the same old song from Purism as with
their other units. They even use the same graph that clearly states their
bios is not free, but then try to spin it by labeling it green anyway with
the outlandish promise that they are working on freeing it. Yet there
Agreed on all accounts.
Chris, I know Think Penguin has a blog on the company site, but do you have a
separate place where you post your more forward looking ideas that might not
be Think Penguin related? As you say X86 has inherent problems, but my
technical knowledge isn't up to snuff
I have 64bit and I am getting the same crashes as others have reported.
Except I can't go to any websites thus far witout it crashing.
A few concerns:
1. The intermixing of the terms free software and open source is always a
red flag. It could be just confusion in the messaging, but its still a red
flag.
2. Based on a multi-page quick walk through of the website I could not find
any licensing information. My assumption
Monogame is licensed under the Microsoft Public License. This is a weak
license that is not GPL compatible.
From the Free Software Foundation on this license:
This is a free software license; it has a copyleft that is not strong, but
incompatible with the GNU GPL. We urge you not to use the
I realize this is true and that their are real barriers to establishing a
true Libre product that is not a refurbished unit, but is instead a brand new
unit. I don't challenge this one bit. I also realize that opportunities like
those with Ubuntu-Mate from a business sense have to be seized
I was just wondering if anyone has collected resources in one place via a
blog or wiki on how to go JS free from starting out to tips and tricks?
Its an ARM board, it has all the same problems most ARM boards have.
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
Though I think this is great that another provider has been added who will
preload Trisquel, it does not seems functionally different from what is
provided by Thinkpenguin or what you could build at home with off the shelf
parts. Notably the device doesn't use Libreboot which would be the
From the link I provided: However, the graphics accelerator (GPU) and the
video decoding hardware for formats such as MPEG-2 are nonfunctional, because
they require nonfree blobs to be installed into them. The workaround for
these flaws is to do these jobs on the CPU with free software.
Allwinner does have a checkered past and I generally twitch when I see the
term open source used so many times. I have serous doubts about this
project. Its also clear it comes loaded with lots of blobs and access to even
more non-free bits. Whether all that could be removed and replaced
I am wondering what the steps would be to keep my Icecat and Icedove content
on Owncloud so its available to multiple computers. The sticking point for me
to want to do this is that my calendar is local only via Lightning in Icedove
and it seems generally silly to me to have multiple sync
Jolla is no better than Android, both are non-free, and totally permeated
with with non-free software. The good bits are handcuffed to a radiator in
the basement. Worse still both systems make it far too easy for even more
non-free bits to slip in.
Compromising is a race to the bottom. ARM
So I messed up and am in the grub rescue prompt. I found what seems to be
decent instructions to fix this, but one of the commands seems off and it
doesn't work. Could anyone fix the command for me or point me to a way to get
the information to fix it?
I am using Trisquel 6 and due to the
Thanks for trying, but as stated in the original question I can't use
grub-repair because Trisquel 6 livecd does not support my wifi card out of
the box. No internet=no repos to install grub-repair from
My only option is to do what I am trying to accomplish with this instruction
set as far
I don't doubt the open source part of the claim, but I seriously doubt the
use of free is the same as the way we would use it. Intel and Swiftkey are
the primary drivers of this. The Intel site has no mention of the ACAT
project on their open source and developer portal, Swiftkey doesn't
I'm am sitting here listening to the goodness of Miles Davis via Rhythmbox in
Flac on my Trisquel home pc. As always Mr. Davis sounds amazing on my
speakers but for some odd reason Rhythmbox jumps to the next song
prematurely. It doesn't matter how long or short the song is, Rhythmbox cuts
I have used openmailbox.org for a bit less than a year and for webmail it
does its job well and provides enough storage that I haven't had to pay for
added storage yet. They also provide Owncloud, but I don't use this.
The only issue I have had is that I can't get their jabber server to
My update manager has been greyed out for about two weeks making it
unusable. Adding to the issue running update via Terminal failed as well, it
would simply check for updates, and then do nothing.
Per MYself's post I tried synaptic which for some odd reason had not occured
to me to try
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