In my neck of the woods, mobile broadband is all I have. I have a USB modem
stick but after I moved away from postpaid it's a PITA to top up the data
package in 4 gig plans which is now the cheapest way to have broadband here.
So now I use double tethering (phone --> router).
The main reason they put out Win 10 is because people wanted to have a
familiar interface. On the side, they shovelled down their throats a complete
surveillance system. The users will pick up Win 10 happily because it is
preinstalled on practically every new computer. Microsoft must breach p
Apple emerging as a champion of privacy is the probable outcome. However,
this is a good battle. Pick your fights. The war on privacy is yet to be won
on all fronts. The genie is out of the bottle.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35659152
There's a nice interview here from UCLA REMAP Vimeo channel. It's an mp4 but
it can be downloaded and transcoded if need be.
https://vimeo.com/59321431
I successfully created a persistent live USB from a Debian ISO. It didn't
work on Trisquel.
http://cosmolinux.no-ip.org/raconetlinux2/persistence.html
I can confirm that Startup Disk Creator works. I had reservations because it
is rumoured to fail more often than not. Not the case this time, however.
With a USB3 interface and a fast USB key it should be usable. I'm on USB2 and
my sticks are slow.
'Intuitive' usually means 'like Windows 95'.
Try Librepup.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/i-recently-had-interesting-idea-and-then-found-someone-did-it-librepup
http://librepup.info/
Raskin again:"But if superior, it cannot be the same, so it must be different
(typically the greater the improvement, the greater the difference).
Therefore it cannot be intuitive, that is, familiar."
Gnome 3 is superior to Mate hands tied. The wyestion is do we want
familiarity or improvem
I would think that most people come from another GNU/Linux distribution.
I tried it, Librepup won't boot. With a Debian ISO, the DD command line
worked well, though.
I found this that worked:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=54566
I used Gparted to format the stick to MS-DOS FAT 16 and made it bootable.
Then this:
sudo syslinux /dev/sdb1
Make a
Free as in Freedom - Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
by Sam Williams
http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/free_as_in_freedom.richard_stallman_crusade_for_free_software.sam_williams/
Ars has an article on this.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/ubuntus-bash-and-linux-command-line-coming-to-windows-10/
Our understanding is that these are not recompiled or ported versions of the
programs (as are used in tools aiming to provide a Unix-like environment on
I don't think it's anything that was added by Windows. The BIOS string is
there because the manufacturer (OEM) added it there. All BIOS flash ROMs from
the OEM are likely to add that string back if it was there in the first
place. You'd need a completely free BIOS ROM (LibreBoot).
Retail Wi
Trisquel is easier for new users. There's nothing wrong with Debian if one
doesn't install non-free firmware or non-free repositories which are easily
enabled. On Trisquel not so obvious to do. Moreover, Trisquel has a heavy
emphasis on freedom that Debian lacks. Debian is free and libre but
I have an HP, no Libreboot. Is there something that prevents the USB booting
in your settings? The USB must have a DOS MBR and a boot flag tagged. I made
the stick on Trisquel using Gparted. The Puppy forum thread is quite
specific. Follow that to the letter and you should get it right.
I like Puppy a lot. I'll give it a try now that the site is up.
If you have trouble adjusting your screen brightness, this will be helpful.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/190464/how-to-change-brightness-on-puppy-linux
echo X >/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
I had never heard of EEE, so thank you for mentioning it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/mame-now-100-free-software
Yes, it is Classic. It occurred to me to try that. There it was that I
couldn't see on regular Gnome.
The biggest issue RMS might bring up is that the WSL (Windows Subsystem for
Linux) is not free. Another longstanding issue is, of course, the lack of
credit for the GNU Project.
https://youtu.be/Vhh_GeBPOhs
I see, but it seems to work only in Gnome Classic. Default Gnome there's no
visible effect on or off.
Here they call it the "inverse of Wine".
They hope bringing the tools to Windows the developers will come and write
code for apps that run on Windows.
Why would they do something like that? Because they want developers to choose
Windows as the platform on which they develop their apps. They
That reminds me of the tea bag episode in the PANtalk Zurich video. RMS
wanted to clear his voice which was going down -- by drinking tea that was
supplied, under his explicit wishes I suppose. He was devastated his tea "was
ruined" because there was no tea bag in the cup and he was half an h
It was through trial and error that I found the solution that worked here.
Synaptic has no way telling that if you search 'Hangul'.
Ballmer yells "dee-vee-loh-peurs".
It's all about keeping ground, staying relevant and -- making money.
Then:
"Going to war with open source made Microsoft a ton of money."
Now:
"Embraciong open source is going to make us a lot of money."
http://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-calle
If RMS is a yardstick to go by, then yes.
https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
Before that, I used an OLPC for some weeks. I stopped because the OLPC
project decided to make their machine support Windows, so I did not want to
appear to endorse it. The OLPC uses a nonfree firmware blo
Why would it be bad to have more free software distros?
Why would it be benefitial to split Trisquel into two forks? I don't get it.
If Trisquel was based on Debian, then it wouldn't be based on Ubuntu. I don't
see the number of Free Libre distributions augmented that way.
Why don't you ust
There's no product key or license key with new OEM preinstalled Windows
systems that is known to the user. There are programs that generate a key
based on the BIOS string but it's of no use even if you get it. There's no
sticker. It's a string in the BIOS that the installer is looking for. No
I'm on Trisquel default interface (but Compiz). I get:
['s', 'F1']
QupZilla crashes inadvertently when I use the address field or the search
field to search Google. DuckDuckGo doesn't crash.
I also get an x-y-coordinate box in the center of the desktop screen when I
drag a window.
Librepup theme is green and there are no other themes preinstalled.
I miss
Go to plugins and click on 'Check to see if your plugins are up to date'.
Yes. If you laptop or PC came with Win 8.x/10 preinstalled, there's no key.
It's in the UEFI or BIOS, embedded.
Richard Stallman interview in Zurich 9 February 2016. Audio only.
https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/loldier/m/richard-stallman-interviewed-in-zurich/
I'm on Jessie now. Doesn't change anything in default mode. Strange.
I'm on Debian now and I can see those characters on the Wikipedia page
without installing anything special. You could try this:
fonts-wqy-zenhei
Nevermind the bug. Click on 'plugins' and you'll be ridirected to Trisquel's
Abrowser addon page.
It's up there next to 'donate'.
https://trisquel.info/en/search
You misread my thoughts. The quotes are emphasized, that is in cursive
script. The links are the source of the quotations.
In between the quotes, I try to analyze what they are after. When I say
"freedoms are 'marketing', I'm sarcastic. I had the intention to say that
it's not too much to a
It's been broken for some time. Let's hope they'll iron it out in the next
release.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/i-have-asked-addons-area-doesnt-function-properly
OpenNIC seems to work now. It's verified by GeoTrust Inc.
So far it has a command line interface only. GUI apps are hardly supported.
They might implement it later, who knows, but it has not been released yet,
so we'll have to be patient and wait and find out.
Cuba's Nova 2015 has a revamped Gnome.
You could try to set the keyring password to match your login password.
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/07/disable-unlock-login-keyring-ubuntu-13-04/
Trisquel's Software Updater front-end works just fine in graphical mode as of
now. Coincidentally, my Debian Package Updater has quirks -- it never finds
any updates while apt-get update/upgrade in the Terminal does.
Ars Technica sometimes has articles covering Linux but they fail to give
credut to GNU.
I urge Trisquel forum users to make an account there and to post in threadd
that deal with free software. We must not keep it to ourselves or be
satisfied with mutual complacency.
http://arstechnica.co
We have a nice comunity hear among fellow Trisquelers but sometimes it look
like a naughty step where we can cry and nobody pays attention. Patting on
our backs here is not all we can do.
Ars is usually quite a hostile place to discuss GNU/Linux. Often any
dinconcerting voice gets downvoted
People here should make a user account there on Ars so they can help when the
downvoting gets nasty. We can make a difference turning the tide. Some posts
are trolling but most are just plain hostile. They know what FSF and free
software is but they don't give a damn. Linux and GNU articles a
To me, it looks fine. You need firewall rules if you run a Bitcoin node or a
server. Normally no ports are open. Web browsers and torrent clients open the
ports as they are needed and then close them.
There's a GUI for UFW called GUFW.
I suspect you have autologin enabled. Disable it and log in each time you
start a session. A keyring is a file that stores your passwords in one place.
It's controlled by a process called gnome-keyring-daemon.
It's usually called the taskbar because ut behaves like the taskbar in
Windows. Officially it's a panel. A dock would be something afloat or
Mac-esque. There are docks for Linux, such as Awn, Avant, Cairo or Docky.
Maybe it's an appropriate time to bring this up as a reminder. You should not
Another wiki page: formatting on the Trisquel forum.
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/formatting-trisquel-forum
Was it a USB or PS/2 mouse?
Do you have a numeric keypad?
There's something here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/88948/control-mouse-pointer-with-keyboard-without-a-number-pad
Does it help if you change input method from 'Ibus' to 'none'?
I can't think of any software that should be downloaded from outside of the
repositories. PPAs aside, I can only think of some proprietary hardware
enabling drivers. If it's not in the repositories, it's probably non-fred
anyway.
Have you tried this? It should bring up the GUI.
deja-dup-preferences
Writing copy-paste command line code is the easiest way to help newbies. Fast
and efficient. That said, there is a deb package for Spotify but you should
not install it -- it's non-free software.
http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/
I'd like to think that MS has quit their evil ways and this time they are
sincere. Hope so, and I don't see anything immediate evil emrging out of
this. It looks like an admission that GNU tools and UNIX-like CLI is here to
stay and conquer.
MS should take one more step and make Windows rec
I was editing my post but couldn't send it as you had replied to it. Yes, you
must be right. There are tarballs and shell scripts one might easily run into
and find it intimidating.
The likely suspect is Nautilus.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1385292
I don't think like this. I would like to believe them but I don't.
If it's not self-evident, you'll have to ask. Before asking -- search. This
question has been answered a great number of times.
Gnome Org has documentation of its own. The problem is, Trisquel uses Gnome
panel and retains some features that are deprecated in the official Gnome 3
specificati
Ubuntu software center will be removed in the next release and replaced by
Gnome Software.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2974148/software/canonical-is-letting-the-ubuntu-software-center-wither-and-die.html
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/11/the-ubuntu-software-centre-is-being-replace-in-16-04
I applied that. I'll have to wait and check when updates are available.
Mission accomplished. Mint's reputation is now gone or at least seriously
tarnished.
Gnome Tweak Tool has, under extensions, "show applications menu" and, under
Top Bar, "show application menu".
The first puts an application menu on the top bar replacing activities
overview.
What is the latter supposed to do? I see no difference whether it's on or
off.
At the same time, Linux Mint has been hit by a malware infection and fake ISO
downloads. I'm not saying they are connected. Just curious.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/linux-mint-hit-by-malware-infection-on-its-website-and-forum-after-hack-attack/
Here's what OnePlay Player looks like.
Many years ago when playback of videos and DVD's was harder than it's now, I
had Fluendo's DVD player that I payed for. It came without any DRM schemes.
The greatest downside was updates were not free after the first year.
It would be great to support some Free Libre company but if they turn
I was curious about this.To me it looks like a prime example why free libre
software must win hands down. Fluendo is a company based in Barcelona, Spain.
I wonder if anybody knows about their position. Particularly the DRM part,
the bit they call CodeMeter. What does it do? Does it sniff on m
Even Windows 10 doesn't natively support encrypted DVD's anymore. They
removed the codec and the functionality (Media Center). A player is available
in the shop for $$. The free alternative is, of course VLC and libdvdcss*.
In Fedora, one has to install RPM Fusion. It's a few clicks away, so
It used to be
sudo yum install vlc
Since Fedora 22 it's deprecated. They use dnf now.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/31/fedora_22_review/
Only if you enable the non-free repository.
Fedora is based in the US while Trisquel in Spain?
That line was misplaced. I wanted to say that the repos are in RPM Fusion,
not in the distribution itself. I read the link before I posted and provided
it in my post.
I was under the illusion that Trisquel deliberately makes it harder to
install non-free firmware. It won't accept wi-fi blobs, for instance. About
third-party repos I'm not sure. I guess non-free repos are easily added if
one so wishes.
Debian Jessie plays multimedia just fine. Well, Totem has a Gstreamer bug and
one must remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi first. I'm on Debian and I've not added
any multimedia enabling repos or installed additional codecs.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0/+bug/1373978
That's interesting. Thanks for the clarification.
The future may be murky for libdvdcss and DVD (let alone BR) playback on
GNU/Linux.
Some recent DVDs use an improved digital restrictions management scheme that
libdvdcss is unable to crack, thus rendering the DVDs inaccessible under a
free operating system. I bet Fluendo is counting on thi
As of late, some DVDs can't be ripped. Handbrake can't find the source. They
have introduced garbage in the file system that are ignored when playing but
when ripping bit by bit they cause trouble. That is my understanding. A DVD
that can't be transferred to other devices is useless.
While playing a movie on Fedora live I got this security alert. I guess it's
unrelated, but is it possible that sniffing CodeMeter could be to blame?
SELinux is preventing abrt-hook-ccpp from getattr access on the file file.
* Plugin catchall_labels (83.8 confidence) suggests
I'm on Debian. It's not a real issue I'm concerned about, just meddling with
it out of general curiosity and recording for posteriority as there's hardly
any hits about Fluendo's practices. I'm not endorsing or planning to use
Fedora or Fluendo's stuff. So I'll leave t at that. Thanks for any
UCSB archive has Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php
I'm old school. What's wrong with this forum here?
Ransomware is cross-platform. They exploit vulnerabilities on sites and in
browser plugins, Flash and JavaScript. Disable Flash and use NoScript. Don't
click on dubious attachments in your mail. Keep your files safe in a backup
on an external drive that is not connected to your everyday workh
A total reversal. From a ban on export to a ban on import in 25 years.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
They should print the source code and publish it in a book.
You can see the driver in System Settings --> Details.
If you installed Gnome Shell, you'll see a new option on the login screen.
It's behind the Trisquel next to your user name.
Gallium is a free driver. NVidia's own driver is proprietary, so Trisquel
won't offer or suggest it.
Gnome 3 has by default only one panel at the top. You can install extensions
and have an application menu and many more tweaks. Just open Gnome Tweaktool.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in software.
Shuttleworth must be thinking Microsoft will buy him out. There never was a
successful partnership with MS unless it means "to part with your
brainchild".
FSF has a page on mail service providers.
https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems
Riseup.net is good as far as I know but requires an invitation if you can't
convince them you're a journalist or an activist. They don't just take
anybody.
That's right. The package 'gnome-shell-extensions' contains most added
functionality, Gnome Classic included.
Trisquel looks pretty cool with the Classic mode enabled.
Extreme security robustness can land you in jail in Spain. The rain falls
mainly on the plain.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/security-not-crime-unless-youre-anarchist
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/14/spain_encrypted_email_terror_arrests/
Benjamin mako Hill has an interesting thing to say.
https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
It doesn't matter how secure your mail is. All it takes is to have
correspondence with everybody else out there who only use Gmail unencrypted.
Audacious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacious_%28software%29
I use Activities Overview peek-a-boo. A lot.
I solved the issue by installing packages 'gnome-shell' and
'gnome-shell-extensions'. Then I chose GDM as the login manager. LightDM has
for some reason no keyboard layout switch indicator and the shortcut
super+space doesn't work as intended.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
If they go with Mate, I suppose it will not be the vanilla variety. I mean,
they must retain the Trisquel look (or is it Mint look?) -- one panel at the
bottom and an applications menu. Right?
...why was the mentioned topic locked?
Threads that are idle get locked after a certain time. Guess it's to combat
spam.
I think the OP pried off the bottom cover and replaced the original HDD with
a new SSD. Unlike many Macs, some new laptops are user-repairable.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04653884
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