Something popped into my mind. Usually it's hard to pick a
laptop/notebook/netbook to work with Trisquel (some stuff doesn't work like
wifi or 3d graphics). Though with Trisquel one can go and use a LiveCD to
test the machine in the store before buying (if the store allows it).
Which would
http://www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/linux_bsd.html
According to this, LBSD should work with a Fujitsu Lifebook.
Thanks. Maybe it should be added the info in h-node page.
A few things:
Webcam?
3d games (as an example, SuperTuxKart, if that is even available for the
BSD)?
720p (youtube like) videos?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks. Seems like it might be more supported than I anticipated.
How about uploading some videos of using it? ;-) So we can see how it runs,
which apps you can use to do some stuff, etc.
I would love to watch it in action.
Thanks!
Those look good. So, that is the default x when you make an install of LBSD?
Running startx gives you that GUI (the one in the videos)?
I wish there was a menu bar at the bottom, but the right click is also
usable.
And it seems to be moving alright.
Thanks bunch for these.
I am curre
KolibriOS is pretty much useless. I tried it a little in the past (I had a
pentium 1 that I wanted to put to some use) and while it is impressive from a
technical perspective (how fast it boots, and how little they were able to
compress all the stuff they put in the floppy version) it basical
Thanks for even more goodies :)
One question, all of those things you mention doing on the terminal (stuff
like adjusting sound, brightness, etc) can they be done either:
a. using keyboard special keys for that (not shortcuts, the keys specific for
those actions);
b. in a graphical way (like
As we all know, Icedove 38 couldn't access openmailbox. Have anyone tried
with 45 and what were the results?
Also, is version 31 still supported (security updates only, not new features
or anything). Is it considered safe to use?
Thanks.
Thanks! If I may ask:
a. did you had the issue with version 38 (not being able to connect) and it
simply solved by updating to 45?
b. where did you get version 45? compiled from source, ppa, etc??
thanks.
What the heck...? Just a few days ago version 38 was unable to connect to
openmailbox.org and actually it had been like that for like... months now,
ever since I started with 38 I was forced to use webmail for my openmailbox
account. BUt now it works perfectly.
Thanks for the help, maybe it
Hello.
A family member has some old family videos in a dvd, and I wanted to rip it
for myself. I have tried using dd, which produced an ISO that I couldn't get
to work properly (I mounted it and it was never successfully recognized as a
media DVD). Using SimpleBurn I discovered that the cau
I don't know which format it is in. How can I see that?
The layout is of a regular DVD, with video_ts and the vob, ifo and bup files
inside. smplayer fails to play it, vlc plays but in wrong aspect ratio. I
tried copying the files to a pen drive and was able to play them in my home
theater,
Apparently the DVD is "udf". Not sure if it is useful.
Thanks! That was a good solution! While it didn't create an ISO copy of the
DVD (with menus and such) I did create a rip to a MKV file that played
totally nicely ;)
Thanks! Handbrake has just become a tool that I will certainly make a part of
my "default install" on the future :)
Hey, it seems to solve the problem. I was getting the same behavior once
again and I tried it. At first it seemed to do nothing (CPU was still at 100%
and all kworker processes were still up) but after a few seconds when I run
"sudo iotop" to see if kswap was there or not, it seemed to stop (
Actually many reasons not to...
This laptop is actually a nice one (for its price at the time) and
freedom-wise the only issue is the GPU. Other than that it has a lot of
memory, good sized screen, and everything works very good, free wifi and all.
I actually have some connection with this
Count me in!
Though I would suggest that we had an email (the same text) sent by everyone,
so they know it is a community request and that a lot of people are united
around this. BUT we could also, each one of us, write an email stating the
reasons each one of us wants Trisquel to be develop
Btw I cannot open the file you posted SuperTramp.
Trinux text is good however.
Forgot to put the website: http://www.linphone.org/
Also, don't forget to go to media encryption and choose ZRTP. You don't want
them to hear what you say! (again, japanese chicks... kinky stuff... you
don't what them to hear you!!!)
Hello.
Having had the same problems, I would suggest Linphone. Is free software and
it works very well in android, mac, linux, windows whatever.
Good luck with that japanese chick, I hear they are into kinky stuff ;-D good
luck my friend.
If you need help with linphone (which you probably
Nope.
Linphone has video too.
Audio codecs are speex (16 and 8 KHz), gsm, pcmu, among others. I suggest
speex 16 as it is free and you get very good quality.
Video codecs are VP8, H264 and MPEG4. Of course, go with VP8 (H264 hasn't
worked for me for some reason).
It also has the ability to u
Hi.
In a hurry right now, but would like to ask for input/insight into this:
cellphones are basically non-secure non-private non-free because of the close
baseband running inside, which can access the entire device. What about
wifi-only devices? From both a freedom perspective, security per
Addon to my post above: why do we have libre drivers for hardware in pcs and
not in tablets?? Is it really that different? How much hard would it be to
run Trisquel in a tablet for example?
Thanks for all the replies.
Well, expanding in my original post:
Cell phones are not secure because even from a hardware perspective the modem
(which is closed source and kinda like a black box) can access the microphone
directly. That allows the police and well connected crackers to spy on
h Tor for anonymity.
Keep in mind I don't use any of the emails that appear on the video.
https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/gnuser/m/torbirdy-presentation/
Hello all,
So, I am in need of getting a new "computer". And I am inclined to these
small sized computers similar to raspberry pi.
Here is what I need:
A machine that runs as much as possible in free drivers/firmware.
A machine that can run Debian/Trisquel/Android. This is because of the
ap
I know, that's the link I posted in my own thread... But it doesn't have all
the answers I am looking for.
That's why I created this thread.
Could you please provide some links for those "think client computer" you
mentioned?
Thanks.
Hello.
Thanks everyone for the info provided so far.
I have found this:
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/cedarx-for-allwinner-is-liberated/
As it seems, if one is going with a Single Board Computer (or a System on a
Chip, I don't know if these terms are meant to say the same thing), All
Hey again.
Thanks for the comments again. Thank you leny2010.
Well, I have been doing a LOT of reading... and I am both much more informed
and much more confused :P
So, I will try to share my discoveries and my questions with you guys, maybe
we can work something together:
1. AllWinner So
I couldn't be sure if the images provided by Igor are free or not, I couldn't
find sources.
Hello.
Thanks for commenting, was starting to think that nobody cared about Torbirdy
:P
I am not particularly proud of that video, it's just a slideshow and the
voice is not the best, but I felt it was important to have a video that
explained things in a simple way for everybody. The Tor Pr
Dude!! I was gonna post now about that exactly model!! I have been
investating and want to buy one of those! But I was worried about some issues
with it (which version of the boot program came pre installed, how free was
the android pre installed, the wifi, etc).
Could you please please shar
I know about ThinkPenguin and LibreTrend. Both are good projects. BUT none of
them have open BIOS, and none of them are as free and open like AllWinner
boards :)
Soon (a couple of months/years) we will be able to run GNU/Linux with full
GPU/VPU support for low cost!
I watched his speech today too. I cracked up laughing when he said that. It
took Tor years, but it finally managed to convince even RMS to use the web :P
However, if IceCat user agent is unique... hum, RMS might be pretty easy to
follow online, lol. How many people use IceCat with Tor? He shoul
Thank you for the information!
Now if only the Tor Browser Bundle had an ARM release... Wishful thinking.
I hope at least the ARM repos of Debian have the latest Tor release, I can
use that running as service.
And as for the software I used Open Shot. It's so far the best video editor I
have found under GNU/Linux. It is very simple for newbies, and still has a
lot of features for advanced users.
I cut the pictures using screenshots and GIMP.
The voice was synthesized online (see my post below).
I wi
Allow to clarify.
RMS said he uses IceCat and Tor. Many people think that makes it OK. Well,
maybe in a freedom perspective (one can argue that IceCat is more free than
Firefox or Tor Browser, but from a user point of view they are the same).
However from a security and privacy perspective,
P.S.: In terms of security, Chrome is the best. Mozilla and Tor Project are
keeping tabs on their development so they can implement some of their
solutions. But from a privacy standpoint, Chrome is a nightmare compared to
firefox. That's why Tor Browser is based on Firefox. So you see, it's n
Thank you for your useful contributions.
The board I am thinking about getting is a A13 from Olimex. I am just waiting
to get some more information (it turns out we have another user of such a
board here in the forum!) before I buy.
As for RMS... he used his computer offline and without GUI. I
Why did you desoldered the wifi chip? Isn't that enough to disable the
driver?
I think this would be a good idea. If the code is mature enough that is.
I heard you the first time, no need to double post :P
Anyway, that's the problem, you get a fingerprint issue and one day that will
bite you right in the butt. For example, how many people do you think are
using IceCat with Tor and visit the FSF and GNU pages everyday? You can bet
that perso
https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/gnuser/m/torbirdy-hq/
HQ version available.
I guess you can't teach new tricks to an old dog :P
Maybe he could speak with the people from Tor Project. Try to suggest him
that.
AFAIK Think Penguin has no machine with free BIOS.
AllWinner are still very limited, but they get more interesting every day.
And from a comment above, it seems you can use linux-libre with it, which
coupled with a Debian or a Ubuntu installation (where you could run
trisquelize script) you
I wish to avoid that. EVEN because you can only compile the Browser (they
explain that in their page, it's quite easy to compile the firefox modified
version, but not so much tor all itself), but like I said, if the Tor in the
repos is up to date, I will take a brave step and try building my
Well, to each his own I think.
As for the other subject... Sorry man, that sucks :S
Censorship and surveillance are terrible things really, that is why I am such
a fan of Tor. Too bad that Tor only traffics TCP and most VOIP like Linphone
will use UDP. Skype can get by because:
1. They use TC
I want only the part of the script that removes non-free packages.
That being said, I would LOVE if you could share the linux-libre work you
have done. Did you use some kind of debblober or did you took the already
existent linux-libre and worked on top of it?
Also why did you desoldered th
Why did you choose Ubuntu over Debian? Seeing as Debian is the officialy
supported distro for this board, what drove you to Ubuntu?
Btw, did you ever tried their Debian image? How did it perform?
Thanks for those!
It seems like a great project, and I wish them the best. I will keep tabs on
them too. But anyway, I would like to buy something this year (in the next
months probably). SO, I will probably go with a A13-Olinuxino-Wifi. I am just
waiting to get more information from megurin
I don't think that's viable. You see, AllWinner will keep making some of
their boards as long as there is a 5 units order. You can't possibly get
that in a single forum. Maybe if the FSF did it together with the EFF. But
they don't go with that kind of thing very much...
On the other hand
I am currently looking at Bananian (www.bananian.org) which I can't really
grasp if is fully free or blobed down.
Do you guys think the linux-libre scripts will work in armhf kernel?
Yes, blocking all by default and accepting each one request is safer... but I
am not sure if it will be simpler.
Anyway, that would avoid some stupid mistakes like running Tor and opening
links in regular browser :P
Hey, thank you so much for valuable and informative post! :)
Well, to be honest I have kinda made a decision, or two:
1. I will buy (probably) a banana pi, which is based on AllWinner A20. It's
better hardware than Olimex board I was mentioning (dual core, more ram,
better graphics) and I can
Hi,
I had never heard of this addon.
If I might ask, from what I know Firefox (Iceweasel, Icecat, Tor Browser,
etc) comes with built-in support for WebM and OGG, correct? Without any
additional codecs installed in your system, if you just install firefox, you
can play those formats online,
What about Bitmessage? Would that be a SaaSS? You store a part of the
encrypted database, but not all of it so you can't say that someone else is
not storing your encrypted email until you fetch it from the network (from
what I understand, please someone with more knowledge on Bitmessage give
I would have to disagree with the principle: freedom is not an issue of
"easy" or "difficult". By that principle, Skype would be free because it is
(maybe) easier to use.
Now, I understand agree that if something is terribly hard to do on your own,
you should be free to use a service that pro
FSF.org and GNU.org have a lot of great information, and I totally support
the use of free software only. However, I would suggest that you take their
articles and opinions with a grain of salt. This isn't a religion you know,
not everything they say is right. In this particular context, I do
If you can, try contacting ioerror, Jacob Appelbaum, I remember him saying he
did that very same thing to prevent someone from feeding him a fake update on
Debian.
Hello,
Privacy by policy is no privacy at all.
First, no one is going to jail because of your privacy, even less when you
are using a free service and not paying them. So, even if the people behind
the project are honest, they still have to comply with the law. They log your
IP and connecti
Is it possible to instead of using VLC to play the stream, use wget or curl
to download the stream into a file? One that you could later (or in real
time) play localy in your vlc or media player? If you try using wget or curl
with that link it will just download the m3u8 file itself. Not the
If you want to use Tor, just download the Tor Browser Bundle. It is simpler
(since it already has it's own tor session running) and is more secure (the
new security slider gives you more control without harming anonymity).
http://www.instructables.com/id/PCB-designing-and-isolationmilling-only-using-free/
Don't know much about this, but thought someone could read on it and be
useful to the community.
Thanks for the reply :)
I know it can be done with mplayer and vlc. But I am really interested in
learning how to do it with curl/wget.
Thanks anyway for your info :)
If anyone has knowledge about how to do it the way I intended please share :)
How did you curl'd the live streams? Any special option or parameter that you
had to insert? For example with the m3u8 links that were specified above, are
you able to curl them?
Just installing VLC or smplayer wouldn't solve that?
After talking with Nico (who is the developer of Bananian, a Debian based OS
for the Banana Pi board, you can visit his website at www.bananian.org) the
Banana Pro has a wifi chip that is supported by an open source driver. I made
that specific question and his answer was this:
"3.) The wif
Although that could be potentially good. It would make your computer a lot
more private and hard to track if everyone shared the same MAC Address ;)
But yes, sometimes people need the real MAC so it's a good idea to save it.
I know, but the idea is that we stop doing that. Just as an IP
can't/shouldn't be used to identify a user, same way a MAC address
can't/shouldn't.
Also, there is the very stupid (or very futuristic as someone called it) idea
of build our own networks, that I suggested in a thread in the troll
also remember to enable seeing hidden folders.
I think one chance would be to use GTA04 running Replicant and F-Droid repos
for OSMAnd.
Read this link
http://blog.replicant.us/2014/06/replicant-4-2-on-the-goldelico-gta04/ there
is a video showing support for it.
I think it would be nice setup. Also you got a music player on the pack :P
I don't know what you mean "sideload" them, but yes, you can either access
internet with usb cable or download the files for offline instalation.
It could be a problem of codecs on your system. Tor Browser allows for
gstreamer to be used which means that formats you play on your system should
also play on the browser. Try going to
about:config
search for media.gstreamer.enabled
and turn it false. Now go to youtube and try playing a vide
I didn't know of this, but apparently OpenSSL has been forked by the OpenBSD
team into LibreSSL. Has been so for some time now, I just didn't know of it
yet. Their goal is apparently to make it more secure by making the code
easier to review by everyone. Modernizing the code, they say. What a
Also, found this link
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2014-libressl.html
I am speaking from memory here but I think Jacob Appelbaum said in a speech
that SSH keys were broken and the NSA had made it not secure... Does that
apply to OpenSSH?
As for the transparent audit, I think (again from memory) that Theo de Radt
(the main guy behind OpenBSD) had refused to pr
YES!
Honestly I sometimes wish to go back to Trisquel, since Debian isn't very
polished and the software is outdated (even using the backports), but the
lack of security updates (in a timely manner) puts me away from that idea. I
think having point releases would help a LOT. That would at le
I am in a hurry right now, sorry for the short reply.
A quick websearch revealed these links:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141229/06331329532/how-nsa-works-hard-to-break-encryption-any-way-it-can.shtml
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-
Having a release date for the point releases would "force" the developers to
make sure that security updates were done in time.
Now, I understand that Trisquel basically has one developer, Ruben, and it's
very hard for one man alone to do all this work by himself. Which is kinda
funny, seeing
"webgl.disabled = true
WebGL is a potential security risk.
"
I noticed that in Tor Browser, that line is "true". Could it be that the
NoScript addon handles that issue?
Anyway, I would encourage anyone to use NoScript. Even if you set it to allow
all by default, it will protect you from
I know this has been subject of many debates since the news came out, and
while the situation might not be as bad as it seems, I do remember without a
doubt that Jacob Applebaum (one of the journalists that is helping releasing
the NSA documents and therefore has access to most information) s
Being stripped down could be a good thing... since that would make the code
easier to maintain and audit when necessary.
Not that I think the GNU/Linux distros out there will start using it, BSD
distros might.
I like the idea of KISS software :)
Correct
Thanks for those links.
It seems to me that this is all a big mess, and only time will solve
anything... people are trying to do things in one way and another, but
computers are so complicated that you always end up fucking up somehow...
Maybe the LibreSSL is a good approach, but it does see
One question out of curiosity: can you set a BIOS password with Libreboot?
Since it is free software and there is no hidden master password, setting
such a password would make that machine quite secure :)
May I suggest adding this link?
http://www.insanitybit.com/2012/05/31/compile-and-patch-your-own-secure-linux-kernel-with-pax-and-grsecurity/
Grsec + linux-libre = damn secure linux kernel! Perfect for our GNU.
Actually following ESR would be a good thing... less work and more time, less
new features more security. Tor Browser uses ESR and works like a charm :)
I would love to have Icecat in Debian's repos, would like to try it out :)
just for the fun of it at least!
Thanks!
Though usually I prefer to install from repos...
Agreed. You should also fully encrypt the hard drive (while we are at it,
harden the kernel, restrict applications, encrypt all files with GPG, etc
etc). However, adding a BIOS password will protect against some specific
situations. Like, you leave the laptop unattended for a short time and
SVG pictures are actually potentially dangerous, that's why the Tor Browser
disables them if you move the security slider to a higher position. BUT I
don't know about png images. As for the file extension being enough to
prevent a file from executing code, it should be simple to test, if I co
SVG are not pictures in the way you would consider a picture. See, you can
zoom inside of them infinitely without losing detail, so you know there is
code involved. It is considered (though I am not sure it has been proven)
that this code could be used to attack the browser. (doing more than
Nothing, I was just mentioning that yes, SVG pics can be dangerous maybe the
warning is there because the same might apply to PNG pics. Not sure though
(Lembas seems to have a proof there)
Well, you are lucky your wifi card is working (many people had to buy a USB
dongle).
And if you were to play games with 3D and such, you would find that ATI are
useless in the free world.
Now I agree with what you said about the FSF. They seem to do SOME good, but
I don't see them doing wha
You could give him a break and tell him to install unetbootin from the repos,
its a lot easier for a newbie :-P
I know you did a good job with freenetbootin but c'mon... unetbootin is not
that bad :-P
Usually if something is in Debian's main repo it will be in Ubuntu's and
Mint's and Trisquel's repos as well.
If i am wrong please correct me :)
Disable LibreJS and try again.
I think that restriction is acceptable. You can run the software for any
purpose but it is not OK to run it in a stolen computer, correct? So that
would be OK for the 4 freedoms I think.
I'm sorry, but what do you mean that "The concerns/issues with AllWinner have
been resolved." ?
As far as I know, the AllWinner company is still violating the GPL... A
couple weeks/months ago they pretended to release new source code but it had
(again) binary blobs inside.
If I am wrong, plea
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