If you must stick to 5GHz that leaves you with 802.11a and/or 802.11n.
And there are lots of things in the free world that support that.
Look at the ath9k kernel module for your answer:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath9k
Make a note of supported chipsets, including the
https://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-devel/2018-February/001147.html
## Dist-upgrade t7 > t8
Although it was already possible to upgrade a T7 machine into T8, the
manual steps can be tricky. The guided/graphical process for the upgrade
is now in place and can be tested by running the
"I'm doing something bad?"
Yes; they will never match.
The files at http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/ have no GPG signature,
so there is nothing for you to verify against.
Using the .asc from anything else will always fail 100% of the time because
it's not for that file.
ETS does too. The current ETS kernel is 4.4, and KPTI appeared in 4.4.110.
Perhaps it takes a while for search results to appear?
Also, is "libreboot" in the title or the description? I think eBay only
searches descriptions if you also check the "include description" checkbox
near the Search box.
Anyway, thanks for contacting the eBay Website Support Department.
"The best way to respect your freedom and pocket is to learn how to do things
yourself :)"
For sure. It's too bad that I can only upvote this once.
"Librebooted computers will be affected by Meltdown and Spectre forever."
We don't know that it's unsolvable, all we know is that the solution chosen
by upstream relies on microcode changes.
I wonder if it would be possible to spark some community movement towards
alternate mitigation
"The first thing is, that it is in my opinion a mistake to assume that only
proprietary software can contain malicious code."
Although that's not what I said now, was it? I referred to running
"proprietary programs that they can never audit or trust." The difference
being that, if someone
It's only going to be second hand. The machine was discontinued some years
ago and is becoming very hard to find. I have not seen one in a long time.
The last time was at the FSF office. They had a bin of some of them that were
in pieces because they had problems (defective screen, etc.) It
Neat but they need freedom: http://freedomdefined.org/Definition
Or at least as much as can be, considering the license of the logo:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/logo
The solution that the Linux kernel developers went with is also dependent on
proprietary microcode updates. Without this, the changes to the kernel alone
do not completely mitigate.
The solution chosen by the Linux kernel developers isn't necessarily the only
possible one, though, so it
"Are there any ideas or solutions to deal with this problems?"
Yes: Don't worry about it. If you think on it you will see this is a problem
specific to people that use proprietary software, that do their computing on
other people's computers (what some like the call "the cloud"), or that
You could also do worse than the libreboot mailing list.
https://fsfe.org/contribute/promopics/thereisnocloud-bluecolor-preview.png
I don't think of it as complicated.
https://jxself.org/git/?p=digits.git;a=blob;f=digits.pl;h=fd23070c14a38491a4c004a9efbdcfaef8e29659;hb=HEAD
You have a copyright statement and permission header.
"do AMD cards also have propietary software inside?"
Yes. And so I don't really have a recommendation because they all seem like a
no-win situation.
My understanding is that Nouveau has been working on this for some time so
that may be why it works for you on that particular card. The card itself
still has proprietary software inside of it though so you're not entirely
free of proprietary junk though.
Yes. And so, circling back to Abdullah Ramazanoglu's original question,
determining the public domain status of a thing depends on establishing a
specific fact pattern for that thing, taken in light of a specific country.
That can result in something being public domain in one country and
Of course, it should probably be said that this is a U.S.-centric viewpoint
and not necessarily applicable to non-U.S. people.
"Then what would be the legal status of of the legacy public domain base?"
It would be hard to generalize about this because of so many factors. What
country is it public domain in and why (copyright expiration? Because the
author abandoned it (and maybe other countries won't recognize
"Then I ran the first shared bash script, so I immediately committed a crime"
Copyright doesn't usually do anything with the running of programs, but with
derivative works and the making of copies.
"I am also reading (and copy-pasting excerpts from) your automatically
non-free copyrighted
Thanks to things like the Berne Convention as well as various international
treaties that have come along since then, when someone makes something
they're not getting one single solitary copyright from their home country but
about 200 different copyrights from various countries around the
"Or can it be other reasons to use older kernels?"
Yes, I suppose there could be any number of reasons. One I can think of is
the radeon kernel module. On newer kernel versions the module is known to
fall over and die when the proprietary junk is not present, resulting in the
computer
There is an update!
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/fosdem-2018-shakti-project-tape-out-nearly-done-2-7-5-eoma68-a20-pcbs
You can also think of it as being a form of change control:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_control
Newer versions do more than just bug fixes and provide security updates: They
also introduce new functionality. Anything is fair game once Linus Torvalds
opens the merge window at kernel.org for people to send in their changes for
the next major kernel release. The concern is that adding in
Just like the long-term support (LTS) kernels you get bug fixes, security
updates, backported features. An ETS kernel is a good choice for someone that
wants the reliability and dependability of an LTS version for an extended
period.
The forums are still integrated with the mailing list so the email address is
still public.
The best source of news is provided on the crowdfunding page. Notice that it
has an "Updates" tab.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
">Also swap out kernels
Why? The kernel is free, deblobbed."
The request_firmware calls cause problems. Linux-libre fixes that.
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2018-01/msg00046.html
">rebrand everything
What exactly?"
I don't pretend to know all of the places where
Also swap out kernels, replace Firefox, modify the installer to get rid of
those various verboten prompts, rebrand everything, and more. gNewSense is
based on Debian and they have similar things to Trisquel's "Helpers", caller
Builders. (I think that might be where the idea of Trisquel's
Hello,
I wanted to share that I've added another support option for my Linux-libre
APT repo. In addition to Long-Term Support (LTS) kernels, which are supported
for 2 years, I'm adding Extended-Term Support (ETS) kernels, which are
supported for 6 years.
I've updated
Look in the kernel config to find out. It lives in /boot named after the
version you're running. What's "best" is hard to say. As with any performance
tuning, the "best" decision for will vary from person to person. My advice:
Experiment, do some benchmarking, and make a decision based on
Avoid speculative execution. I believe MIPS doesn't do that. There are
probably others - I have not looked. Why not make a list for us?
Please consider making an exception when interesting stuff like this comes
up. :)
But the thing would be that, if you were to take the time to listen to John's
talk, they're not saying that that stuff is OK. You mentioned another forum
thread. It's important remember that other people talking is not the FSF.
This is why I steered you to them. To hear things out of the
Hopefully you would consider this talk to be of high quality, not a junk yard
with low information quality. I have found all of the Free As In Freedom
episodes to be very good. To my knowledge no one has transcribed this or any
other episode of Free As In Freedom. The duration of the file is
"Unfortunately I can't view/download online multimedia and the issue is
covered in Q/A which is in MM form, so I can't listen to John Sullivan's
explanation."
Why not? It should be as straightforward as:
wget http://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x43_GNUnion.ogg
Rather than me explaining it, why not listen to John Sullivan? He's Executive
Director at the Free Software Foundation and gave a talk called State of the
GNUnion. This question was discussed during the Q session. I encourage you
to listen to it: http://faif.us/cast/2013/oct/17/0x43/
The Q
You're being just a bit too literal there, of course, but I meant not
disappearing as a matter of policy of deleting old versions when disk space
gets low.
Obviously I have backups. 7 of them. In different locations. On different
continents. In different hemispheres of the world. And other
"I mean, don't this attacks have to be executed in my computer?"
Yes.
"If I don't use JavaScript in my browser, and only use free software, is
there a way I could still be attacked?"
It probably helps but a program being free software doesn't mean it's free of
problems (a concrete example
"So perhaps it can't really be fixed with software patches but indeed just
'mitigated'."
Indeed; they are all "mitigations." Plus: There are numerous mitigations for
Spectre that won't work on libre systems because they require (proprietary)
microcode changes which neither Trisquel nor I
Then something is wrong because that is exactly what it is supposed to be
doing. Check out /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal and you will see.
"In the common case, this results in exactly two kernels saved but it can
result in three kernels being saved. It's better to err on the side
There is also another place to get source code which is:
https://jxself.org/git/?p=linux-libre.git
I started this because I found that Alexandre Oliva, who runs fsfla.org,
deletes older kernel source code when disk space runs low and this raised
some questions when people wanted to get some
Also, I provide the configs I use in a git repository.
https://jxself.org/git/?p=kernel-configs.git
It could be useful as a starting point or whatever.
There are VPN providers that accept Bitcoin for example. So: Assume it's paid
anonymously and then re-evaluate Banana's question with that assumption. :)
The first one sees an encrypted connection between you and another VPN
service for example. Even if the first one were doing all of the
I think you may have misunderstood Magic Banana's question fundamentally.
Banana is comparing TOR to three nested VPNs, making it difficult for any one
VPN to see the entire thing.
The first ones is about ALSA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture
Then it's doing some man stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page
Then running /etc/rc.d/rc/.local which is part of the init system. Some clock
stuff and networking.
I eventually see the
Yes, from my repository I see that you have 4.14.13 and 4.14.12. Once 4.14.14
comes out (and you update to it) then 4.14.12 should be removable with the
autoremove thing. That goes back to what I'd said earlier that it keeps the
current one and one of the previous ones.
A way to prune old kernel versions: sudo apt-get autoremove
The package manager keeps the current kernel version and the previous version
just in case so two will always be there.
Everyone is having a metldown because Canonical has not released fixes yet.
The bigger question is: When will Canonical fix it in Ubuntu? Trisquel
inherits security updates from Ubuntu so *THAT* is the question you want to
be asking.
This is very strange indeed. What is in your sources.list? What do these
commands say?
dpkg-query -l linux-libre-4.9
apt-cache policy linux-libre-4.9
I don't believe the answers have changed.
It should be visible to the package manager. If you try:
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
Do you get it?
"we use 4.9 lts
and we use your APT repo
But we dont Received updates for (meltdown and Speculative vulnerabilitys)"
4.9.75 has the KPTI stuff for meltdown: https://lwn.net/Articles/743248/
And 4.9.75 is available in my APT repo since January 5.
Several mirrors of my APT repository exist [0], donated by various people.
I've updated the website [1] to provide instructions on how to use these when
setting up the repository. Your sources.list file would instead contain the
line:
deb
There's actually more than that if you look at all of the variants that MIT
has used over the years, in the Old Style area:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT
So there really isn't one "MIT" license and the very name "the MIT license"
is ambiguous.
It has the same problem as Firefox, where freedom #2 (the ability to make
exact copies) has been limited to non-commercial purposes.
https://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Libre_Browsers_Libre_Formats#Browsers_that_might_seem_free.2C_but_are_not
"What's stopping me from licensing everything under AGPL?"
Absolutely nothing. In fact I'd love to see more things licensed in that way.
There is some stuff at http://gplv3.fsf.org/ especially if you go to the
Comments tab which lets you review various Discussion Drafts and see what
parts
If you pay attention to the history of the drafting of GPL version 3 it was
originally going to be (check out Discussion Draft #2 of GPL version 3)
But in response to feedback, in Discussion Draft #3 the FSF made a compromise
and made it a separate license but with compatibility terms in
OK; this is fixed now.
But this means that my Linux-libre repo has been slightly broken since 4.14
came out back in November. I wonder why no one ever reported this to me
directly? Out of happenstance I happened to find a reference in a thread
here, but surely GrevenGull isn't the only
"It looks like "linux-libre-4.14" is really absent from the repository (and
"linux-libre-4.13" is still there):"
Oh wow; I will get that fixed.
"Besides, i want to have the freedom of using webmail and no dektop mail
client."
That can be done. You can even move between the two without issue. It's
called IMAP where your messages stay on the server. Plus, the use of webmail
means both an email client and the web mail interface are
You haven't used a proper email client then (or maybe it wasn't configured
correctly) because any such one will have "visual styling and all the nested
replies."
Do you see your typo there? That's why.
From my searching I am not sure if it is related to the kernel or not. This
is why I suggested trying out the live CD of Trisquel 8, since it will also
include updated versions of the bluetooth user space programs too.
It would be interesting to try running Trisquel 8 from a CD/USB
stick/something like that and see if there is a difference. An ISO can be
downloaded from http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/
"Normal" probably depends. What sort of bluetooth chip is it? I imagine that
lsusb or lspci will provide some basic info. Finding the make & model can
help in figuring out if it's not working because it needs proprietary junk in
order to work (which Trisquel doesn't provide.)
I think this mischaracterizes things. I'm sorry that they're not being
approved as fast as people may like but the the resources for this are
limited. Donald hinted at this in the email announcement when he said that
maintaining a free distro is a task that needs everyone's help. He also
OK; I'll work on this and get in touch with you through email.
I have a public APT repository at https://jxself.org/linux-libre/ but I
imagine that the ones in there currently are probably too new to be helpful.
My understanding is that Trisquel 6 used kernel version 3.2. I could add
something like that into the repository but according to Longterm
Yeah, the radeon module in newer kernels falls over and dies when the
proprietary blobs are not present. The current options are to use an old
kernel, help Linux-libre gain blobless activation of that card (this is
already possible with evergreen radeon cards starting from kernel version
I suppose it depends on the desktop environment. In GNOME you can Alt +
Right-click -> Add to panel and find "Indicator Applet Complete." The little
gear symbol on it has options for switching users.
But then again maybe you're not using GNOME. You don't really say...
You really should use your distro's own support resources.
You may want to interact with the Parabola community regarding problems with
Parabola.
This was not the case for PureOS. Without giving away internal details, it
was actually a multi-year process and not some fast lane. It's probably the
longest endorsement process I've ever seen.
There seems no community around it. As I go to the website (which seems very
basic) I find no reference to mailing lists, IRC channel, forums, or anything
at all beyond a bug tracking system.
If you want components it's pretty much the build-it-yourself way just like
outside of FSF & GNU.
For motherboards, look at the ones supported by libreboot:
https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/ and replace the proprietary BIOS with
libreboot.
At home I have both the Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L
It is probably not realistic to expect people to try out every single
package.
Hello, this is actually normal. It's also not specific to my kernels.
Here's an email thread from 2015 with someone from Parabola also seeing it:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2015-11/msg9.html
In the case of the other about i915 I expect that it's related to libreboot
not
Not necessarily. Part of the upgrade involves the transition to systemd as
the init system. The systemd-sysv package provides for System V compatibility
during the transition. Things expecting a System V-style init will find what
they expect, but they're really just links systemd. So move on
OK so leave off the KVM stuff then.
"No such file or directory"
Well there's your problem. :) Either your CPU doesn't support virtualization,
or it's disabled in the BIOS, or KVM is not installed on your computer.
If true it seems like it come in the form of updates from the motherboard
vendor so one must still wait for them to provide such an update.
Notice the title there on Phoronix where it's AMD "allows" you to. Don't
forget that it's still proprietary, user-subjugating software regardless. So
"So, am I correct in saying that, in the case of Libreboot with Grub, the
distinction between MBR and GPT-partitioned hard disks doesn't really matter?
Because Grub is already loaded, so as long as it can find the grub.cfg file
and the /boot folder, it should be ok."
Yeah, it doesn't
If you want something that resembles a BIOS you could build libreboot with
SeaBIOS and get something you'd think of as a BIOS. Or compile libreboot with
TianoCore which is a UEFI implementation. But those are separate things that
get compiled as a "payload" they call it. But neither coreboot
Please report upgrade problems in the tracker so that they can be addressed
and make things easy for everyone.
It's community involvement time!
One of the things that came from the development meeting on December 8 is the
need to test the upgrade process. This is something that anyone can do and
report problems in the bug tracker.
It can even be done inside a virtual machine so that you don't have
Do it the old fashioned way.
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list...
deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos main
deb-src http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos main
deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos-updates main
deb-src
"Which OS is wrong?"
They're both right. The firmware was originally proprietary but was freed on
March 8, 2013. But it didn't appear in Debian Unstable until March
***2017***, an entire four years later and even then, it won't appear in a
Debian stable release until Debian 10 codename
More is needed. Much more.
None of the machines that ThinkPenguin sells can be used with libreboot.
"TO BE A dns provider requires a machine dedicated for that service
Why you, should want to host a server for that purpose,?"
Maybe if you're running something as a public service but for someone's own
personal DNS resolution this is totally not needed. The method I proposed
would work
You are your own best DNS provider. It's not even hard: sudo apt install
bind9. BIND can query the root name servers for you and you're independent.
It's not a browser problem. Sorry, but you're barking up the wrong tree.
"Something about my installations of Abrowser and Icecat is over-riding the
blocked status of those domains. What could that be ?"
It's nothing to do with the browser. At all. The determination of which HTTP
response code to sent (either "200 OK" along with the requested resource or
to
For sure.
Also to throw in that my new linux-libre-firmware project also includes the
latest version of this firmware.
Announcement:
https://jxself.org/firmware.shtml
The git repository:
https://jxself.org/git/?p=linux-libre-firmware.git
Release tarballs with pre-compiled firmware (and source):
Sounds like your family isn't respecting your decisions which is something
you can't really control. You can assertively tell them your decision and why
and stick with it.
"Where are alternatives for the SuSE-centric Linux-libre kernels available
overall our world?"
They probably don't exist. So the answer would probably be that they're
waiting for for you to make them?
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