Not even if you stitch it together from different areas of the screenshot
that have different areas of the pattern uncovered?
This sounds too suspicious to be true. I wonder if something else might be
happening instead, like maybe the window was moved to another virtual desktop
or something. (And pressing escape shouldn't cause anything special. I am
pressing it over and over right now and nothing is happening.)
"how would i go about installing the 4.1 version of the kernel by using the
repository..."
Install the appropriate package name from the chart shown. There are a couple
of options for 4.1, depending on your desired support model. Check the table
to see your options. :)
Why not use https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
Then, getting the latest kernel is as easy as installing any other program
via your package manager.
Well, MP3 has always been patent encumbered. This is nothing new but what you
are seeing has nothing to do with that.
Rather, it is only telling you a needed package is missing. If you allow it
to do so it should then install the package.
Mono raises issues of software patents which is a different but somewhat
overlapping issue to software freedom. This would be good to listen to if you
want to hear more on that topic:
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2009/jul/07/0x11/
Blacklisting is easy: Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with your favorite text
editor (requires root) and add one line:
blacklist iwl3945
"Since we agree we are talking about one movement, I think its untrue to
claim, as some continue to do on this forum and others, that people who use
the language of "open source" don't care about software freedom"
Although there are some people that indeed do not care, because I've met
"Linux Libre started having blobs since the version 4.2"
This isn't correct. Linux-libre has never contained blobs.
Go package it up, make a Helper, or whatever. :)
"Isn't it both."
Free software started out by saying that people should make free software
because to do anything less (proprietary software) was unethical. Open source
started as a branch off of free software, from people that rejected the
ethical point of view taken by free software. The
"I even have to use the term "Linux" when i talk to the i.t guys because they
get annoyed every time i mention "GNU".
Keep doing it anyway.
As with with normal Linux: It'll be fixed and included in updates as per
normal. Nothing new to see here. Time to move on...
Was the laptop on when it crashed (i.e., the internal disk was spinning)???
Whenever a drive falls while in operation I am worried of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_crash
This is less of an issue if it were off (and, in theory, the heads were
parked away from the rotating platter.)
A
Minifree does not manufacture. They buy them, in a used condition, refurbish
them into good condition and put libreboot on them (along with Trisquel) and
then sell them.
"but i dont want to buy old peace of crap that is sitting on some shelf for 8
years."
At the moment, older computers
They are as up to date as they are. If you're someone that suffers from the
degenerative disease called versionitis you probably would not be happy with
gNewSense.
You remove the battery. Then remove the keyboard. Then remove the palmrest.
Then remove the WiFi card and insert the new one. Then put everything back
together. There's information online. Plus, Lenovo has videos.
Maybe third party cookies? They are a potential privacy problem after all and
since IceCat tries to address those sorts of things I would not be surprised
to find they're turned off by default.
"This might be a stupid question, but would this allow me to send email with
my own domain, and not be marked as spam?"
It depends on why you're being considered spam. There is a fundamental
question there which has not been answered in this thread. Without knowing
the reason it's
Yes, this may indeed be a very good solution as it would allow outbound mail
to go through another (hopefully trusted) server. An example being their ISPs
own SMTP server. Their own server would authenticate to the ISP's SMTP server
when sending mail using a custom FROM address. Beyond that
Search around. Lenovo still sells them, although they are expensive through
that channel, but you know that they'll be legit. I'm not sure what you mean
by how much it would 'cost' to 'install' the WiFi card. I assume that you
would do the installation yourself and that you would not charge
"On the subject of gNewSense, it seems that development has stopped."
It is slow, but not stopped. There is a difference. :)
Um, copy it out of the screenshot? There seems to be enough in order to
re-create it.
"Ubuntu Gets Serious About Data Privacy" and blah blah blah. Perhaps this was
their plan all along: You get really bad so that when you remove the
horribleness people celebrate it and how great you are. Compare, for example
conspiracy theories about New Coke.
It seems you've missed my point.
To be fair, though, mine is a brand new big 9-cell battery from Lenovo.
Okay, pedant. :) Imagine, then, the question being rephrased so as to be
asking about the implementation of that standard as used on GNU/Linux systems
then. I'm sure you knew what they meant. :)
"Is there a cloud service like that available?"
There is no cloud, only other people's computers. :) Think on that and
rephrase the question into "Is there someone else's computer I can use?" :)
Welcome, jarlandre. There is no free 802.11ac firmware at this time. You'll
need to stick to a/b/g/n stuff in order to use free software.
Sure, delete logs but that won't stop them from coming back.
Blacklist the kernel module?
Even better: Remove the Intel WiFi card?
Why does virtualization support have anything at all to do with battery life?
I feel like you're starting out in some other part of the conversation and
who knows how you arrived at your current question of virtualization vs.
battery life. Having a program installed wouldn't necessarily have
I have also.
"I just wanted to make sure that creating a backup of config files and
things, then copying them to a fresh system wouldn't cause any problems."
I don't know if I can say that. You could always proceed at your own risk.
May I suggest that the proper place for help with Debian is Debian's own
support channels?
Trisquel 8 will have MATE instead of GNOME.
You can always monitor your own usage and see how it compares.
This is pointless for two reasons: For one, Trisquel doesn't have any
proprietary software to block. Second, if the concerns are instead over
people installing proprietary junk from third parties, there is no way to
have an exhaustive list of all possible package names to conflict with (it
"ogg being the king of lossy audio."
I'd like to make a few points.
Ogg is only a container, not a codec. Think of it being the difference
between a box that holds stuff vs. the stuff that goes into that box.
You're probably thinking of Vorbis, which commonly goes into the Ogg
container
Yay!
"So what are these ip addresses?"
Ah, welcome to the lazyweb. I did a reverse DNS look up on them for you. >From
that, I am going to take a stab and guess that you have add-ons installed.
Further, I'll take it one further and say that you have HTTPS Everywhere as
one of them. And that
Thanks, but I was speaking to GNOME stuff dconf-editor. :)
Indeed. GNOME is very configurable but most stuff is hidden away under the
name of making things "simpler" and "easier" and whatnot.
"What is stopping you, Jason, from putting out this ISO with your technical
knowledge, knowing that people want it and Ruben is dragging his feet?"
I don't have the time. I'm busy, head down, in my own work. Plus, I'm not the
one going around banging on a drum and going on about d
Watch out t3g spreading old information again and making it seem like
Trisquel is dependent upon Rubén. Stop it, t3g. We went over this about a
month ago. I shall copy & paste the same information:
Watch out for old information! :)
Anyone can sign up for an account at
Watch out t3g spreading old information again and making it seem like
Trisquel is dependent upon Rubén. Stop it, t3g. We went over this about a
month ago. I shall copy & paste the same information:
Watch out for old information! :)
Anyone can sign up for an account at
1. In Trisquel it is hard to install anything non-free.
2. Debian (etc.) can also be free but allows to install non-free
3. and that is unacceptable by FSF
I think you're conflating different issues here. I shall try to explain.
The word "allows" is probably the wrong word to use. Any free
The software is different, but it is still proprietary. So the answer to your
question, sadly, is yes. Everything that runs on the phone's radio (the part
that interacts with the cellular network and provides your 3G/4G connectivity
and is essentially an entire second computer in your phone
"So the shutdown blinkies remain as elusive as ever."
I don't know why you say that: From what you've describe this all seems very
standard to me. If you recall one of the things that happens during shutdown
is all running processes are sent SIGTERM (To quote from the GNU C Library
manual:
"my video camera won't stay focused on the screen."
Try turning off automatic focus. Focus it manually first, and then do a shut
down once the focus is perfect.
"Something in the system is trying to tell me what's going on just before
shutdown"
No, it's not trying to tell you something. It's not alive. :) Rather, it is
executing it's pre-programmed steps for brining the system down which
involves things like SIGTERM to running processes (the
"But it's true that the FSF considers those as little importance"
This is not true at all, sorry. It does represent a compromise, but that
doesn't mean they aren't important. One does not mean the other. Being a
temporary compromise only is covered in the latest article too: "We decided
to
"I just need control of my piece of the software on top of my laptop. This is
the issue of violating the user freedom."
Sorry, but you do have that already. Even if it's an absolutely horrible
piece of *@(%^ it remains a free program. It's all covered in that article
that a free program is
But it's something. So I'm pointing it out.
MythTV can be used to record non-free stuff from television channels.
Commercials deleted. Converted into free formats. No DRM.
"Well, on the other hand, okay, let's not argue about whether a such software
is a free software . A software without sufficient configuration is not
respecting user's freedom anyway."
You say to not talk of it, and then immediately re-assert your argument
again. A free program is free
The newer models aren't as free, sorry.
Search the form history. People were actually complaining about this feature,
saying it was a bad idea, etc.
"An unconfigurable software is not a free software"
Sorry. Flat out wrong. Read this:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/imperfection-isnt-oppression.en.html
There are some problems in your logic. One is the notion that the config
files are copyrightable in the first place.
To provide an example, I distribute config files for assorted Linux-libre
kernel versions at https://jxself.org/git/?p=kernel-configs.git
You will notice there is no
"Though, I doubt we can publish all the files on ThinkPenguin's CD, because
the guides on how to build and install u-boot and LibreCMC don't mention any
license (and by default full copyright applies)."
I can appreciate your overly cautious position, but having known Bob for
years I very
"Not to mention one could easily distribute their own, legally and gratis,
after buying it."
That is exactly what I am doing. My hope is that people that like it will
send money to onpon4.
Wouldn't the Parabola people be the best ones to talk about the status of
Parabola on ARM?
If you enjoy the game perhaps you can support onpon4 and send money. Details
of how to do that are at http://retux.nongnu.org/download.html
More people should do what onpon4 is doing and developing free games
commercially like this. Free from the start. Not free code with non-free
Thanks!
And to those people that complain about ORCA automatically starting in the
installer, this is why.
vrms is a joke because it's not going to identify all of the non-free things
that are there because it doesn't even look at everything in the first place
and even the things it does look at are being judged by different criteria.
"vrms does one thing and does it right: identify packages that come from
non-free debian repositories."
And that's *ALL* it does. It might (emphasis added) work okay on Debian but
you'd figured that anyone enabling their non-free rpeository would know that
they're installing packages from
There is no Debianized source package for 4.2 or later but that doesn't mean
source code isn't available. Those are different matters. :)
Source code is available - It's the right thing to do and is required of me
by the GPL.
To ensure that I'm in full compliance with the license you may
Please join the development of an existing free distro rather than
fragmenting effort by starting a new one. The free distro world is small
enough as it is without people dividing the effort even further.
Yes. This is a good thing but it will only last for 3 years and there's no
guarantee of getting the exemption again next time. Exemptions aren't enough.
To establish lasting protection for our rights it's high time the DMCA be
limited in scope so as to afford the public with the rights we
"I've pm'd jxself everyday for a week about it once"
That's almost funny because I've had you on ignore for almost three months so
haven't seen a thing. I don't have any control over the Trisquel website
anyway so couldn't do anything about it even if I had.
If it's too fast, slow it down? In GNOME you open System Settings and click
on Mouse & Touchpad and adjust the "Pointer Speed" thingy there.
Since your question is about Debian it seems more appropriate to ask in the
Debian community about how to see the boot logo. But whatever. I imagine your
GRUB config has the quiet and splash options? Remove them.
Edit the file /etc/default/grub on your system and look for "quiet" and
There currently isn't one for Trisquel 7. I understand that it will be
forthcoming eventually but there is no ETA. In the meantime you can use the
normal Trisquel ISO image on your card and then copy the FSF files onto it.
Those files can be found here:
Things have opened up a great deal. Anyone can sign up for an account at
https://devel.trisquel.info/ and work on Trisquel. The Helper programs to
generate ISOs can also be found there. aklis on IRC has been doing much
lately since Ruben is working full time at the Free Software Foundation
There is a patch available that adds the image along with the appropriate
other changes:
http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/lemote/gnewsense/branches/3.1/100gnu+freedo.patch
It's just a .ppm file created with commands as described in the patch.
Apply it and you have a new
The boot logo can be whatever you'd want it to be but changing it requires
recompiling the kernel.
"Can this physical address be forged with edited firmware ?"
Sure, but the MAC address doesn't cross network boundaries so someone on the
other side of the internet will have no idea what it is.
"Will the FCC require disclosure of a device's physical address as a
prerequisite to its use in
Your logs starts with apt-get upgrade. Do apt-get update first and always
before doing apt-get upgrade.
From these criteria, GitHub will get an F.
There was a discussion on gnu-linux-libre in December 2014. At that time the
ports tree was not GNU FSDG compliant. My review stopped at that point so I
cannot say if other issues were present or not. To my knowledge Riley has not
re-applied since that time. I do not know if this is still an
If you'll note I never claimed anything about technical effectiveness and was
only replying to tomlukeywood's question of "how would that be enforced."
And as to "how" most DRM will be implemented in proprietary operating systems
that are like jails where control over what happens is with
If a picture were DRMed, it could only viewed with a proprietary program.
That proprietary program would probably be running on a proprietary operating
system. Because you can only impose DRM with proprietary software. This then
gives the developer of that program the possibility to control
"It's very rare for litigation to be necessary to enforce copyleft licenses.
All that's usually necessary is politely (and privately) explaining to the
infringer about the violation and how to correct it."
Indeed. Conservancy recently published some key principles and that's in
there:
"How do the artists and coders among you deal with this issue?"
The license (or not) selected serves as a constitution, and strong copyleft
reflects my own beliefs and values.
ext3/ext4 is commonly used on GNU/Linux but Windows doesn't have built-in
support for these. If you need cross platform compatibility as you say NTFS
may just be a good choice.
There is a 4GB file limit. I routinely work with files exceeding this amount
so if I needed compatibility with Windows (I don't - this is a thought
experiment), FAT would cause problems then.
"When I turn the laptop on the fan doesn't start up I thought it is suppose
to start when you first start the laptop up."
Not necessarily. Some computers will vary fan speed from all the way off to
all the way maxed out based on the reported temperatures of various sensors
(you can even
Welcome. Please note that the operating system is really called GNU/Linux
though. Please see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
What is the make & model of your WiFi card? If you don't know, open the
terminal and try lspci.
Ah, that's why. Your WiFi needs proprietary software in order to do anything
at all. Trisquel, by its nature, doesn't include any proprietary software in
it which is why your WiFi doesn't work. I recommend replacing the WiFi card
with something else. If you don't want to open the computer
For sure.
If the phone has a removable storage card you could try to remove it and
mount it directly. Your computer may have a built-in card reader or you may
need to get a USB card reader.
It's cause of Mozilla's change to not let third party add ons get installed.
It seems Abrowser wasn't sufficiently modified from Firefox to avoid this.
File a bug please.
Security problems, if there are any, are commonly backported by the distro
maintainers (those running Ubuntu) to the older versions. Trisquel gets those
via its usual update process. So don't worry about the version numbers.
It may not actually be a VLC problem but in other areas like networking.
The document in general.
Make it free-as-in-freedom please? :)
Deleting logs may work but it might be better to determine which program is
generating the logs and address that. Either start doing log rotation, have
it log nothing (or less stuff if it turns out the logs are overly verbose and
you don't need that) or whatever...
Um, this program seems proprietary. Please see the point about our community
resources in http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines
Try checking the S.M.A.R.T. status with smartctl -H /dev/sda but if a disk is
developing bad sectors I no longer trust it and immediately begin moving data
to somewhere else.
"I think my fan is broken could that have damaged the disk?"
Heat could have. The S.M.A.R.T. results should talk
I wanted to say that I'm resurrecting the Linux-libre 3.4 series in my APT
repository. I had previously dropped support for it last October in favor of
the newer LTS kernels 3.10 and 3.14 but since it seems these have problems
with the radeon module running without blobs, and since some
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