Why did they decide to make their own distro?
Just look at the interface. It uses KDE 3.5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
It looks really ugly, I don't think anyone would like to use such an
interface.
I read that it was going to be fixed in 3.14, but I never looked at the code
to see if it was. I don't really care, though.
I was just showing some examples of font screenshots because lembas suggested
that you upload one.
I have never heard of fonts-croscore, I'll take a look at it.
Did you try un-blacklisting radeon? If that didn't work, blacklist it and
compile libdrm without Radeon KMS.
This has nothing to do with blobs, so of couse it would work.
Take a look at these:
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/fonts-droid
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/fonts-liberation
PAE is only for 32-bit, so that makes sense. On 32-bit trisquel, the PAE
kernel is used by default. Many 32-bit systems have PAE support but disable
it, so forcepae enables it. If you don't have PAE support at all, you will
have to use a non-PAE kernel.
I had the same issue on someone else's computer but never got to fix it. For
now it has Trisquel 6 without LTS enablement Xorg.
Try un-blacklisting the radeon kernel module in
/etc/modprobe.d/disable-radeon.conf (comment out the line). But I don't think
it will work for your graphics card
Run lspci in a terminal. Post the output here.
OK, then do lsusb.
I believe it works in OpenJDK:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lantern-users-en/ac7gttkqjzo.
That was a spam post: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/4206?page=13.
That's not an easy thing to do and requires writing a replacement for the
nonfree firmware. There is only one project so far that has reverse
engineered WiFi firmware (OpenFWWF for some Broadcom chips). If someone
releases a libre replacement firmware for your Realtek chip, you'll be able
The source is in the parent folder. ;)
I checked the driver sources and both require nonfree firmware.
Clear Sans can be freely utilized by application, browser and operating
system developers. The design has not been open-sourced.
Since the source code is unavailable, it's not a free font.
GDM is in the repos. Its package name is gdm.
The GNOME shell is version 3.10.
The ISO doesn't matter if you want to install from the repos. gdm is
definitely in the repos. Maybe if you run an apt-get update it will show
up.
I upgraded on amd64 a few days (Trisquel 6), so I guess it's only for i386.
No, it's not.
There aren't that many prefs in that file, and most of the time, the problem
is in the last section of that file (privacy settings) and has to do with
something like cookies or referers.
You can create a new profile to isolate the prefs. Also I'm pretty sure the
Windows build of Firefox comes with at least one nonfree DLL.
Try removing the ui part in the last line. It should just have gfxboot
bootlogo
The IceCat profile dir is ~/.mozilla/icecat
For Xmodmap, you have to execute xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap at login. You can
configure it to auto-run at startup. On Triskel, it does it automatically
because there's a file called /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80kubuntu-xmodmap which
runs xmodmap.
I just edited that page to remove the commands for installing the older
(unsupported) stacks and advise to upgrade to the Trusty stack if you
installed one of those stacks. Also added a link to a bug with a workaround
for installing the stack if the command fails.
It's a known bug and you shouldn't be worried.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/1274680
It works fine in GNU IceCat 31.0, with Noscript.
It uses neither. It uses python3-apt, which is an interface to libapt-pkg.
Try commenting out lines from
/usr/lib/abrowser/browser/defaults/preferences/vendor-abrowser.js and see if
it works. That file contains custom Abrowser settings that aren't the default
in Firefox, many of which improve privacy. Unfortunately, some of those
changes break websites.
That's not how you add it. You have to add it here. It's already there at
http://h-node.org/notebooks/view/en/704/X54C. The video card is said not to
work with 3d acceleration, but I have the same card in my desktop and it
works, so change it if 3d acceleration works.
Building the amd64 versions does not require special treatment. Meanwhile,
you can use IceCat, which is updated to version 31.
It was fixed, the linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic package is there, at least on
Belenos.
What? I thought it's based on BSD.
I have a galaxy tab 10.1. It can run on replicant without non free software.
Unfortunately, if you want WiFi or Bluetooth, you will have to install non
free firmware. Other issues with the tablet are that the cameras and GPS
don't work, and graphics is slow (and without 3d acceleration of
You might want to put your laptop on h-node.
See this faq:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DistributeWithSourceOnInternet.
You don't have to publish any source code because all of it is in Trisquel's
repos. However, if someone would prefer source on a physical disk, you have
to give it to them. On the other hand, if the
Usually they release it only to comply with the GPL, I think.
I thought gNewSense 3.1 is based on Debian 6.0 squeeze.
Most likely, Toutatis will become unsupported some time in April 2017.
DRM hasn't been added to Firefox yet, so Abrowser/IceCat are already
DRM-free. Once Firefox adds EME (and I haven't read anything about it since
the initial announcement) Abrowser/IceCat will of course be made DRM-free.
SafeBrowsing is disabled by default, so it's not a problem.
If you want distros like Debian to including the ath9k_htc firmware, the best
thing to do would probably be to submit it to linux-firmware.git.
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
From FSF's website:
The startup program is, in fact, the same program that runs the GPU and the
video decoding hardware. Thus, the GPU and the video decoding hardware are
unusable in the free world, but these jobs can be done with free
He was referring to the picture on the USB adapter's product page.
I had that problem before, I think I installed an older version of libcairo2.
What part of that makes it nonfree?
LCL is just LGPL + extra permission to statically link with proprietary
software. I don't see how that's nonfree.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/a-birthday-present-from-broadcom/
Just to make it clear for other people, we're talking about rt2860.bin, which
is the firmware used in some PCI ralink cards including 2790, 3090 (which I
have), and 2860.
I was trying to find the architecture, so thanks for the information. After
looking online, I see that you're right
Thanks, that's exactly what I was trying to say! :-)
There's a minor error on the Tehnoetic product page. It says Both the driver
and the firmware of this adapter are free under the GNU GPL v2 license. The
firmware isn't under the GPL, it's under the Clear BSD license.
Maybe crowdfunding would be a good idea?
Again, sorry, but talking about unfree Javascript while having flash
installed is plain stupid to me.
That's why I disabled Gnash a few days ago. Almost all Flash code is nonfree.
rt2x00 isn't a derivative work, and even to people who don't care about
nonfree blobs, the drivers on the site are misleading because rt2x00 is
already integrated in Linux.
My remark about the size of the nonfree blob was more about reverse
engineering and writing a replacement, and the
I'm not sure about the legality of disassembling that blob, because although
it should be GPL (and the website says it's GPL) there's no source code which
is a requirement of the GPL. And if you open the zip file with the firmware,
there's a nonfree license.
Anyway, I compiled the rt2x00
Yeah, I don't think we can get it. On the other hand, the Ralink firmware
blobs are the smallest in the whole linux-firmware.git tree. And a developer
of rt2x00 said
One of the things I like about the Ralink hardware is that almost everything
that really matters is handled in software.
In most cases the GNU GPL licensed driver has separate firmware, but in
other cases, like the Ralink drivers that firmware is non-free and embedded
within the free code and thus not really free (and particularly not in any
useful way).
The drivers on Mediatek website are the old drivers
Lol, I have rt3090 and I always found that funny (RT3090 firmware is same as
RT2860)
Also: http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/rt3090pcie/
and:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/linux-libre-fw.git/tree/rt2x00-fw/README
(this is exactly what you were just talking about)
And in the driver,
Warning: These links contain nonfree firmware, just for listing the GPL
violations.
All (nonfree) Ralink firmware images can be found here. The files are
rt*.bin.
RT2501PCI/ mPCI/ CB(RT61:RT2561/ RT2561S/ RT2661)
For some reason they have .bin files but the firmware images are also
Yeah, that one should work fine.
Yeah, I was thinking of asking someone more knowledgeable on this topic
before contacting Mediatek. Mediatek doesn't seem too good with GPL
compliance (just search mediatek gpl)
Have you seen Plasma 5? It was released a few days ago.
https://dot.kde.org/2014/07/15/plasma-5.0
The lockscreen was improved in later versions of Plasma 4, you'll probably
see it in Belenos. But the new lockscreen is even better. :)
Plasma 5 looks pretty cool. Does Triskel 7 come with it? Or will Triskel 7
auto-update to it?
As Magic Banana said, Plasma 5 won't be in the 7.0 repos because 7.0 is based
on Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu will include Plasma 5 in 14.10, so Trisquel 8.0 will
include it. That will be in about 2 years
lol
Anyway, Trisquel usually doesn't work on packaging new software. If Ubuntu
gets Cinnamon, then Trisquel probably will.
I think the installer could detect which GPU you have and decide. But for
now, we should just document it.
Do you get a stretched screen? That's what happened to me on a laptop with
Radeon and Trisquel 6 after upgrading to the saucy lts enablement stack. I'm
going to test with Trisquel 7.0 soon.
Good to know that it worked, I will try this on the laptop. And thanks
Michał Masłowski.
Should we file a bug report about this, to un-blacklist radeon?
IcedTea is a Java plugin, so it would not work.
There is an extension called Unplug that you can use (it's in the addons
list). Additionally, I have had success with a program called
get_flash_videos. It's in the repos.
The nonfree code is in src/egtb, and it's just an implementation of LZW, a
standard algorithm used in GIF files. It actually used to be covered by
software patents, but those expired a decade ago. There are 2 choices: either
get some LZW implementation from somewhere else (you might have to
Why, if you can use a free replacement?
He didn't explicitly make an exception to the GPL allowing linking to nonfree
code, so I think it is a GPL violation.
tbdecode.c should be easy to replace by just getting an implementation off
the internet and changing some things. I don't know about tbindex.cpp.
Another thing you can
Actually, the 6.0.1 package doesn't depend on polkit-kde-1, but the 7.0 one
does. So I don't think it's fixed in 6.0.1 yet.
It should still be added as a dependency. I installed from the regular
Trisquel iso and installed the triskel package. (I have both GNOME and KDE)
I don't know what you're talking about. The triskel package isn't from
Kubuntu, so there's no upstream. It's one of Trisquel's own packages, and
therefore it's Trisquel's responsibility to fix it.
I don't know if you're familiar with Debian packaging, but triskel is a
metapackage, which
BTW, most patches have very little to change for the next release (or are
unneeded), especially ones that just import from upstream, and most of my
patches just import from upstream.
media.gstreamer.enabled
It's set to true by default in Abrowser, so you probably won't have to change
anything.
It was not fixed in the iso release. The actual problem is that, if you have
Trisquel GNOME installed, you have policykit-gnome-1, which apper/muon are
supposed to work with (but don't). Apper/Muon depend on either
policykit-gnome-1 or polkit-kde-1, so if you already have policykit-gnome-1,
I think Triskel is basically abandoned. It's just a metapackage with no
custom settings. If you install the triskel package, the package manager
doesn't even work because polkit-kde-1 isn't installed. Also, until I
submitted a patch, Abrowser looked really ugly in KDE with the default Oxygen
The easy way to do it is by running apt-get source linux-generic-lts-trusty
to download the source, then patching it (patch -pn ...), and finally
building it (dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc). You will get some *.deb packages
which you can install. I'm not familiar with TuxOnIce, but you might
Referer headers are disabled by default in abrowser 30. There are addons such
as RefControl and Referrer Control which you can use for per-site settings.
So the only reason this happens is the default settings in Abrowser.
I created a bug report.
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/11954
Freedom 0 means that you can use the program in whatever way you want, not
that you can do whatever you want with it.
I have a Replicant tablet with PowerVR. I really hope someone reverse
engineers it.
BTW, the Raspberry Pi's GPU blob was actually freed by Broadcom. :)
https://libv.livejournal.com/26434.html
You can always reformat them, so it shouldn't really matter.
Handbrake no longer uses the nonfree faac encoder, that's why it's back in
the repos.
https://trac.handbrake.fr/milestone/HandBrake%20Next
The LibAV AAC encoder is now the default as FAAC has been removed.
You should first try to find an alternative to Flash. For one of my math
courses I had to watch a video which seemed to be available only in flash (I
don't remember exactly but it may have been when I was using Ubuntu). I tried
using rekonq which could play stuff encoded in H.264, and the
IceCat is building right now. Earlier today I uploaded my IceCat source and
it finished building but failed on the uploading step, because Launchpad
checks for the timestamps of files in the package, and for some reason the
HTTPS Everywhere addon files had timestamps from 1979. I updated the
You might want to try Ext2Fsd. It is a driver for Ext2/3/4 supporting all
versions of Windows from 2000 to 8, and i think it's free software under the
GPL.
You can use TiMidity++.
Blag is very outdated (although I think a new version is being developed). So
the grub is probably very old. Try booting a Trisquel live CD and running
`update-grub' as root.
Actually, I meant grub-install. Chroot is unneeded.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#Fixing_a_Broken_System
I uploaded Abrowser 30 today with KDE patches (for 6.0).
I might have to tweak the helper ipc (kmozillahelper) a little. Icecat is not
in the official repos yet, so for now I'm just uploading Abrowser. I will
probably have Icecat+KDE patches ready before it gets into the repos.
The Tor Browser Bundle includes Tor, so it's probably better than using the
older Tor in the repos. The actual tor binary is at Tor/tor in TBB,
hexdump is not the right tool, because it outputs the offsets (and if you use
-C the ASCII). Instead, use xxd. Replace the hexdump -C with xxd -p.
I replied to alimiracle's issue at https://trisquel.info/en/issues/11901.
This bug occurs in precise but was fixed in quantal. I posted links to the
usb-creator .deb packages that you can install from trusty. Please test and
see if it works.
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