Hello.
I have an USB memory stick (Also called flash drive) that I want to use to
store files and also to have a bootable Trisquel in case I need to recover my
main system, but I want the installation to be static, including the system
files (All run-time changes must be stored in RAM by
Not all residential gateways (mostly inaccurately known as “routers”)
bind themselves to the IP address to 192.168.1.1 (I know you said this is an
example). The actual IP address for typical connections can be obtained by
using “route” or “ip” and is listed under column “Gateway”. Not
all
It's hard to do business with unknown people. That's the case here from
possible donnors/patrons to Riley and vice-versa. It's much easier if there's
a trusted intermediary.
Riley Baird:
I'm very glad that you're interested in free software. I support commercial
development of free
At a glance the problem seems to be trademarks and binary-only (Hence
non-free) packages. Trisquel replaces Ubuntu branding with its own (though
there may be some non-rebranded packages left, see the bug tracker), so
that's not a problem. Also, Trisquel includes only free software, which
That seems like a very old computer. Congratulations for the considerate
spirit of anti-consumerism. I don't think that much modern graphical software
is developed targeting systems with a small RAM capacity such as 12 MB (or
MiB). Running old software is also problematic because it's
Report it as a bug. See the item “issues” at the navigation bar that
appears to the right and include all relevant information (Exact error
message, and attach the file “/boot/grub/grub.cfg”.
The shell (GNU Bash or similar) breaks the command line into arguments on
unquoted spaces. To quote, you can use the backslash to quote a single
character, or surround the whole string between single or double quotes.
E.g:
rm filename\ with\ spaces
rm filename with spaces
rm 'filename with
From taking a glance at its page, MikeOS seems like a only for fun project
rather that a practical operating system. It seems like everything is
developed from scratch, so I guess that it's fully free but you should do
your own research. Since it's small, you can check the files to evaluate
Almost all keyboards and pointing devices built-in in laptops use an USB
interface, the only difference (I think) is that they don't use the usual
connectors, and neither the wires not the connectors are exposed externally.
You can check whether your keyboard and pointing device are USB with
Please let me know if I understand what this is about correctly: We have the
opportunity to get a proprietary game using a proprietary download software
at no monetary price.
If so, what does this has to do with Trisquel and free software?.
But everyone forwarding the IP packets will know which web sites he visits
and can make a very good guess about which web sites he buys from, even if
(usually) not read the encrypted traffic. Somewhat regularly, attacks on
SSL/TLS are discovered, but they usually require that one side is
It would be nice if Ruben's IceCat versions are pushed upstream into
Debian/Ubuntu as well all users will benefit from this alternative browser.
IceCat is free software so Debian and Ubuntu can use it already if they want.
I don't know what you mean by “pushing” in this context (I know what
When searching for packages in Synaptic there's the option to search in
package descriptions, which usually does what you want. There's the same
functionality in http://packages.trisquel.info/ (It's linked from the
navigation bar at the right). When you do this. you're using the information
They no longer have these purposes, they're generic (See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain). The 3 domain names
you listed are controlled by Verisign, and due to the popular notion that
“.com” is *the* domain for comapnies, etcetera, it has become a monopoly,
with all
In my opinion the bigger difference among fully free distributions is support
(closely related to community size) and release cycle. See also
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technical-advantages-trisquel-over-debian.
Only Trisquel and Parabola seem to have a sizeable community. I think that
Hello.
I understand that the idea is to develop software and release it sooner and
sooner as more money is raised.
If the parameter to the exponentially decaying function is the money raised
so far, and the meaning of the function is the time from the fund raising
campaign opening to the
I think that Trisquel inherits the default from Ubuntu, in which there's no
root password (Direct root login is disabled) and instead there's an user
which can execute programs as root (Including a shell) using sudo. You can
set up a root password anytime, it doesn't has deep security
“Why can't these packages also be compiled from the freesh source and
dropped into the Trisquel repos?”. They can, but I suppose that the reason
is that Trisquel is not a rolling release, but uses feature freezing. Once a
Trisquel version is released, don't expect functionality upgrades (But
However, to know which mount options it *will* use, it's necessary to read
the Nautilus documentation or source code, since it may in principle vary the
options between mounts (For instance, if a configuration file is changed,
which may happen because of a software update).
According to the GPL there's not license header and therefore not free in
the fsf sense.
Having a license header in all files is not a necessary condition for a
program to be free. It's necessary that the license or lack of Copyright is
stated somewhere; and it's good practice to state it
I'm glad to see that there's active development of fully free systems.
Freedom 0 is “The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any
purpose” [1]. This doesn't mean that a neccesary condition or a program to
be free is that everybody is able to do everything with a program; that's
why not just disable JavaScript?
Most of the time I have it disabled, but since I use JavaScript for some
pages (For example, in Wikipedia, with JavaScript you can have Media viewer,
MathJax (Which I occasionally enable), and for redirect pages, you get the
target page URL) I use NoScript
Or better yet :) :
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
If you have all your games on Steam and your system dies ... you just
install Steam and get them all back.
How is that a positive effect of DRM?. You can do the same with free
software. In any case, you should make backups and you can back up free
programs with no complications.
Have a
I block Google Analytics with No Script. The fact that it is in a lot of web
sites shows us that people in charge of web sites don't care about revealing
private information of their users to a monopoly, or don't even think about
it. It's similar to people's attitude with unfederated social
Hi Cleiton-. Congratulations for discovering the free software philosophy and
taking the decision to use a fully free
GNU/Linux distribution.
Most free software supporters that I know of disagree with the term
“piracy” for naming illegal copying (And I know of none that agrees);
that's
This copyright assignment makes me surrender all my rights in favor of the
publisher. In particular (but that is not the main problem in my opinion), I
will not make a dime on the exploitation of my article.
If scientists who write academic papers don't earn anything, then why sign
such a
I realized that my phone checks my mail account (mail address with real
name); i guess once that happens, the exit node knows who i am and this could
be a problem if i transmit sensible data without encryption (ok, that's not
clever to begin with).
I thought that there was no computers
SSL is obsolete. You should use the latest TLS protocol whenever possible,
and exclusively if authenticity and confidentiality are a major concern.
The HTTP requests made through SSL and TLS are encrypted, so the ISP can't
know what page you're seeing that way, but plain requests and IP
FredB: I see that you didn't take the effort to even see if your wireless NIC
would work with free software (I can tell because you misidentified your
Ethernet NIC as your wireless NIC, so you didn't even bother to do a web
search for its model) and even knowing for an option that allows you
Check (http://libregamewiki.org/) for a list of juegos libres!.
I don't recall seeing game consoles addressed directly in the GNU project or
FSF page, however, game consoles and “smart phones” are computers, so the
same thing applies for them than to desktop and laptop computers.
Furthermore, cell phones are the center of some user communications, so the
I agree with Sjors and Dave_Hunt.
tomlukeywood: It's sad to see that your family insist that you do something
you don't want to, and for a good reason. That's something unethical from
them. Don't fell compelled to help anyone with something they insist on
using, despite you telling them
Hello and welcome bzdroid.
The file access control enforces who can access which archives. Take a look
at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions. To share files,
what you need to do is to make sure that the users corresponding to your
other family members have permission
only marred by an inadvertent call for a proprietary package by one
application (hplip) towards the end of the first installation
That software asks for a proprietary package in Trisquel is a bug. If it
isn't reported already, please report it in the bug tracker (“issues” at
the navigation
I'm not very experienced with Trisquel, but one thing I noticed is that in
aptitude, things that require root ask for the user password to become root,
rather than for the root password (As aptitude in Debian 7.7 does). This is a
benefit if you're using sudo rather than su.
Trisquel is
Rafi,
If I understand correctly, your proposal is that we free software supporters
agree to take “Steam” as a step that will (supposedly) help more users to
become aware of the problem of proprietary software and chose to switch to a
fully free system. If so, then I disagree strongly.
There are several. Gparted is graphical, “fdisk -l” is for the command
line and is not interactive (Example usage: “fdisk -l /dev/sdb”), cfdisk
is for the command line and interactive.
You will need to run these programs as root to get all the data the system
makes available; but don't run
I haven't done reverse engineering, but as far as I know, it works at a much
lower level of abstraction than programming. When programming, one has the
source code available, which is supposed to be in an understandable and
self-documenting form (Very often it's non documented and
What about any of these (minus those mentioned)?
Does anyone know of a list of motherboards without this stuf?
Why are you interested in avoiding all of the items in list between “[”
and “]”?. Several of those things are unrelated to computer user rights
or their presence doesn't imply that
Since partitions have been mentioned, I suggest using LVM, so that you can
much more easily resize partitions, take snapshots, and add storage devices
transparently. For more information, consult mainly the man pages (“lvm”
in section 8 contains links to more man pages) and secondarily,
Enciclopedia Libre Universal (Universal Free Encyclopedia) is up again. Does
anyone knows of free as in freedom encyclopedias either universal or
dedicated to a big part of knowledge (see my original message) in English,
other than Wikipedia and Citizendium?.
Regarding the topic of this thread, I suggest The Battle for Wesnoth which
can be played offline, connecting directly to a friend's computer, in the
official server or in an independent server. Using a server doesn't requires
NAT traversal.
MANHOSO: Welcome!. I hope that you will find free
I have never heard about one such protocol. Where did you read about it?. Can
you provide a link?.
Are libraries compiled? Is there any sort of optimization that can be done
to them?
It depends on programming language and implementation. For C and C++ which
are the most common non-web (server side or client side) programming
languages, libraries are compiled very similarity as how
It may be used fully free, but it's not so by default, and their idea of what
is free software is different from the FSF definition so to have a fully free
system according to the FSF idea you have to watch for the differences (I use
Debian and also Trisquel, and that is what I do). It seems
For that matter, we could use Debian or Ubuntu and its proprietary software.
Like JadedCtrl replied above, we have many of the things you thought we
didn't have.
I know about licensing issues - things are bad.
But I'm surely not the enemy.
Not the enemy. It's not about friend and foes. However, you know that there
are problems, and with that attitude of not even
The CC-BY is the most permissive of Creative Common license series (And it's
version 3.0 in this case). It's the first time that I open this web site, and
I didn't make an exhaustive or conclusive research, but at a glance, it seems
the site just puts the option to get a “commercial” license
i can use the song without the jamendo commercial license, though nobody
really knows what this exactly is.
Then it is a worthless license, since you can't safely assume any additional
permissions, which is the main purpose of Copyright licenses.
Hopefully a future release will fit my needs some day. (Which includes a
Wiki and proper forum software) ;D
Contribute something to make it happen (work or money, not necessarily
donating directly, you can hire a developer to contribute on your behalf).
Otherwise, you will just add to the
Welcome!.
I think that Mullvad works with JavaScript disabled but check for yourself.
They support OpenVPN but they also offer an ad-hoc client that appears to be
proprietary.
Hi friend.
What do you mean by moofed and issuing authority?. Bear in mind that sudo
doesn't uses certificates like SSL/TLS, so there is no issuing authority to
speak of, at least as far as I know.
I don't think that sudo su - is intrinsically bad for security. This is one
possible use
wc -l reads from standard input and outputs a single line containing the
number of newline characters read. It's useful to count lines of code, but
SLOCCount is specialized for that. I sometimes compare the output of wc with
that of sloccount.
Triqel: Try ls -li $(which wc) $(which
“mobile phones” are computers too. They just have a different form factor
than desktop computers, usually use an ARM SoC instead of x86, and are among
the worst offenders regarding how abuse their users' computing rights.
Hi.
I'm looking for encyclopedias under a free license, and open to edit to the
general public (may require registration) with a very board scope, like
Wikipedia, or encompassing in its scope a wide area of hard science and the
related engineering fields (for instance: electrical
If there is a DC offset, then a capacitor won't remove the “pops”: there
will be a transient when the DC voltage is applied, and so a corresponding
“pop”. Also, as you mentioned (roughly), the capacitors work as an high
pass filter, that means they will color the audio (or “distort” in
Several things are wrong with Wikipedia, but a much bigger and worser problem
is that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF for short) is forgetting that it is an
offspring of Wikipedia, not the other way, and that it's task (of the WMF) is
to keep Wikipedia and some other projects running, not to
I suspect that the source package for “wc” (it should be coreutils) may
actually have modprobe instead. Maybe it was an error when it was packaged. I
haven't checked.
I'm glad that you found my comment useful.
It does seem that it would be proprietary software, but I want to put this
in context for a second.
If it actually lacks a license (instead of that it has a license but I didn't
find it), then it is proprietary software. Maybe the author wouldn't
Wikipedia has been moderately effective, I agree. I have contributed a tiny
bit to make it better serve society and therefore also more effective.
I was asking for alternatives, not about how to start my own encyclopedia. I
have never proposed building an encyclopedia by “traditional” means.
Bear in mind that security doesn't comes canned (metaphorically). You can use
scripts to automate part of the process of securing a system, but you
shouldn't rely on them to “harden” or whatever it claims to do if you
don't understand what they do or why you would need such a thing. The Tor
sudo make all users to be a root
It depends on how you configure it. The man page of sudoers describes the
format of the main configuration file which is typically /etc/sudoers. You
can allow only a few people or everybody to use sudo. It's highly
configurable.
You could even disable
Pixel count doesn't tells one much about image quality. For video, it's even
less meaningful. Search about “megapixel myth”. Most cameras store video
at 1920×1080 or below (even if the sensor takes more samples) which is ~2.1
millions of pixels.
Bear in mind that pixel count is just the
dose anyone know if its possible to make your own motherboards, cpu's,
gpu's, HDD's, etc
Well, “to make” is open to interpretation. There is no single company
(let alone individual) which does everything from the extraction of raw
materials (I.e: mineral ores, raw petroleum, and so on) and
xdelta isn't a complete solution, but it may help with deduplication. Note
that you may need to change the parameters to increase the deduplication
ratio.
GPG has built-in compression, but if you want more compression you may want
to use an external too; if you do, don't forget to disable
No problem. If you have trouble determining whether a package is free, let us
know.
Haha, good joke, but I don't suggest to actually do that.
For active LCD, you can set the brightness manually with “xbacklight -steps
1 -set BRIGHTNESS” I use “light BRIGHTNESS”. I have the following lines
in my .bashrc:
function light () {
if [ $# == 1 ]; then
xbacklight -steps 1 -set $1
elif [ $# == 0 ]; then
xbacklight
so what is the thing that stops you making a 1mhz prosessor or 100mhz
prosessor?
Answer: the fact that IC likes the ones I mentioned have a low level of
integration. This means that they are very simple and so you would need too
many to make a CPU comparable to modern ones (The Wikipedia
It is discouraging about hardware with free software, or open source. You
notice that it cannot be done. [...] If knowledgeable people like
thinkpenguin cannot get free software on hardware, then who can?
It can and has been done. Take a look at the Libreboot X200.
It's sad to see what the
What kind of insight do you expect?. If you have any specific question try
searching before asking here, and consider starting a new topic in the forum
because this is already off-topic here. I think that all but the first post
is on-topic in this thread.
Trisquel 7 uses upstart. “dpkg -S /sbin/init” (no necessarily as root)
will tell you the package from where the init executable comes.
Most compact, bridge and DSLR cameras can be used with free software in the
sense that you can interface with them through USB and copy the photographies
to a computer running free software. However, I don't know of any that you
can use, also as a “webcam” with free software (that is,
The article is fallacious. It makes several assumptions, and among them, that
the number of vulnerabilities listed in a public database is representative
of an operating system security. To start with, since GNU/Linux is mostly
free software, then it can be examined by security researchers
Check that the licenses are free software licenses (some free licenses may be
missing from there, but most free software packages use one of these
licenses), and that the package has complete source code available. You can
check the license by downloading the source code. For the GNU
I received the news through the FSF newsletter: Tell Lenovo: respect user
freedom and prevent future Superfishes.
This is an example where proprietary software developers show that they're
primarily interested in serving themselves and only secondarily serving their
users; it's always like
Remember that copper oxide is a semiconductor and its presence in an
electrical connection will introduce a breakdown forward/backward voltage
drop that will interfere with the serial communications protocol.
You are confusing different concepts.
Breakdown voltage refers to a property of
There are several reasons:
Packages in the repository are usually not the latest, except possibly in a
rolling release distribution. The latest version of a free program is always
available as source code; this is a logical fact: if only the binary was
available for a version, then it's
Hi friend.
How did you found that page?.
Also, congratulations for opening the eyes to 60 people!.
This is a very board request. You can find tutorials on almost any software
package with a search engine, and you can and should consult the software
documentation. Don't ask other people to do all the work for you. It's fine
to ask for help with specific problems that you weren't able to
I advice against recommending and using http://choosealicense.com/. It uses
the open source viewpoint, promotes the attitude of “make the least effort
possible” when licensing, and contains outright falsehoods.
Specifically, it invites to the bad practice of simply placing a license file
Economical activities ought to be a means to advance society, profit should
only be an effect of providing a service to society; companies or individuals
who seek otherwise do a harm to society (almost all of them). Proprietary
software may be more profitable because it generates artificial
“*” is substituted with the name of all files (including directories and
special files) not beginning with “.” by default. All directories contain
“.” and “..” which are pointers to the same, and parent directory,
respectively (except for “/”, where both point to the current directory,
Yes, I mean that one.
After 20 years of use you should be able to tell that “partitioning menu”
means the menu which is about partitioning, and that a couple of buttons
below a list labeled “+” and “-” mean adding and removing from that
list, respectively. If you don't apply common sense and ignore people's
What do you mean by “access it”?. That is not a definite inquiry, so I
can only guess what you intended to ask.
If you want to execute command line programs remotely, then look up
“SSH”. If you want to see a desktop and execute graphical programs you
can try to use VNC but for typical
Yes, I meant Jodiendo.
CentOS doesn't has a policy about rejecting proprietary software. Fedora has
a partial policy on excluding proprietary software, but they make an
exception for firmware which CentOS doesn't according to the GNU project (but
this has no sources at all and it is rarely updated). If that is
That's not possible unless it was a optical fiber tester with phone (I am
aware that any such device is manufactured). Some cell phones (the term
“smart phones” is very pretentious, they are only a disguised
technological jail for the user) have a LED as a lamp that you can shine
through
I use the command line tools directly, so I can't help you with
GParted-specific usage.
Isn't there an open-source master boot record available for the GNU/linux
operating systems ?
This and your other messages reflect a misunderstanding of what “master
boot record” is.
Your approach
Fine. In all this process, no one actually said where the partitioning
menu is ... and I found it myself in the usual manner: I guessed !
The “partitioning menu” is the menu in the installer from which you
modify partitions. Nobody told you and the error message is written that way
so
The MBR stores a list of the primary partitions and a very small program that
is executed by the BIOS. There are plenty of tools to manipulate it using
GNU/Linux including “fdisk”, “cfdisk”, “parted” and
“gparted”. However, as already pointed, your problem seems to be that you
haven't
¡Thanks for sharing the script!. Even if it duplicates existing
functionality, the intention is good and so is the attitude of working in the
problems you face and sharing the solution.
I recommend licensing under the GNU GPL 3 or any later version and to follow
the GNU project licensing
In 2014 I was searching for a VPS provider committed with the free software
philosophy: one that doesn't advertises, sells, or provides specific support
for proprietary software, calls the OS by the name GNU/Linux, has a policy of
avoiding proprietary software other than proprietary JS, BIOS
Specifically, the relevant quantity is the average power consumption with the
intended workload; in order to determine it, one must make the computer run
that workload and measure the power consumption. The quantity with units of
power in the labels of computer power supplies is usually the
When you have a doubt, the first thing to do is to use a search engine. If
you search well and are unable to find anything relevant or pointers to
further information, then ask. This is better for you because you may answer
your inquiry faster, and better for the rest because you don't
“vrms” is misleading, because it is based on the Debian policy, instead
of GNU policy (and the name makes it seem like so), and as far as I know, it
just checks whether there are packages installed from the proprietary
repository section, and you can do the same with any package manager
Should I use the Trisquel net-installer iso?
Yes. I think that the CD images for installing a graphical environment also
contain the netinstaller, but it doesn't uses the packages already in the CD,
it downloads them from a mirror. I am not completely sure.
I am assuming there is an option
But no distribution audits all of the software it bundles (and even if they
did, it is likely that several vulnerabilities go undetected); in specific,
Ubuntu and Debian don't. For discovering vulnerabilities distributions mostly
rely on public discoveries. Debian mentions the name of the
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