It's not that GNU/Linux isn't rock solid, it's that it's less automated, less
dumbed down, more in the way between the user and the work. Flexibility is a
double-edged sword.
The multiplicity of hardware support (sometimes without free drivers) is not
a problem that proprietary OSs have to
For once, that's a good point.
Guys, don't feed it ;)
Great idea, thanks again.
It worked, but not completely.
When I sudo synaptic, it works.
From dmenu (it's a menu, as the name says), I can open synaptic-pkexec
instead of plain, non sudo synaptic.
a prompt pops up, but then it's synaptic without the the Trisquel theme.
Maybe it will be ok
From a practical point of view, if a free alternative doesn't exist yet,
it might be possible to run a Trisquel instance inside KVM which would run
the game in Wine or something like that.
The point here is to sandbox the game so that any kind of data leak would
theoretically lead nowhere.
I can't find text Secure, but SMS secure is suggested. I suppose it's one and
the same.
So it's not actually SMS, but the same as What'sapp then?
I see there's an encryption option, just like Telegram.
But there's no warning on F-droid, unlike with Telegram (about that server
thing).
For the record, randall Munroe's XKCD uses this:
Creative Commons Nocommercial, any version (#CC-BY-NC)
This license does not qualify as free, because there are restrictions on
charging money for copies. We recommend you do not use this license.
And I quite like it, so I won't personally
You can try Terminator for a terminal. If I wasn't using a tiling window
manager, I'd use that. You can split terminals the way you want to.
Also, there should be a snapping program that should exist for assigning a
window on one side of the screen and another on the other (or up or down). I
I recently learned that I should regularly get-upgrade after get-update, and
it upgraded Abrowser.
No crash whatsoever, but I can't get true fullscreen.
In that screenshot, you can see that the bar is still in sight (it should be
hidden) and also, there are the minimize/fullscreen/close icons
Linux voted as the most vulnerable OS? No, it's about the kernel, and even
that is a wrong representation.
Here's an interesting quote: The reason why only Linux Kernel and Apple OS X
are listed at the top is because the number of vulnerabilities that
specifically apply to other Linux
No problem, I definitely need to work on better organizing and communicating
my thoughts.
I managed to bind the volume keys, but not the mute key.
The volume is indicated as being muted, so that's the first hurdle.
I've read about xev, but the mute key isn't recognised.
Then I tried xmodmap -pke, which gave me this (supposedly unassigned key):
keycode 121 = XF86AudioMute NoSymbol
Ah I see, thanks for the clarification. I made a couple of assumptions here.
So the software heritage can be turned proprietary by anyone if it's not free
software (copyleft) but under a permissive free software license.
and the copyleft author can change his mind. That's surprising (but it's
This is something I'm going to keep an eye on because it's an interesting
case of living from creative work with free software. For example, will the
game be available for free as well?
I really like the way you thought about the gameplay/story.
I suggest that you could go even further than
For a classic-style desktop, it looks great (and functional)!
I can't remember why I switched to i3wm specifically instead of another
tiling wm, but getting rid of icons (and window decorations) was one of my
reasons to swich from classic WMs and DEs. Automatically putting 2 windows
side
Good idea, Freedo (and I'd add GNU).
There could be an oiled leak level where Freedo would have to get clean from
that and would look like Tux in the mean time.
Or where freedo would be some super-sayajin power up.
Problem is, Tux is much easier to notice on most backgrounds.
But it's doable.
True, it could be an oil transport system. That's kind of dirty though. Even
as a statement against pollution, it's a bit weird. But doable.
As for the secondary character, even if there's no rules, it makes more sense
to me to be a GNU/Tux or GNU/Freedo duo. Just like GNU/Linux.
Yeah, the
I'm not sure I understand:
So it's a game sold and licensed as free software.
But neither the game nor the source code will be available at no cost, right?
so essentially, you're relying on the buyers to respect some kind of
non-redistribution clause?
IF that's the case, wouldn't that be
Thanks, I'll definitely check these out.
If so, provided I disagree with the agenda, I might be leaning towards
open-source instead of free software.
Thanks for the clarification. They're definitely necessary.
I probably mixed up my feelings with imprecise information (my bad), hence my
previous comments.
It's just that I'm kind of put off by some comments that are not related to
computing and privacy, but to somehow extending the idea
I have to admit that i'm naïvely assuming that a malicious company would be
out of business because of their actions being public. Recent history tells
me otherwise.
My reasoning was that if they have a malicious product, they're out of
business because of the justified bad press. Yeah
Hi,
I think I've read somewhere here that upgrading the kernel could solve such
hardware issues.
Ah, here it is: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel
But please wait for more experienced users advice.
Maybe there's a simpler way.
Also I suppose there's no garantee with the
Of course he cares about both privacy and security, but from the user's point
of view.
Using GNU/Linux over Windows for more privacy is a no-brainer. Windows
blatantly stated that they will do whatever they want with your data with
Windows 10.
For security, same thing.
After all, most
I wouldn't say a bigger problem (since it's it less used than Windows), but a
problem nonetheless:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/malware-apple.html
Also the users are snooty because it's the main marketing claim. Many buy it
just for that. Some do so more for professional reasons though
Then there’s the difference in licensing that Linux and the BSD family
use. While both use open source licenses, Linux uses the GPL which favors
users by forcing developers to release any of their modifications to
GPL-licensed software as open source and with the same license.
The BSD
Hi, Welcome,
maybe it's some security feature that's in the BIOS.
I looked for the error message, here's something I found:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/399768/encrypted-disk-wont-unlock-anymore-not-authorized-to-perform-operation-udisks
Also, how do you know that the keyboard has issues
I understand and agree. That's what I call historical reasons in my
previous post. And I stated my point there, for what it's worth. I didn't
know about the reasons of this conversation with cooloutac though.
Either way, you said it best (quoting you): So we're really on the same
side: For
I edited /etc/network/interfaces
to
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
with eth0 instead of lo. Rebooted the machine.
Still no success.
Another weird thing:
pwd gave me home/myusername, and when I went up to the tree, there's only
myusername, no Images, no Downloads folders. I know I copied my home
folder before reinstalling, but maybe I did cut instead of copy.
That would mean the install didn't erase everything?
I'm saying
Agreed.
I'll add that in order to make people break free from it,
I think one of the most important aspects for gaining wider use is top-notch
useability (or idiot-proofability).
People do not want to have to fix their computer, ever.
Everything is just plug and play and works.
Apple controls
I have trisquel-base-data, but not trisquel-base. There is some alsa stuff
inside (or as dependecies).
Thanks again David.
I see. Archive opening is ok, I see that I have cron installed for example.
By default I have some of them.
Maybe they were installed with other software.
I guess I have two choices: either install trisquel-base and risk to add a
few stuff I won't use, or pick the
Oh yeah, Parabola, I forgot about it!
That would be a good learning project, on a virtual machine for example.
I installed alsa-base and alsa-base-utils,
and it didn't work.
I tried then trisquel-base.
It suggested posfix configuration during the install.
I don't want it so I close the window.
I searxed more about mute key and X200.
I tried several variants of the grub modification above.
But I have no luck, it doesn't work for me.
What I don't understand though is that keycode 121 = XF86AudioMute NoSymbol
XF86AudioMute
It means that the mute command is assigned to the key
I installed, rebooted and uninstalled again (because xev still doesn't
recognize the mute key).
there was some fail message at the start of the uninstall, but no postfix.
What I did was probably too brutal, but for now my system seems ok.
I know there is also a trisquel-recommended package
Sorry, bad wording on my part. Let me clarify: I meant that following the
quote on licensing AND the alleged security extras that OpenBSD seems to be
known for (from the URLs), then follows the rest of my answer.
I like it.
Maybe I would have emphasized the words freedom, privacy and market-freedom,
in bold or something. Same for Trisquel GNU/Linux. These are the selling
points.
Also, maybe borrowing from comparative advertising would help rive the point
faster and harder. In most people's minds,
Argh, that's too bad.
Gnome 3 does look more modern, and with the classic menu, still remains
familiar. Its strong point to me is it's reliability. I know I managed to
break Trisquel's current desktop bar, though it was an isolated case (but it
still not a good feeling).
As for the
I tried a few, now I have these:
https-everywhere
html5 video everywhere
Noscript for some rare js exceptions
Request Policy for redirections
Random agent spoofer for html5 and making tracking harder
self-destructing cookies
ublock origin
And only youtube-dl since the others rely on some
Gnome might not be a good desktop option for you, but it's still a good
desktop option, and a smart idea. Even if I don't use it, I think it should
be Trisquel's default, and here's why:
I learned recently that Gnome is interesting BECAUSE it's not highly
configurable (at first glance at
To me, it depends on what kind of user we're talking about.
GNU/Linux is reliable, but not so much (in comparison) if you don't know what
you're doing.
The downside of its flexibility is that it's a bit easier to break. Other
than that, it's know to be as solid/reliable as it gets.
My
Interesting, really. I just watched a video introduction.
Provided The activities menu is replaced by a classic menu (at least the
shape of it is more familiar),
it looks really good and practical. And since it's harder to customize/break,
it's even better. Not for my personal use, but I
that's even better.
I really want to try it.
Btw, speaking of useability:
my printer used to not work properly either on windows or mac. On my Trisquel
Netinstall, I just plugged it in with not much hope, and not only it printed,
but it printed without the previous issues!
So that was cool
EDIT:
It seems it's not as foolproof as I thought.
Not only there's that 3D thing, but also it seems sometimes the keyboard
layout get randomly switched in some cases.
These are not horrible bugs, but it doesn't make GNOME3 as fullproof as it is
supposed to be (why then bare possible but
you talked about dconf also.
Wow that's awesome, you made the game engine?? That's a compelling reason
indeed.
As for the storyline/characters, as stated it could be much more interesting
(to me). same for the graphics, they look amateurish (though most of the maps
look quite good).
For a first run, this is not so
Ah, so it won't be freely available, BUT there won't be restrictions
regarding redistribution, right?
Thank you, didn't see that one.
So it's distributing free software for a fee.
But not limiting it for obvious reasons here.
While proprietary software is limited in order to sell more.
But there's the potential for abuse, and the limit to fully use it.
What comes to mind is how to actually
I see, so same should be about CentOS. It's the same source code, but it's
not exactly the same team in charge.
an FAQ about Free software/Free culture values would be a nice addition in
Trisquel's documentation.
It's funny how my main spontaneous objections to free software are about
I see. Gnome3 classic is really the most suited because activities can still
be accessed from the classic menu (1 more click, but it becomes a
secondary/last resort tool, so it's fine). Sure there is also Mate/Cinammon,
supposed to be lightweight/oldschool/more flexible, but if they're not
Thanks!
Sure, here they are.
Abrowser looks mostly fine (maybe the navigation bar is off).
With Synaptic, Claws and Thunar (and others), someting is missing.
(fun fact: I was able to upvote myself)
-1? For what? I'm saying is that I'm AGREEING with the 4 freedoms (kinda
reluctantly, but agreeing). You should read twice before taking action,
whoever you are.
Yes, I'm also stating a different opinion, and it's not like my argument is
Many thanks David, very good idea :)
I found trisquel-gtk-theme in synaptic with 3 gtk engines inside.
It definitely improved abrowser and the file manager, even claws though it's
still a bit ugly, but there might be dedicated themes.
On the other hand, synaptic didn't change, even after
Right now I have a Trisquel Netinstall. I installed xorg, LightDM and i3wm
window manager.
I have no desktop environment, only i3wm.
I also already have lxappearance installed.
Oh, got it (at last).
Thanks, for the audio links also.
The audio is very long, and goes through the history of copyright, DRM etc.
What's the argument that applies here, in a nutshell?
Software can be malware, but a book can't.
It's just not the same category to me.
(You seem to differentiate text books and manuals from say, a novel or a
comic, but
Now that I have my minimal install back, I'll attempt to make either KVM or
Gnome boxes work when I have some time.
Maybe the tutorial was intended to a normal Trisquel install, but even then I
doubt it, because network-manager would likely conflict with manual
configuration in
The installation service is about 200 to 300€.
If you feel like installing it (you'll need patience and reading), provided
you'd need to spend for a BBB and a few other items,
and provided you can use memory and HDD you already own, you can make some
good savings.
I know that next time,
Then I assume that the accessibility programs are still there (which is what
I was trying to say, but it wasn't very clear/properly worded).
Rewording the norm to maxi and making mini the norm doesn't change a thing,
besides feeling in the norm or something if you have a super old machine.
But it raises an interesting question : what that norm actually is. The main
"Ubuntu/Debian/other very popular distro" LiveCD is (correct me
I wouldn't say the best options in that case because battery life is
outweighted by many other functionalities for beginners/newcomers.
But if you're interested in battery life without going for the tiled window
managers, Openbox+dzen2 is an even less demanding combo.
I didn't try it yet, but Ardour might be able to do it out of the box. Even
LMMS, if I'm not mistaken.
It would be interesting to know if Magic Banana uses this plugin as well. Do
you need it to connect to the bank website? I mean what if you disable it
temporarily?
I know how it feels.
I remember a quote I found a while ago (it inspired me, hopefully it will do
the same for you):
"You're never unemployed, your current job is simply to find a new job".
I just downloaded the SuperTux data files, and, yeah, that's a huge quantity
of images.
I can see now: the problem is that the SuperTux team used blur (they should
have sticked with flats).
What's interesting though is that at a small size (like for a portable
console),
the game looks pro,
[ 39.147136] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:7f:28:26:11:a1 by local choice
(reason=2)
Here's why, I suppose. How is it possible to find that reason=2?
No bank account, huh?
https://theyellowkid.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/matelas-billet.jpg?w=500
Right ;) ?
Your logs don't give any clues?
>>> You should be able to select whether it is a fast-forward or advanced
process.
Fair enough, if that exists in other distros.
>>> Why don't make advanced installation option where You choose ALL the
details?
I think that would actually be a nice option, if doable.
Of course, that would
Ok so I tried/checked:
- that manual mounting works (I didn't try for the DVD, I don't know how yet)
- since I only use a WM, it seems I need to create and edit and .xinitrc file
(I've properly made it an executable script. I think). Inside, I tried
unsuccessfully "exec dbus-launch
Woops, I missed this.
Well so that's not the same version you both use.
It might matter.
Keep it up man, it's just a matter of time :)
I'm not sure I'm doing this right: in htop, I have several lines with
/usr/lib/gvfsd and other ones with fuse and trash or something. I don't know
how to paste htop's content easily.
So you would want to connect remotely to your home computer (which would
itself be connected through a VPN and the Tor browser), with your Android
phone, is that right?
I never tried it, nor am I knowledgeable on this yet (I suppose it's through
SSL). But the weaker link here would be your
Thanks. Here's my output:
$ ps -e | grep gvfsd
1329 ?00:00:00 gvfsd
1333 ?00:00:00 gvfsd-fuse
1849 ?00:00:00 gvfsd-trash
3931 ?00:00:00 gvfsd
3935 ?00:00:00 gvfsd-fuse
10740 ?00:00:00 gvfsd-metadata
I have gvfsd and gvfsd-fuse twice, and I
After a reboot, I have only 3:
ps -e | grep gvfsd
1403 ?00:00:00 gvfsd
1407 ?00:00:00 gvfsd-fuse
1795 ?00:00:00 gvfsd-trash
This is driving me nuts, I've tried so many things...
I just don't want to rely on editing fstab.
I tried this
In the options, there are a few to check. Since I've erased the config files,
I rechecked them. No success though.
"gvfs-mount -d /dev/sdb1" tells me
"gvfs-mount: command not found".
After a bit of reading, I installed the missing gvfs-bin.
Now I have "Pas de volume pour le fichier de
It's safer and easier to download the Tor browser (and checking the GPG or
shasum or whatever their site recommends before installing).
As an owner of the said router, even with this evidence, I have a hard time
seeing any malicious intent.
At worst, since they intended to modify it, maybe they planned it but forgot
to update that one line on the their site.
On the other hand it is certainly a good thing to state the truth,
I see, thanks.
Wait, is that a vulnerability that allows an attacker on KVM ON THE SAME
MACHINE to launch a DOS attack?
That would be troublesome IF the machine is stolen, and encrypted of course.
If not encrypted, attacking from KVM or not doesn't matter much.
That might be another quick
Not that I'm worried or anything (my line on italian language above is not to
be taken seriously), specially if my analysis is correct: I just find this
interesting. But since it's already fixed, it's even better.
Thanks, truth based on incomplete data is definitely not truth.
I see several html files for examples, I wonder why those weren't picked up
by the GIT diff, or whatever kind of comparison tct did.
What about the updates that can be done during the installation? Is it
something different?
(I love the WTF downvote, but anyway, that's not why I'm posting) I didn't
try it since I've chosen a paid solution, but if someone still has an issue
with Bitmask like that, try erasing your config files, it might make it work
(or not, but still worth a try, since a reinstall keeps your
me as a user in the proper groups seems to be OK.
I found a command to list what's on on startup.
I'll try to find those that are stopped/waiting,
and appear to be related to the issue.
$ initctl list
avahi-cups-reload stop/waiting
avahi-daemon start/running, process 798
mountall-net
So it can be free software and be of "bad" quality, and even malicious (until
detected) after all.
Funny, I too had some of those assumptions about free software, even though
now that I think about it, it's pretty obvious.
network-manager (which I couldn't install in my netinstall btw) for
I tried the dconf-editor (all was checked),
here's my dmesg log (the end of it, about usb):
[30534.232069] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
[30534.369618] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05dc, idProduct=a838
[30534.369630] usb 2-2: New USB device strings:
Ah that's right, forgot about that.
Anything animated represents several images to change.
What about the tiles though?
Just changing some tiles could make instant modifications (in theory).
Approximately, how much fixed images are they besides anything that's
animated, even the plateforms
If I remember well, I had to download an additional package. Maybe it was
unar.
Any ThinkPenguin TPE-NWIFIROUTER2 buyer wants to share the source code of
ThinkPenguin's heavily modified[1] u-boot, a free software bootloader for
wireless routers? Copyleft.org reports it can be found on the CD which comes
with the router[2].
You got mine now.
From a purely programming point of view, this is beyond nice!
About the level design, a minor thing bothering me is some of those big green
vertical pipes appear like they're on the foreground (like a wall) when
they're not at all.
Other than that, the music, the design, it all works very
I have no idea if it's possible.
Maybe something like "IF it's not in this rather big list of programs, THEN
sudo apt-get autoremove them, and sudo apt-get clean in the end", or
something like that.
Maybe that would be enough.
Here's mount before plugging the HDD:
/dev/mapper/volumegroup-trisquel on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl
Sudo fdisk -l does show a /dev/sdb disk, and a /dev/sdb1 partition.
Provided it's really complete, you can get it from Synaptic (props to Magic
Banana): File > Save selection (or something similar), and that's about it.
Well there's some additional text on each line, so it could be cleaned with
regular expressions, but I don't know how.
I like it, I don't know how to do it, but it sounds like a great way to get
the perfect Synaptic list.
Another way is to simply remove all the packages (i.e. make a minimal install
instead), then simply put a selected list back in synaptics.
For example, first you take a standard Lubuntu. Then You save the synaptic
file that you edit the way you want to. Alternatively, you can remove the
So the goal is to free an OS.
Or more like you don't want to reinstall from scratch.
If it's a full install, you can simply reinstall Trisquel without erasing
/home (and backing it up just in case before). And then import a personal
Synaptic list.
Fully free, fully personalized, all free, and
Thanks for checking out. I'll gather as much data as I can about these. I
quickly did earlier about mountall, and this one seems off the hook.
On a side note my first try with fstab was strange : before startx, during
the boot, a message indicated that it tried to mount my USB drive, like it
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