I am in the same boat as quantumgravity, unfortunately, and have a minor
child to think about, but would definitely be interested in subscribing if my
circumstances change or donating what I can to the project if they don't.
I currently use my riseup.net address for activism and personal
Trisquel is the first distro I have been able to support financially. It
isn't much, but I was able to set up automatic payments for 5 Euros (about
$6-$7 USD) a month, which isn't going to keep my kids from eating or me from
paying my bills on time.
If you went back to windows after your
Hello,
I have been invited to participate in a virtual conference that requires
Blackboard software and I was curious if there was some sort of a workaround
I could use. I can't get past the unsupported operating system unsupported
Java page and am fine with reduced functionality, since I
Hello, has anyone successfully installed or even run 7.0 on aqemu yet? I
haven't been able to get past the installer crashing repeatedly or a black
screen when I try to run live.
TIA
Many thanks! It was just the memory. My desktop isn't old, but I am.
Thank you, Andrew. It is more likely to be a miscommunication on my end.
warm smiles
Does the Blackboard software run within the browser? I was under the
impression that there was something I needed to download.
Yes, I just wasn't understanding how Blackboard works; the issue has been
resolved.
I'm still having problems on Aqemu but about to reboot the lappy to a live
USB stick; can I just hit the install button now if all goes well or well
there be a different .iso for the official release?
Still no luck. I'm trying to install mini from a USB stick and the RAM is
maxed out at 2 gigs.
It won't boot to a 3.15 kernel with 6.0.1 so I have to hold down the shift
key and choose an older kernel.
Is there a workaround or is it time for a new laptop when Toutatis reaches
EOL?
TIA
Yep, I get a black screen and can't even run live off the USB stick. :(
Here's lspci:
noordinaryspider@ThinkPad-T61:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
I get a black screen and can't even run live. It looks like a video card
issue to me, but somebody more knowledgeable would have to confirm or deny my
suspicions. I had to change the default video card on Aquemu to see the
cursor on Triskel. This is a separate issue than the kernel problem I
I'll serve too if you make the torrent, kokomo joe
My little dude is growing up with free software. Of course the computer is in
a common area, but I did tune out Stampy Long Nose so much that I barely even
noticed when he was watching a video about a Hunger Games mod and another
about a Bloods and Crips mod, neither of which I personally
Many thanks!
I'm noordinaryspider at joindiaspora dot com
I've got the patch in the folder where it belongs, but I can't seem to figure
out how to apply it. Can somebody point me in the direction of an appropriate
tutorial?
It's not a crisis, just a hole in my education.
Sudo apt-get upgrade seems to give me everything except the new kernel which
Thanks, lembas; my lappy is all pretty now and I have some new brain food. :D
I must have just downloaded the patch and missed the sudo patch -d
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages -p1 remove-format-args.patch the first
time.
Better get over myself and get used to leaving Orca running until
I'm getting the page on both browsers, but none of my add-ons (unplug,
greasemonkey, etc.) are working siunce the last update.
I installed icecat, copied over a backup of .mozilla/abrowser to
.mozilla/icecat the same way I did with my VM of Belenos and it worked for a
few minutes but the
I'm getting the error message: (Browser extension) cannot be installed
because Abrowser could not modify the needed file.
I've tried reinstalling several plug-ins since the problem arose yesterday.
My backup configuration files are fine; I just copied them over into another
VM and everything worked.
I suspect that this is beyond me and will be taken care of in the next
update, but am always open to a bit of
I had a similar experience with rereading an RMS article (on FACEBOOK of all
places) and remembering why I dumped Windows in the first place in
'03-'04ish.
I am currently running Toutatis, but had an old VM clone of the Ubuntu 12.04
installation I was using before ditching the proprietary
My 6yo has grown up with free software and is doing just fine. He prefers a
Gnome desktop to Sugar but I sometimes switch to Fluxbox just to slow him
down a bit. ;)
We use Proconn Latte for parental controls.
He installed Trisquel for the first time when he was 4, which was a blatant
Distro hopping is part of the fun of being a new GNU/Linux user so i would
never want to spoil it for you, but if you sudo apt-get aqemu you might find
it easier (and more fun) than using physical hardware. ;)
Great news about Blag! TFS
Embryonic babe of 49 here, but if I hadn't started virtualizing I would have
been crushed under the weight of all my physical hardware many years ago. ;)
I thought virtualization would be much more complicated than it actually is.
I need one more trip to eWaste but when I come home, I'll
I'm using Openmailbox and Riseup, but these services are not free to the
people who provide them so I have a small, monthly donation charged to my
credit card the same way I do with Trisquel, which I find very helpful.
Openmailbox is having a fundraiser right now if you can spare a few
Obviously, you have perfect vision. Not all of us are so lucky, which is why
the Orca Screen Reader is included by default.
You can turn it off from System SettingsUniversal Access
I haven't gotten any updates on my GnewSense VM for a long time; I think it
still has shellshock.
It's sitting on an external drive in my closet at the moment, alongside
Brigantia, Taranis, etc.; I'll probably try again a few more times before I
uncheck the connect to network box and
Thanks, David. I might just do that when I have the time and inclination.
Unplug is another alternative to Flash if you don't want to use Greasemonkey.
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash
What's wrong with Flash:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/whats-wrong-flash-explaination
You could also try an alternative social network:
Flash Games seem to be very big in elementary education these days. I groan
when I hear other parents say that they like them because the kids think
they're just playing a game and suspect that they mostly emphasize rote
memorization in the spirit of what gives workbooks a bad name.
We can
This has been mine as well. I stopped working on windows computers for
pay/barter when Vista came out, virtualized Win7 to try to help friends who
were having trouble with it, beta tested Win8 and wound up deleting the VM.
I have always found proprietary software to be inferior.
When you start the installer, choose something else, select the partitions,
click on the button that says change but select the same file systems,
check the box for format on ext but leave it unchecked on xfs.
If you clicked on the defaults, you're good.
sda1 (ext4) is / and sda6 (xfs) is home.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/285212/keeping-the-same-home-partition-after-a-clean-install
Belenos does not recognize my Deskjet 940C, which works flawlessly on
Toutatis and the ink is just getting inexpensive enough for me to want to
actually use it. ;)
I have tried installing hplip-3.14.10.run from the HP site to no avail.
Maybe it's time for a new printer, but I thought I'd
Never mind; turned out I just needed to type localhost:631 into my browser
instead of using System Settings like I do on Toutatis.
I started with GNUWinII, then installed Mandrake (Mandriva), quickly switched
to Damm Small Linux, which I truly loved even though I had a modern machine
with Slackware on it, and then missed all the infighting and hullabaloo
because I was busy with my newborn. I'd made some sort of a pact
Another +1 for Orca from me. I could pass for a sighted person until middle
age hit, but when the screen reader started up automatically I found out how
much easier it was not to turn it off.
My pre-existing install of Greasemonkey has been disabled on my Toutatis
install since the last Abrowser update, but when I copy the backup of my
config files over, it works just fine on my USB sticks and VMs of Belenos.
I'm not nagging or anything
Well, maybe I am. Just a litle. ;)
Maybe this will help:
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/set-vsftp
No, Debian is not free. I have been virtualizing Debian and various Debian
respins on aqemu for quite some time and I see programs in the Debian Free
repository that are not in Trisquel and threads on the forum explaining why
they are not there.
If wireless is your only issue, as it was
!
Segmentation fault
noordinaryspider@Hal:~$ sudo aqemu
[sudo] password for noordinaryspider:
AQEMU Debug [0]
Sender: int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
Message: AQEMU Config Version: 0.8.1
AQEMU Debug [1]
Sender: bool Emulator::Load( const QString path )
Message: Loading emulator file version 0.8
It's there and it works great. Thank you so much for the tip, David!
I use an SD card to boot my eee PC 900A. It's a tad slower than the 4 gig
SSD, but it works fine. You can use the installer, just select other. You
should see something along the lines of sda 2048MB sdb 16384MB and you
select sdb, click on the defaults, and go get yourself a cup of coffee
Gnome-boxes is also in the repositories and might be worth a try. I'm finding
it much faster than Aqemu was and it might be possible to import your
existing VMs if you are patient, comfortable in command line, and have enough
hard drive space and an existing Virtualbox install.
smplayer is in the reps and is another option that worked flawlessly for me
when I was having problems with Abrowser extensions.
I am having problems this morning and have had it go out on me before.
Sometimes I just need to be patient.
My first (and perhaps uneducated) impression of TAILS is that its target
audience is people who are not particularly tech savvy who will also be using
it on other people's computers which may not be freedom friendly.
Are there any actual advantages to using this distro instead of Trisquel
I'm not able to send from my OpenMailbox account today, but I sent in my
donation anyway because the cloud service alone is worth it to me.
Thank you, Supertramp83. I have been having the same problem in my mini
install but not on my regular Trisquel or my command line only install and
kind of blew it off as something I was just going to have to live with
because it was a bug in the alpha release. Glad to know it's actually an
I have never worked in IT, but running free software for my personal use has
gotten me through some times when I might otherwise have thrown up my hands,
crawled into a cave, and spent the rest of my life hating the entire human
race.
My little joke with normies is, It's not a religion OR
OP here with an update--might as well stick to Heather for a username since
I've already outed myself as a middle aged low-socioeconomic status female
and not been flamed off the boards.
My T-61 is now running Belenos natively just fine and is only slightly less
zippy than it was with
I've been playing around with netinstalls on Gnome-boxes and then with my
minimalist distraction-free netbook that is deliberately command line only
and I don't think I'll do a clean install any other way again. A lot of my
distro-hopping was completely unnecessary and nothing more than
Well have a great new year whenever, fellow hacker dudes and dudettes!
I pretty much gave up on aqemu after I upgraded. Gnome-boxes is in the reps
and it's not perfect, but it's FAST. I'd say that the speed is comparable to
Virtual box rather than Aqemu.
Your existing VMs will be fine, but it will take awhile to import them with
my workaround: first you
Sorry about that.
Just type https://localhost:631/ into the address bar of your browser and
that should take you right there.
I started a new thread, since this really doesn't have anything to do with
gNewSense.
There is a log-in sound that was enabled on Trisquel 5.5 (Brigantia) that is
truly spectacular. It is disabled by default in 7.0 (Belenos), but is
relatively easy to enable.
Many thanks to Dave Hunt for
My Blag has MATE; i got it here:
ftp://blag.fsf.org/20/Live/x86_64/Alpha/
thanks to islander.
It's not just you, Jaded. Bleeding edge software isn't a huge concern for me,
but security updates are. It's still nice to see choices.
Here ya go eljinete:
https://www.h-node.org/
It's not perfect, but it's what we have and I feel the same way about keeping
perfectly good hardware out of the landfill. What ultimately happens to our
ewaste isn't pretty. :'(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste_in_Guiyu
About the only thing I miss from winblows is my old log-in sound:
http://wavcentral.com/sounds/televis/lost_space/lsbest.mp3
Well, that and the cursor that flipped links the bird instead of pointing at
them
Nah, I'm not changing this for a long time if ever. It's way too pretty and
it brings back good memories ;)
I do kind of wish I could enable the log-off sounds and generally have a
noisier 'puter; I tweaked that windoze sound scheme until I felt like a mad
scientist playing all these weird
Minetest is free Minecraft
Potato Guy is Mr. Potato Head only you won't hurt your feet stepping on the
pieces if the kid forgets to put it away.
Tux Paint is a educational and fun--MUCH more than m$ paint
Celestia if they want to explore outer space
PySyCache
Child's Play
What kind of
This could change in the not too distant future:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Devs-Are-Talking-Whether-to-Let-Software-Update-Delete-Old-Kernels-470284.shtml
You may hate me for Minetest, but if it wasn't me, it would just be somebody
else. That's what this generation does. We don't have a server set up yet and
mostly keep Heather Jr. offline, but that could change and undoubtedly will
at some point.
Brigantia is before Toutatis and it's a very silly, minor point, but the
default destop is so gorgeous and the little piece of music (longer than the
average start-up sound but not so long as to be annoying) just maked my
distro-hopping Virtualbox user self sit up, take notice, melt, and say
YES!!! I had major culture shock when Popcorn Time started, but I couldn't
find Harold and Maud so in shut it down and went to bed.
Thank you so much for sharing, Supertramp83.
I think I'm supposed to say something mature and reassuring about how it
gets better, but my folks are both 80 and it doesn't.
I wish i could contribute more to this project than small financial donations
and willingness to use my limited time to alpha test. Please let me know
when, if, and where this would be most helpful. TIA
I'm right behind you as usual, tomlukeywood. Wish I hadn't tossed my floppies
and taken my PIIs to eWaste. :(
I pulled the internal HD from my desktop anyway. Got live TAILS USB stick for
looking stuff up. Got external 128 GB SSD with Belenos on it and 250 GB
external IDE with Toutatis on
My dad was on the internet in the late 60s or early 70s.
There was no Internet Explorer, no eBay, no Amazon, no Facebook, etc. so it
certainly wasn't the internet as we know it, but it was used by the defense
department of the you ess aye.
That's probably more than I should even say; I've
You can change the where the mailing list sends your mail.
You cannot change the address that appears on your profile.
I still get my old (gmail) address showing in the from field when I mail to
the list from my openmailbox account, apparently.
I've got more vision than you do so I can poke around a bit if you want, but
I still haven't been able to find a link on openmailbox OR riseup webmail for
checking
HuangLao, did you actually get JWM to work on Belenos? I tried and tried on
Toutatis and finally gave up and decided that Flux would have to be good
enough. I will be so grateful to you if you did and can give me any tips as
far as workarounds to make it look like Damn Small Linux did circa
It works! It works! JWM is all fixed! THANK YOU Quidam :D :D :D :D
I did too. With that hardware I'd use the 32 bit edition of Trisquel-mini and
PreferencesAdd/Remove Applications for what you actually miss from the full
version.
Now I've made myself all nostalgic for my old friend from '05, may she rest
in pieces. ;)
https://www.h-node.org/ is imperfect, but it might come in handy if you're on
a limited budget or unsure whether the problem is incompatible hardware or
just needing to get a good night's sleep and try again in the morning.
Personally, I just grabbed a couple of $10 used wireless cards that
Hello, and welcome! First of all, I wanted to clarify that Linux refers to
the kernel, which is the stuff that makes the OS go and is probably kind of
under the hood and behind the scenes for you at the moment and that the
collection of programs you will be using and the window manager, GUI,
I feel your pain. My octogenarian mother wants to buy me a smartphone because
the voice quality of my dumb phone isn't very good and her vision isn't up to
text messaging.
I'm not a football fan, but you might be able to use a plug-in for Abrowser
called greasemonkey and this userscript:
+1 trinux
tfs Supertramp83
Glad to hear that. I was dual booting my T-61 for awhile and definitely
thought it was faster running trisquel-mini than regular trisqel with LXDE or
fluxbox on top.
You'll probably come up with other ideas for speeding up the old gal over
time. Thank you for saving her from the landfill.
I wasn't able to get gnome on a new vm on my gnome-boxes, but I've had a
minimalist install with Flux for awhile and it's running nicely. Very
promising and always nice to have options. I found Trisquel by going down the
list of FSF recommended distros and falling madly in love with some
I'm bumping this for tomlukeywood and adding my own two cents:
I believe that sharing is hardwired into us and a basic part of human nature
that cannot be legislated away. I was not online during the Napster years,
but when WinMix was taken down, Limewire appeared. When Limewire was taken
Now you've really cheered up this old geezer, ermgeezerette since I'm
out here?
Beautiful! I'd never ever heard of her before. Thank you for sharing.
Much appreciated, islander. I'm not an expert by any means, but i'm looking
forward for my download to finish so I can check it out myself.
The specific friend I'm thinking of needs more security and would enjoy the
Blag community.
I never got to see him live, but I used to be able to play this dude's entire
discography from heart before my voice totally crapped out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN2illAdkFk
Take my head refreshing fountain
Take my eyes from what they've seen.
Take my head and change my mind
How could
I probably still have one from when Dad and I were trying to set up Ekiga,
but trust me, you don't want to look at my ugly mug. My words can be much,
much prettier. :)
I haven't opened Pidgin in years because there hasn't been anyone I wanted to
talk to, but I suppose that could change.
Yea, me too. At least I don't feel so alone. This is what I had on auto
repeat for days after my last romantic breakup aka when I decoverted from
heterosexuality (or sexuality/romantic involvement in general, to be bluntly
honest):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu7QvOQKcKk
Are we absolutely sure that Hello is free and that the button wasn't removed
because of an oversight or low priority (since many of us just use Tor
browser bundle anyway)?
I'd like to try it if so, but I'm still a bit skeptical and would prefer not
to create any more accounts or have any
Thank you, alonsogonzalez, that's exactly what I needed for my own situation.
Of course I'm grumbling about it just as much as Dad probably grumbles about
having to send an email or a text every day to call off the I've fallen and
I can't get up police, but it sure beats the alternatives. :D
@tomlukeywood either use Synaptic or type sudo apt-get install fluxbox
*lxde *KDE into a terminal window and then click on the icon next to your
username to switch DEs the next time you log in.
You may need to add a PPA for MATE, Trinity, Cinnamon, etc.; those are just
my own personal
There really is no one size fits all answer. They may not even notice the
difference between Popcorntime and Netflix or it could have something to do
with family dynamics or the prevailing attitudes and cultures of different
periods of history.
I was doing very well with my family for a
Just a heads up that the most obvious gNewSense mirrors in English speaking
countries are having problems that the Mexican mirror isn't. I should have
more to say about gNewSense shortly. Blag is very user friendly, in my
opinion as someone who has stuck to Debian based distros for a few
Many thanks. :)
Welcome back, Ali! You have been missed. The community is still going strong,
and one of the reasons why I stick around.
My X60 is still in transit, but it was only $20--no battery, no power cords,
only a single gig of RAM but it does have an HD.
I'm going to play around with it for awhile and see what Tom's experiences
are before I make any irrevocable decisions about whether I want to fix it up
and send it
The same thing happened to me with a fresh install of Belenos so I just used
CUPS; easy peasy!
Yea, I realized how dumb that was within five minutes of posting, so just
mentally translate it as I like you and I'll always wish i could have gotten
to know you better if you decide to do that.
I'm on my Trisquel box now because I have insomnia and i'm only going to
check the forums
I virtualize Debian and play around with it, but the advantages of Trisquel
for me are:
It's easier. I have a limited amount of time to spend with computers and a
lot of things I want to learn. The legwork of deblobbing the kernel and
cleaning the non-free software has already been done
We're going to wind up in the troll hole if we keep going. ;) Do you have an
account at Diaspora where we can continue this discussion, davidnotcoulthard?
Congratulations, pogiako12345, I assume this means you're going to be
sticking around and not moving over to Debian of gNewSense.
Don't
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