Thanks for the responses guys. :)
The Pandora is living proof that the reason for running Android instead of
GNU is not because of power. The Pandora community is quite familiar with the
fact that Android is bloated, and while a version of GNU/Linux has been
running on this device from day one, Android seemed for the
Hi guys, this isn't directly related to Trisquel, but I don't know of any
more general free software community forums or mailing lists. I hope you
don't mind.
So, here's my problem: my Math teacher at the university I go to requires us
to use a website called WebAssign (webassign.net) to
Also, I'd suggest that you try and connect to their web service from a
web browser that does not have Flash installed (again, get more people
to do that too) so that they will log the fact that you - as a user -
don't have Flash.
That's not possible. If the site knows that you don't have
Thanks for the replies, everyone. :)
akirashinigami, thank you for the template. I have sent a message using that
as a base (but modified to more perfectly fit my situation, of course) to my
professor, and I am now waiting for the response.
Try to complain about that, but I'm afraid
Well, it can't hurt to send the E-mail first, then talk in person. I sent my
professor an E-mail based on that and he basically said OK, you can talk to
me in my office at the usual time. So I'll be talking to him today,
hopefully he'll be understanding! :)
A small update on my issue:
I talked to my professor earlier today about this, and although he doesn't
seem like he really understands the issue of free software vs. nonfree
software (he didn't read the link that explains free software, and of course
assumed that I meant free of cost when
Will do, thanks for the suggestion.
I don't really understand, how could it be for worse?
Thanks for the mention. I suggested in a follow-up E-mail I sent today that
he look into migrating to Moodle sometime in the future.
Actually, the cool thing is he thought about that. When I talked to him, he
mentioned that there might be others like me, and that for fairness he would
like to accommodate them too.
You mean WebAssign?
Alright, will do. :) Thanks for the advice.
A while back, I asked if there are any ethical uses for Wine and was
surprised to hear that there are quite a few, so now I'm wondering if there
are some for video game console emulators, because as far as I am aware, all
software on most video game consoles is proprietary. Does it turn out
One thing that Nintendo is right about: copyright lasts at least 75 years and
the extension that led to that length was applied to past works (stupidly),
so anything authored after 1937 is still copyrighted today. Of course, that
means no copyright has expired on any video games.
I have some huge problems with that reasoning.
First off, regarding whether the programs can do anything malicious, where is
the cutoff point? Is it battery backed SRAM introduced in the third
generation? Or is it memory cards that store save data for many games at
once, introduced in the
Update:
My math professor suddenly sent an E-mail which basically said that I must
use WebAssign or forfeit the grade (citing that I have been able to do my
homework at this point... I knew that would bite me in the butt). He then
referred me to another professor. I'm guessing he was told
The problem with talking to the other students is none of them care, as far
as I can tell. I mentioned before that the culture (for lack of a better
word) of this university is terrible; nobody cares. I once mentioned the
topic of free software to one of my classmates outside of class; I
I really don't think dropping the class would help. Like I said, it's too
late to get the tuition refunded, so all that would look like to them me
giving up. In other words, lots of harm to me, no message delivered to the
school.
However, I do intend (once my professor has answered who is
Hm, I don't see any organizations like that.
There is a Linux (sic) User Group, which hilariously proclaims its purpose
as to support and promote the use of Linux (sic), UNIX and other Open Source
technologies. I'll try talking to them, looks like there's an IRC channel.
Maybe there's a
My understanding is pretty much that only the latest release is supported by
Mozilla. Version 10 is apparently still supported, though, for some reason.
Honestly, Firefox's scheme it started with version 5 is like a parody... hey,
let's constantly upgrade Firefox and inflate the number, no
Out of curiosity, why do you default to bundling Ubuntu with computers sold
from that shop instead of a completely free OS like Trisquel or gNewSense?
Hm, why doesn't it keep the libre. in the URL? When I saw it just disappear
like it does with no apparent change, I just ignored it thinking it did
nothing. Plus, the bookmark this page function will point you to the
regular site even if you got there from libre.thinkpenguin.com.
Regarding youtube-dl, there is a GUI for that, called YTDownloader if I'm not
mistaken.
Well, I wish I'd known that, I bought the video card from your shop a few
days ago, but I'm pretty sure I got there without the libre. (I had the
site bookmarked).
At least I have the bookmark set to libre.thinkpenguin.com now, so I won't
make the mistake again. :)
You're talking about people making free software nonfree like it's a good
thing. Apparently you forgot about the whole purpose of copyleft: to give
free software an advantage and discourage the development of nonfree software
by making it more complicated (they have to start from scratch,
This is largely a free software community. The open source guys who care more
about function than ethics are using distros like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. You
should know this.
You should also know that we free software supporters *don't want*
proprietary software developers to develop
Did you just ignore everything I said? Firefox being able to use that program
is good. Crome and IE being able to use that program is bad. This isn't
difficult to understand.
What response do you expect?
We don't like nonfree software. We don't think it should exist. That's why we
use a completely free distro, Trisquel, and not other distros like Ubuntu or
Linux Mint or even Fedora.
Knowing this, how do you expect to convince anyone here that a decision is
The LGPL is there for certain strategic purposes, as you should already know.
There is no reason to regret its existence.
You said that the project is dead and said something about it being a failure
of free software. Just because the developer has stopped developing a program
doesn't mean it's dead unless it's nonfree. A free program can be picked up
by anyone at any time.
You know, kind of like
No instability here. I have gotten this weird thing where the graphics are
all screwed up and there's an odd error message that repeats over and over
when turning off the computer rather than the normal wallpaper image, but I'm
pretty sure both of these are because of of the integrated
It's not about the license. GNU is an operating system and a perfectly good
name for what we call GNU/Linux. But we call it GNU/Linux because GNU
is unrecognized by a lot of people, and also because it would be
ungentlemanly of the GNU project ask people to not recognize Linux at all in
DuckDuckGo doesn't require the Javascript. It just uses it for some extras
(the only one I've noticed is that weird selection thing on the searches, but
there might be something else, too). If you use LibreJS, it links you to a
search that doesn't need Javascript.
Google is the same, it
We leave Windows on our computers here, I guess mostly because only my dad
and I care about software freedom, and at that, only recently. We also
sometimes have other distros on. On the computer I normally use, in addition
to Trisquel, Linux Mint 12 is still on. The other computer just has
I used to be much less strict with games, but now I'm pretty strict about it.
Even when I was less strict about it, though, the nonfree games I played were
on my Pandora (the handheld system from OpenPandora), which runs GNU/Linux.
I now avoid nonfree games, (though I give a free pass to
What's so safe to you as a user about the GPL compared to other free licenses
or free programs in the public domain? All of them give you freedom; the GPL
just makes it impossible for the software to be re-released as nonfree
software. It sounds like free system would make more sense.
Hi there,
So, I've got a weird problem with Gmail. For some reason, I can receive
E-mails just fine using E-mail clients (namely, I've tried Evolution and
Claws Mail), but I can't send E-mails (via SMTP) using this account. This
only occurs on our local network (both WiFi and Ethernet);
Hm... maybe it is the router, that's the only possibility I can think of.
I'll see if a direct connection yields better results sometime later, though
if that's the case I guess I'm screwed (we kind of need our wireless network
here).
I really don't understand why Lavabit would work when
Hello, I've been meaning to ask about this for a long time, but haven't
gotten around to it yet.
I've been using IBus for a long time for Japanese input. I've used it on
Fedora and Linux Mint in the past with no problems. But for some reason, IBus
doesn't work correctly at all on Trisquel.
I'm starting to migrate to Lavabit and I'm interested in other suggestions
for E-mail providers. Though really, I'm more concerned at the moment about
migrating from my Yahoo account, since you have to access that with webmail I
would prefer to be able to just use E-mail clients like
Yeah, I should clarify, I'm using Trisquel 5.5.
And congrats to the GNU Project, because the freedoms and the principles in
the GNU license have spread far beyond the project itself. There's no doubt
about it. The GNU Project succeeded at exactly what they set out to do.
I wouldn't say that. There may be a lot of free software, but an
No one is forced to use Windows 8, they just think that they are because
they're ignorant.
I have in the past considered calling GNU/Linux GNU/X/Linux, to reflect
what people like about the OS better while still keeping it recognizable,
mostly because you have people saying most people don't care about the
low-level stuff that is GNU. Of course, my retort to that would be that the
Being based on a bad distro doesn't make Trisquel bad. That reasoning is
flawed. Ubuntu's core software is free. Trisquel just improves the situation
by taking out what nonfree software is there. Free programs don't suddenly
become infected with badness because they were included in a
That's a valid argument for not linking to or endorsing www (dot)
thinkpenguin (dot) com or linuxmint (dot) thinkpenguin (dot) com.
However, http://libre.thinkpenguin.com is still completely free of any trace
of anything nonfree. The only way to contrive it as unethical to support
Yeah, Linux Mint does have some interesting things other than nonfree
software. One thing that really got my attention the first time I used it,
though I don't know for sure that it isn't a result of nonfree software, is
the terminal tells you exactly what to type to get a command working.
A while back, my mom's LED-lit LCD monitor unfortunately broke, so she took
my dad's old fluorescent-lit LCD monitor rather than buying a new one.
Now, this old monitor she now uses is extremely weird. On Windows XP, it
works without issue, but:
- Windows refuses to only show resolutions
About the refresh frequencies, I know that the normal rate that it uses is 60
Hz, but do I need to find more detailed information than that? I ask because
LXDE's monitor settings dialog offers different frequencies with different
resolutions.
I don't know how to get back into the graphical
It is then only a matter of restarting the graphical stack (quitting the
graphical session, back to the graphical login screen will do that).
But I can't see anything in a graphical session, so I have to use a
text-based session. I don't know how to get back into a graphical session
from
IceCat is 2 versions behind, too, you know...
Considering that there's a new version of Firefox every two months now, 2
versions isn't all that far behind. And right now, I'm not having any
problems with Abrowser.
Honestly, I don't think free software is particularly in line with any one
economic system. What it is perfectly in line with is any sort of
Libertarianism, including Free Market Capitalism and Anarcho-Capitalism, but
also including Libertarian Socialism, or Social Anarchy.
You've already
The one problem I have with both Xfce and LXDE is they don't ship with an
easy way to edit the menus. It's pretty minor, though.
Honestly, I think an Xfce edition, would be a perfectly good idea. It's
similar to LXDE, sure, but they're not exactly the same. In particular, I
personally
The GNU Project distributing a new GNU/Linux distro would not do any good.
Trisquel, Ututo, Parabola, and all the others sponsored by the GNU Project
are already completely free software. All them maintaining another distro
would do is split the community more than it already is.
That sounds like quite the fantasy. There's a reason I gave BLAG Linux and
GNU a try: my dad prefers Fedora over other distros like Ubuntu. I, on the
other hand, can't stand Fedora and much prefer Ubuntu-based distros. Then you
get into life cycle of versions and rolling release. Different
to do this myself).
I went into more detail in a blog post:
http://onpon4.blogspot.com/2012/10/openpandora-pandora-review-from.html
4.0 and 5.5 are losing support at around the same time, so there really isn't
any reason to use 4.0 instead of 5.5 unless you already have it installed.
Whether you prefer 5.5 or 6.0 depends on whether you can stand the testing,
of course.
About nonfree games: that's about the position
Ah yes, I forgot to list the malware possibility. Thanks!
I agree that being able to redistribute exact copies is an important freedom
and copyright should be like that by its very nature, but if we're going to
say that it's ethically acceptable (even if not preferred) to watch a movie,
We also have a new model without the wireless for the all-in-one. It isn't
listed yet (one of many items which we have that isn't on the site yet.. no
time..
What's this?
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/hp-all-one-printer-fax-copy-print-scan-gnu-linux
It matches your description
So, if I'm understanding correctly, you're not going to ship laptops with a
US layout if people don't ask for it...?
I guess I could live with a UK layout, but it would be weird to adapt to...
I'm just a bit surprised if your UK customer base is more than your US one.
US Keyboards are only good for non-americans if you are a programmer...
other
than that you will be stuck without any accent.
Yeah, but it just seems weird that the U.S. would be abandoned, partly
because that's where Chris is.
Well, why do you list UNITED STATES as one of the possible layouts to
consider, then? That makes me think of... you know, the United States layout.
Hm, I don't have anything to backup (I always make sure I have a recent
version of anything I'm working on or anything important on at least two
sources), but you did remind me to update an archive I keep of old stuff I've
done. That might be something good to back up, as well. xD
I'm not sure why you come to that conclusion. I read that article, and it
ends with:
As a free software supporter, I can only hope that the loss of influence
can
be reversed. Five years ago isn't so long a time, and in theory I see no
reason why free software can't regain the ground that
I don't know. If he had said something about being respectful to the free
software movement and not wanting to insult them, that would make sense, but
the author specifically said that he is a free software supporter, taking
sides with the FSF. The tone I got reading that was that he sees
DVDs are perfectly fine. /Encrypted/ DVDs don't work (and unfortunately many
DVDs are encrypted) without a program that at least my government has
censored (like DeCSS), but as far as I'm aware, Ubuntu has no ability to do
any better in this department.
That's the normal setup. It allows you to install a fresh new system without
erasing all your data. You really don't need all that much space in root;
most of your stuff will be in /home, and Trisquel's default ~9-10 GB is a bit
small, but 16 GB will be plenty for most people and 32 GB would
I thought gksudo was just a graphical frontend for entering your password for
sudo. It does something different?
Alright, I'm having a problem. I went to the sound preferences, but with the
microphone inserted, I don't see any extra devices listed in the Input tab.
Am I missing here? It's showing up in the Hardware tab as TP6920.
If you want GNOME Shell, install gnome-session, then pick GNOME for the
desktop session when you log in (instead of GNOME Classic). I'm using GNOME
Shell on Trisquel 5.5 right now. I gather it's a bit more complicated with
Trisquel 6, but I haven't read the details:
You'll want to choose the advanced setup option and set up the partitions
manually. At a minimum, you ought to have:
An ext4 partition mounted at / (I would normally suggest 16GB, but if you
really want it to be big, you can go with 24 or 32 GB; even if you go really
crazy, this should be
Well, you're thinking quite far ahead (as far as I'm aware, Trisquel 6 isn't
out yet, and then there will be Trisquel 6.5, most likely). Trisquel does lag
behind Ubuntu a bit, but it's really not that bad if you don't need
everything to be cutting-edge. If you do need everything to be more
MATE is named after a drink, not a reproductive act or the British slang, so
the name of this new fork is definitely not synonymous with or even related
to MATE's.
I think this is a good idea. Not because it's particularly useful (I likely
won't use it), but as an alternative for people who don't have 3D
acceleration working (such as people who have ATI cards).
It remains to be seen if it will be much different from MATE. But if it
sticks with GNOME
I like this idea, too, partly because Trisquel 5.5 is significantly behind
anyway (GNOME 3.2, ScummVM 1.3, etc), so I don't think being just a little
more behind would be that noticeable.
Or, perhaps rather than having three STS releases, have just one, halfway
between the LTS releases. Or
Of course, if you buy one of the CDs from libre.thinkpenguin.com, part of
that goes to Trisquel. Unfortunately you can't directly link to a CD's page
while indicating to the site to include the donation.
I decided to try burning some video to a blank DVD with Brasero, by creating
a new video project and selecting an Ogg Theora/Vorbis video file, but when I
click Burn, I get this:
Please install the following manually and try again:
mplex (GStreamer plugin).
Since there's no mplex package,
Nope, that makes no difference.
Mine was about 2.2 GB. I haven't tried chopping up the video in question, but
I tried a smaller video, this one about 33 MB, and had the same result. Same
goes for the smallest video in my Videos folder, at about 9.1 MB and under 30
seconds.
Fedora's short life cycle would probably make it difficult to use as a base.
Just look at BLAG; their current version is still based on Fedora 14, and
they're stuck with IceCat 5.
I don't know how to make the resolution smaller, but rather than doing that,
you could adjust things like font sizes. For the system, you can adjust the
fonts under Advanced Settings to make them bigger, and for Abrowser, you can
go to Preferences, Content tab and adjust the default font
It is installed by default if you have GNOME (on Trisquel anyway), but it
isn't going to do any good if you're using LXDE.
Ah, then you want Settings - Openbox Configuration Manager, Appearance tab.
The su command only works for the terminal session. What you probably want to
do is launch a program, probably the file manager. If you're on GNOME, the
file manager is Nautilus, so you want to use sudo nautilus. If you're on
LXDE (Trisquel Mini), the file manager is PCManFM, so you want to
In the Downloads window of Abrowser, I've noticed for a while that choosing
to open a program instead opens the containing folder in Nautilus. It doesn't
seem to be anything in the settings of Abrowser; deleting the
~/.mozilla/abrowser doesn't change this weird behavior. This problem is
The default is Totem, unless I go to other, and then it's VLC.
The file manager is a choice shown in the menu, but not among suggested
applications in the other window.
Abrowser was listed in the other window (not in the menu, though), and I
removed the association to see if that would do
I don't know any that play videos without JS (though I'm sure they exist),
but I use UnPlug to download them. Works like a charm; it's good at detecting
not only YouTube videos, but videos on other sites as well, no Javascript
required and no hassle either.
UnPlug broke for me, too. It never occurred to me that the browser update
might be the source of the problem.
I guess UnPlug just needs an update.
I haven't tried it, but you ought to be able to just uninstall it (well, the
components, individually, e.g. Writer, Impress, Calc) in the package manager.
Use Synaptic if that doesn't work.
Synaptic is another package manager. It's under Settings.
You *do* have a choice: you have a choice of what distro to use (you can use
a distro that includes nonfree software if you wish; there are plenty of
those), and you can choose to install choice nonfree software yourself.
The whole point of Trisquel is to be free of this nonfree software. If
I don't have a secret agenda. I do have an agenda that I try to subtly push
(subtly because people would complain if I push it on them too hard), but
it's not secret: to eliminate nonfree software so that everyone can be free.
It's really odd that you would bring up agendas here, though,
Thanks for the link! I never read that before and it was an interesting read.
Cool, neither I like to push those Buttons too hard, sort
of speak.I might break my finger nails or some strange
Pandora my bite my hand off.
... What are you talking about? This has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever
with software freedom, and I didn't bring up anything like this.
Well, you've got the idea, but remember that artwork and other game data
(e.g. levels) is copyrighted, not trademarked. Ideally, the game engine would
be free (and probably available gratis, too, since there's little point in
charging for it), and the game data would be contained in separate
Part of games (the engine) is software. People can benefit from this
software. This isn't just theoretical: just look at many of the free
first-person shooters out there. Many of them use free engines that were
available, such as the Quake engine (OpenArena, Xonotic) or the Cube engine
I watched a few LAS episodes a while back: the Trisquel review, a couple of
the Fedora reviews, the RMS interview and followup, and a couple Linux Mint
reviews. It's really an awful show.
The RMS interview was especially pathetic. One of them was trying to justify
development of nonfree
It seems that right now Trisquel, Ututo, Parabola, and Dragora are the only
completely free distros that are actually being maintained, though I think I
heard a while back that gNewSense is going to be picked up again soon
(something about a new developer working on it).
BLAG is way
First off, please note that Linux is just the kernel; the entire system is
GNU/Linux. See: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
Anyway, I tried some stuff, and found that I was able to get the result you
described by dragging the panel (that's what it's called in GNOME Fallback,
the
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