Nobody you talk to uses a cell phone? I find that hard to believe.
If someone looks down on you because you don't use Facebook, I would
seriously question whether that person is worth talking to.
I don't know if he did research beforehand, but my dad recently got a new HP
printer (probably from an electronics store, I didn't ask), and it's
supported by the HPLIP available in Trisquel. Are you sure about that
probably part? I just wonder if my dad got lucky, or if stores tend to have
AFAIK, you can fix Nouveau issues by updating Linux-Libre. The Trisquel
live-CD comes with Linux-libre 3.2 by default, you can update it to 3.5 by
installing linux-generic-lts-belenos, and you can get the latest version
(3.11, or 3.10 if you like LTS) at jxself's website.[0]
What Linux
You can remove multiple packages at once. Just list them all as arguments.
For example: apt-get remove foo bar baz would remove the hypothetical foo,
bar, and baz packages all at once.
For video, there's also Matroska. For audio, don't forget Opus.
It's important to note that while PDF itself is free, some PDF files created
by Adobe's software have DRM that makes them only work in Adobe Reader.
That's no good.
Maybe you should start with what part of the procedure below (copied from the
post on the issue tracker) you're having trouble understanding? It seems
straightforward to me.
First download the attached bash script.[1] Then do a
sudo apt-get -f install libsdl1.2debian openjdk-6-jdk
Then
Did you do the first step?
It doesn't. Nobody is forced to join Facebook. So of course, you shouldn't
join Facebook.
Here are the scripts used by this page (at the time of this writing):
First script:
https://trisquel.info/files/js/js_3d9d0c9c4619540c6e8259882d462ab9.js
Second script:
Third script:
/* */
The first one has a license, but LibreJS doesn't detect it because the
license indicator comments
Intentionally crippling is bad, but these drivers are proprietary anyway, so
they shouldn't be used in the first place. At the same time, if people get
angry that they are being intentionally crippled, that could get open
source proponents to work harder towards getting fully free drivers
Shumway is crap right now. It doesn't work on embedded objects (you need to
open the SWF file separately), doesn't seem to work properly on much of
anything, and has gray lines at the edges of objects. Maybe it'll get better
at some point, but right now, it doesn't even hold a candle to
There are free software programs that can create SWF files, though I don't
know how good they are at making games. OpenLaszlo is an example I'm aware
of.
I watched the first part via the recording. Parts 2, 3, and 4 are going to be
spoken on October 30, November 13, and December 4. More information and the
recording of part 1 is on this web site:
http://snowdenandthefuture.info/
No patent-encumbered format can possibly fix those problems, but someone who
is ignorant might think that one does. h.264, for example, is widely used, so
its status as a patent-encumbered format is invisible to any user of a
proprietary system.
Did you miss this?
http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartI.html
One of the links is a WebM video on archive.org.
In addition to what jxself said, I want to point out that some packages have
been modified by Debian or Trisquel packagers to remove non-free pieces. In
cases like those, you may suddenly have those non-free pieces if you get a
new version from a PPA. If you're going to use PPAs, always
Well, consider GNOME, for example. By default, Trisquel uses GNOME Fallback,
which was removed from I think GNOME 3.6 before being re-introduced as GNOME
Flashback some time after GNOME 3.8 was released (I don't know if Flashback
is available in 3.10 or not). So if Trisquel had been keeping
Just because it's a bad license to use doesn't mean it's unethical or
non-free. The MPL 1.1 and all licenses under
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses are
ethical; GPL-incompatibility is a practical problem, not an ethical problem.
Here it is without getting screwed up by markup:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash
The real question, I think, is whether Trisquel is going to start using GNOME
Shell, or stick to GNOME Flashback, in the next version. I like Shell,
personally.
The last I heard, this was fixed by the Fedora team as of GNOME 3.8, I think.
It can run in software now.
What's so wrong with GNOME Shell, anyway? Actually, I had this reaction when
my dad initially told me that GNOME Shell was terrible, mostly because I had
previously seen that the claim that Unity was terrible was untrue. Any claim
that GNOME Shell or Unity is terrible (well, other than
If you still have a CPU that's so slow you can't render GNOME Shell in
software, you honestly should have upgraded years ago. But for those people,
there's always lightweight DEs like LXDE. I think people who still have such
slow computers for whatever reason will be fine with Trisquel Mini.
If you're looking for something cheap, that's hard. Guaranteed freedom has a
cost. :) The best you can do if you need something cheaper than what Think
Penguin offers is to either test or search for on h-node[0] cheap laptops you
find at a store. The common problems are:
- Lack of 3-D
Yeah... which is why it's OK to use software under a license that's ethical
even if it has practical problems.
I might understand, for example, avoiding software under the Netscape
licenses because the copyleft not applying to a particular organization is
too unethical for you. (It isn't
How is it unintuitive? I pointed out that being different doesn't mean it's
unintuitive and that it's very easy to find a detailed manual that will tell
you everything you could possibly need to know about GNOME Shell. Just saying
that it's difficult to learn does not make it so.
I think that the problem is that while you understand that your preference is
just that: a preference, you are forgetting that your preference doesn't make
GNOME Shell's design choices horrible, and that things that are different
from what you are used to are not necessarily unintuitive.
I tried LibreJS 5.4 when it was first released and honestly wasn't impressed.
It's still basically the same, including breaking web pages in ways that are
completely unrelated to Javascript and having a whitelist that only serves to
execute ALL Javascript code used on a whitelisted webpage,
Source would be the files contained in the the extension file (just open that
file as an archive), but I don't see any license indicated there, so I guess
it's proprietary.
It's possible that the author of this is just ignorant of what no license
actually entails; you could ask.
Well, there *is* a practical reason, though it might seem paranoid to some
people: Proprietary software often contains malicious features, such as
spyware which records your activities in secret, backdoors which can change
your system at any time, and Digital Restrictions Management, which
Just tell people that they deserve the freedom to control their computer.
There's no need to push free software down their throats; just tell them why
proprietary software is unethical and leave it at that.
If you do want to tell someone why they should care about privacy, point them
to
I have a phone with pay-as-you-go service, but I almost never use it and
leave the battery out.
Fear of radiation is highly overblown. Radiation is something that has always
existed in nature and something that you come into contact with every day. In
fact, radiation is something that life depends on; light and heat are
radiation. Even ultra-violet radiation is necessary for us in
I just want to put that last paragraph another way: just because there's
*some* evidence or supposed evidence for a claim does not mean that claim
is true. People have found evidence or evidence for all kinds of absurd
things; that's why you have ridiculous beliefs such as a belief in a flat
It sounds like you didn't understand the reference to Big Brother. Read
Nineteen Eighty-Four some time. :)
No, patents are a lot worse than copyright in everything but duration. You
don't need to know about the patent to get in trouble (though you are in more
trouble if you do), no commercial distribution or even distribution at all is
necessary for you to get in trouble, and even a mere
I don't see the point (why not just include the source code with the binary
and charge for them together?), but I don't see a problem with it either.
The price does still need to be reasonable. If someone did charge a billion
dollars, it realistically is never going to be bought by anyone. (If it's
bought by a billionaire, that billionaire probably isn't going to give it
away to the public, either.) And of course, if more money than
Sorry, but unless the patents are licensed to everybody, royalty-free, or
until the patents expire, no free software codec can possibly not violate
them, and developing a new one just won't help. This new codec is either
basically proprietary or definitely a patent violation, depending on
Quote from Magic Banana:
Someone who is not the author of the source code can do that as well if she
received the code under the terms of a free software license.
I think you mean permissive license, not free software license.
Jitsi is in Java.
I don't see the resemblance. The guy has a beard and long hair... so? Lots of
people have those features, and RMS doesn't have blond hair. He reminds me
more of TJ Kirk TheAmazingAtheist as he looked when he started making
videos.
Making a Java program intentionally incompatible with the proprietary Java
interpreter from Oracle is not something I would encourage. Other than
OpenJDK not being readily available in binary form for Windows, it doesn't
improve anyone's freedom to intentionally cripple a Java program so
The language is archaic, but it very clearly tells you to do what you want.
The WTFPL pretty much says the same thing with the same type of simple
language (just a little less politely), and that's been accepted by the FSF,
so I don't see why this license would not work.
You can use GNOME Shell.
Windows doesn't have a package management system. Only system-level updates
are delivered by Microsoft themselves. Other than that, it only has a
standard for decentralized production of installers; it's up to software
developers to make these installers, figure out how to include
Well, don't forget that the Windows way is only effective because Windows is
very popular. Because Microsoft doesn't help provide software, you only get a
program if the developer of that program takes the time to build it properly
for Windows, or if you compile the source yourself (not a
I use IBus for typing in Japanese. It works well (as long as you're able to
get it to work). Thankfully, GNOME has its own input method thing as of
version 3.6 I think (I think it might be based on IBus, not sure), which is
much easier to set up and better integrated with GNOME Shell.
I kind of wondered about this myself... nothing in the Trisquel repo seems to
work. Actually, the ones that are supposed to use SaaSS translators don't
seem to work, either.
I've also seen this kind of misconception in a distribution of game art
called the SpriteLib GPL[0] (now just called SpriteLib, getting rid of
the misnomer); it's under the Common Public License, which the author
misinterpreted as meaning only non-commercial use, if I remember correctly.
I use Savannah, personally:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/
I was already sick of SourceForge a long, long time ago.
It's something that's broken in Trisquel 6, see this issue for an explanation
and a way to fix it:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8155
You need a special extension called the User Themes.[0] GNOME 3.6 added a
Shell Theme option for changing the shell theme if you have this extension
installed, but I don't know how you do it in GNOME 3.4 (what Trisquel 6
uses).
[0] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/
No, I haven't.
That was my thought at first, but I looked and the FSF only mentions on
gnu.org/licenses that version 2 of the WTFPL is approved; version 1 isn't
commented on. Version 2 has some extra text that makes it more clear what you
can do what the f*** you want with. I guess that version 1 would be
First off, avoid having to do this if you can. PDF isn't meant for this. Have
a copy stored in a word processor format like odt.
But, if you don't have such a file and LibreOffice can't import it properly,
here's a suggestion, though it's kind of obvious: open up the PDF in a PDF
reader
https://github.com/frewsxcv/bitcoin-prices/commit/1874693355e7890e6f20a6fae863fe1c028599df#diff-37854d19817c792316d481f5beb93cc7
It was previously under the MPL 1.1, GPL 2.0, or LGPL 2.1.
No, they define commercial:
What is commercial considered?
If you are paid to do your job, and part of your job is implementing
Packery, a commercial license is required.
Honestly, my thought is that you should perhaps use a different method that's
more targeted, like e-mail; or perhaps a distributed social network that
supports photos, like Diaspora.[0]
I see MediaGoblin as a tool for public media sharing. Private sharing doesn't
seem to me like
A program is non-free if you, the user, don't have the four freedoms. So
that's a simple question: of course deleting the source code would make it
non-free.
But I suppose the more interesting question is: is it *unethical*? That one's
a little more interesting because what's unethical
This isn't software, but you could use a template and edit the HTML. For
example:
http://www.freehtml5templates.co.uk/
Any community centered around Linux is destined to go astray. Not because
of using the name Linux instead of GNU/Linux, but because it only loosely
ties the community to what actually matters: free software. Inevitably, not
only systems like Ubuntu and Mint, but even systems like SteamOS
You should try to avoid other methods of spying, but if you can't avoid all
of them, avoiding the ones you can is still worth it in my opinion. Giving up
because it might not be working would be rather like not bothering to encrypt
e-mails because recipients might be using proprietary
The BSD projects are no less free than most operating system projects that
use GNU as the core and Linux as the kernel, so what's your point?
I wouldn't. Turning someone off to GNU/Linux (which is used to describe
several operating systems that are rather different) would be a huge loss.
I think someone who is used to Windows needs to be introduced to something
like Ubuntu GNOME before trying Trisquel, and they need to learn about
You'll be fine with that, I've played Xonotic with reduced graphics on a
budget laptop with a Celeron processor and Intel GMA.
If they don't use Flash and can live without Flash and Skype in particular
(be sure to explain what exactly Flash is and what it's used for), then
Trisquel might be just fine for them. My mom is OK with Trisquel, for
example.
If they're not OK with losing Flash and Skype (or there's some
You would need MATE for that. I think there's a PPA somewhere.
Debian added MATE to its repositories recently (or so I heard), so Ubuntu
(and subsequently Trisquel) should get it in the repositories at some point
in the future.
Gnash doesn't work well for anything, and in fact gets in the way of fallback
HTML5 players (making some streaming sites look like they don't work when
they do). I have no idea if Wine works with Skype, but it's probably not a
high priority what with a GNU binary being available.
Sure, you
This is a petition to either keep it alive or release the source code. It's
not a petition to free Winamp; making it open source is just mentioned as
one possible solution to the problem of Winamp being dead (and not even
the preferred solution, at that).
Just use VLC. There's no need for
I asked my brother (13 years old) if he knows what Winamp is. He said no.
Though to be fair, he hadn't heard of VLC, either, for some reason.
Same answers from my sister (who's 15).
I've also used WinFF for convertion; it's a frontend for FFmpeg.
This petition emphasizes preventing Winamp from dying, not freeing its
source code. Making it open source is talked about as a secondary,
solution to the problem in the event that AOL is unwilling to continue
maintaining it as a proprietary program.
Signing this petition does not vote for
Debian has a re-branded version, IceDove I think.
You're making a gamble without considering the consequences of losing. This
is dangerous in any situation. If your gamble fails, not only will some
people continue to use this old proprietary program, but this old proprietary
program may even get more attention from the press.
I'm going to
Could you explain what about sentient code scares you?
OK, well, that's terrible. I'm skeptical of it causing something apocalyptic.
Anyone who uses a language that only has a proprietary compiler or
interpreter likely wasn't going to release their own source code. Other than
that, unusually easy to use programming methods that happen to be
Cookies are a feature of the browser, they're unrelated to Flash or HTML5 or
anything like that. To control cookies, take a look at
Edit-Preferences-Privacy. Replace remember history with use custom
settings for history, and you can set the policy for cookies.
Skepticism is useful. Don't abandon it just because of the semi-recent
revelations about the NSA.
Note that there was strong evidence that the government had the authority to
do what we know know they have been doing for well over a decade. It wasn't
just some crazy idea thought up by a
Er... that racial slur you just blurted is a corruption of negro, from the
Spanish word for black. It has nothing to do with attitude and everything
to do with skin color.
No free video editing software is as good as the good proprietary video
editing software. But some choices are PiTiVi, OpenShot, Lombard, and LiVES.
I've used all of those except Lombard; OpenShot is more or less as good as
Windows Movie Maker; PiTiVi has advanced features, but often has
Wait a minute, who said the end of the world is coming, and why are you
swallowing such nonsense (nonsense which isn't new; there have been countless
end-of-the-world predictions, e.g. recently it was supposed to happen in
2012)?
What part of that post suggests end of the world to you?
WebM is perfectly good for non-web use. But yes, they can all export Theora,
and same goes for WebM and Matroska. PiTiVi has a tendency to fail to export
many of the formats it's supposed to support, though, and I've gotten mixed
results with it (and sometimes it crashes or locks up, so make
In text mode? Are you using the net installer? That does require an internet
connection. The live CD doesn't.
Uh, it looks to me like he was mocking religion, not suggesting that the
world is going to end.
Video streaming varies. For the example you gave, none of the usual options
worked for me.
For the record, the solutions I always try are (in order):
* UnPlug (Abrowser/Firefox extension).
* Finding the appropriate video URL and pasting it into VLC (media player
found in Trisquel's repo).
Favorite DE is GNOME, KDE is a fairly good alternative (though I haven't used
KDE much), and Cinnamon is decent, but cluttered.
That wasn't the end of it. The next episode pretty much consisted entirely of
attacking Stallman's character (without him being there, of course). I don't
think they even did much of their usual stuff in that episode.
Honestly, I've never gotten Minitube to work. Last time I tried it, when I
tried to click play, nothing happened. Especially confusing to me because I
never hear anyone else say they have a problem.
Yep, that's it.
How is licensing distracting? You just plop the appropriate license text, and
there you go.
I doubt any artificial intelligence in the near future will be sentient,
though.
Hm? AMD CPUs often have Radeon integrated graphics.
If you want a better video card, I suggest the one sold by Think Penguin
(It's under Accessories):
http://libre.thinkpenguin.com
Trisquel builds from source, so it doesn't.
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but copyleft doesn't force freedom
onto someone else. A user of a GPL-licensed program can run the program the
way they don't wish, not take the source code and compile it, not
redistribute, etc. The GPL forces people to not force non-freedom onto
I don't see a reason Trisquel or the Trisquel community would be particularly
interesting to the NSA. They probably don't even know we exist.
Note that a Linux (sic) website is not necessarily the website of a
GNU/Linux system. It could be just about anything.
Hm... that license is a little too non-specific to me. They say you can use
it in your projects, but it's not entirely clear what they mean by that,
and whether or not you can just distribute modified versions.
Quote from mYself
This is not a software, therefore it cannot be proprietary
That's false. I don't know why you think culture can't be proprietary the
same way software is proprietary. For cultural works, you don't need access
to the source code to make changes, but copyright still can (and
I use DVD Styler when I want to make a video DVD.
Actually, there are no such programs for detecting GNU/Linux viruses and
other malware. ClamAV detects Windows viruses so that you don't infect
Windows systems. Viruses for GNU/Linux systems are a curiosity at best right
now, because on most GNU systems the only files they could possibly
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