I'd love for someone to take the effort in checking Chromium and making it
more freedom friendly. Of course, this has been an issue for like 3 years now
and people would rather spend time on this site telling you that you are
wrong and this is evil and that is evil instead of taking the time
Awesome!
I'm not sure if you saw this back on the 8th with the UK government:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/uk-government-publishes-odf-guidance-0
Installing now
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Purism-Librem-13-250k-Fund
This is an interesting revelation.
These may be better: http://packages.trisquel.info/belenos/fonts-croscore
Yeah, they cannot completely open up the old Source engine due to the
middleware. Would be interesting if Source 2 is all in-house.
Hopefully someone twists Apple's arm to get them on board.
But if someone uses Chrome, Firefox, or Edge in the future on Windows 10,
they will have support for this which is awesome. Especially now that Windows
10 hit the 100 million install base already.
People seem to have a negative opinion on Debian because they offer a
"non-free" repository that you can easily not use. I guess the same goes for
the "restricted" and "multiverse" repositories for Ubuntu which contain the
non-free bits.
Kernel wise, Ubuntu will include the bits from
In another note speaking of games, this one guy did a comparison between
Ubuntu 15.04 and Windows 10 and the new Source 2 engine in DOTA 2 performed
better on Ubuntu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8qXbJqMvs=1
I know its all non-free and all with the game, platform, and firmware, but I
Everybody does it for show. Why do you think that Google got behind WebM and
Mozilla behind Daala? Its so YouTube can cut back on royalties if YouTube was
H.264 only and Mozilla doesn't want to pay for licensing fees of H.264 and
above if they can avoid it. Oh and companies like Cisco want
Yeah, people would still spend hundreds of dollars on gun skins on CS:GO or
TF2 no matter if the game was libre or not.
Yeah, people would still spend hundreds of dollars on gun skins on CS:GO or
TF2 no matter if the game was libre or not.
Yeah, people would still spend hundreds of dollars on gun skins on CS:GO or
TF2 no matter if the game was libre or not.
How would tbis affect Android, which uses the Linux kernel and is licensed
under Apache?
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/09/gnome-3-18-google-drive-nautilus-support
Something to keep an eye on with Trisquel 8. That is if you still use the
Gnome stack instead of Nemo (Cinnamon) or Caja (MATE) for your file manager.
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/09/08/announcing-vp9-support-coming-to-microsoft-edge/
From the horse's mouth.
You seem to have a counter argument for everything don't you? :-)
I just don't see the point in continuously having to ask money from people
again and again through multiple rounds of funding. That's how you start to
irritate your backers and they just want to you to release the damn thing
Well, you do see collaboration on big projects, but that tends to be by
multiple corporations who have a vested interest. Something that comes to
mind is the Vulkan graphics project. It is happening because all these
companies want a better graphics stack and become less reliant on DirectX.
A successful libre game is really few and far in-between if you are going the
crowd funding route. Like I said in a previous post, the most successful ones
have a name or property tied to it. Shenmue 3 was able to bypass 2 million
dollars within hours of the crowd funding release. You would
Btw, did you happen to see this today?
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/09/ubuntu-convergence-x-apps-running-mir-video-2
1.) Rich? I hardly would say that a price fixated by the developer ($1, $10)
for source code makes it "rich people only" if the consumer is willing to out
of of their way to support your game. You ask people to crowd fund a game,
which has NO guarantee that the game is ever going to be
Now you know why people don't use "free software" and instead use "open
source" because it confuses between free as in price and free as in freedom.
Maybe from now on, I should just use libre so you guys can stop twisting my
words. :-)
I always meant free as in "freedom" and in relation to
Why was this downvoted? I linked to a site and provided basic information.
Whatever.
Let's revisit this topic when Mir gets released with either 16.04 or 16.10
and compare to Wayland.
Check my comment above:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/do-drm-free-games-matter-even-if-game-non-free#comment-77905
One example is
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-pocket-wee-gnu-linux-desktop
"Default configuration:Ubuntu
Compatible with Microsoft Windows 7"
If Chris was 100% to free software like he preaches on here and fights with
people, he wouldn't offer Ubuntu or even mention it.
Those artists are trying to make money from live performances because that is
the only way for them to make their own money these days. Gone are people
buying $20+ records (ever since Napster) and instead people would rather
download them on their smart phone, stream via a site like Spotify
This is the point I was trying to make in my original post. It is stupid that
the engine is closed source, but it is ok for the artwork to be not "gratis"
if you are trying to sell an actual game.
Some games like Team Fortress 2 are free to play but the only thing you pay
for is cosmetic
I keep on seeing crowdfunding being mentioned as the best solution, but from
what I've seen, only the games that have a big name behind them or franchise
get the full funding. I'm talking about Shenmue 3, Mighty Number 9, and that
Castlevania spinoff.
All of these success stories result in
Sorry, I was distracted by your incorrect usage of "your" and "you're". :-)
Anyways, I softballed some solutions to the free engine debacle so hopefully
it was helpful.
I've been on these forums 4+ years and besides Ruben packaging a Trisquel ISO
every few years, no one here has really contributed anything to the free
software cause of any significance. People here are more concerned in
pointing fingers and telling you that you are wrong without providing
I re-read my post a few hours later and actually felt bad about what I said
there. I apologize for those comments and initially meant to say "most"
instead of none. I actually use your repos for the kernel and VLC and am
thankful for that.
I just feel like I bang my head against the wall
People will never agree as they are stubborn and will protect their ego. If
there is a disagreement, they will create their own community. After time,
there is conflict within the new community and members leave to start yet
another.
There may never be a solution to this. That's why
Did you even read it? THE GAME ENGINES WILL BE FREE.
If I had Mark Shuttleworth money, I would put it towards building libre
hardware. I want an open society so true innovation can happen without
restrictions.
Unfortunately, companies with the big money are focusing on mobile and tablet
devices and are locking things down more and more.
For a while I have been trying to think of ways to encourage more people to
make their games more freedom friendly but also get paid to continue to do
what they love. I do agree that making games DRM free is a good step in the
right direction, but there should be more than that.
You do
Except that a budget for a video game is much bigger than developing web
server software or a JavaScript library. I'm talking hundreds of millions of
dollars (GTAV was like $250 mil and Destiny was $500 mil) that is not
possible with a pure FLOSS game. You are telling me that a company
Let's think about this typical scenario:
I have 10 employees (which is pretty low) and have the intention to create a
game. Since the game is aiming to use a pure FLOSS engine, either I or
someone on that team has to build it from scratch which takes time and
effort. Let's say I aim for a
Here's another question for you. Let's say someone develops a game that fits
your ideals of free software and free culture. Or maybe its free software but
has pay for assets. A customer goes on the site and buys the game and the
developer doesn't immediately offer the source code for that
Ideally, you create a paywall for your game where they must pay for their
copy of it. But then realistically, once that tarball and source code is out
there after the first person buys it, it is distributed freely without
restriction according to the free software license. It reminds me of
Maybe your efforts should be better spent in taking the Trisquel core and
adding a different desktop to it and additional programs. If you can get a
super sexy Cinnamon, MATE, or Unity version of Trisquel up and going, I
wouldn't object.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/13/destiny-500-million/
It is the total package including the marketing in addition to the
development.
If that is inaccurate, there is another list at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop
which has more info. Either
So let's talk more about this art issue. You pay for the right to see a movie
in a movie theatre or steam a movie. Let's say you pay for tickets to go to a
concert a poetry reading. You and you alone specifically have the right to
view that medium for the duration. That guy off the street
I'm still on the fence about the DRM free, yet non-free games debate. If the
software was a tool like lets say Python or nginx or an operating system like
Trisquel, then I 100% agree that it should be FLOSS.
A game though is pretty self contained and serves one purpose. It doesn't try
to
I feel for consuming media on the web, the more open formats the better. JPEG
is pretty much the standard for pictures, so why can't we have an equivalent
for audio and video? It just seems silly that there are no restrictions in
viewing pictures but then magically we aren't sure if we can
The Humble Bundle store is having a big sale right now and for many of these
games, they offer DRM free versions for GNU/Linux that can be installed
directly from the download in addition to Stem keys. I know the free software
community hates DRM and wants ALL of the code to be free
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.en.html
"Nonfree game programs (like other nonfree programs) are unethical because
they deny freedom to their users. (Game art is a different issue, because it
isn't software.)"
"Since the art in the game is not software, it does not need to be
I have a feeling that the FCC is going to do what they want anyways due to
pressure from major corporations that make these network devices and don't
want free software evangelists removing their firmware and throwing on an
open one.
Safari on the desktop is a low factor at this point, but the iOS versions are
where it matters more as you already know. It would be nice if WebM support,
if ever added, hits ALL of their browsers and not just the desktop one.
The nice thing about Chrome and Firefox on Android is the near
http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/67752.html
"As of today, just after Microsoft announced its membership in the Open Media
Alliance, they also quietly changed the internal development status of
Vorbis, Opus, WebM and VP9 to indicate they intend to ship all of the above
in the new Windows
If you are looking to throw up some audio on a site as a link or through an
HTML5 player, it may be best to use a .weba file which is the WebM format
just for audio. There you can use Vorbis or Opus for the container and
potentially reach a broader audience than just an .ogg or .opus file.
They are referencing NetVC, which is being pushed to be an open standard that
combines the efforts of Daala, Thor, and the VP9/VP10 codecs. The encryption
is being pushed by Netflix of course since they want to offer streaming
without plugins and not pay royalty fees.
As for WebM, you
http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Alliance-Open-Media
Good to see this happening for the future of media on the web. Hopefully this
means Apple and Microsoft add more open media support to their browsers.
I have a confession. I'm addicted to Counter-Strike, which is non-free:
http://csgo-stats.com/t3g/
Run a modern operating system on 8 GB of RAM? WHICH?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2015-08/msg00010.html
If you have been following the latest kernel and technology in general the
past month or so, there have been plenty of stories about how hardware is
becoming more locked down.
1. Intel's Skylake will not offer free/open
If it is a one function device and cannot go online to potentially share your
info and habits, who cares if it is a jail? It's like me complaining about my
toaster or microwave.
I understand the concept of tinkering with hardware you own. I just don't
understand how someone would benefit from trying to shoehorn functionality on
an N64 considering it has no hard drive, network access, USB ports, and the
cartridges the games it came on weren't off the shelf.
I'm
Oops, Jono
If you are curious:
http://www.jonobacon.org/2015/08/28/ubuntu-canonical-and-ip/
I've never used Popcorn Time, but I can see the appeal. It gives that instant
streaming approach to movies from BitTorrent and eliminates the more
technical steps.
Be careful when using Popcorn Time as some people who merely mention it have
gotten in trouble.
https://bgr.com/2015/08/26/popcorn-time-users-targeted-rights-alliance/
I believe there used to be a WebUpd8 PPA, but he took it down for legal
reasons.
They are useless without the proprietary drivers. In CS:GO, its at least 200+
FPS with max settings at 1080p.
I heard that custom and free/open firmware like LibreCMC would no longer be
allowed on newer routers as the FCC worries that firmware from a non
established vendor (like Cisco or Netgear) would allow tampering of the radio
signals.
I would say to go with Python for the clear syntax, ease of use,
documentation, and it being installed with every version of Trisquel!
A good starting point is Python 2.7 (installed under just python) but if you
want to do Python 3, you can do that too. Just make sure that python3 is
Was this topic started in light of Doom 1 and 2 being available DRM free on
GOG?
https://www.gog.com/promo/bethesda_launch_id_software_bundle_260815
I have to switch my user agent to iPad for sites that try to force Flash on
me when going to their site. This serves up a MP4 most of the time, which
sucks that it isn't WebM. It's better than nothing I guess.
# xfce login manager
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
What made you go with that instead of the backported lts-vivid packages?
If switching to Android forced the sites to serve WebM instead of MP4, then I
would use it. Unfortunately, MP4 is served pretty much 100% of the time no
matter if you are using an Android or iPad user agent. I would say that many
site developers only think that iPads exist and you generally
Can someone move this to Troll Hole please?
I rarely stick up for Magic, but how is he a data-mining piece of shit from
his history on here? He is actually one of the more vocal free software, free
culture, and privacy-focused people on here.
Your rants actually make me want to play Xonotic less. I only tried it a few
times in the
I think they want to move everything to Snappy with Click packages. These
packages are all-in-one which will include the dependencies along with the
software in one package.
http://www.webupd8.org/2015/04/ubuntu-desktop-to-eventually-switch-to.html
At the age of 22 Shuttleworth founded Thawte, a digital certificate and
internet security company which he sold to VeriSign for $575 million in 1999,
when he was 26. He used a fraction of his wealth to start HBD Capital (now
called Knife Capital), a Cape Town-based emerging markets
I have tried Nexuiz/Xonotic in the past, but I was honestly not that
impressed. Maybe its because I played the original Quake 3 back in 1999 or so
and moved on. Nowadays, I would rather play something like CS: Global
Offensive or Team Fortress 2. Yeah, I know they are non-free games, but the
I know what data mining is.
This is one of the main problems with FLOSS in general. There are a lot of
egos in a meritocracy and no one really wants to work together. This results
in forking the software and now there are multiple versions of pretty much
the same thing with smaller dev teams.
I've noticed that unless
I noticed that PureOS is a rebranded Trisquel with the Cinnamon desktop. For
the longest time, many have advocated the use of Cinnamon or MATE as a
replacement to the current desktop or at least offer an alternative ISO for
Trisquel 7.
I've been in the MATE camp lately since it can mimic
According to https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.en.html as long as
your game engine and related software is free/open/libre then the artwork can
be commercial or whatever you want.
Since the art in the game is not software, it does not need to be free.
There is in fact free game
1.) Google uses a custom version of Ubuntu called Goobuntu at their offices:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
2.) IBM ships Ubuntu on newer mainframe computers:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/08/ibm-linuxone-mainframe-ubuntu-partnership
3.) Valve's SteamOS is based off of Debian. I
I've used the ppa at
https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa but it seems to
have been depreciated.
Microsoft is also having a new policy where they keep the majority of details
regarding patches/updates a secret:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/21/microsoft_will_explain_only_significant_windows_10_updates/
I think you mean Mozilla, as a CORPORATION:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
AWESOME!
Google is now pushing V10 into their libvpx:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=Libvpx-VP10-Starts
Makes you wonder if they are going to contribute this to NetVC.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/17/windows-10-can-search-for-and-disable-pirated-games
An update to Microsoft's End User License Agreement allows Windows 10 to
remotely disable counterfeit software or hardware on your computer.
Alphr first spotted the change which came into effect on
Years ago, there was an issue with Chromium having problems with 3rd party
code licensing even if the browser was under one of the BSD licenses.
Chromium would later be labeled non-free by the Trisquel team even though
Debian and Ubuntu did not.
Is this still an issue? I still find
I love Python but have only used it for small system scripts and websites
using a PyPy, Falcon Framework, Redis, and nginx stack. I'd love to give it a
shot for a game down the road as well. Of course most prefer C, C++, or C#
with Monogame for cross-platform releases.
I also meant to say that doing a native version of a Windows game does take
extra effort. With Steam games they either include WINE, a wrapper like eON,
or use something like Monogame.
Valve does a good job with their SteamOS versions and it.can only get
better with Source 2.
It makes you wonder when Android will let you program apps in Go, which has
been getting a lot of buzz lately.
Its use IS discouraged since the Trisquel devs go out of their way to ignore
it and purge anything related to it. Of course I can always add the Ubuntu
universe repo, but its annoying.
Yeah, but C and C++ are ideal as they are more low-level than Python and
Ruby. Python with Cython could be great if you are strict and wisely use C
libraries like OpenGL.
Nice! I see 3.13 in the text, but does this apply to all kernels like 3.19?
Does this also include the generic and lowlatency kernels too?
Are you using the old one from the repos or the official PPA that gives you
the latest version? https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
I see that you are using Python. Are you using it by itself or with Cython?
Are you using the old one from the repos or the official PPA that gives you
the latest version? https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Why do these threads keep popping up? I'm all for gender equality, but this
isn't the place.
I'm surprised to see these threads as there are a lot of Spanish users here
and traditionally (due to Catholic backgrounds) they aren't welcome to LGBT
communiities.
I found an old thread about how jxself's kernels having support for the Acer
c720 Chromebook, bit I wasn't sure about the stock Trisquel 7 kernels.
Considering that this is a cheap and freedom friendly laptop, I've been
considering getting one and putting Trisquel 7.1 with the 3.19 kernel
0
Just a bunch of boys playing with plastic gadgets while real men are out
lifting heavy objects, selling cars, kicking around a leather ball, or
writing speeding tickets in-between playing games on their phone.
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