Since many of you use XFCE, have you. tried Whisker Menu?
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/10/whisker-menu-xfce-ubuntu-app-menu-with-search
The LTS enablement stack for Ubuntu 12.04.3 includes the Raring
kernel/headers along with libdrm and xorg packages. The libdrm and xorg
packages are in the Trisquel repos, but the Raring kernel (3.8) is still
missing and it would be nice to have.
On the other end, the Ubuntu 12.04 repos
Winamp? This isn't 1998, so why should we care? GNU/Linux users have Totem
and VLC while the non-free operating systems have either iTunes or WMP.
I recommend either Aptana Studio (http://www.aptana.com) or Geany (apt-get
install geany) for developing sites and testing in localhost running a local
install of Apache or nginx.
I prefer Aptana these days as it is more feature rich. Of course you will
need to install OpenJDK 6 or 7 (go
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-per-year-from-android-patent-royalties-2013-11
After seeing that, I thought it was crazy that Microsoft STILL makes a lot of
money from Android patents and is more than most of their products! I know a
lot of you want to see software
Gah, the link is borked as usual. Go to
http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards and scroll down to coreboot v4
support.
The M5A88-V EVO at http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A88V_EVO/ seems to be
powerful with a lot of features, but is expensive.
Yes, you have the freedom to intall GNOME Shell. No matter how horrible it
is.
I've used Vegur in the past and it is a really nice font.
If this ISO is being released this late, it should at least have the LTS
enablement stack with the lts-raring (3.8) kernel deblobbed, the raring xorg,
and mesa like the recent Ubuntu 12.04 ISOs:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
You said the binary is non free but one of the Cisco PR members said if you
take the BSD licensed source and compile it, that it will match the binary
you download.
Users don't pay because only Cisco is authorized to provide a binary on their
website (Firefox will download from their
I think they are doing this for WebRTC and letting Opus handle the audio. I'm
in the boat where I feel Daala is the future (not VP9), but companies like
Apple and Microsoft won't include it with their OS even if it is patent and
royalty free.
But that is an old mentality where desktop apps
This is good news and will make its way to Firefox/Abrowser soon under a BSD
license:
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/10/30/video-interoperability-on-the-web-gets-a-boost-from-ciscos-h-264-codec/
Reading the comments at
http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-removes-barriers-webrtc/
seems to clarify what is actually going on:
We will select licensing terms that allow for this code to be used in
commercial products as well as open source projects. In order for Cisco
LULZ:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/10/ubuntu-wins-big-brother-austria-privacy-award
I'm not trying to incite a war here, but Chrome is the more clearly defined
non-free browser than Chromium. Chromium is under a BSD license, but the
licenses for the libraries included with it are all over the place.
That is why many Trisquel users are skeptical about it. There was some
I think you are missing the point of my argument Banana. Jason Self as well.
I said MULTIPLE times that if the JavaScript is free software (jQuery) and is
being served from a server (like the official one or the Google AJAX one) and
matches the official, free release, then there should be no
Yeah, and that's why I said it would be nice if LibreJS had some file
integrety check (via MD5 or whatever) against the official version(s) and
reject the file if it does not match common MD5 checks. There may be multiple
MD5 checks for jQuery for example as sourceMap linking names in the
You forget about those people who include a library like Qt with their
application and just want it there and have no intention of changing those Qt
libraries.
I think some devs like permissive for ease of integration and bundling with
the focus being on creating other software and leaving
If you do a diff between the jQuery library offered on the Google, ASPNETCDN,
and CDNJS servers, you will find out that they match the official release. Of
course there are some naming convention differences (like the name of the
sourcemap file to match the filename) but they are the same.
Speaking of web servers, nginx is under the 2-clause BSD license
(http://nginx.org/LICENSE) and due to it being under a permissive license, it
can be deployed anywhere. I know that if it was under a GPL license, that the
BSD crowd would have a problem with it due to their freedoms being
There is a lot of software (some would say the strongest) that benefit from a
persmissive license and do not have a lot of forks (free or not) that cause
the original to be obsolete. Where are all these jQuery forks? Apache? nginx?
How about programming languages like Python, Ruby, and
I also meant to say that the official releases of a library like jQuery
(which get served from the Google and code.jquery.com) servers are free
software and THOSE don't need to be blocked. The official releases of jQuery
ARE free software and the team makes it easy to access the source code
A common one I see people bring up is jQuery. They say Oh, it's jQuery,
which is free already, to which I disgaree. jQuery is under the MIT license.
It's not under a copyleft license like the GPL, so people aren't required to
pass on freedom to the people using it. If the website's only
http://torrentfreak.com/obama-administration-uses-pirated-code-on-healthcare-gov-131019/
Montgomery, the creator of Daala, has changed jobs from Red Hat to Mozilla in
order to concentrate on the codec more. This is good news as it will be
patent free and under an open license for all to use. Best of all, the codec
will be on par with the upcoming H265 codec.
Here's an interesting commentary on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXWEuJ2Wfg
Is it possible to recreate Elementary OS in Trisquel without requiring
hardware acceleration?
I've been meaning to update my desktop and the first step is a motherboard
that can run CoreBoot. There was one I found months ago that worked with an
AMD CPU, but was discontinued and left me worried.
I'm not going to use it as a gaming PC, so I don't need blazing speed as long
as I can
Version 2.0 of the MPL is the future of the license and 1.1 licensed software
can be migrated to version 2.0, which is GPL compatible. Maybe you can email
the authors to make the change?
Trisquel 7 will be based on 14.04, which will use a version of Gnome greater
than or equal to 3.8 that has an improved classic desktop:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/28/2146221/
Poor ole Richard Stallman is stuck on his Yeelong netbook since no other
totally free hardware existed at the time. Isn't it time for an upgrade and
if so, wouldn't it be nice if he could use Trisquel?
So seeing that Think Penguin is a trusted company making libre hardware, is
it possible
Since he is using Trisquel, you would hope that when he searches for PPAs
that they are free software. The whole point of Y PPA Manager is the seeking
of a specific program that you need a later version of. While it is true that
there are some sketchy PPAs out there (that may have non-free
Carlito is a sexy font and I may give it a shot down the road for work
documents and web sites. The weight is not as heavy as Lato and the font
glyphs seem smaller and tighter. I emailed the Font Squirrel guys to add it
to their page and hopefully Google adds it to their web fonts service.
These fonts were a little harder to find, but I found them on a GitHub repo
(https://github.com/axilleas/googlefonts). Here are the direct links and
hopefully they are the latest versions too:
Caladea Regular
https://github.com/axilleas/googlefonts/blob/master/Caladea-Regular.ttf?raw=true
Yeah, I don't see myself using it but I wanted to put it out there as a new
libre font commissioned by Google. I guess they were more concerned with it
being compatible with the Microsoft fonts for their ChromeOS users that may
get it referenced in Google Docs.
The website and .zip files do not list a license, but it is SIL 1.1 according
to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans just others in this thread were
wondering. :-P
Since Trisquel is based off of Ubuntu, you can easily get updated software
through Launchpad PPAs.
You can use the Y PPA Manager program from
https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/y-ppa-manager to easily search
for programs offers by others. It is also a great tool to manage your
This sounds like common sense, but women like a man who has good self esteem
and is confident in his conviction. If you are funny, that helps a lot too as
a good sense of humor can really break the ice on a date and sustain it if it
becomes a relationship.
Also remember that it is not a
The t=trisquel value tells the DuckDuckGo staff that you are willing to
support Trisquel and they will donate money (probably not a whole lot) to the
Trisquel project.
I installed the -bad and -ugly gstreamer plugins from the repo and when I go
to http://beta.html5test.com/ the audio seems to be good (with AAC and MP3)
but H264 doesn't show up as active. Am I missing a gstreamer package?
Updated:
I had to install the -ffmpeg package for gstreamer which enabled H264. I
figured -ugly would work since it had x264 as a dependency but the -ffmpeg
package was needed.
I don't know if I can just use the -ffmpeg package and not have the others
(like -bad and -ugly) but I will
Why was this in Theora instead of WebM? The quality of the Theora video codec
kinda sucks.
Why not have the software for the game (engine) licensed under a copyleft
license like the LGPL or Mozilla Public License 2.0 where the code remains
open and independent of any artwork or media? You could make commercial games
to your heart's desire without worrying about a license like the
Is there a lady in your life?
The sad reality is that many carriers like Verizon will not take your phone
unless they can put crap on your phone that you cannot easily uninstall.
Isn't this what Ubuntu is pretty much doing? Being at the mercy of the
carriers and inviting them to heavily customize the look and put
It seems that one of the motivations for Valve creating an OS is that they
can create a custom distro based off of Ubuntu (rumored to be 12.04) and
create a walled garden for their services.
The stories say they wanted to improve the video and audio support in the
Linux ecosystem, but is
http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/09/valve-announces-linux-based-steamos-as-basis-for-living-room-gaming/
Valve Software's SteamOS was announced today and here is a summary:
Why a new OS? Valve says that with SteamOS, the company has achieved
Are you talking about Holy Cow Records at the Pike Market or Melrose Vinyl in
Capitol Hill?
Have you tried Noise from the ElementaryOS PPA?
https://launchpad.net/~elementary-os/+archive/stable
I've been testing out Elementary OS lately and it is a fast and gorgeous
Ubuntu based distribution. Like Trisquel 6, it is based off of Ubuntu 12.04
LTS and will be supported for many years. With that in mind, has anyone tried
to recreate Elementary OS in Trisquel 6 by adding the programs,
The browser bundle for GNU/Linux only offers the 2.3 series as their latest
version. Same goes for Windows and Mac bundles. The initial version check in
the self loading Firefox has the 2.3 release as the latest.
I guess we are all fucked.
What's wrong with the Enigmail extension for Thunderbird? Thunderbird is a
trusted and stable email program and Enigmail has been supported and accepted
for some time. Oh and there's Bitmessage which is gaining traction and
follows the same methodology as Bitcoin.
What would get
http://boingboing.net/2013/09/07/90-percent-of-tor-keys-can-be.html
What I dont like is how they spent $255 million of tax payer money to
basically snoop on the people that had no choice into paying for it since
that's how taxes work. That is a lot of money going into taking away not only
the freedom of Americans, but other countries. I also don't like how
Here's another link about them getting around SSL, VPNs, and other secure
protocols through brute force.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/05/nsa-snowden-encryption-cracked/2772721/
Scary indeed.
For some reason I saw a link for Blekko, a search engine that I remember
trying back in the day so I did some research into it. Its another one of
those San Francisco startups that is trying to compete in the search engine
field against Google and in my opinion, is doing it all wrong. This
FreeBSD 10 will be their first release that has all the GNU components
removed. One big one is the push for Clang and LLVM instead of GCC due to
newer versions of GCC using GPLv3 and BSD sticking with the older GPLv2
licensed version because they don't like GPLv3.
If this happens to
People use VB from the Ubuntu and Trisquel repos? They are usually old
versions and Oracle offers official repositories for most distros on
http://www.virtualbox.org
Is this going to have the Quantal or Raring hardware enablement stack by
default. No reason for normal ole Ubuntu to have all the fun. :-(
If you are reading this on the mailing list and not the forums, I meant the
LTS enablement instead of hardware enablement stack.
That is true that you can install the latest linux libre, but these are newer
packages besides the kernel. On top of that, sometimes people want a kernel
that matches the Ubuntu release. We currently have that with the stock and
3.5 kernel from 12.10.
Gnome Shell is horrible and if its installed by default, it will be the first
thing I purge. Unity isn't bad, but many here hate it.
Traditional desktop look and feel is Mate with Cinnamon giving a more modern
approach. I'm interested in seeing how the classic desktop in Gnome 3.8 turns
I second that. It's gorgeous.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
If it goes as scheduled, Ubuntu 12.04.3 will be released on the 22nd with
these three backported features of 13.04 installed by default:
1. linux-generic-lts-raring
2. xserver-xorg-lts-raring
3. libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-raring
The backported xorg
Its also a plus that Brackets is under a free software license (MIT):
https://github.com/adobe/brackets/blob/master/LICENSE
Money helps so the devs don't starve and pass out on the computer. :-)
At the top right of the page I see a link to their Twitter feed and the
second link down is the direct link to the font.
If you are talking about the non-free program Final Draft, then they aren't
really endorsing it and more of a way to get the font to work with it if
needed or to use
So basically if you copy the fonts into /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ it will be
systemwide, but if they are placed in the hidden .fonts folder in the user's
home directory, that will be for that user only.
Then you follow with sudo fc-cache -fv in the terminal and hit enter. I
actually run
aka it needs money in the form of crowdfunding, donations, or commercial
backing.
The font download from the site is free software. That's what matters.
This is a great read on the font by the creator:
http://johnaugust.com/2013/introducing-courier-prime
If its a vulnerability in Abrowser that is fixed in a newer version, then we
have a problem. Generally when a new Firefox comes out, it takes weeks for
Ruben to clean the browser and release the changed Firefox version as
Abrowser.
What he needs to understand is that a web browser is the
Yup, and it was released this year so many people could have missed it if
they weren't seeking a quality Courier alternative in the past. Especially
under a free license so I can embed in PDFs.
I'm very thankful as well for this font since the guidelines for scripts
usually state must be
I've said this before, but the owner of that site doesn't really get a clue
on what a pure free software operating system is. They list 3 Debian
editions, for which one suggests non-free components (Linux Mint) which is
overkill. Is Fedora a pure free software distro or does it include
I'm writing a screenplay and after doing some research, the Courier font is
pretty standard at 12pt, but of course I want a libre font that I can embed
in a PDF if needed.
Thankfully I found Courier Prime from
http://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/ that's under the SIL Open Font
Title meant to say tush btw. Damn autocorrect.
I tested out a video in Gnash today and of course, performance was still crap
in comparison to the main non-free Flash plugin. The Gnash team still is
chugging along, but maybe they should help the Shumway team instead in
bringing Flash playback native in the browser with HTML5/JavaScript
Yeah, I like the work that Mozilla did with PDF.js rendering PDFs natively in
the browser.
It just sucks that the majority of people who use a desktop PC are on Windows
and still use IE as their default browser and wouldn't benefit from an open
web. Thankfully Windows 8 has been bombing and sales of RT tablets and
Windows PCs in general has been declining. Even Apple's phone and
Oh well, I figured that it was worth a shot to put it out there as an option
and making them aware even if they don't do it in the long run. Especially if
IE adapts WebRTC which at this point has Opus as a requirement. Like I said
in a previous reply, they have nothing holding them back from
Don't hold your breath on it happening soon. The project owner, Ruben, is
very slow to make these types of changes.
I'm mainly talking about audio, since the codecs like Opus and Vorbis aren't
bogged down by patent attacks like VP8.
If you list owning of patents as a reason for pushing H264, then wouldn't
that apply to Opus as well? Why would Microsoft push for the development and
eventual
http://mate-desktop.org
Yeah, I guessed that Opus was the best solution to get royalty free audio
codecs in Internet Explorer considering Opus uses the SILK codec (created by
Skype, for which MS owns) in addition to Xiph.Org's CELT. They even own
patents to it, so it doesn't hurt them to include technology they
I seriously cannot believe I am reading this. I thought this administration
was all about jobs jobs jobs but instead wants more system admins to be
fired and instead handled by cloud providers. Fuck that.
Firefox 23 hit the Ubuntu repos the other day, which means that Abrowser 23
should hopefully be here soon as well. Is Ruben going to modify the FF 23
source code to bring back the disabling of JavaScript for Abrowser 23?
Do you use DNS Crypt? https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/
I had the dnscrypt-proxy from
https://launchpad.net/~xuzhen666/+archive/dnscrypt installed but noticed that
there isn't a package for 12.04 anymore. hmm
What's the point in donating to the Trisquel project where he gets the money
but then wants someone else do do this for him?
I still think that having a stable, non webmail desktop email application is
important. I've tried Geary, but after their failed crowdfunding campaign
I know that Internet Explorer is a non-free browser, but it is still the most
used browser out there and if royalty free codecs do make their way into the
browser, then it is a big step either way for the average user in listening
to royalty free audio.
A little while back, the royalty
Have any of you used Roundcube with your personal mail servers? I haven't
touched it in years and they seem to have a GPL dependent version available
to download: http://roundcube.net/download
Roundcube is IMAP which means it loads from the server each time unless you
delete it.
Its funny how the Trisquel videos are hosted on Ubuntu One, a 3rd party cloud
service where the client is purged from the Trisquel repos because the client
and service are considered unethical. Hypocrite much? Why couldn't Ruben host
on the Trisquel servers? Even Jason Self was nice enough
Tor is in hot water now with the FBI after this Irishman used it for a child
porn ring. Apparently the feds were able to get it due to an exploit in
Firefox 17:
http://www.itpro.co.uk/public-sector/20343/fbi-allegedly-used-browser-vulnerability-target-child-abuse-ring
Yup, I hold the top threads on this forum that aren't an advertisement:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/users?sort=descorder=Replies
It just proves that whomever is running the prism-break site doesn't really
know what he or she is doing and is constantly changing the site in an
attempt to keep hits to their site. The Debian version of Linux Mint is
actually less free than Debian as it has the kernel with the non-free
I watched this week's episode, made a comment about it going stagnant, and it
turned into a 100+ post discussion:
http://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/1jqwcj/las_is_starting_to_show_some_fatigue/
Are many of you still burned by the show from the Stallman ep?
I forgot the forums here hate certain characters. Here's a short URL:
http://ur1.ca/ex0id
I just checked the site on August 4th and noticed that Trisquel was removed
from the list, but Fedora and Linux Mint are considered ok? I thought both of
these provided non-free software and blobs. Its nice to have Debian on there,
but they could have ALSO put Trisquel on the list.
Why was
The problem with Trisquel is that there is only ONE United States mirror and
it is the FSF one. With Ubuntu, the servers are everywhere and I use one that
is about 30 min away by car in a big city. Oh and it is relatively obscure as
it is not an official mirror, but has a LOT of bandwidth.
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