[Trisquel-users] Migrating to free software at education
It comes from topic Big Changes Comings. Yea, it is pretty sad. I'm American, but I live in Mexico. My girlfriend goes to UABC here. The teachers require work to be in .doc .xls and .ppt The funny thing is, I don't even think the teachers have legitimate copies of MS Office. It's all pirated. Their ignorance has them not only using proprietary formats when for their uses free software and formats would work, but also pirating software. This then in turn is basically a green light from university faculty that the students should pirate the software too. I don't know many mexican UABC students that can fork out for an MS Office license when the license is twice their semester's tuition. It's a sad state of affairs I've brought to their attention time and again and they do nothing about it. I've been tempted to turn them in for piracy and condoning piracy, but on this side of the border I don't think anything would happen to them. Not so much that I care about pirating Microsoft's software, but it'd sort of stick it in their face that they either need to change, or be fined. Yeah. Really sad. I always doubt which will be the correct way to show them the case. I want not to seem anti-system, also to start talking about freedoms probably frighten them (sad too). Maybe a possible approximation is: It cannot be. You teachers obtain illegal copies of the software. Teachers ask (more or less indirectly) to obtain illegal copies of the software. But the point is that you really don't want this software in particular, it is only a tool that we use by habit. Also, there are free of charge alternatives to that software which are as good as the others and also they have been created because authors have thought before that this situation is not sustainable. Let's change to LibreOffice (or what it be). There will be no problems: program is free of charge, it has no virus and is 10 MB of size. No one can be disturbed by that. A teacher said me the other day that my problem was very particular for not to use that software, and then he was not considering it seriously. Maybe the class is no the correct moment for talking about that with the teacher (as student) so she want to use that time for another explanations. Maybe is better to visit her and exhibit the fact.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming
Yea, it is pretty sad. I'm American, but I live in Mexico. My girlfriend goes to UABC here. The teachers require work to be in .doc .xls and .ppt The funny thing is, I don't even think the teachers have legitimate copies of MS Office. It's all pirated. Their ignorance has them not only using proprietary formats when for their uses free software and formats would work, but also pirating software. This then in turn is basically a green light from university faculty that the students should pirate the software too. I don't know many mexican UABC students that can fork out for an MS Office license when the license is twice their semester's tuition. It's a sad state of affairs I've brought to their attention time and again and they do nothing about it. I've been tempted to turn them in for piracy and condoning piracy, but on this side of the border I don't think anything would happen to them. Not so much that I care about pirating Microsoft's software, but it'd sort of stick it in their face that they either need to change, or be fined. Yeah. Really sad. I always doubt which will be the correct way to show them the case. I want not to seem anti-system, also to start talking about freedoms probably frighten them (sad too). Maybe a possible approximation is: It cannot be. You teachers obtain illegal copies of the software. Teachers ask (more or less indirectly) to obtain illegal copies of the software. But the point is that you really don't want this software in particular, it is only a tool that we use by habit. Also, there are free of charge alternatives to that software which are as good as the others and also they have been created because authors have thought before that this situation is not sustainable. Let's change to LibreOffice (or what it be). There will be no problems: program is free of charge, it has no virus and is 10 MB of size. No one can be disturbed by that. A teacher said me the other day that my problem was very particular for not to use that software, and then he was not considering it seriously. Maybe the class is no the correct moment for talking about that with the teacher (as student) so she want to use that time for another explanations. Maybe is better to visit her and exhibit the fact. It is offtopic yet. I branch it to Migrating to free software at education.
Re: [Trisquel-users] seahorse shows passwords without verification
El vie, 06-05-2011 a las 13:32 -0600, ariel escribió: I know there must be hundreds of ways to get your privacy compromise if some one uses your computer while you are gone, but you don't have to be a computer genius to open seahorse in less than 30 secs. +1. I'd like seahorse ask me my user account key (although by default it is the admin key too) before showing the keys in the ring. I don't like to be worried everytime. Also, a lot of users probably don't know about what is seahorse, and they will not think about that problem. Indeed, I forgot the issue although I knew it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Simplified installation of Trisquel
On 10/04/11 21:52, Henry Jensen wrote: Hello, Hello! My question is: Is there a method to install a simplified version of Trisquel, which is more Debian-like? There is a text mode installation (at least at trisquel 4.0) where you can install a minimum system. Nice email :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel for old computer
On 06/04/11 06:42, alonivt...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, I am talking about the text mode in the live CD of Trisquel mini. It tries to recognize a network adapter (or something similar) and then after it doesn't find it it asks me to choose a repository which it can't verify and thus it can't go to the next step. Can you not let that particular form without text and follow up? Please, that some one correct me, but it must be a bug of the installer software and so, you shouldn't have problems with other installations. The graphic installer which takes about 10 minutes to load (maybe even more than that) simply crashes. Will an older version of Trisquel support my old computer (it has 128 MB memory and 233 MHz)? I think that you could try install Trisquel 3.5 (maybe it gnome interface is lighter and also, e.g., my dad's laptop cannot boot plymouth which is in Trisquel from 4.0 ), and when it is installed, try to use use the system although it was very slow and then you should be able to install (previosly downloaded from another computer) selected packages from a CD, for example lxde (although remove default packages is not encouraged). Alternatively, why you don't buy a network adapter? They are cheaper than 10 euros, or you can borrow one from another computer during the installation process. I did manage to install an old version of Debian from 2005 which simply let me select no adapter available (or something similar) in the text installer. I think that you should not experience the adapter problem in most of the other alternatives that you try.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel for old computer
since a network adapter is not present in the computer, I could not complete the installation. Really? Which part of installation did it happen in? As far as I know, you don't need internet connection (or a network adapter) for installing any GNU/Linux distro.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel for old computer
On 05/04/11 16:32, Luis A. Guzman Garcia wrote: El mar, 05-04-2011 a las 16:27 +0200, Daniel Molina escribió: since a network adapter is not present in the computer, I could not complete the installation. Really? Which part of installation did it happen in? As far as I know, you don't need internet connection (or a network adapter) for installing any GNU/Linux distro. Maybe he is talking about an netinstall, since the pc is too old to run a LiveCD. Aha. What about the text-mode installation? I think it is avaible since Trisquel 4.0.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Membership
like the Humble Indie Bundle. (which went to the non-profits FSF and Childsplay) Just a note: It was EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) instead of FSF. Of course, I feel it should and legally will (due to non-profit?) have to remain completely free. But the Humble Indie Bundle and even the band It is the end of the email for me. I think that you had a problem copy-pasting your email (or I have a cut piece of the comlete one for some reason). Please, let me follow reading this emotive mail!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why the choice of Empathy over Pidgin?
It was an Ubuntu choice because of posibility of videoconference in some protocols and/or other things.
