Maybe instead of running a VM or switching to another distro, you should try
an easier solution - use Trisquel-mini? I'm running it and so far no problems
switching between 3 keyboard layouts using a shortcut.
Of course, if you really want to switch to BSD (because of security or
whatever
what plugins exactly? You mean it will be possible to switch quality by
right-clicking the video, choosing mp4 as a format and then choosing higher
video quality?
I have set up a website (with my own personal server machine). Unfortunately,
it runs on a Raspberry Pi, which isn't the 100% free software friendly
solution to do this. Replacing the Raspberry with a similar, more free
software friendly system is on my to-do list.
Trisquel is definitely
My site is sort-of a visual throw back to a BBS and serves for sharing
pictures that I take. It should not be mentioned on the marketing page. But
maybe the pixelart rendition of the logo can be used by someone else?
this looks promising, hopefully it will be fixed in a future update from
upstream. But personally, I didn't experience this problem on a machine
running Lubuntu with all the newest updates...
My desktop is basically the standard Trisquel-mini setup, but I have this
background - a picture I took myself at my hometown. The car, unfortunately,
is not mine :-D
I think it has to do with appretiation for a very old, antique object and how
much time the cars actually spend on the road. Such an oldie is likely the
special baby of the collector. I wouldn't be surprised if the owner washes
and cleans the car more often than driving it.
Why exactly is sda5 unwanted? Is it because of the high number?
When installing Trisquel, I usually setup one (small) primary partition (/)
and one (very big) logical partition (/home). Swap is usually a couple
hundred MB big (depends on different factors) and sits at the end. The /home
It's great to take the time and learn GNU/Linux. I remember doing it during
my college years, good times :-D
I tried it on Lubuntu 14.04, 64-bit, Firefox 39 does not crash at all. On my
trisquel-mini 32-Bit setup the crash occures however... It seems like
something went wrong in the process of changing Firefox to Abrowser?
I am experiencing the same behaivour, but setting the reader.parse.onload to
false didn't help. Icecat is unaffected.
I also get the same output as ssdclickofdeath.
I have 6GB of memory and 3,2GB swap, while running mini-trisquel.
If you go to the Downloads page you can find a 3GB image for the Sources DVD.
The other images do not include the sources, just binaries!
For all intents and purposes however, it should be enough if one gets a link
to the trisquel homepage. Abrowser has it already built-in, so there is no
What would be the benefit of installing LightDM anyway? I'm running KDE on my
machines and using kdm.
Clarendon looks like a very good font, it's really pleasent to read.
If someone owns the patent for Clarendon and sells it for $120 per license
(right here) I can hardly imagine, that he will free it for $30K.
Armworm, can you be completely sure the guy won't just take the money and
keep
I bought mine used, got a great deal and a device in good condition,
basically like new. There are different revisions of the eeepc laptop, I got
the 1005PE.
ah, that's why I see no changes... I'll try that now.
While the GNU GPL does not tell anything about privacy and protection from
unauthorized supervision, it doesn't mean everything is done by releasing
software under the GNU GPL. There are many more things wrong in the world
besides non-free software. The fact that special services can track
roboq6, are you making jokes here ;)
Operating systems are among the most complicated things in the world of
programming. They are not some high-level application, but include relatively
high-level applications as well as very low-level applications as a kernel
and various drivers. The
If having a 17 screen is not an important feature for you, look at the eeepc
1005PE from Asus. I am running Triskel (the KDE of Trisquel) on it and it's
perfect. Plasma-netbook helps with the small screen a lot, no clattering with
bars, panels and such. The keyboard perfectly utilizes the
Everything is very good with this laptop... It has one little dowside, which
is the relatively dark screen. A BIOS update should make it better though. It
may be necessary to keep Windows for the sake of updating the BIOS and only
then to install Trisquel on top
I didn't try it, since I thought it just makes the brightness Fn-keys work
properly (highest setting corresponds to highest brightness). I'll try that
out right now.
That's how I would sum it up too.
Trisquel is faster to set up and ready for everyday computing needs. It is
based on Ubuntu, this means it has the biggest pool of prepackaged software.
Parabola is better if you want to really tweak the shit out of your OS and
stay on the bleeding edge.
The kernel of Trisquel, linux-libre, is de-blobbed. So if there are some
blobs in any drivers, they are deleted.
If a device is functioning correctly, it means there was no blob needed for
it. If a device shows problems, you know it was dependent on a blob to some
extent.
If you have performance and resolution issues, it means you need to install
the VBox Guest Additions. It enables more resolutions, usage of opengl and
shared folders. VMPlayer is not in the repos and might have extra
dependencies that are cumbersome to install (or even non-free if you are
The last link you provided is almost a complete computer! It even uses
coreboot. Never seen something like that, it seems you would be able to use
it as a router/modem/firewall device as long as your ISP supports the ADSL
standards this thing understands (my ISP for example switched me to
I wonder if you ever heard about NixiePixel.
Darn, was not aware of that! Thanks for the clarification. So if the
GuestAdditions are non-free, the only ethical choice would be using VMPlayer,
as long as it's all free software...
You're welcome. You can game a lot on Trisquel if you use the graphicscards I
mentioned. The ones for Core i CPUs should be the most powerful, then goes
the 9500GT, then the X4500.
You can browse through here to see what games are included in the repos.
Interesting idea: Try setting up a
Sounds awesome to me, I use KDE on my primary computer almost all the way
since the change to Gnome 3. There are more Qt applications that I can't live
without than GTK ones.
I'm sorry to say, there is no easy solution.
The problem is, that Radeon cards are not supported by fully free drivers.
Ubuntu uses a kernel with so called binary blobs, that are loaded by the
drivers during runtime. In the case of Radeon cards these blobs include what
is needed to fully
What laptop do you have? There is an issue with brightness on ASUS 1005P,
that can be solved by one line in the grub configuration file.
Also, please be more precise when describing the issue and what hardware you
use, otherwise it's pretty impossible to know what's wrong.
This is sad to hear, uu.de was the place where I made my first steps with
GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 6.04 I believe) and the community was very
beginner-friendly, there were several users who knew a good deal about
Linux and explained things or posted relevant links to the wiki located on
the same
I usually buy music and don't download it. Music can be had very cheap if you
only go for used CDs and LPs (which I mostly do, my favorite music is almost
always a decade or more old).
There is one main problem with music downloaded from youtube. The quality is
relatively low, at least for
This is really fishy, why would they use a proprietary forum software? They
got a dev-team after all. I recon it is much easier to pay one person from
the team to write a patch for an existing free program (if there really is
something important missing) than to accept the burden of
German privacy laws are very likely just an illusion. After the NSA scandal
has been talked over in the German news and there were several talks between
the German Secretary of State and (if I'm not mistaken) Obama, the newest bit
of info is, that Germany was using a version of NSAs spying
This does not look like a popup, is it really one or does it stay there for
as long as some windows are open? It looks like the standard button-based
application list, I don't remember the name of it right now.
You should be able to remove it or move it to somewhere else just by
Sneaky! All those tabs about gNewSense and Richard Stallman, just to hide the
Evil F.
/joke
No problem! This place is where Trisquel gets the kernel from.
I wonder why you would want to compile your kernel manually, it doesn't make
the system faster like it used to (in kernel versions 2.2 afaik).
There are source tarballs of both Linux and Linux-libre. If you want to
compile your own kernel, you can get fully-free versions from here.
The webcam and the wireless card can be problematic. However, with Acer you
have a higher chance of being able to install a mini PCIe card, this will
solve the issue with wireless networking!
If we talk about desktop computers, there is one very convenient choice.
Motherboards with integrated graphics from Intel. You get full acceleration
for desktop effects, almost all free software games work perfectly. It's the
only graphics solution that has 100% free drivers.
In notebooks
if you need to update your kernel, you can use the repository by jxself.
What you need to type into the terminal to do that (Each line has to be typed
in seperately, don't copy multiple lines of commands at once):
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
(put in your password obviously)
add
I'm helping out with the guide too. Updating the documentation with it won't
be a problem because I've got editing rights for it.
There are also plugins for Abrowser that let you watch more videos. You can
use Greasemonkey with the userscript Linterna Magicka, or use Unplug. Unplug
will let you see the direct links to the video in question, copy it and open
it in VLC or totem video player.
Some videos remain
The Windows-port of Pidgin does only text. So if you want to set up a voice
chat with a friend over Pidgin and your friend uses Windows, it will fail.
For a long time it was unclear to me what the problem was, until I saw Pidgin
running in Windows.
I find Trisquel gives me a very good user experience. But only after buying
the right hardware. Too many manufacturers don't want to allow for their
hardware to work with free drivers. Before the update I had lots of problems
with my videocard, but otherwise it was very good already.
I
I feel that one should avoid using non-free software. I'm not the person to
pressure people into switching from their favorite programs if they don't
care about freedom issues. But I think you care, since you use Triskel.
The software should be free, because only in that case it gives the
I'm not sure what causes this, but the answer might be updating the kernel.
If it is a driver problem, there are chances it has been resolved in later
version of the kernel. To update the kernel you can use the repository by
jxself.
Why exactly didn't Trisquel 6 work? What happened when
Yeeloongs have a horrible battery time, because some hardware feature is not
fully implemented yet. They also have no 2D/3D acceleration, because they use
a graphicscard that requires proprietary firmware (it seems this makes every
GUI you try to put on it extremely slow).
I understand
I'm guessing he chooses Opera because it integrates better into KDE. However,
there are ways to make all GTK based apps look EXACTLY like the KDE theme one
has in use. It also affects Abrowser.
Besides, there is rekonq, a lightweight browser for KDE.
Darn! Now I'm kind of glad that I didn't buy it. The only non-free part my
server has is just the BIOS. I wonder if coreboot will run there...
I am in the process of setting up my own mailserver. The webserver is already
online and I'm testing it and filling it with interesting stuff, etc.
The cost is minimal if you manage to get a cheap domain name like I did (like
up to 10 EUR per year in some cases below that). Just a bit of
I wasn't aware of freedom issues on the Raspberry, thanks for the
clarification. Since you can run Debian on it, I assumed there might be (at
most) only some BIOS-like part which is unfree.
The Yeeloongs would be kind of cool if not for all the downsides you
mentioned.
I think the Royal Penguin would be a really good choice. But if you are
looking for something really lightweight, similar to the Leemote machines,
there are also Acer netbooks. On H-Node there is a list of Acer
Over 9000 might do it. Seriously though, AMD does not want to release the
specs (or release the firmware themselves) because it will make workarounds
on their DRM very easy. That was a statement of an AMD official on a forum,
where people were talking about writing open source drivers for
GParted is a program from Trisquel repositories which can edit partitions on
all harddrives. Install it by typing into a terminal window:
sudo aptitude install gparted
This menu looks very similar to what KDE uses right now as the default menu.
Very nice!
When Unplug recognizes a video on the page, you can sometimes open it in a
new tab. Sometimes Abrowser will not play the video, but only offer to
download it. If you just want to watch it though, choose the option Copy Link
instead. Then open a video player (totem is preinstalled, but vlc
If you want to go with an Intel motherboard, you should take the one with the
most performant integrated GPU available. This would normally mean
motherboards for the core i3-7 family. If it's too expensive, there is the
GMA X4500 integrated graphicscard. To get it, you should look for
One of the aims of the FSF is to promote computer user freedom. They
sponsor the GNU project, so it shouldn't surprise anyone if they sponsor
another project as well.
In my opinion, Trisquel is better than gNewSense in providing a fully free
operating system. While the freedom aspect
Thanks for the correction!
I like music and am collecting records (at least a little amount of them).
There are already really good audio players on GNU/Linux! Clementine as far
Qt-interfaces go, gmusicbrowser and QuodLibet as far GTK-interfaces go.
Clementine and gmusicbrowser are probably the best.
There is also
Unfortunately it is kind of hard to remove Gnome. I didn't find a better
solution than removing all packages by hand. KDE has a nice GUI front-end for
package management, Apper. You can make it show all packages that are
included in the Gnome desktop, then apply a filter of only installed
Initially I just wanted to escape Windows in some way or form. I heard about
Linux like everyone else of course, so that was naturally the first thing
to try, as it didn't cost my anything. I formatted the drive and installed
Suse 10.
Too many things didn't work and I couldn't make them
Ubuntu repos can be used, but there might be an occasional non-free package.
There are main, restricted and universe, multiverse repos.
Main and restricted, according to the licensing policy, are the closest thing
to fully free software.
Here is a link to their policy about including
Hello antarta, as far free software games go, there is Nexuiz (it's somewhat
of a UT clone). I like to play it from time to time, if you want to join me,
you should be able to see my personal email, feel free to use it.
Also there is this 2D MMORPG called Mana, I just recently started
Hello and welcome to this forum/mailing list! Always great to hear about
people using free software. I have a friend who is a musician as well, he
writes his music with MacOS however...
Do you think using GNU/Linux as an OS for arranging/writing music gives you
some advantages, or maybe
It is very difficult to find free software compatible hardware, one that runs
with fully free distros like Trisquel.
If laptops from thinkpenguin are too expensive for you, here are some clues
too look for:
The machine actually boots with Trisquel (some motherboards make problems
because
Thanks a lot Chris! I already heard about a similar technology being used in
Apples notebooks (but coulnd't believe it). Apparently, they can be found by
Apple, if stolen. The webcam and microphone, beyond other things, will be
accessable, also it is possible to determine the position of the
This is exactly what I meant, if you want Debian, take Debian. It can't be
recommended for newcomers, because it should not be the users job to double
check if the software they use is fully without freedom issues, but then
again Debian shouldn't be recommended for newcomers at all, that's
Jxself is on this forum too, he should be able clarify the issue. Maybe he
actually looked at the sourcecode and found some pieces of binary hidden in
there?
It probably has something to do with the theme you are using, did you change
the desktop environment to, say, KDE or XFCE? What theme do you have selected
right now?
Awesome, your link was broken, so here it is again:
Debian GNU/Hurd released
They state they have 75% of the Debians repositories already ported and they
are aiming for 100%
I suggest you try it out within a virtual machine, it may still be not as
stable as GNU/Linux.
Certainly it's a good thing that there are programmers working on a fully
free distribution. There is no arguing that it's a good thing FSF doesn't
compromise their ideals for including Debian as a recommended distro. I agree
with you there. FSF not including them will just mean Debian will,
One way of doing it would be to create a transparent .png picture in Gimp,
1x1 pixel. Then set it as the icon for all of the things in the main menu.
You can edit the main menu here: System Settings - Main Menu. Or just
rightclick on the main menu itself and click on Edit Menus.
I am not sure why one would need a 100% free version of an outdated Debian.
It is easier to not use the non-free repositories and install Icecat as a
replacement for Iceweasel than to try and update an outdated system
completely. Debian is outdated enough as it is.
I understand that RMS
I am familiar with case nr. 3... Sometimes I get the expression people are
convinced all these freedoms only matter for developers and the thought, that
there might be ethical principles involved, is too foreign for them to adopt.
Personally, I think one shouldn't preach left and right about
I don't want to offend anyone, but we should not be helping people run
Windows alongside GNU/Linux or give any kind of support for Windows. This has
been a tradition of these forum/mailing list for quite some time, I assume
since the beginning.
The real solution for any problem when
You can hardly disagree that this forum has such a tradition, because it
does. This site is for, beyond other things, promoting the free software
movement. We should not create an impression that running non-free software
in any shape or form is somehow acceptable by giving support in that
Well, first there is Gnash and (if Gnash won't work) Linterna Magica. Those
are the standard way of doing things.
But there is a slightly more obscure way of watching videos than with Gnash
(or other Flash-replacing plugins) and Linterna Magica. It's called Unplug.
It's a plugin that can be
Glad that I could help you.
Linterna Magica not working with lightspark is probably due to LM being
written for replacing what Gnash renders on a given page. If you disable
Gnash without installing anything else, LM stops working too.
If there is no way to play the video on it's original
Yes, that is perfectly true. However it can be very hard to convince people
to use a different program. I've had that issue myself. Things like come on,
no one will switch to your Pidgin/Gimp/insert-a-program, everyone is using
[insert-proprietary-solution] and you have to as well or
That's a pretty cool retailer who sells hardware that works with free
software so well. What model is your laptop? Please add the information about
your model working to to h-node, so everyone knows about it.
Once you get to the point, where all your hardware is fully compatible,
everything works so much better than in Windows for example. I don't want to
think about the difficulty of installing a Windows system ever again. I had
to do this recently and boy, did I forget how shitty it was.
I never tried Windows 8, so can't comment on it.
I didn't want to start some discussion about what system is better ultimately
(I thought we all agree Trisquel is best :P ), just commented on the fact how
easily everything just works given all your hardware is fully compatible.
I do think it is made for everyone, even if the distros
Nice to hear you have such a good experience with it! Was it a machine from
thinkpenguin.com?
This is interesting, in my case I'd definitely need a program replacing skype
though, just as the OP. The person whom I want to talk with uses Opera
exclusively.
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the clarification!
What do you mean by irrelevant results? I'm Russian speaking too, I tried
setting the region to Russia in DuckDuckGo and searched for stuff and it all
came up how I would expect it. What irrelevant results do you get?
OK, as Michał Masłowski stated all 32-Bit kernels of the newer Trisquel
require PAE. Maybe you can install a 64-Bit kernel?
Otherwise you'll be stuck with an older version of Trisquel. Have you tried
5.0 and 5.5 already?
Did it work out well with QuteCom? Did you run into some difficulties or does
it work well in both GNU/Linux and Windows?
Why is it a problem that you have no PAE? If you got more than 4GB memory,
choose the 64-Bit version of Trisquel. If your CPU can't compute in 64-Bit
mode (pretty much impossible by now), use the 32-Bit version of Trisquel
anyway (it will only see 4GB of memory in this case).
Since it is your thesis, can't you just release it somewhere else under GFDL
or whatever else? Just some other ressource on the net, but same thesis with
another license. There are precedence cases with software where the same
program is released under a proprietary license and GPL at the
Nice to hear that and welcome!
Get ready for some rethinking though :)
Linux is just the kernel, what you use right now is a distribution of
GNU/Linux. The OS started out as GNU, but GNU didn't have a working kernel by
the early 90s. Linus Torvalds however made a working kernel and released
This is very different to the actual topic at hand. The zoo can't be copied
and isn't a piece of digital information (where copying is one of the natural
things that can be done with it).
Even if it can't be considered stealing to copy a CD, it still might be wrong
to not pay for going to
If you develop a webpage, you need to test it with the browser, that is being
used by your target group. So if you want to test it with IE, you either have
to install Windows in order to do that, or go the route I described.
Do you think that's unethical to test a webpage with IE?
Wow, that's a neat idea. Never heard of browsershots before!
Still, somewhere, someone has to run IE in order to make a screenshot. Won't
help much if the site being tested is still in development and has to be made
IE-compatible before release...
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