> […] with just GParted, AbiWord, Gnumeric from GNOME w/o Qt alternatives.
You might want to look into Calligra, which is a libre Qt office suite.
https://www.calligra.org/
For a GParted alternative, I found KDE Partition Manager. Not sure if you're
interested in KDE apps, though, since your
> It's got: 2x Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz 1600,00MHz
I believe the “2x” says the processor has two cores. (This means it's
better at doing two things at once.) The model appears to be Pentium, which
shouldn't fall behind Celeron, as far as I know. It looks fine to me.
The rest
Welcome to the Trisquel forums and community, and congratulations on becoming
a free user! May you have a nice and lasting stay. (Your nickname is
wonderful, by the way.)
I know some people who've moved to Teknik.
https://teknik.io/
I haven't tried it myself, but it appears to be all free software (mostly
permissively licensed), and they offer a number of other services (e.g. blog,
file upload, git repositories). All free of cost, apparently; looks good to
Not really; as far as I know, JavaScript programs are still programs like any
other, so in order for them to be free software, they must be properly
released under a free license. Usually you can find a comment about the
license if you look at the script, which can be free, but could also be
There is a guide on how to properly license JavaScript scripts here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html
Indeed this has been written to be compatible with the LibreJS add-on, but
the methods described there also allow one to easily see what the license is
by
Yes, the MATE ISO is a live image; it boots into the MATE desktop and you can
install Parabola from there (you still need to do it manually via the
terminal, although there's a text-based helper [which may or may not work
well], but you do get the comfort of a whole graphical environment).
I liked it, too. This one feels a bit too “English” compared to it. :P
I don't dare compare the importance of decentralization with other good
projects, but I do regard it as something very important. Here are a few
projects that I know about and find interesting.
A social network that has been around for quite a while is diaspora*. I think
its future may
I'm not very familiar with any platform, but have you heard about Liberapay?
From what I've read, it's a libre (free software) platform for recurring
donations; they even handle translations with Weblate, which is also free
software, I believe (although the Esperanto translation is in dire
I didn't have many problems with Parabola. I think all problems I ever had in
Parabola (or Arch – the parent distro – back when I used it) were caused
by myself being careless (not checking the news before updating, forcing
updates, or ignoring bugs). Those kind of mistakes usually aren't
Hello lodonnell921; welcome to the forum!
Debian itself should contain only free/libre software by default; as far as I
know, it only makes it simple to add non-free software. If you're careful,
there shouldn't be a problem (of this kind, anyways) with it. The release
date for Trisquel 8
I've used both and I think each is suitable for a different activity. Krita
works very well with graphic tablets and feels tailored towards people who
use them. However, it also has some neat editing features which should allow
the artist to do pretty much all of their work in Krita, from
GNOME does not do that. Perhaps it would be possible to implement with an
extension, but I'm not aware of any one like that.
However, GNOME does have a menu on the top bar, but that one typically has
but a few options and must be specially supported by the application. It's
mostly utilized
I feel like one of us is severely misunderstanding the term "religion." As I
understand it (still after checking the dictionary), religion is belief in
god(s). If I simply believe in God, there is no exerting control over
weak-minded and there is no appeasement to servants; there is only
Please don't say that. Religion is not inherently unethical. It can be
unethical and bring bad things, but it can just as well be ethical and bring
much good. Religion is broad and diverse. It has many different forms; people
can perceive and follow it in many different ways. But I don't
> WPS office is a proprietary software, right?
Right, it is, which should answer your question with a resolute "No."
Proprietary software can of course be useful to some ends, but no amount of
usability can justify the injustice that is the violation of users' freedom.
Hello!
I played your game (HTML5 fullscreen version) for a few minutes. I used
Libreboot X200 from Minifree. (From what I read it should be near equivalent
to the T400 and perhaps superior to the C201.) On it I'm running Parabola
GNU/Linux-libre with GNOME Shell 3.22. Test was done in
For the photo manager, I'd like to mention gThumb. I only used it briefly a
long while back, but I remember it being pretty nice and working with images
in already existing directory structure. It also seems to be more actively
developed than F-spot.
From my experience, it doesn't. MyPaint is a painting program aimed at
graphic tablet users, resembling a traditional drawing experience in many
ways. While it does offer advanced functions, it's image manipulation
abilities are very limited from what I can remember. I don't think a
There are some good options posted above. I have also tried Jitsi a while
back, with account at Ostel, and it worked well, but the setup was a bit
complex. Ostel website for a free SIP account: https://ostel.co/
I second Jitsi Meet for a simple solution. It runs in a browser, works well
Hello!
The headmaster of a (fairly small) school I used to attend has recently been
considering using the services of Google to share files (such as documents
and presentations), usually made by teachers, with the students. Their idea
was to use Google Drive and only share the files with
Well, that's certainly an unpleasant situation. Others already gave some good
advice on here, so I'll just wish you good luck!
As for the technical side of things, you might want to try Shumway:
https://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
Shumway is an experimental add-on for Firefox, developed by
So recently I started looking for good software to use for group discussion,
something like a forum. I don't want to rely on an third party provider,
though, so I looked for something decentralized. I found Syndie
https://www.syndie.de/index.htmls and I thought it sounded very nice, so I
Syndie just told me that it's reccomended to run I2P. I don't know if it's a
requirement or not, but if it is, then that would probably be a deal breaker
for me.
(Not that I can't use I2P, but I'd like something that's not as complex.
Dealing with I2P AND how Syndie works seems a bit too
In the chart, there are also full-line arrows pointing to the same archives.
At the bottom of the chart it says those represent non-anonymous connection,
so I suppose the anonymizers are optional.
If I had to choose, I guess I'd use Tor. I guess I'll just try getting Syndie
to work as-is
Gobby looks nice, but I need something that doesn't require everyone to be
onliene at the same time. I thought about trying out mailing lists, but I
found an extension for MediaWiki that might actually work for me, so I'll see
if we can use that.
I believe YaCy is supposed to eliminate tracking and censorship. I have tried
it for a short while. It was nice and appeared to work well, except that the
results were generally very bad and uncomparable to those of DuckDuckGo and
the likes.
As far as I know, Cyanogen Mod is not 100% free software. I'm not a
smartphone user, but from what I've learned, Cyanogen Mod may be more
freedom-friendly than Android, but still contains non-free parts and
firmware, which is required for most phones to work properly. I believe that
the
LibreJS is a great tool for ensuring ethical behavior, but keep in mind that
even libre software may be malicious. Onpon wrote an article on why
JavaScript is bad in general: https://onpon4.github.io/other/kill-js/
As a side note, LibreJS has caused a few websites to load very slowly for me.
What do you mean by 'portable'?
If you want certification, then look here:
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom
If you just want hardware that works with a free system (but may contain
proprietary BIOS or similar menaces), look here: https://h-node.org/
Both Scribus and Inkscape are fairly well-known free software programs.
Source code is available, and like lembas said, they are in Trisquel repos.
Looking at the paragraph right above that one, it says:
It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other
platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request
on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up in neither our
logs, nor
being free software SASS doesn't mean anything for the end user because
one doesn't do the entire job on one's own computer.
While this is true, usability-wise, I also appreciate the contribution to
free software! :)
Others have pretty much covered the good ones, but I'd like to note that you
might come across PlaneShift, which is libre software at the moment, but will
be switching to Unreal Engine, which, I assume, is proprietary.
Hello!
I have been trying to make my internet life a bit more spying-resistant. I
figured that the next best option after Tor and similar would be Firefox (and
derivatives) with add-ons. I always install HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock,
Self-destructing cookies and NoScript for that. Some time
Hello and welcome!
First of all, 'Linux' is just a part of a bigger system called 'GNU'. People
often call this combination 'Linux', but properly it should be called
'GNU/Linux', since all the operating system like Debian, Blag or Trisquel are
actually a part of GNU/Linux family.
Now, to
Ah, yes, bad wording. Thanks for the correction, Linux is indeed not a part
of the GNU project :)
Technically, yes. Service becomes a substitute for Software in whatever you
use it for instead of software that you control. You can use a client to
fetch, write and manage your e-mails and contacts, but the messages are still
being stored on someone else's server. Therefore, using your own
Thank you! That looks like a very nice resource! I haven't stumbled upon your
website before, but it names some games I also haven't found yet. I will
definitely check at least some of them out and probably report my findings
back here, unless someone does first :)
Hello!
Lately I've been thinking about how games affect our social lives. I have met
a lot of friendly and interesting people thanks to multiplayer online games.
Unfortunately, most of such games are non-free and therefore not an option.
During my search for free multiplayer games, I came
Have you tried accessing Reddit with Tor?
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