Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel conflict

2020-07-25 Thread anguriamelone
As you said ""It is still a good idea to leave the old kernel there in case there's something wrong with the new one. While that may not happen very often there's always a possibility."" You were and are right! I have encountered an issue with the latest kernel 4.4.0-186-generic in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel conflict

2020-05-23 Thread anguriamelone
Thank you for the reply. Gnome-disk-utility says the disk (a PATA SSD) is ok. How managing the next time the rescue shell?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel conflict

2020-05-23 Thread anguriamelone
Thank you for the reply. Gnome-disk-utility says the disk (a PATA SSD) is ok.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel conflict

2020-05-22 Thread jason
You can, of course, remove whatever you want - it's your system. It is still a good idea to leave the old kernel there in case there's something wrong with the new one. While that may not happen very often (as you say "without encountering problems") there's always a possibility. There's no

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel conflict

2020-05-22 Thread anguriamelone
I have been recently updating my old notebook HP510 and via terminal I have been removing contextually the old kernel before rebooting with the latest, without encountering problems.

[Trisquel-users] Kernel conflict

2020-05-01 Thread anguriamelone
Hi to everyone. I'm using Trisquel mini on the HP 510, and old 32 bit notebook. After a general updating and a reboot with the latest linux kernel 4.4.0-178 I had on the screen the following response by GRUB: " Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists

Re: [Trisquel-users] kernel panic after upgrade

2020-02-09 Thread rolandcoeurjoly
Trying to install

Re: [Trisquel-users] kernel panic after upgrade

2020-02-09 Thread rolandcoeurjoly
Snapshot

[Trisquel-users] kernel panic after upgrade

2020-02-09 Thread rolandcoeurjoly
I have a kernel panic situation after doing apt upgrade. I forgot to do autoremove and autoclean. My fault. Now it doesn´t boot. I dont´t see the option to use another kernel. I wake up early, I spend 8 euros in a pendrive, I download Trisquel and create a bootable USB drive. I connect the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panic after visiting website

2019-12-14 Thread Caleb Herbert
Thanks for the response. I'll chalk it up to RAM, then! On 12/12/2019 03:36 PM, zap...@dismail.de wrote: > This has happened to me before also. In my case, it was a very random > occurance. Possibly from getting overheated. Not sure beyond that > though. -_- My laptop was not hot. <>

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panic after visiting website

2019-12-12 Thread zapper
This has happened to me before also. In my case, it was a very random occurance. Possibly from getting overheated. Not sure beyond that though. -_-

[Trisquel-users] Kernel panic after visiting website

2019-12-12 Thread Caleb Herbert
Someone on IRC linked me to this "New California" website. My screen froze, my CAPS LOCK light started flashing, and my computer rebooted itself. I got a kernel panic. Why was this? I have also gotten this when running the web program Twitch in my Abrowser. <>

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-07-04 Thread calmstorm
Yeah... I would move it into the regular one for free. Just a thought. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-30 Thread andyprough
> Hi andyprough Thank you for your recommendation Im now running the 5.1.15-gnu kernel ;) Don't thank me, thank jxself. That's a lot of work to push all those kernels out, and he provides an always up-to-date repository. Even when I compile my own, his is usually available faster.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-30 Thread danielrobidoux49
Hi andyprough Thank you for your recommendation Im now running the 5.1.15-gnu kernel ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-28 Thread calmstorm
You may want to state what ETS kernels are good for more clearly. Some people may want them if you make it more clear.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-28 Thread andyprough
I'm not sure. I grab your weekly updated kernels for a couple of my systems. I like having the latest version, and it's wonderful not having to compile them all the time. Is that what most of your subscribers do?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-28 Thread jason
Would it be helpful if I had 4.4 in my kernel repository too so as to match versions? Currently the oldest one in there is 4.14. I mean, 4.4 is already available in a way by being in the separate extended-term support (ETS) repository since it's supported for 6 years. But no one seems

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-28 Thread andyprough
4.4 is 3 1/2 years old, meaning old native drivers. And no security updates for the past 3 months is not great in the current (in)security era. Personally, I would recommend adding jxself's libre-linux kernel repository and getting something more up to date. But, that's just me. Obviously,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-25 Thread danielrobidoux49
@Beforemed @chaosmonk Very generous answers Thanks to both of you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-25 Thread mason
> So, i saw the kernel version was at 4.4.0-143 I see other distro's > with Kernel at 4.18 and above. So, is anybody would like to explain > to me how the 4.4.0-143 can be secure? Trisquel 8's kernel is based on Ubuntu 16.04's kernel (Trisquel removes the proprietary blobs). Ubuntu's 4.4.0

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-25 Thread jcmartinez2129
Hello Danrobi, In the case of the kernel version, Trisquel is a Point release distro, that means it releases a versions of the OS and then it just pushes security updates. Version 8 of Trisquel is based on ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Long Term Support) which has support to 04/2021. So I agree the

[Trisquel-users] Kernel 4.4.0-143 in 2019?

2019-06-25 Thread danielrobidoux49
Hi I just tried Trisquel-mini In virtualbox to test it First of, im not a PC engineer, im actually very noob im PC's. However, im just trying to find a private and secure distro So, i saw the kernel version was at 4.4.0-143 I see other distro's with Kernel at 4.18 and above. So, is anybody

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panic

2019-01-20 Thread jason
There's no information here that indicates the cause. Depending on when it happened the kernel might not have been able to write anything to the drive anyway. The only way to diagnose the cause of a kernel crash is through the use of kdump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdump_(Linux) which

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panic

2019-01-20 Thread younes . benmoussa
I always have issues when my system go to sleep and I'm forced to restart the system and disable hibernate option in the system. Sorry I cant help, but I noticed this issue with all the distributions that I tested in the past (Ubuntu,Manjaro,Trisquel,elementary os,Debian,Fedora)

[Trisquel-users] Kernel panic

2019-01-19 Thread Caleb Herbert
I just came back to my desk after a few hours and my laptop would not wake up.  The caps lock indicator was blinking.  I assumed this was a kernel panic. But why? cal@flexo:~$ cat /var/log/syslog Jan 20 01:35:41 flexo rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.16.0" x-pid="918"

[Trisquel-users] Kernel update fails when following the wiki guide

2018-08-10 Thread svenerik_vn
Using this guide https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel Gets me this error: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel Panic Using Virt-Manager on Trisquel and libreboot

2018-04-10 Thread aether
I had this issue with a x200 flashed to Libreboot two years ago. When I ran qemu with --enable-kvm or when I used libvirt (with virt-manager), it freezed and I was forced to hard shutdown. The x200 had a a P8400 Core 2 Duo, I don't remember the batch.. but on my current x200 (with a P8600)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel Panic Using Virt-Manager on Trisquel and libreboot

2018-04-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-02-15T05:53:08+0100 goodstu...@msn.com wrote: > I am attempting to install PureOS 8.0 (beta) on a libreboot Taurinus > laptop running Trisquel 8 using virt-manager. Everytime I try to > create the PureOS virtual machine, I get a black screen filled with a > whole lot of meaningless stuff on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel Panic Using Virt-Manager on Trisquel and libreboot

2018-03-26 Thread shintakezou
Hi, I'm having the same problem. Have you found any solution or have clues about this problem?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel Panic Using Virt-Manager on Trisquel and libreboot

2018-02-18 Thread tplaten
That is a bug in the CPU. The only solution for this us using a different CPU. The Vikings D16 and the Talos II do not have that problem.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel Panic Using Virt-Manager on Trisquel and libreboot

2018-02-15 Thread calmstorm
ah, the ol kernel panic, yep, I have had that happen on my x200 when I use virtual machines. It may be related to kvm. not sure though.

[Trisquel-users] Kernel Panic Using Virt-Manager on Trisquel and libreboot

2018-02-14 Thread goodstuff9
I am attempting to install PureOS 8.0 (beta) on a libreboot Taurinus laptop running Trisquel 8 using virt-manager. Everytime I try to create the PureOS virtual machine, I get a black screen filled with a whole lot of meaningless stuff on it. The screen freezes so all I can do is restart

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel questions and Intel ME

2018-01-20 Thread jason
You're being just a bit too literal there, of course, but I meant not disappearing as a matter of policy of deleting old versions when disk space gets low. Obviously I have backups. 7 of them. In different locations. On different continents. In different hemispheres of the world. And other

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel questions and Intel ME

2018-01-19 Thread Caleb Herbert
> This git repository has every version of Linux-libre ever, it all fits into > ~350MB, and versions will never disappear. Assuming those disks are backed up. -- Caleb Herbert OpenPGP public key: http://bluehome.net/csh/pubkey signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel questions and Intel ME

2018-01-16 Thread svenerik_vn
smooth

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel questions and Intel ME

2018-01-16 Thread svenerik_vn
roger that

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel questions and Intel ME

2018-01-15 Thread jason
There is also another place to get source code which is: https://jxself.org/git/?p=linux-libre.git I started this because I found that Alexandre Oliva, who runs fsfla.org, deletes older kernel source code when disk space runs low and this raised some questions when people wanted to get some

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel questions and Intel ME

2018-01-15 Thread svenerik_vn
Also what's the difference between all the places where one can get kernels? You have jxself https://jxself.org/linux-libre/ and fsfla https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/ and probably many more...

[Trisquel-users] Kernel questions and Intel ME

2018-01-15 Thread svenerik_vn
Some days ago while the Intel ME thing was fresh, jxself had a fix in the 4.14.12 kernel, now there's a 4.14.13 on the releases page: http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/ , my question is simple: how important is it to always have the latest kernel?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel problem?

2017-08-19 Thread intheforest
I will never do it again.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel problem?

2017-08-18 Thread happy_gnu
Nickelodeon I am glad to see you helping others and I applaud your enthusiasm. With that say.. Could you please not spam the post with a lot of comments that don't say a thing? I know you are getting started, and you like Trisquel. That is why I am asking in a politely way :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel problem?

2017-08-18 Thread intheforest
THIS IS WILL HELP IF YOU HAVE Gigabyte Motherboard with Realtek * (I AM AWARE THAT IT HELPED WITH 8111/8168/8411)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel problem?

2017-08-18 Thread intheforest
Make sure iommu is enabled in your boot settings

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel problem?

2017-08-18 Thread intheforest
First enable iommu in the uefi by restarting your computer and pressing delete to enter the uefi plug your usb mouse, keyboard and thumbdrive in usb 2 ports. save and exit the uefi Then In Trisquel: press Ctrl+Alt+T to open up a terminal run the following command: sudo emacs

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel problem?

2017-08-18 Thread intheforest
it is indeed related to the kernel

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel problem?

2017-08-18 Thread intheforest
does connecting via dhcpd work at all?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel problem?

2017-08-18 Thread gpast_panama
What about holding "shift": https://askubuntu.com/questions/82140/how-can-i-boot-with-an-older-kernel-version?

[Trisquel-users] Kernel problem?

2017-08-18 Thread jbahn
Recently I installed the libre kernel from jxself's repo. (I was unsuccessfully trying to solve a problem: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/cant-hibernate#comment-119368) I now have this problem, which I 'think' I have experienced in connection with installing the libre kernel before: When

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel Source package signature signed with unknown key 0x92D284CF33C66596

2016-02-07 Thread jason
1) Why does apt-get source fetch a different source package to the one named in the arg? Because the name of the source package is usually not the name of the binary package. And one source package could result in many binary packages. For example, when searching for packages on

[Trisquel-users] Kernel Source package signature signed with unknown key 0x92D284CF33C66596

2016-02-07 Thread jah
Two things I don't understand:- 1) Why does apt-get source fetch a different source package to the one named in the arg? 2) Why can't key 0x92D284CF33C66596 be found? $ apt-get source linux-image-3.13.0-76-generic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel Source package signature signed with unknown key 0x92D284CF33C66596

2016-02-07 Thread jah
Thanks @jxself, good explanation. Is there a standard procedure for reporting the fact that the package downloaded by `apt-get source linux` (linux_3.13.0-77.121+7.0trisquel2) is signed with a key (0x92D284CF33C66596) for which no public cert appears to be available?

[Trisquel-users] Kernel panic after updating to Linux-libre v4.3.3

2016-02-07 Thread megver . 2000
Hi everybody, I updated my kernel following the instructions from many websites (because I´m not a developer, so don´t use advanced concepts with me) and finally I could, but it gives me a kernel panic. I was like Yes! Finally I could do it! but then me was like Oh, Jesus! These are the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panic after updating to Linux-libre v4.3.3

2016-02-07 Thread jason
Why not use https://jxself.org/linux-libre/ Then, getting the latest kernel is as easy as installing any other program via your package manager.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panic, what happened?

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Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panic, what happened?

2015-09-30 Thread aml240sx
Hi everybody, I just joined the forum with the intention to report this. I'm also being affected by this bug, it has happened after installing updates, according to the update manager the new kernel installed would be 3.13.0-63.103+7.0trisquel2 Changes for

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panic, what happened?

2015-09-30 Thread calle
I had a kernel panic a week ago or something like that, but I didn't think much of it so I didn't bother saving the log then.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panic, what happened?

2015-09-29 Thread jazzydude
Did it happen more than one time ?

[Trisquel-users] Kernel panic, what happened?

2015-09-29 Thread calle
I got a kernel panic, curious if anybody can see what happened. Using latest Trisquel Mini. I wasn't at my computer when it happened so it shouldn't have been very busy. Sep 29 18:29:15 binky kernel: [177994.643992] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 002f

Re: [Trisquel-users] kernel speed - antiquated protocol

2015-03-18 Thread andrew
x25 is an EXPERIMENTAL kernel module and not loaded on my Trisquel systems, even though it is present in /lib/modules/...

Re: [Trisquel-users] kernel speed - antiquated protocol

2015-03-17 Thread gramex
I've never heard of that before, so I don't know if it exists or not.

Re: [Trisquel-users] kernel speed - antiquated protocol

2015-03-17 Thread marioxcc . MT
I have never heard about one such protocol. Where did you read about it?. Can you provide a link?.

Re: [Trisquel-users] kernel speed - antiquated protocol

2015-03-17 Thread dgosborn
Its refreshing to see someone who acknowledges absence of knowledge does not equate with knowledge of absence.

Re: [Trisquel-users] kernel speed - antiquated protocol

2015-03-17 Thread dgosborn
Sorry I don't / can't. I thought about doing a search of kernel sources for x.25 and seeing if it is in there anywhere although there is no guarantee it is labled as such or that x.25 is the one in question.

[Trisquel-users] kernel speed - antiquated protocol

2015-03-17 Thread dgosborn
Someone told me that there is an antiquated networking protocol that is in the kernel that slows it down a lot because the kernel keeps pausing to check on that protocol even if you are not using. I think maybe it was x.25 or something but not sure. Anyway, the story goes that the kernel

[Trisquel-users] kernel compiling

2015-03-16 Thread dgosborn
I wanted to try recompiling my kernel with optimizations for my cpu. I've never done it before. I thought I would post here first in case someone knows of a concise how to or has warnings or observations. Thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-23 Thread mo98
I believe I have isolated the cause of all the weird problems. Once first up with Trisquel 6.0 Live, I did the following 3 commands: $ free -m Mem: 431 425 5 buffers176 254 Swap: 1014 0 1014 $ sudo swapoff /dev/zram0 $ free -m Mem: 431 425 5 buffers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-22 Thread mo98
Magic Banana: Thank-you for getting me this far. The live system boots without any hard drives present leaving me with 4 megabytes free RAM. A solid state drive, not visible in gparted, was found using the disk utility. All of the space appeared as grey and unallocated (approx. 200MB) and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-22 Thread maestro
175mb used after booting in trisquel for me: powaa :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-21 Thread mo98
Thank-you again for your valuable time helping me: Indeed I have a hardware issue: I would like to bypass zram0 [SWAP] which makes up 184.1M of total Swap memory of 983M; where the Disk utility 'sees' only the /dev/sdb6 [SWAP] |-sdb6 of 799M which was wiped using DoD 5220.28-STD (7 passes)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-21 Thread maestro
Trisquel gnome flashback runs perfectly on my lappy 1 gb ram. Sure if I open 10 apps or even 5 heavy ones.. swap swap swp

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-20 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
One thing you could try to mitigate that is edit the suspend scripts to unmount and the resume scripts to mount the devices. I remember seeing that error message once and editing some text file on the usb stick changing isolinux to syslinux in the path. I believe this might be related to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-20 Thread mo98
Thank-you. I stand corrected in reference to mount points. When running live, the device list changes after each resume from suspend. I specified do-nothing under system power options when closing lid, but system goes into suspend nevertheless. Device UUID's remain unchanged. With the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-20 Thread mo98
Thank-you for your time and assistance. The usb I made was from the utility included with the Trisquel Live 6.0 System settings menu, using an .iso file and opting out of persistent storage for it. I have not yet looked for any suspend scripts, in the ram-resident file system. I will try

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-19 Thread mo98
Just finished downloading and trying trisquel mini. Cannot find option to disable mouse clicks with touchpad. After disabling automount, was getting error pop ups on the desktop for every media change but /media/trisquel stayed clean after umounting those universal id's initially placed

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-19 Thread mo98
Thank-you for your assistance. When suspending on live version, the system is able to recover but mount points for /dev/sdb.. are invalid. Checking with sudo fdisk-l they have migrated to /dev/sdc.. remounting restores operation until next suspend, then I have to remount the same to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-18 Thread tomlukeywood
if ram is a problem trisquel mini will run on 128mb of ram here are the minimum system requirements: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/system-requirements

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-17 Thread tempaccount325
To me it seems that it is just lacking in RAM. Trisquel's requirements can be found here (http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/system-requirements) , but you will have to confirm that you are using the default ISO (uses GNOME). The processor seems to be 64-bit

[Trisquel-users] Kernel panics

2015-02-17 Thread mo98
The following happened on a Gateway MX3410 notepad running Trisquel 6.0 Live from a bootable usb memory. The built-in hardrive with a full and updated Trisquel 6.0 installation was now intentionally excluded from BIOS. The issue continues to happen. At present an external replacement

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-02-01 Thread tomlukeywood
also when ever i ran it it was crashing alot so i think it needs more development

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-31 Thread cromozon
yrk, I looked some more at the GNU/hurd website, and it seems you need quite a lot of time to play around with, and then you will be working on hurd and not working as usual. If only there was infinite time :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-31 Thread cromozon
Does anyone know what would work and what would not switching to GNU/Hurd on my Trisquel I have * gnome3 * atom text editor * apache + mysql + php5 + mcrypt + gdimage and then all the stuff that comes with Trisquel 7.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-30 Thread mail
Sorry, forgot to mention that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-30 Thread davidvargas1
and who cares if is not FREE CULTURE, at least is information that will teach you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-30 Thread mail
A good book I started about a week ago was Linux from Scratch (Ahem, publisher, don't you mean GNU/Linux from Scratch? :p)- it goes into detail about how the kernel works, how GNU/Linux boots, and the basics of using it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-29 Thread vuyani . ngcana
Thank you for your answer, what are steps of compiling a kernel? i have downloaded understanding the linux kernel book. i hope it will help me understand the kernel a lot better. Are there any books you recommend for me to read,to further my knowladge and understand the kernel on a deeper

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-29 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Here's a guide https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/compiling-gnu-linux-libre-kernel I don't know a book to recommend. (There is some documentation in the tarball.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-29 Thread vuyani . ngcana
Thank you.

[Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-28 Thread vuyani . ngcana
Hi i have a question, why would one compile the kernel and what are the benefits of doing so?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-28 Thread davidvargas1
Lembas said: Also you get to peek inside the kernel and see how sausage is made! Come on man! don't be so twisted and deceiving, my kernel components and sausage still functioning fine. They are not GPL certified but very proprietary, extremely and excellent piece of work.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-28 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Hello there! You get a kernel that's optimized for the specific hardware you have. The difference however isn't noticeable, at least not in light everyday use. On the other hand the kernel is one thing you're constantly running so it does make sense to optimize it. Besides that if you have

[Trisquel-users] Kernel for Performance

2013-12-09 Thread subsequentrequests
Hey, guys. I'm really getting into the performance stuff, I downloaded the mini version of Trisquel and I bought 4gb of RAM for my Optiplex 320 (which is the most it can get) so, I was searching more things to do and I found something very interesting, but I don't know, I tend to be a little

[Trisquel-users] Kernel sources GPL3

2013-04-17 Thread o2314417
This is purely a technical question from a legal angle, personal whims and opinions are not relevant on this one. If Linus did switch the GPLv3, would that force him to make all releases with all code contained therein 100% open source? I am asking this from a OpenBSD perspective in that

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel sources GPL3

2013-04-17 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez
El 17/04/13 22:20, o2314...@rtrtr.com escribió: This is purely a technical question from a legal angle, personal whims and opinions are not relevant on this one. Legal question have legal opinions. So...these are my opinions. If Linus did switch the GPLv3, would that force him to make all

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel sources GPL3

2013-04-17 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I look at projects like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Replicant, Trisquel, Parabola, and with all of them being 100% open source in terms of what's included in the installation, and that they are a lot better for security and anonymity or privacy. Unfortunately the BSDs are not free

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel sources GPL3

2013-04-17 Thread onpon4
There's an important misunderstanding here: the GPLv2 doesn't have a fixed loophole allowing binary blobs. Richard Stallman's opinion is that binary blobs were already a violation of the GPLv2, and if they weren't, nothing about the GPLv3 would change that. As far as I'm aware, the reason

[Trisquel-users] Kernel for netbooks

2011-08-06 Thread alonivtsan
Is there a libre kernel for netbooks? I installed the regular Trisquel on my netbook and only get about 2 and a half hours of battery life when using XFCE/LXDE (and less when using GNOME). I only have a 3 cell battery but the Windows version apparently gives about 4 hours of battery life (my