Re: [Trisquel-users] The shorter and thorough guide to updating Libreboot on an X200

2016-10-13 Thread jbahn
I am not sure if this is an appropriate comment, but: As I wrote above, Leah advised me to add the symlink for vmlinuz myself (by the above mentioned commands). So I booted from a live-usb, mounted the encrypted partition and found, that the vmlinuz symlink to the vmlinuz file in /boot/ is

Re: [Trisquel-users] suggestion for the forum page

2016-10-13 Thread jbahn
That would do the trick (if it worked).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unetbootin

2016-10-13 Thread jbahn
That is interesting. I wonder if there is a large scale experiment on that? And if there is an explanation?

[Trisquel-users] Re : Scratch discussion: delete or not?

2016-10-13 Thread lcerf
Unfortunately, Scratch 2.0 requires proprietary software: Scratch has been completely rewritten in Adobe Flash for version 2.0 but still runs projects from older versions of Scratch. https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_2.0#Features Scratch 2.0 is a completely flash-based program, in whic

Re: [Trisquel-users] Browsers keep crashing

2016-10-13 Thread greatgnu
Legimet, I thought openhub list the **total and exact** amount of LOC of a package.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Which partitions are safe to delete?

2016-10-13 Thread marek
Thank you, everything worked :-)

Re: [Trisquel-users] I installed librecmc on a new router, but the oddest thing happens

2016-10-13 Thread calmstorm
is there a guide to do this? just curious.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I installed librecmc on a new router, but the oddest thing happens

2016-10-13 Thread calmstorm
tried it, didn't work properly, Is there a way besides the following that might work? https://librecmc.org/librecmc/wiki?name=Router+Reset firstboot doesn't work for some reason...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Browsers keep crashing

2016-10-13 Thread legimet . calc
I ran cloc on the comm-central repository and got the following: 6622 text files. 6369 unique files. 1761 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.68 T=19.10 s (254.7 files/s, 62548.9 lines/s) ---

[Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread silentdreamer
I thought I had more memory than I do, must've misread. My machine is an old HP. I put the full Trisquel on it and got a GNOME shell to help with accessibility issues, but awhile after, the machine did something strange- started scrambling the stuff on the screen, usually when I was multitask

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread noordinaryspider
I believe that Synaptic would be the safest option if you don't want to reinstall. However, it would be much easier to reinstall if you could back up your data. I had Trisquel running very nicely on a netbook with 500MB of RAM and a two gig hard drive. It was unconventional, but not difficul

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread silentdreamer
hi, thank you for replying. I left microsoft years ago, though I also have a Mac that someday I'd love to put the full Trisquel version on. For now it's on a VM there. I saw the packages in Synaptic, read a few of the properties to be sure what was involved. Some have a description that i

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread noordinaryspider
Fluxbox is a much, much lighter, cleaner, faster, and simpler GUI that requires less memory and runs well on older computers. However, 2 gigs of memory should be plenty for Trisquel-mini or even the customized Gnome shell (Trisquel desktop), so I'm wondering if there is something else going

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : wi-fi crash and available space

2016-10-13 Thread julien bordes
Hi, and TY for aswering me. sudo apt-get clean don't seem to work, nothing appeared after i entered the command Sys. de fichiers Taille Utilisé Dispo Uti% Monté sur udev 1,5G4,0K 1,5G 1% /dev tmpfs 301M1,1M 300M 1% /run /dev/sda1 19G 17G

Re: [Trisquel-users] wi-fi crash and available space

2016-10-13 Thread julien bordes
hi, it seems that the firmware is not registred with this OS.. 22 [ 4610.931144] :06:00.0: Missing Free firmware [ 4610.931162] iwl3945 :06:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2 [ 4610.933090] iwl3945 :06:00.0: /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ firmware file req failed: - Can i fix that ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
After reviewing the four fundamental freedoms of libre software, from Richard Stallman's 3rd edition, I feel it is a bit of a distraction to see so much being made about Trisquel being behind other distros. If the latest security holes relate to CODECS and conveniences then maybe I am also gu

Re: [Trisquel-users] wi-fi crash and available space

2016-10-13 Thread julien bordes
It's a new installation and i just upload the differents upgrates after installing Triskel with the ISO from the website. I send to u this command : Sys. de fichiers Taille Utilisé Dispo Uti% Monté sur udev 1,5G4,0K 1,5G 1% /dev tmpfs 301M1,1M 300M 1% /ru

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread legimet . calc
Why would you want a read-only version of fuse-exfat if it now supports writing?

Re: [Trisquel-users] wi-fi crash and available space

2016-10-13 Thread legimet . calc
There's no free firmware for that chip. However, you can get a wireless adapter that has free firmware. Thinkpenguin and Tehnoetic sell such an adapter and are certified by the FSF, and you can also get these elsewhere. Look for an AR9271 or AR7010-based one.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
The commonly available digital camera I have records and deletes and formats the fuse-exFat system reasonably well most of the time. If the code for the exFat system is proprietary, at least the code for accessing the data should be made free. I do not disrespect proprietary formats, but ther

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread legimet . calc
But fuse-exfat exists, and it is free.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
I'll check the licence and see if I can make sense of the source code.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread legimet . calc
It is GPL: https://github.com/relan/exfat

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
I always mount from bash using it with -ro option. I avoid using the gui which doesn't ask how to mount any drives and exposes me to inadvertently mounting anything in sight. Changing directories with the nautilus gui or from the shell using cd command always works. It is the chdir command fr

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
Thanks. I've got my work cut out for me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread infinityfallen
Cheers to that! I am unfortunately very time-poor and absolutely useless at software development and drawing and so on, but I'm happy to offer my services for anything that would need to be done.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread mo98
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread lcerf
I do not quite get the situation. Are two Trisquel systems installed on your computer? If so, you did not need to install Trisquel Mini alongside Trisquel. You could just have installed the "trisquel-mini" package (and "trisquel-mini-recommended" for lighter applications) and choose it at the

[Trisquel-users] Re : wi-fi crash and available space

2016-10-13 Thread lcerf
When a command does not output anything, it means it works. You now have 394M of free space in the root partition. Too little. So, like I explained, first remove unnecessary kernels. If it is not enough, you can either remove some of the most disk-demanding applications such as video games

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread legimet . calc
Blob is a git-related term: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboot leaves FSF. Says FSF shouldn't exist anymore.

2016-10-13 Thread silentdreamer
I was shocked to read this stuff. When I read about this awhile ago, I couldn't believe my eyes. It's not easy to know what, or whom, to believe. All I know is, this is deeply troubling. Most groups will have some kind of internal conflict at some time, which often interferes with accompli

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread silentdreamer
Thank you for helping. I got the info but can't copy/paste to or from the terminal, I don't know why.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread silentdreamer
hi, thank you for your help. I hoped installing Trisquel Mini would replace Trisquel and the GNOME shell. My tech skills are awful, so I guess I goofed.There was nothing in red I'm trying to paste the info from Terminal. I have 2 Terminals but they both seem the same and won't copy/paste. Thi

[Trisquel-users] what are the requirements for screen-readers to work on a website?

2016-10-13 Thread adel
Will any HTML+CSS website work well with a screen-reader? Screen reader software that blind people use

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread silentdreamer
hello to you both, I'm studying the Command Line doc to see how to do this and hope to have my info put here by the time either of you log in.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread strypey
Are you using keyboard shortcuts? For some reason, when selecting, copying, and pasting in terminal windows, you have to hold SHIFT as well as Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c, or Ctrl-v. So to copy text from the terminal, you use Ctrl-SHIFT-C. To paste into the terminal you use Ctrl-SHIFT-V.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread strypey
It's good to know you can transform a standard Trisquel install into Trisquel-Mini by installing a couple of packages, but if the OP had done that, she couldn't be sure that any issues that came up were not the result of something that had happened with the older install. One benefit of doing

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread silentdreamer
hi, thanks for your input too. :) Hopefully this thread can help others. I have the info they asked for, just figuring out exactly what to post from the list on Terminal, they probly don't need the entire list but I have it if they do, it's not too long.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread silentdreamer
Hi. keyboard shortcuts didn't work, what worked is highlighting the text in Terminal, then when I pasted to my file, I just press the wheel in the middle. :) The command line doc is wonderful.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need to Uninstall Trisquel

2016-10-13 Thread strypey
Welcome to Trisquel Misty! I have a similar situation to you with an old mini-laptop (full description here: https://trisquel.info/en/users/strypey). I was running full Trisquel 7, and with help from some of the folks here, I identified that the issues I was having were to do with insuffici

[Trisquel-users] Breaking ssl encryption

2016-10-13 Thread blade . vp2020
hi today I found a scary research paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/961.pdf

[Trisquel-users] Re : what are the requirements for screen-readers to work on a website?

2016-10-13 Thread lcerf
It works well... if written properly: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

Re: [Trisquel-users] what are the requirements for screen-readers to work on a website?

2016-10-13 Thread blade . vp2020
hi I suggest you read this discussion https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2016-03/msg00049.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Breaking ssl encryption

2016-10-13 Thread alexvong1995
Thanks for the info! For busy readers, I suggest reading section 6.3 "Lessons". I will try to give a short summary (quote + paraphrase) of section 6.3: 1. 1024-bit primes should be considered insecure for cryptosystems based on the difficulty of computing discrete log. 2. Trapdoor for a 2