I want to switch from Kubuntu to Trisquel, so I booted up a live USB and
found that it works great. The only thing that didn't work was my wifi card,
a Ralink RT3090. (Actually on the download page for their firmware, it says
it's under the gpl, but when opening the archive, you get a binary
OK, I think I'll get one from ThinkPenguin. I'm fine with having to update
linux-libre.
Maybe copy from the equivalent page for Firefox
(https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly
)? At the bottom, it says it's under the Creative Commons Attribution
Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license.
No, the changelog states that Wine includes a free replacement for Tahoma.
However, the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package recommended by the wine
package downloads and installs the nonfree MS fonts. I don't know why it's
recommended; things look good in wine without the MS fonts.
You can use muon, an advanced package manager for KDE. No need to run it with
kdesudo because it requests your password when needed.
Or symlink /root/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 to /root/.gtkrc-2.0 and GTK+ applications
will look good as root.
Usually the BIOS (maybe not efi) shows you some keys that you can press at
start up. Usually one is for the BIOS settings and is called something like
setup, and one is for overriding the boot medium, and should be something
like boot menu.
Press the key for boot menu, and select your
If you want it to always boot from the CD or DVD, then go into the BIOS setup
and change the boot order so that the CD/DVD drive is first.
Also, once you install it on the HDD, booting from the HDD will boot Trisquel
by default, so unless you really want to boot live, there's no need to change
the boot setup. Just boot to CD/DVD using the boot menu.
Use UFW for your firewall, or GUFW as a GUI.
Also get AppArmor, which restricts applications to only access certain
resources. It comes installed by default on Trisquel, but you will have to
activate the profiles. See the Ubuntu wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor
I don't know of any
I'm not much of a novice user to Debian-based distros (although I'm new to
Trisquel), but AppArmor is still easy to use, just run
sudo aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/*
This should enforce all AppArmor profiles (although IIRC the chromium profile
stops chromium from working). You should have
TrueCrypt is nonfree software.
You can use ecryptfs (see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory). Or, if you
haven't installed trisquel yet, there should be an option in the installer
that says something like encrypt home directory. (this uses ecryptfs)
VLC is completely free software. It uses patent-encumbered (but free) codecs,
which are needed to play patent-encumbered formats. There are companies such
as MPEG LA which collect patents. These are called patent trolls, and are
very harmful to free software developers.
If you are making
This looks interesting (http://sipml5.org/), and it's under a free license.
Try running, sudo update-grub.
Not yet..
Improv is open hardware, as open as it can be given that all graphics
processing units (GPU) are closed and proprietary.
Oh, I didn't know that. Anyway, I recommend the TP-Link TL-WN722N, version 1.
When I got it (last month) it was the only version. If it still is, then you
should be safe, since it uses AR9271+AR7010. However, you need the
open-ath9k-htc-firmware package.
Actually, don't get a wireless adaptor yet. My mom's laptop also has AR9285
and it works perfectly in Trisquel. It is also listed as working on
h-node.org.
Can you post the output of lspci -nnk? Also post the output of dmesg.
Attach them in separate files, because the output may be big.
Actually, I searched for that computer and it has 64 MB of memory.
Maxthon is not free software, so that would defeat the point of running
Trisquel. Trisquel already has Abrowser, a web browser based on the latest
version of Firefox.
Installing Trisquel is very easy, see
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installation-guide. You can install
side-by-side with
Try gksudo nautilus.
You would have to use Wine for something like that. You can run wine cmd and
it will give you a batch prompt. And Linux, the kernel, has nothing to do
with bash or batch.
I believe version 2 of that adapter should work, but not the other versions.
I'm not completely sure, though.
Make sure the adapter is plugged in when you do lsusb. It doesn't show in the
output you posted.
There won't be any tracking.
http://www.zdnet.com/mozilla-clarifies-defends-firefox-ad-position-726335/
Hmm, it seems that the copyright file is automatically generated. I checked a
few file with unknown license and they were free.
No, I just checked the license headers of a few files of unknown license in
the copyright file.
I think it shouldn't be too difficult to just check all such files. I did a
grep UNKNOWN on the copyright file, and there's only 325 lines in the output.
That's great to know, I've used ShareLatex before.
First, try rebooting and run
uname -r
It should give 3.11.0-xx-generic. (xx is probably 15 or 17) If it doesn't you
didn't install the kernel properly.
If you used the generic kernel from Trisquel's repository and it worked, it
is completely free. So there's no need to use the libre kernel from jxself's
repository.
Could you try installing the package linux-image-generic-lts-saucy? This is a
deblobbed version of the Ubuntu saucy kernel. I know that Ubuntu applies some
patches, so maybe they applied the patch for your touchpad.
OK, if it still doesn't work, then compile the kernel yourself. It's not too
hard.
wget
http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/freesh/linux-libre-3.13.5-source.tar.xz
tar -xJvf linux-libre-3.13.5-source.tar.xz
cd linux-libre-3.13.5-source/linux
for patch in 3078491 3078481 3074391
Yes, that's right. The firmware does not run on the host CPU, it runs on the
chip itself. So it doesn't matter if you run 32 or 64-bit Trisquel.
Since you don't have internet, get the apt-offline deb package from a
computer with internet and install it on your offline computer with:
sudo
Post the output of dmesg (in an attachment)
Actually, that chipset doesn't require any firmware, from what I've read.
What did you try, and what doesn't work? What error messages did you get?
open-ath9k-htc-firmware is firmware, not a driver. And it builds perfectly on
64-bit, as long as you have everything needed to build gcc and binutils.
No, the saucy LTS enablement stack is in the toutatis repository. Take a
look, just type apt-cache search lts-saucy
Or 3.11.
He was saying he got errors when building on a 64-bit system. Probably just
didn't have the build dependencies installed. But yeah, there's no reason to
build it since it runs on the xtensa processor in the chip. You can put the
files in /lib/firmware, but it's certainly better to
Go to about:config and set media.gstreamer.enabled to true. You might also
need to get some gstreamer codecs.
I don't know much about this, but Sage is a very good mathematical software.
It is a collection of various free software packages and a python interface.
It is all free software, except it has a library called cephes under a
questionable license. Luckily, this is only used on FreeBSD, not on
The 6.0.1 iso still isn't the one on the download page, and last time I
checked, it still didn't contain the saucy lts enablement stack.
One problem I have with contributing is that very few people look at the
issue tracker and try to fix anything (except for Spammers be gone). This
makes
What happens when you run sudo apt-get purge openjdk*?
Is there any estimated release date? Updated isos are supposed to be released
every 6 months, and it's been over a year now.
That's what it says here.
We will publish point releases every 6 months including all improvements
done to the system in that time.
I've tried to contribute through the issue tracker, but am being ignored. I
didn't know about trisquel-devel. Is that the proper place to contribute?
I recommend downloading TeXLive from http://tug.org/texlive. The version in
the repos is already 5 years old.
That's because the Parabola website uses CAcert certificates, which are not
installed by default in Abrowser. You might want to read the http home page.
That firmware is experimental. An ath9k card is certainly better since
Atheros actually supports it without any nonfree software.
You might want to try HTTPS Everywhere. And next time, make a new topic.
Oh, I didn't realize what you were asking. Sorry about that.
Just get an SSL certificate from a trusted CA.
Yeah, they finally started including up-to-date TeXLive packages in quantal.
And thanks, I didn't know about that PPA. I'll use it in the future. :)
Or Trisquel GNU/Linux ;)
Simpler:
$ ls /lib/firmware/htc_.*
I don't know, but it will be after Ubuntu 14.04 is released (Apr 17)
It uses a CACert certificate (http://cacert.org). You will have to add the
certificates to Abrowser.
This is a really bad idea. Slaine is an unsupported version of Trisquel which
will never receive any more security updates. Instead, you could install
MATE, an actively maintained DE forked from GNOME2. Follow these
instructions.
If you really want to use Slaine, you will have to point
If you want another adapter, I recommend the TL-WN722N version 1. I've had it
for 3 months, no problems yet. (The ThinkPenguin one was too expensive, so I
did some research and decided to get this one for 15 USD)
Seems like it sets limits on resource usage for different users. I guess it's
not very useful on a one-user system.
What about GNU PSPP? I've never used it, but it looks good.
Why can't you use MATE? It's forked from GNOME 2 and uses GTK+2. If you want
an older version of compiz, compile it from source.
If you use Slaine, you won't receive any security updates or support on this
forum, as support for it ended 2 years ago. Right now, the only supported
version of
See this: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/6561. Broadcom recently
released the code, so I think it's now possible to run it without nonfree
software.
The Improv is another promising single-board computer that seems dedicated to
freedom. The only components which require nonfree
I agree. Especially since the STS versions of Ubuntu are now supported only
for a year.
6.0.1 is just a more updated iso of 6.0 and uses the same repositories. It is
not an actual major release.
If you do sudo apt-get upgrade, you will effectively have 6.0.1.
Here's a PPA with newer GNOME releases:
https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3
Trisquel 6.0.1 is just an iso of Trisquel 6.0 with more updated packages than
the original iso. It will show up as 6.0 (maybe this is a bug, because Ubuntu
shows up as 12.04.*) But you have nothing to update.
They can't claim it as their own even if you use a permissive license,
because the copyright notices have to be retained. Of course, it's best to
make it copyleft so other sites don't make it nonfree.
Are you using postfix?
https://wiki.debian.org/Postfix
Nope, it includes 3.2.0-60-generic:
http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel-images/trisquel-mini_6.0.1_amd64.manifest. I
was hoping for it to contain the saucy lts enablement stack. It significantly
improved the graphics performance of my intel card.
I know Ubuntu changes the version in lsb-release for maintenance releases. To
do this, all that's needed is modifying base-files a little.
No, that's incorrect. The kernel loads the blobs at boot time. And the BIOS
has nothing to do with drivers. You have to get a wireless pci card or usb
adapter. ThinkPenguin has some of those.
They're open sourcing the backend code, they say.
Yes, it seems to be pretty common.
Trisquel freezes on my machine, and Ubuntu did too. When it does, it freezes
almost immediately, and I can't switch to any console. However, REISUB works,
so you can use that to reboot more safely than a hard reboot.
So does mine. As I predicted, base-files was the upgraded package.
VB itself isn't nonfree. It just requires a nonfree compiler for the BIOS.
Now, if there's a way to forward-port the old BIOS that compiles with a
free compiler, it could get included in Trisquel.
Well, you have to reboot the virtual machine after that, and then it should
work.
Dragora is not very usable unless you use very little software or want to
compile everything from source (very few packages), and Dynebolic seems to be
dead. However, the last 4 are usable.
According to
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Java_and_patents#OpenJDK:_the_GPLv2_Java_from_Oracle,
OpenJDK is safe to use because of the GPLv2 license. :)
The netinstall is not command line (that is, not like the Parabola or Arch
iso's). It's a text mode installer.
For Firefox, use Abrowser, as onpon4 said. The only differences are the
branding, an addons site that only lists free (as in freedom) addons, and
improved default settings (for privacy).
Trisquel includes LibreOffice, which was forked from OpenOffice.
For videos and audio, VLC is really
No they don't. Look at the checksums.
Do you rebuild all source packages? Do you trust Ubuntu's binary packages?
Try looking at the checksums of some binary packages that Trisquel hasn't
modified. Compare with Ubuntu.
Run apt-cache show python 3.2
Result: same checksums. The packages.trisquel.info site is messed up, I
reported an issue a while ago. (Some of trisquel's own packages don't even
show up!)
It can't be named belenos, because for some strange reason, the quantal
(12.10) kernel is named belenos.
I think you can do it with USB too.
Agreed with onpon4 about WebM. You can read more about software patents and
why they are harmful here. Try to avoid proprietary/patented formats, even if
they are supported by free sofware.
Try the LTS enablement stack from saucy. Simply run:
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends
{linux-generic,xserver-xorg,libgl1-mesa-glx}-lts-saucy
Saucy has 3.11, but if it doesn't work, jxself said he's working on the LTS
enablement stack from Trusty.
Libreboot isn't a distro; it's a free version of Coreboot. You probably meant
LibreWRT or LibreCMC.
Good to know that your problem is solved without having to use nonfree
software :)
Debian does a much better job than Ubuntu at separating free and nonfree
software (and that's why it's my distro of choice on arm, which none of the
FSF-endorsed distros support)
Ghostery is nonfree software :/
I have OsmAnd on my Replicant tablet, it's pretty good :)
Maybe you could contact Sony and check.
The only recent ones are ath9k (pcie) and ath9k_htc (usb, the ones for which
free firmware was released by atheros last year). Atheros is the best we
have.
That looks great :)
And preventing people from using wifi adapters with nonfree firmware is a
horrible idea. It sounds similar to what proprietary software companies do.
Yes, I hope that gets fixed. I thought the Linux-libre developers were
finding a way to prevent suggesting nonfree firmware while not blocking it.
Occasionally (but for some reason it happened a lot today), my system hangs,
but it goes away after waiting a bit. In the kernel log, I see the following:
[23998.804024] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* stuck on render ring
[23998.828074] [drm:i915_set_reset_status] *ERROR* render ring
Apparently, there's a bug about this, so I hope the next updates will solve
this (or the trusty stack)
I didn't have this problem today anyway, but I'm switching to UXA before I
get the update.
Did you try the netinstall?
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