I know some of you use File Roller like myself and run into the occasional
RAR file that is not supported by the unrar-free package. Either I have to
ignore the file or be naughty and install the non-free unrar package from
Ubuntu.
I know there was talk about v3 support here somewhere
You are not alone. Dominick from Jupiter Broadcasting's Coder Radio once
offered DRM free software either on a smartphone app store or standard
software and changed his mind and will now favor DRM. One of his reasons was
for people ripping off his software and creating copycats.
Its because Ruben is stubborn and doesn't listen to anyone. More than a
handful of people have offered to fix issues with this forum and improve upon
it but he has given no response.
It doesn't really encourage people to willy-nilly donate money to him when
when he is only reachable on IRC
lembas' link is legit. Of course if you want YouTube, it is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=radmjL5OIaA
Does the unar package at http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia/unar support
RAR v3? I ask becuase the Trisquel package for Brigitania, based on Ubuntu
11.10 is version 1.0-1 but the unar for Precise, based on Ubuntu 12.04, is at
0.99-1. Only the upcoming Quantal release, based off of 12.10
I personally compress in 7z or zip depending on the software the recipient
may have. I brought up RAR because I was testing out an emulator over the
weekend and the RAR files were version 3. I do admit it is a pain to deal
with them but I also understand it would be time consuming for the
I know this is probably obvious to you, but having your HOME directory on a
separate partition is really really helpful. The OS installers will leave it
alone if you switch from Ubuntu to Trisquel and vise versa and since Trisquel
is based off of Ubuntu, there shouldn't be too much of an
I know the upcoming Firefox OS is trying to be the poster child for a true
open source phone but I am guessing they may have their fair share of
non-free parts. If the Mozilla team is sticking to hardware that only uses
free components and drivers, I would be surprised and Chris may even
I'm not going to repeat what I said in heavy detail in other posts, but you
are not alone in dislike of Richard Stallman. He is an out of touch, selfish,
controlling, and insensitive person who uses the FSF as a way to pay his
flights so he can give speeches on how proprietary software is
Few things:
1. I didn't bring this thread back from the dead. I am flattered that it is
still considered important and people are still commenting on it. I'm overly
flattered that I am considered a valuable member on this forum to keep it
from being stale. I mean... there isn't a new
In response to Danny and Magic -
1. I have never asked friends of mine to create an account on here to support
me in my viewpoints. They are random people who I do not know that either
support me.or not on their own acccord. I'm not trying to get people to take
sides. That is not my goal.
It is a constructive conversation. Don't be jealous because you lack the
power to get 200 replies in a post that you started.
Just remember that RMS is a celebrity and with most celebrities they
personally don't care about you. Sad reality to you I am sure, but he is no
different than the
LibSF was created to be a God-fearing alternative to both the Linux
Foundation and The FSF (Free Software Foundation), because of certain beliefs
held by their founders.
I don't know if this is serious or a parody. I'm really curious because this
seems in response to RMS fully supporting
Awesome! I didn't try out unar because of the gnustep dependencies but this
should be in Ubuntu 12.10 (and Trisquel 6.5) by default due to them possibly
using Gnome 3.6. Hopefully the File Roller support is backported to older
releases too.
Today for shits and giggles I joined the live IRC chat feed for the Linux
Action Show and Nathan was there as nathangnu which was a surprise. I
didn't know he was an avid watcher of the show, but we learn something new
every day. I mean hell... what do I know? It was my first time in the
Isn't the safe approach to have one older kernel as a backup? I can see the
point in having 2-3 older and unused kernels being overkill, but just having
1 older should do fine just in case the current one acts up.
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-inks-patent-deal-with-service-provider-using-linux-servers-701498/
First it was Amazon in 2010 for their datacenters and now Microsoft is
licensing technology that they own the patents when it is used in a Linux
datacenter. Of course no one is disclosing
( . Y . )
If that is the case, that really sucks becuase FAT32 is everywhere and
supported on old operating systems that people still use like Windows XP,
supported on cameras and video game consoles, and of course modern Windows,
Mac, and Linux systems.
The sad reality is that people want things to
Don't be a pussy and man up behind your IP address if you are willing to
speak your mind in IRC or any other online communication.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120727084323510
I saw this a couple of days ago with Microsoft trying to hide the revealing
of patents that they say they own and have been charging people for. It is
really slimy with MS turning into patent trolls that want to keep the details
of
There he is! I know you say it is a privacy thing but you are still using
someone else's IP address so if you do something bad, it traces back to an
innocent person who takes the fall for you. I guess that makes it private
for the person using Tor at the expense of someone else. Classy.
Who said I didn't understand the issue? I understand completely what Tor is
and have used the browser bundle in the past so there is no need for you to
attempt to talk down to me. If Tor was a better method and didn't need you to
piggy back on someone else's IP, then we would have a true
I see the benefit of getting and viewing information like reading a blocked
website (like if you are in China) or viewing the BBC iPlayer outside of the
UK because it is pure consumption. No one should be denied information and
even if they did track the IP, they would assume the UK user was
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19065082
Stallman opens up his big mouth again calling Valve games on Linux unethical.
Just when most Linux users are getting excited about the OS again, here he
comes to try to derail it. We all know his viewpoints on proprietary software
(including
The issue with Stallman speaking out against Valve games and non-free games
in general is that he is considered a celebrity within the computer world and
can get the attention of a tech writer. He knows this and in his head he
thinks that if he speaks out and whines enough, that he can tell
You are teetering into the grey areas on the role of software in
entertainment. If this was a movie or song that you consume to get the
experience, you have no problem with protecting the rights of the artist.
Now you take this interactive experience and instead of simply watching it,
you
I know there have been some DRM issues in the past (like SecureROM) but I
heard that Valve's is actually one of the less restrictive of them all. I
believe that if you are online in Steam, you can play it no problem but there
is also an online option as well that doesn't require online
You also seem to forget that many games use licensed game engines like the
Unreal Engine and even if a company wanted to release the source code for
their game, they couldn't becuase of the terms of that license. The creators
of the Unreal Engine for example rely on licensing the engine to
One other thing... the Left 4 Dead 2 game runs faster on Linux due to OpenGL:
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
Oh and I wanted to point out again that I am right in regard to commercial
gaming support leads to better drivers for everyone. Here is a blurb:
Working with
So in the future if someone reads video game history and it liss influential
games, the Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Portal games will be omitted?
I don't know whether you are 12 years old or misinformed when you make silly
comments like that.
So you are getting on my case saying I am name calling by calling someone
childish and how I am such a horrible person for it yet you turn around and
call me a troll? Your way of thinking is so one sided if you think calling
someone a troll is not name calling.
Plus, simply calling someone
I know what you are trying to do. You are egging me on trying to get me to
verbally come back at you with a strong response so you can try to get me
banned. I realize it is me vs the world with the members around here and you
would think any disagreement is a victory for you. Why would I
Adobe just released one of their fonts under an SIL license which means it
should be free software compatible. Have any of you tried it out yet?
https://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro.html
I was using this as a reference
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Fonts
Far from simple minded bro... far from it.
Speaking of fonts, I saw recently that due to the GPLv2 license tied to the
Liberation fonts, there has been some talk about moving away from them
because of the license's restrictions.
Instead, they may move to using Croscore fonts (Arimo, Tinos, Cousine) which
are not only metrically
The latest version of jQuery was released today and I noticed a license
change when poking around in the source file. jQuery 1.7.2 and earlier were
dual-licensed under a GPLv2 and MIT but 1.8 was released just under an MIT
license.
Source for 1.8: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.0.js
So basically it is a month or so away and Rubes hasn't picked a name yet nor
given us any news yet. Is he beta testing new files? Tweaking the latest
Gnome Fallback and grvrulz theme to be better than the hot mess in 5.5? Will
we finally get Unity support?
The problem with YouTube is that I will be in the HTML5 trial and the
majority of vids still won't play without the plugin. Especially if the
channel has ads.
What would be really nice is if Adobe released the source for Flash to stay
relevant in the wake of mobile and tablets
I have a Greasemonkey script at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105
that I had to manually edit to show WebM files, but otherwise it works great
in the situation where WebM isn't available and I have to nab the MP4.
I did email the script owner asking why WebM wasn't enabled by default
Gnome 3 sucks and even Debian 7 will use XFCE by default when it hits stable:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTE1NTk
As for MATE, you can nab it at http://mate-desktop.org/install/#ubuntu and
use older trisquel-gtk-theme and trisquel-icon-theme packages from Dagda to
get
The problem with Gnome 3 is that the Gnome developers are very stubborn and
refuse to accept any feedback from the community with no real clear vision
for the future besides wanting to do their own OS. Nautilus in 3.6 is thought
of to be a mess and that is why Linux Mint is forking Nautilus
With the Netgear WN111 USB wireless adapter, it has two versions. Version 1
is Broadcom and Version 2 is the free Atheros 9170 chipset. Of course I want
Version 2 due to the free driver. It is listed as an Atheros 9170 chipset
when I type modinfo carl9170 in the terminal even if it is not
Well TP was my first place to look, but the n USB dongles are over $50 and I
was looking for dongles that were free software and under $20.
Is Ubuntu One considered free software? Even if the client is, the server
side stuff is proprietary, but that is considered ok right?
I just use VLC, but doesn't that use different codecs than Totem which is
Gstreamer?
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/08/disney-channel-show-mentions-that-open.html
Is this the kind of message that Disney should be portraying in their kids
shows that millions watch? Either the overpaid writers don't know what open
source software actually is or it could be an agenda by Disney
Before Quidam closed my thread I was going to add that I did email Disney
corporate with this text. Grow up bro:
Recently on your Disney Channel program Shake It Up there was a comment
made by one of the characters that due to open souce software, that computer
obviously got a virus. I
5.5 is a buggy mess and why I am still sticking with 4.0 until the next LTS.
If the Trisquel team is trying to go with the Gnome 2 look, they either need
to find more ways to hack Gnome Panel or switch over to MATE or XFCE
completely. The current implementation is not working.
Will we see
I once installed 5.5 in a virtual machine, installed MATE, and purged the
Gnome Panel nonsense. With some minor configuration, it looked exactly like
the Gnome 2 based Trisquel. I heard that MATE may move to GTK3 and that
sweetens the pot.
I emailed Chris personally a week or two ago breaking down the need to review
it and how it will be beneficial to the show.
Good job to all of those like myself and Nathan for being persistent with
this. I know at times you think I am against this project but I really want
it to succeed.
I just watched the episode and here is what I got from it:
1. They noticed that people on the forums are strong in their convictions and
somewhat cultish and mean towards newbies. The reality is that people that
want to have stuff work and the forum members will respond by preaching
If you are developing software and releasing it to people, I suggest going
for Apache 2.0 or a BSD license (2 or 3 clause) to get the broadest appeal.
The BSD licenses are the most lax and Apache 2.0 has some patent protection
written into it.
The problem with using these non-copyleft
The thought is about monetizing free software. In the traditional sense, free
software relies on donations, a big company willing to give their code away
for free, or creating custom software for a company. That is totally
understood.
With having your libraries and core software as free
About a year or so ago my brother, who is far from technical, got a laptop
and had me set it up. It was a Dell and to my surprise, the wireless worked
out of the box with the atheros driver. I then formatted the drive and
installed Trisquel 4.0 from scratch.
Guess what? He has had a smooth
The games are still proprietary but this is a step in the right direction
with hopefully more companies to follow:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/09/ubisoft-backtracks-on-pc-drm-citing-customer-feedback/
Have any of you read the recent comments at
http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/23996/trisquel-gnulinux-review-las-s23e05/
especially by DarkAngel with the LAS host responding to him?
Basically saying that Trisquel is a one man show. That is true but also
really sucks because it seems like
Please be aware of the forum guidelines in name calling and slander.
I still use Trisquel but I am starting to get a little impatient as I want to
upgrade my systems to to next LTS. While it is true that I could take Ubuntu
and run scripts to cleanse it, there is a sense of community here.
Also, with Ubuntu 12.10 beta 1 out, hopefully there is some news soon
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/gnome-flavoured-ubuntu-spin-coming-october-18th
Shit just got real bro:
http://www.zdnet.com/apple-patent-could-remotely-disable-protesters-phone-cameras-703640/
What was the original format? The examples he gave and his results were both
images he took of the result. Are the final records in XML? OpenDocument?
Sorry to bring up an old thread, but recently the jQuery Foundation talked
about their nuking of the GPL:
http://blog.jquery.com/2012/09/10/jquery-licensing-changes/
Banana is right about if the format was in DOCX because LibreOffice can open
and save in ODT and Office 2007 and above can open/save in either DOCX and
ODT file formats. DOCX is even an ISO standard even if it is not 100% open
which is really a bum deal.
Stuff like this does piss me off
Speaking of OOXML, I came across this today when researching the standard
that I found humorous:
Prevention
In 2007, Microsoft created a partnership with The National Archives of the
United States of America to prevent the digital dark age and unlock millions
of unreadable stored computer
aliasbody -
You are benefiting from having these at your fingertips:
- Options to use free/open software on top of open hardware like ThinkPenguin
- Choice in programming languages that are open and well documented
- Ways to learn those programming languages without setting foot in school
- Run
We all know what his favorite food is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
:-P
I would expect to wait a long long time for the 6.0 release. For example,
some of us have been waiting for Abrowser 15 to be released (since Firefox 15
is a few weeks old now), but the packages are currently stuck at 14:
http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia-updates/abrowser
Sadly, this
Don't use a GPL license and go with MIT or BSD so you have no complications
in getting the app accepted in Google Play in addition to F-Droid. I don't
want people to think I am anti-GPL because I am going for MIT instead. It's
just easier to get into the Apple and Google App Stores.
I know that Apple won't accept GPL licensed apps on their app store just in
case you created an iPhone version.
Just be careful when using GPL code as there are more restrictions than a MIT
or BSD license. Some of the most important and useful software out or in the
near future like nginx or openstack or chromium go for a more permissive
license for wide adoption.
Each license has a purpose in what
I have been tempted to try GhostBSD, but I like the Ubuntu ecosystem with its
strong community and supported packages.
I was taking it from the freedom perspective of creating an application that
you distribute over the internet that anyone can use like nginx. People love
it and one day a
Open source = free software when using BSD or MIT. If that base application
and all of its code is under a free software compatible license, respects it,
and stays under it, that software will always be accepted as such. It follows
both the rules of the FSF and the OSI no matter how much you
No matter the license, the whole concept is to give credit to where credit is
due for the author or entity that created the software through a form of
copyright. The top of GPLv3 and MIT license have a line for giving copyright
to the author.
What is confusing is that the GPL is about
This thread is at risk of being hijacked again by Magic Banana, so how about
we calm down a little bit? aliasbody took the time to make this thread and is
passionate about it, so respect him.
The issue of software adoption comes down to not only how good it is, but how
much it can serve
Here is a resource that I read after the previous post when I did some
further research on the licenses:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.html#gpl-advantages
It depends on the scale of the project and its overall purpose if you have a
worry that people will steal. I listed jQuery which is under an MIT license
and I am not aware of any major forks. I know there is the unofficial Jqmobi
library, but that project's goal is to strip away features not
If you are using Apache 2.0 and have a NOTICE.txt file, it is not only
included with copies of your software, but if someone decides to add code to
it, it is required that the NOTICE.txt stays there and ackowledges any
previous authors according to section 4d:
If the Work includes a NOTICE
Are you DTF when cruisin' the shore?
Btw, release still planned for October with a beta test:
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/beta-late-than-never-3/
Lightspark was a bust too. Maybe someday some companies will get together and
create a true free software alternative to something proprietary like how Red
Hat created IcedTea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IcedTea
I noticed the free geek booth has a 1984 Macintosh. Did they attempt to run
Linux on the thing and if so, how was it?
Worth a laugh and proof how misinformed and dumb some people can be.
Politicians especially when they think installing Linux is hurting democracy:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/26/vandals_install_linux_on_congressman_office_computers/
I think the biggest issue is that your teacher is relying on a 3rd party
service to grade and do all the work for him. What is the school paying for
if he is offloading the work to someone else? That is sad. Especially when I
went to a university with 40,000 students and the professors in
It is because Mozilla's current business model with Firefox is threatened. On
the desktop, the marketshare is declining along with low usage on phones and
tablets. They are looking for ways to adapt to current market trends and for
them, a full fledged OS to keep you in the Firefox and
In the past few months, Adobe released Source Sans Pro and Source Code Pro
for free under the free software compatible and copyleft SIL Open Font
License 1.1 and are touting it as such. Source code is there and they
encourage people to fork it, contribute back, and help improve it as part of
I rarely use SQL databases anymore and have moved to MongoDB, which is
considered NoDAL. Wanna know the best part? It is GPL licensed and plenty of
hosting sites.
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
Oops I meant NoSQL. Damn autocorrect.
To the average consumer, do they care if you advertise being totally free
software as being an advantage for your hosting service? I've brainstormed
ideas to people about that approach and was told that most people won't care
and will go with a better known service like Godaddy. A service
Ubuntu should have 16 in their repos in the next day or so. I'm disappointed
in Ruben for slacking in one of the more important Trisquel projects. Or
maybe I'm not considering it is taking him forever to release 6 when the
version he is basing it on was released 6 months ago!
You do have
I just saw an article at
http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-linux-donationware-705497/ about Canonical
pushing a donation model so people can donate amounts of money to
improvements that they feel is important. Some open source projects have this
model, but with Ubuntu being one of the most
Stallman would probably say that software is more important than your
children so you should quit your job and let them starve so you can start a
one man free software project and panhandle to feed yourself. Otherwise you
are being unethical and ruining the entire universe. Eventually you
I can see two problems off the bat:
1.) Canonical is a corporation and not a non-profit organization. A
corporation should make its income on the profit of sales of goods and
services while a non-profit is exactly that... an organization that doesn't
make a profit on goods and services and
As expected, Firefox 16 was pushed to the Ubuntu repos for you Trisquel 5.5
users: http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/firefox
Makes you wonder if Ruben skips 15 and goes right to 16. If he goes right
from 14 to 15, then there's the risk of always being one version behind.
Yikes.
The problem with Trisquel being used in a corporation, school, or government
is the lack of support options. Plus, with it being a one man show, the
releases are 6 months behind schedule. If a company or large organization
invests in Ubuntu, they have some security in Canonical being a real
It depends on the financial status of that organization. In some cases it may
cost more to have a full time and on-site salaried employee than using
contractors or support contracts from a company like Canonical and Red Hat.
Another hurdle is finding qualified workers who know how to use a
The problem with Media Goblin is that due to it having a GPL license (AGPL
v3), it may not get the adoption it needs on a bigger scale with being used
by big organizations in addition to a community. Apache 2.0 would have been a
more wise option.
I'm not gay, but I do respect those that are and live their lives as they
want to live it. It is tough for many of them especially when they were
younger and got picked on by those who were intolerant.
I know this thread is off topic, but I got laid last night. Did you?
I feel like I'm repeating myself, but a more permissive license allows
everyone to contribute. You say there is the worry that it gets too big and a
company will fork and make a proprietary version. The reality is that its too
much work to maintain a.fork of that size and they will rather
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