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If this bothers you and you would like to run a fully free system distribution that uses Ubuntu as a base, you could give Trisquel a try. It's like Ubuntu but with all the nasty to Freedom and spy crap pulled out. (sorry, no unity though)
Thanks for this great question.
For those concerned with this issue, please consider Trisquel GNU/Linux.
Trisquel is a Free Software Foundation endorsed spin of Ubuntu. It consists of only free as in freedom software. The kernel is also entirely free. Instead of Linux, which has had binary-blobs for many years, Trisquel uses Linux-Libre. This is a de-blobbed linux kernel.
The Trisquel project began in the Basque country, in Spain.
I use Trisquel. It's stable and easy to use. Version 7.0 (which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 with the non-free parts removed) was recently released so it's up to date. It is 100% libre and recommended by the FSF.
I just want to mention that while Mint is a lot better than Windows or OSX, it's still not complete FLOSS.
From GNU website:
> Mint does not have a policy against including nonfree software, it includes nonfree binary blobs in drivers packaged with the kernel, and it includes nonfree programs in its repositories. It even includes proprietary codecs.
Don't let this discourage you from trying out Mint or other Ubuntu flavours, they're probably the easiest to learn if you're coming from a non-Linux background.
For a FLOSS version of Ubuntu try Trisquel
Also please don't rely on truecrypt, it's no longer secure and has been discontinued.
Very good. Windows 10 and Ubuntu are both terrible for privacy. Going forward I advocate people move to http://linuxmint.com/ and if their hardware is compatible then they should choose http://trisquel.info/
But yes lots have people have given up the fight, they think it is totally pointless to try tackling the state spying apparatus, I think they're wrong, and bloody lazy.
Free software is about more than just satisfying the terms of a license just like murder charge requires more than just having a dead body about. This will explain it further. Trisquel, with the intent of ensuring user Freedom and approved by the FSF, did exactly what you suggested (great thought, btw :)) and much more (sadly, there's more than just this issue that had to be corrected) to offer users a fully Free user experience using Ubuntu as a base.
This kind of discussion can be seen in a lot of topics.
- Free software vs. Open source software
- GPL vs. MPL
- Linux-libre vs. Linux
- Icecat vs. Firefox
etc.
The thing is, to be able to become an FSF-approved distro, you have to only include free software in your operating system (like Parabola, Trisquel or gNewSense). Debian is a great distribution and the fact that they seperated all the non-free blobs into another repository is an amazing effort. But it's not enough to be a completely free operating system. Just like Firefox is not a completely free software, or Linux kernel includes non-free blobs, or MPL (v1.1) is not compatible with GPL, or Open source software doesn't always mean it's free software.
Gentoo allows for the installation of proprietary software. It would be better to use a freedom-respecting operating system like Trisquel or Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.
Hi, /u/rubenquidam! Thank you for all your hard work on the Trisquel project.
Lets talk money! How much better would the free Trisquel Operating System project be if it were to receive a reliable annual donation of $10,000, $50,000 or $100,000?
Such sums are nothing from a government budget standpoint.
What is the main bottle neck in development of free software? Is it lack of dunding?
Are the top IT people in large corporations making sure that they use some company money to sustain free software development?
This is a difficult task. Avoid Broadcom hardware and stick with Intel graphics and wireless cards
This might help http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/hardware
Trisquel is a libre only linux distro so of you can get everything supported by that you are damn near done!
I've been running Trisquel GNU/Linux on my ThinkPad X200 without any issues once I replaced the wireless card.
I'm also running Parabola GNU/Linux on my Lemote Yeeloong. If you've used Archlinux before you will feel right at home on Parabola.
The system is based on IBM's recently freed IBM Power8 architecture: OpenPower.
It is planned to run Trisquel 8, Debian GNU/Linux, etc.
/u/aux1send has the right idea.
You need hardware and software that Respects Your Freedom. RYF means that it is free as in freedom, not free as in beer. Free hardware uses open rather than proprietary standards, such as a standard USB interface.
To be truly free, you need to avoid binary blobs. These are stretches of code unreadable by humans, and there are often many in the firmware of non-free hardware. You also need software that respects the Four Freedoms.
Buy the hardware from a place that understands your need for freedom and has the knowhow to help you:
Trisquel Is a fully free distribution of GNU/Linux, endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. It is totally free, will keep you free as its repositories contain only free software.
Are you aware that all AMD graphics cards and APUs require a proprietary firmware to deliver 3D acceleration, video acceleration as well as power management? This is why they don't work on fully free distributions like Trisquel.
I am SSHing into a Digital Ocean VM from Trisquel GNU/Linux and Mobian devices. I deployed the droplet with doctl.
I have 12 years experience with GNU/Linux, 5 of which professionally only working with GNU/Linux. I currently work as a sysadmin. I am running through the course to see if I would recommend it to others and will make suggestions for improvements along the way.
Think Penguin is a great company! They endeavour to provide part of the ecosystem that free software and free hardware needs.
Think Penguin are based in the USA but also operate from the UK.
If you include "libre." before "thinkpenguin" in the url, they will make a contribution from your purchase to the Trisquel free software project.
>mfw he fixed the computer from the problem of proprietary software
>mfw she paid $500 to infect her computer with proprietary malware
>mfw
That trisquel forum discussion starts at http://trisquel.info/en/forum/librem-15-freelibre-and-open-source-laptop-respects-your-essential-freedoms#comment-59735
I'm glad to see people attempting to meet demand for ethical technology. I expect most such attempts will fail, but hopefully some learning happens, eg fairphone realizing software freedom was more important than they thought at the start.
Think Penguin are in the UK.
All their products will work with free software, so GNU+Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Trisquel will work with it.
Using the link above results in a donation of the profits being made to the free software project Trisquel, and also ensures you will only see free software.
> Staten Island Advance added that Linux was installed on the office computers without revealing the flavour of open-source OS the perps used or the number of machines affected.
I can almost bet it's those FSF freetards again, with their Trisquel Guhnoo Slash Linux Libruh!
Idk. I don't think this project will last. It seems that he just copied the GPL verbatim and sprinkled some Jesus in here and there.
However if this thing takes off - it could benefit the FOSS community. But he does not seem to want to play nice with Linux or GNU .
"For me, I cannot contribute to either of those projects. They are founded upon people whose lives are not founded upon God, and specifically Jesus Christ. So, I had to create something new with which to proceed." Source
But - based on the reasoning that the guy wrote about on the Trisquel forums -- the reason why he started this orgnization is because he thinks that... "RMS also has personal views where he believes pedophilia and necrophilia should be legalized, provided all parties involved are in agreement. I have personally written to him and verified this quote is accurate, and not taken out of context."
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You can get cuttings for free. Seeds are cheap. (Or free! Try a seed bank.) Garden centres often have plant pots for free. Grow chillis, herbs. Go to local gardening events, explain your circumstances, and people will surely help.
Hopefully, you have a computer (or two!). Try installing GNU+Linux and become familiar with Libre / Free Operating Systems and software.
Check out /r/gardening and the related subs there.
You have time for cooking, so try it!
Learn how to use the buses - get a time table. They are a lot more usable when you already know where and when they will be.
Join the military! :) The US Army permits you to specify where you want to be, iirc.
Take an interest in your local wildlife. What have you got outside, large and small?
Read! Dream and plan what you will do one day when you do have the funds.
Consider moving abroad somewhere cheap and warm, like Mexico, till something happens.
Play computer games! :)
- Do you know how to make Potatoes Lyonnaise?
- Which is your favourite GNU+Linux game?
- Which of the Forces, including Coast Guard, would be most acceptable?
I replaced the broadcom card on mine with this: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/wireless-n-dual-band-bluetooth-40-m2-ngff-combo-card
Do not get an intel card, the drivers for it are not FLOSS.
As for will debian work, for reasons beyond my linux expertise, xserver seemed to crash very easily for me which would then trigger other issues. It just seemed very unstable. I was running debian 8.2. Trisquel worked very well for me other than the mouse driver which was kind of jumpy but worked perfectly if you updated the kernel to 3.16 or later. I would recommend this site for instructions on updated the linux-libre kernel in Trisquel.
Also, make sure you are running the latest BIOS firmware from Dell. Additionally, to install Trisquel you need to change the boot settings to support Legacy ROM as well as disable secure boot.
But by talking, he's gotten others to deal with the practical problems...Linux-libre, Trisquel, Parabola, etc.
If you haven't heard of this company before, on the Trisquel forums - the founder explains his choices of hardware and the vision of the company.
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/libretrend-my-vision-free-software
Bought a X60s with 3 GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive two days ago, flashed Libreboot (http://libreboot.org/) and installed Trisquel (http://trisquel.info/). It's a nice little free software laptop.
It's 32-bit only and much slower than my work laptop (a much upgraded X220) but I really like the keyboard and the 4:3 ratio.
Ok I'll see what I can do. Simply being based on Ubuntu does not make something bad. For example Trisquel is based on Ubuntu but is RMS approved because it is completely free/libre. As for the "spyware" most people are talking about the Lens in the universal search that sends info to Amazon/Canonical servers and returns search results. Xubuntu or any other fork that does not use Unity as a DE does not have this.
TL;DR Use Xubuntu if you like it. If you want completely free try Trisquel but using a Mac you will most likely need to install non-free drivers anyway so I would just save the hassle and go for Xubuntu.
If you want a fully libre distro, I would rather recommend Trisquel (better aesthetics, but a few packages, particularly those that replace non-free functionality, are not as updated and thus it has some rough edges), or Parabola (bleeding-edge, even more freedom- and privacy-guarding than Trisquel, but the setup and maintenance need a relatively expert user).
> (although I'm not sure what's left now
You could use abrowser (trisquels version of firefox). It's completely unbranded (thus the name) and uses duck duck go as default search.
While http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made explains how Ubuntu packages are prepared for Trisquel GNU/Linux, my question is why was it done this way. Are there any public mailing list posts featuring the Trisquel GNU/Linux developers discussing the reasoning behind choosing Ubuntu? Understanding the logic for the decision is what I'm interested in.
From link: >Trisquel is a fully-free Ubuntu-based derivative, so the process for building the distro starts by doing a local mirror of Ubuntu and cleaning it.
To paraphrase RMS, "I'd like to just interject for a second..." My apologies if I've come across as having an agenda or the like; I ask questions like this to understand something on a mechanical level, if you will. "How does this work? Why does it work this way?" That sort of thing.
>The option to remove it is something else.
There is no option to remove proprietary blobs in both distributions mentioned ( Debian and Trisquel)because they're distributed without proprietary blobs. It's a question of priorities, not survival. If you really want to run a kernel with proprietary blobs, Debian does offer an option to add them.
Firefox recommends installing non-free software (Flash), so Abrowser is made for Trisquel GNU/Linux, and altered not to recommend any proprietary software (and they have to rebrand because it's a major change to Firefox). Abrowser also maintains a list of add-ons confirmed to use a free license.
Currently it's at 7.0.1, and I don't know when it will upgrade.
100% at home because I use Trisquel GNU/Linux which is all free software.
I am not a open source supporter but because by definition all free software is open source (the reverse is not true) the claim still works.
Work however is a different story. There is no way for me to tell how much they use but it is likely close to 0% but I have no control over their computers.
Here is one change I hope will happen: Modular Design Based Free and Open Standards
I think that in the future, (indeed already) people will become so dissatisfied with the quality of products from manufacturers, that they will start designing and building their own items. This will hopefully include things found in a kitchen. It will be facilitated by 3D printing and the Maker movement.
Free and Open standards means:
- Free as in freedom: you, rather than a corporation, controls the design
- Standardization means designs will be inter-operable, and work together
- Open means you can study the design for understanding and improvements
Are you fed up with your appliance breaking all the time? Grabs some schematics, make a few prototypes in Shenzhen and release a well designed one to the general public on a crowd funding site.
Fed up with a myriad of ludicrous, complex user interfaces on all your appliances? Swap them out for a well designed, multi use interface, released under a free licence.
Your wireless thermometer can't interact with/set your cooker? The remote control on the pressure cooker doesn't work on your operating system? Change them! Swap them out for a system that runs on GNU+Linux and a free operating system like Trisquel.
There's a translation of the Trisquel site into Galician which is a very close sister to Portuguese (much closer than Spanish). It may or may not be more complete than the Portuguese version.
Found this thread about Mint's privacy policy.
>Is there a linux distro free of proprietary software that is touted as privacy-savvy?
Basically, it's Ubuntu, but modified so as not to contain or recommend any non-free software.
Beautiful, though it's a shame that Stallman wouldn't particularly approve of Mint. (Here are the only ones he's likely to endorse. - The man himself uses Trisquel.)
That said, I'm trying to be a Disciple of Stallman with my netbook, but it's a long, tough road. Props for using Mint, that's my favorite go-to distro (I use a custom-built Debian myself.)
Not speaking for The Chromium Projects or anyone, but I think the things you mention are just not considered issues to be addressed in the project. The Chromium Projects are, by their own words, "open-source", which by FSF's definition (as also mentioned in one of the threads you linked to) is different from free software. Barring any actual non-free licensing issues, any party with an interest to do so should, in my understanding, be able to branch a new project from Chromium and address those issues, turning their branched codebase into what the FSF and Trisquel would then consider free enough to qualify.
In other words, these aren't issues to be fixed "by Chromium", but by parties with an interest to have them fixed. And at least according to G4JC at the aforementioned thread, it would be quite a substantial amount of work to be done.
Am zis ca revin cu un comentariu dupa ce merg la eveniment. Mi-a placut mult la atelier si o sa merg si la cel de saptamana viitoare. Ba chiar o sa incerc sa-mi pun si eu GNU ca al doilea sistem de operare, poate chiar in cadrul atelierului.
Mi-a placut ca la primul atelier au fost chestii practice si ni s-a aratat cum se foloseste sistemul. Partea cu terminalul pare cam complicata, dar e bine de stiut ca exista si la ce foloseste.
Eu inca nu sunt convins de ce as renunta la Windows si, cel mai important, nu sunt convins ca pot renunta. Sunt de ani de zile aici si e greu sa renunti la tot si sa te muti in alt OS. Exemplul cu Skype dat de unul dintre participanti este foarte bun. Ok, eu trec pe alt OS, folosesc soft-urile libere, dar prietenii mei si toti cei cu care lucrez ce fac? Nu pot sa-i conving si pe ei sa se mute, nici nu vreau. Fiecare este liber sa faca ce vrea.
Apropo, uite si un forum pentru utilizatorii Trisquel GNU Linux si un site util gnuvideo.ro.
you could try flashing john lewis' coreboot and running linux, as reboots every 20-30 minutes sounds like a malfunctioning AMT, and the modified coreboot and linux don't use the AMT.
You could try booting a liveCD and see if the network auto-detects in that environment. If it does, it would indicate that the issue is with your HD install rather than the BIOS.
Trisquel GNU/Linux is made from Ubuntu LTS, modified to only use fully free software packages and firmware.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisquel
Trisquel was recently awarded the Best of Breed for Ubuntu derivative distros. Has a straightforward "XP-esque" desktop with a focus on ease of use.
A liveDVD is available to download and boot, make sure to test hardware like printers and wi-fi cards to confirm they are working with free drivers and firmware.
/u/LogicalTeaDream pointed out this related and interesting discussion at the Trisquel forum.
It looks like this computer works extremely well with free/libre software, so I'll go ahead and suggest Trisquel Mini (32 bit).
I imagine someone from the Free Software Foundation handing this sort of pamphlet on a corner. "Heathens! Convert to the Church of Saint Ignucius! Abjure of the entertainments that deprive you from freedom! Purify thine computers, and expunge the hardware that refuses to work in the free world!" Oh, and a copy of Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre as a gift
Just for general information: A great example of FaiF usage is Trisquel that is a fully Free system distribution approved by the FSF that used ubuntu code as a base (obviously less the non-Free parts) yet is not under the 'buntu umbrella nor is it an official canonical spin or anything.
You mean this? It only recommends a few inferior/different things, except for FlashVideoReplacer, which looks really interesting... But I can't find a Chromium equivalent to it.
I would look at Trisquel. It has 50 languages and 130 dialects. I know it includes Hindi... also, there is a release of Sugar on it as well. Trisquel is based on Ubuntu.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#Trisquel_4.5_LTS-Gnome_Desktop_with_sweets_sugar_0.88.1 - That may be an error on version 4.5 of Trisquel as it is in beta, but will be released anytime now, possibly even today.
Trisquel is 100% free/libre, and it isn't "easy" to install proprietary software, if at all. I know you can install Wine and pretty sure libdvdcss2. But at the least, sugar may be something to look into. I run Trisquel myself.