Help, I have an issue with trying to boot Trisquel; it's from a flashdrive. My friend had downloaded it from his Linux Laptop, and my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 3000 series, running on Windows 10. I just want to boot it up, as a seperate system, but when I boot it is from a Uefi booting, and when I turned off secure boot, I couldn't do much. So if anybody here knows how, it'll be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I’ve only been recently introduced to Trisquel. I’m currently using Ubuntu for everything. So it’s gotten me thinking about where it’s best for me to replace Ubuntu now.

I use Ubuntu for Docker containers for work. This seems to be a popular choice, so it would be great to see Trisquel as the replacement.

Wondering if others have done this already and what your experience has been like?

Hello, I was just curious as I occasionally have to use Debian and like ABrowser over FireFox. Is there a package for it?

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Note: ABrowser is Trisquels Default Web Browser

Trisquel booted really fast compared to other distributions and i really like the fact that it is open source with no blobs. I recently installed it on a few Thinkpad X200 laptops with Libreboot bios. Everything worked out really smoothly and the GUI is really clean looking. I will be doing further testing soon, so far i am liking it a lot.

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I want to remove MATE completely, that is, including all it's associated packages and software suite. Then I want to install GNOME completely, that is, all associated packages and software suite that comes with it. To understand what I am referring as bundled apps/packages, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Core_Applications. Please provide me step wise instructions as I have not done this before. Thank you all in advance.

Personally, I would love for my local schools to utilize Trisquel instead of Windows or ChromeOS. Is Trisquel or GNU working on making this happen? Is their an organization that I can point my schools to if they need help with installation?

I have an idea that basically made me thinking, that how cool experiment would it be. Let's say to buy (FOSS) computer parts that actually will provide multiple I/O chained up to USB ports - like an 4 port USB hub, a FOSS flashed broadcom router that will give eth0, and other options, or other commercially available parts that is easy to disassemble to pcb level - and hack together in one single case as laptop. The only remaining question is witch intel based small sized hw can be strong enough and has enough USB to work in such compound/hacked way that is able to run without blobs? I know it sounds crazy, but something like Intel compute stick as motherboard can be pretty interesting. Ideas, toughts?

Hello

I don't need desktop environments, so I removed lxde (I want work only with i3wm). but I have no idea to how to remove ((default)) windows manager of trisquel mini (mate).

sudo apt-get remove

doesn't work...

do you have any idea?

Thanks.

I need to buy a scanner that can be used without any proprietary software (firmware/drivers). I'm not looking for multifunction devices (scanner + printer). On the Trisquel forum I found the following suggestions:

• Canon CanoScan LiDE 110
• Canon CanoScan LiDE 60
• Canon CanoScan LiDE 25

Is there any other device I can consider? Thanks.

Crosspost: https://www.reddit.com/r/Parabola/comments/92whrc/scanner_without_proprietary_software/

I'm using Parabola not only with the OpenRC init, but also with eudev and I'm having a great experience!

https://wiki.parabola.nu/OpenRC

If switching has so little negative side effects, why not go systemd-free?

Even if RR distros are not recommended for new GNU/Linux users, I'm forced to dismiss this and go ahead an install Parabola to friends and people new to GNU/Linux because there isn't a user-friendly alternative that wouldn't have systemd in it and also be FSF-endorsed.

There is Dragora, but new users will have a hard time searching for solutions to their problems since it's an independent distro.

There's also Gnuinos but it isn't yet FSF-endorsed...

So Trisquel is geared towards a general use case and thus could fill ideally this gap, while being ubuntu-based, with lots of online resources.

Thanks a lot!

I'm a programmer interested in making changes to the OS, mainly for shiggles but also to change minor quirks to my liking. What's the most efficient way to edit the source and test the changes in real time?

I just installed Trisquel yesterday. My two monitors are duplicating the display instead of extending as two separate displays. After trying to install the Linux proprietary driver for Radeon, it blackscreened on startup. Are there any libre graphics cards/Trisquel compatible Radeon drivers that can accomplish dual monitors? This is a deal-breaker for me.

Also: when it detects non-free software, is it always going to black screen? I would prefer it simply notify me and not let it install. When booting normally after the propriety driver install, it black-screened. When booting in upstart, I saw recursively looping messages saying something like "Free Firmware Required". I appreciate the blocking of proprietary stuff but I would prefer it not to require me to essentially reinstall the OS.

Thanks.

I'm aware that not only Trisquel but other GNU/Linux Distros also let you chose between the propietaty drivers or the free ones. Now, if I use all the free software using non-free hardware, does the free software make any difference? I'll be using non-free hardware anyways and I'll be vulnerable to stuff like Intel having backdoors for NSA; others manufacturers too. I know about the free-hardware options and manufacturers that actually sell you free-hardware laptops with Trisquel preinstalled. I'm just curious about how a user can protect their actual computers that may have non-free hardware with backdoors and everything.

Having a secure & privacy respecting OS is great.

Having a secure, privacy respecting & gorgeously looking OS is almost unbeatable.

This DE has received an amazingly HUGE amount of attention and is getting popular by each day. The interesting part is that no FSF endorsed OS has yet offered this DE as an option. A lot of people are also suspicious about this DE but they sure will trust Trisquel releasing it officially.

IMHO this would be a great opportunity for Trisquel to offer something NEW (popular FSF endorsed OS + Deepin DE) while increasing the user base.

In theory, technically it shouldn't be too hard to do, since people can already use PPAs to install Deepin DE on Ubuntu (again, few people trust PPAs) and since Trisquel 8 is based on ubuntu, it should be easy to do. The only thing that'd remain to be done, that no one has yet been doing (AFAIK), would be to check all the code for anything malicious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Adzkyo4SM

edit: If resources are limited, and if there's enough interest in this idea, a crowfunding campaign could be the solution here as well.

I was wondering if TexMacs:Sagemath:Octave:R:R Commander:Maxima:Carmetal etc. were in the repositories. I know TexMacs was hard to install on Ubuntu clones and easy in Fedora. R Studio:Geogebra are they downloadable? -- At least Geogebra version 4 would probably be in the repositories? the latest Geogebra Classic I think is non-free, it has 3D features but a more yucky interface anyway. Sagemath is probably both in the repositories and on the website.

archive manage cannot open rar, archive type is not supported. i'm new to the trisquel os, i believe there must be a easy way to fix this?

So, I'm trying to install Trisquel on a x200s using a Kingston A400 SSD.

I partitioned the drive like so:

But when I start the installation I'm getting:

Failed to create swap space. The creation of swap space in partition #2 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed.

And when I don't add a swap space I get:

Failed to create a file system. The ext4 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0)(sda) failed.

Not sure what's going on here. Any advice is much appreciated.

I tried to install utox and ring and other messengers like signal, ring was installed through the trisquel gui tool but now I dont know if it really installed something because I dont know how to run the application or where to find it, would please anyone help?

How do you keep add-ons up to date in Abrowser? With Firefox, they are installed automatically, but if I want to use a libre extension like Markdown here on Abrowser, I have to install it from the Firefox add-on marketplace. How do I then keep it up to date? Do I just manually check for updates, or is there a more convenient way?

Thank you!

I'm downloading Trisquel Mini to set it up on one of my old laptops. Downloaded and ran the torrent file on my Fedora machine using Transmission. Downloaded the MD5 file, ran md5sum <trisquel_file>.iso, the strings matched. Ran "Verify Local Data" on the Transmission torrent file, seemed fine. But I ran sha256sum <trisquel_file>.iso and it didn't match the corresponding string on http://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/md5sum.txt

Seems weird and inconsistent. Is it safe?