I wanna use Trisquel but what version?

Nobody is going to stop you from posting a video on YouTube.

If you are referring to libre.thinkpenguin.com in regards to the laptops the non-US layout keyboard options are dependent on the compatibility existing between our laptops and other larger companies. There is some compatibility between companies in regards to laptops although it is near impossible to figure out. Once you do though you can frequently get hundreds of different layouts in other languages which your company can't actually acquire due to low demand. For instance the French / English Canadian layout keyboard might be available although is like one layout which would not be in sufficient demand for us to source in large quantities.

The thing with most laptops is that there aren't that many manufacturers for any component including the chassis. Everybody who has a brand uses one of 4-5 companies for manufacturing. That is why each generation you find the laptops are generally the same between manufacturers. What one manufacturer does everybody else has to do. Apple's not that different despite what people think/claim. They're using the same chipsets and the same general designs as everybody else underneath. Apple doesn't have it's own graphics chipset- they use nVidia, they don't have there own CPUs, they use Intel (and I think IBM in the past), they don't have there own wireless chipset, they use Intel/Atheros/and probably others, etc. The cases aren't that different either. They've just done the marketing on a massive scale. You can find very sleek and simple cases. There are a number of manufacturers which have fabricated similar cases prior to Apple's own designs.

Anyway. The keyboard options that are available on current models is limited. We do have a laptop that should be up shortly that I believe we can fit with Germany/French/Spanish/English layout. If not we will have it soon for this model. We have a few other new models coming in September too. All should have a decent select of keyboard layouts available (German/French/Spanish/English/ and maybe a few others). We are seeing demand increasing and it is likely we will have more layouts available besides those in the future. At this point the market is still developing though. Get your friends to buy! It'll ultimately benefit you. I can say that when we first started a number of parts were impossible to get. Now we have a decent size catalog and things are much much easier. Some things are still a work in progress although developments are unfolding. A newer USB N wireless chipset for instance. We are working on it although unfortunately it's dependent on an Atheros executive signing a sheet of paper. So even though we have the support at Atheros and things are looking good... they aren't yet done deals. We also have to come up with a large chunk of change for the initial adapters as there aren't any designs we can use for the case using the chipset already. At least not from anybody willing to work with us.

I think the more exposure Trisquel getss, the better, so, go ahead and
do that demo!

-Dave

On 08/22/2012 12:14 AM, name at domain wrote:
> Thanks alot i am happy i found this real happy this has t be the best
> Distro i have ever seen and i will get more using this can I do a
> reveiw on this Distro and post it on my youtube also what does
> Trisquel 6 have thats new

You are not going to get help here installing proprietary software. At least, I'm only to assume you're trying to install the AMD proprietary drivers. These drivers, as far as we're concerned, won't work with Trisquel, and we have no plans to get them working properly. We recommend either using the free software drivers for your card or getting a GPU that works with free software (Intel and nVidia are well supported).

Note that if you do continue attempting to install these proprietary drivers, your system will not be 100% free software anymore, the point of Trisquel. If you really don't care for freedom, you probably shouldn't be using Trisquel or any other 100% free software distro.

You may use the "Add/Remove Application" or "Synaptic package manager" to install "record my desktop", You may use Icecast for streming but it's a software;
VLC is also a recorder and streaming application

Non-free drivers are never a soloution.
No one is asking you to buy nvidia or intel, but if you upgrade hardware in future better do a little research to find supported ones h-node.org

Install these packages to see if they help

• xserver-xorg-video-ati
• xserver-xorg-video-radeon

I'm having a really hard time understanding what it is your saying here although I think you are upset with the response. Hopefully this will be more helpful.

Here is the status of each of the major players producing a graphics chipset:

Intel: Intel has done an excellent job of supporting free software within the graphics department. The only non-free chipset that is marketed as Intel that is not free was developed by a third part. However Intel has not done a good job of supporting coreboot (a free BIOS project).

AMD: AMD refuses to cooperate on free drivers. They release insufficient source code / documenation to create a free software friendly driver. The way I like to describe it is they have released the source code for a driver which acts as a wrapper around a proprietary component. This is unacceptable to free software users. You won't get support for AMD's ATI graphics chipsets here as there is no free driver.

nVidia: We don't like nVidia either as the company has expressly stated they will not support a free software driver. You might even say the company actively works against free software. Despite this there is the nouveau project. This project has done the near impossible and been reverse engineering the chipset(s) in order to produce a free software graphics driver. The problem is that by the time you end up with decent support for a particular generation chipset the chipset is old and may not be much if at all better than a lower end chipset from Intel. For this reason it is better for users to simply go with an Intel graphics chipset on a newer system. If you are looking to upgrade just the graphics card of an older system there is not a way to do that using a non-nVidia based graphics card and still have support for free software. Intel is also got advantages over nVidia in some areas. Video for instance is better supported by Intel. Comparatively the 9500GT that we sell is only competitive to newer Intel graphics chipsets. Does it make sense to get a 5 year old nVidia graphics chipset on a new computer? It's only slightly better in some instances (like for certain games).

Long story short your best bet is to avoid AMD in the future and get an nVidia graphics card when your finances allow or replace the motherboard and CPU with a newer model and use the CPU integrated Intel graphics chipset. The nVidia 9500GT that we sell at libre.ThinkPenguin.com is well supported by nouveau if you prefer to upgrade just the graphics card. Until you do one of these things the free software community can't help you. If you want help with GNU/Linux and don't want to follow the free software principles there are many other distributions you can go with.

Ultimately this is an ethical issue that you as a user have to decide on. Nobody here is trying to be mean or to force your hand.

There is more information about free software at the free software foundation's web site:

http://www.fsf.org/

There are many technical and ethical reasons regardless of your perspective (well, free software or "open source") why you should avoid digital restrictions and non-free software.

I never new those drivers were until i tripled checked since windows has nothing like that on them remember I am coming from windows to free environment leaving all Steam behind all my games that are proprietary software and I am sorry if I posted a stupid question just looking for answers since I am new here.