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Enviado por imustfloss o Dom, 07/07/2013 - 10:13

Why can't I find chromium-browser in Trisquel? + jitsi question

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Dom, 07/07/2013 - 10:13
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Is chromium-browser available in Trisquel?

On the FF side, is abrowser 18 the latest version? (that was released in January 8, 2013, but FF/abrowser 22 is the latest)

Though FF/abrowser 18 doesn't have support for WebRTC by default as Chromium 28 and FF/abrowser 22 does.

Jitsi question: Is jitsi fully free software? After reading the source code I find it is under "GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1"? I can't find jitsi in Trisquel. Jitsi should allow voice and video communication over XMPP.

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Dom, 07/07/2013 - 10:29
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I forgot to mention that chromium-browser 28 is capable of sharing screens through WebRTC. FF/abrowser is not yet capable of that, not even in latest development versions 25.x.

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Dom, 07/07/2013 - 10:38
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Chromium makes it easy to install non-free add-ons, and suggests "upgrading" to chrome (I believe). For these reasons, it is not available in the repos to prevent new users from being swindled into using proprietary software.

If you are careful, you can still install it and have a 100% free OS. The easiest way would be to find the .deb file and use dpkg install.

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Dom, 07/07/2013 - 11:45
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> Is chromium-browser available in Trisquel?

It has files with unknown licenses and recommends nonfree addons, so it
isn't.

> On the FF side, is abrowser 18 the latest version? (that was released
> in January 8, 2013, but FF/abrowser 22 is the latest)

Yes.

> Jitsi question: Is jitsi fully free software? After reading the source
> code I find it is under "GNU Lesser General Public License version
> 2.1"? I can't find jitsi in Trisquel. Jitsi should allow voice and
> video communication over XMPP.

Not all free programs are included. Jitsi isn't easy to package and is
not included in Debian from which (via Ubuntu) most packages are
obtained, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627362.

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Dom, 07/07/2013 - 16:45
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Thanks Michal for telling me. I see it now. chromium.org recommends Google Chrome, proprietary software. Also I assume there is some code somewhere in Chromium that's non-free. I wish to find this code and I'm going to research it(when?), and when I return here it will be only because I found out more about this issue.

Now it makes perfect sense that chromium-browser(chromium-browser-libre anyone?) ain't available in a free/libre distro. Thank you.

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Dom, 07/07/2013 - 20:07
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Abrowser currently is at version 21.

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