Thoughts about Trisquel 8...

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Abdorhman Ayman
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1- As all the dual-booters here probably know, Trisquel has a "security measure" that prevents you to boot Windows (or any other Gnu/Linux?), I think it SHOULD BE REMOVED, it's makes Trisquel much less user-friendly, meaning that I must register on this forum which is not an easy task, considering that a lot of users aren't native English speakers, which will make it really painful for 'em to read and understand the sticky topic about disabled automatic registration. not to mention the fact that they might need Windows (or another Gnu/Linux distro) to connect to internet in the first place assuming that their network cards isn't compatible with Trisquel. This "security measure" doesn't only make it painful to dual-boot trisquel, but impossible in some cases. It wastes the user's time.

from another point of view, The file claims that it prevents unauthorized users from gaining root through the boot manager, what does it mean?

2- Keybaord layout option doesn't do what it's supposed to do, I chose Arabic during the installation but the only thing I got was English, and I had to add Arabic layout manually.

can someone add my Thoughts in Trisqul 8 to-do list?

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Ignacio.Agullo
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Iscritto: 09/29/2009

On 08/10/17 01:31, wrote:
> 1- As all the dual-booters here probably know, Trisquel has a
> "security measure" that prevents you to boot Windows (or any other
> Gnu/Linux?),

No.

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Iscritto: 03/15/2015

security measure that prevents you to boot Windows or any other GNU/Linux

It's the other way round
Windows restricts user freedom by making it dificult to boot and install other operating systems

https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot
https://fsf.org/windows8

As for the language issue, thats unfortunate, i have encountered this sometimes, but adding your prefered language after works fine.

You may be interested in Uruk GNU/Linux Project which has Arabic developers team, the latest release is based off Trisquel 8-core with Mate Desktop Environment.
latest release :
https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/uruk-gnulinux-20-beta-2
Uruk Project
https://urukproject.org/dist/ar.html

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GRUB's password (I assume that is what you are talking about) should be removed. The reason is not "to easily boot Windows" but "to easily recover broken systems". Just look at the nine pages of results when searching for "/etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD" on this site https://trisquel.info/fr/search/node/%252Fetc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD

Moreover, GRUB's developers agree the password brings no additional security on most systems:

By default, the boot loader interface is accessible to anyone with physical access to the console: anyone can select and edit any menu entry, and anyone can get direct access to a GRUB shell prompt. For most systems, this is reasonable since anyone with direct physical access has a variety of other ways to gain full access, and requiring authentication at the boot loader level would only serve to make it difficult to recover broken systems. However, in some environments, such as kiosks, it may be appropriate to lock down the boot loader to require authentication before performing certain operations.
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Authentication-and-authorisation.html#Authentication-and-authorisation