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I've heard of Replicant, but I don't know much about it. Does it allow access to the Google Play Store? Replicant is a fully free Android distribution and it uses F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/ F-Droid contains FOSS apps only. I don't know about Google Play Store, in Replicant forums someone asked t...

Is the model of the computer Asus? The reason I'm asking this is because on some Asus laptops wi-fi is "hard blocked" and in that case, this thread will help you: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2181558

killer de bug wrote: So I guess you can choose the CyanogenMod (or other Android custom ROM) option

Thank you, killer de bug.

Well, what about Replicant: http://replicant.us/
Which option should one choose in that case?

Linux Foundation doesn't sponsor any GNU/Linux distribution, it is mainly focused on the Linux kernel, while Free Software Foundation(FSF) supports free software in general. For example, "the ongoing development of Linux" (kernel) is sponsored by LF and "protecting against threats from proprietary s...

Can it run FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/) ?

glhallway wrote:Next came Mint 15, OK but always went back to Windows 7 to do anything again hot corners and freezing.

You can disable hot corners.

- you can use it right out-of-the-box, no need the install codecs or the Ubuntu fonts ( linux is way too ugly to use without these fonts ) I used to think like that too, but it's not because of fonts. You can check out this link: https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts That page says: The default fonts in De...

Good post, Jedinovice!
Sometimes I just wonder, what Apple would have done, if FreeBSD had been licensed under GNU GPL or some other copyleft license.

This is not the main diffrence between proprietary and free software. The main difference is freedom. With free software you have 4 freedoms: 1. The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0). 2. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your compu...

eanfrid wrote:* With closed source software you are a wizard-apprentice using parts of Gandalf's spellbook, so you need to send money to Gandalf for rent and support.

killer de bug wrote: In the last 6 months, Firefox did not crash once on my system.

Same here. So far Firefox has been working very well.

RacerBG wrote:Laptop Acer Aspire 5738Z: ? (Arch, Mageia or pure Debian I had not decided yet)

Choose Debian.

First of all, thank you for translating the article. Even if Munich goes back to windows, at least there are 15 000 empoyees who now know windows is not the only OS in the world. In the future, they might want to return to GNU/Linux again. This has nothing to do with the quality of their Linux syste...

Same goes for server environment, I do love linux and use it for HPC or farming but for anything mission critical I always make sure to have a support and maintenance contract with someone (OS and software). Again it's just about liability. That's why Red hat and SUSE exist (and now Canonical) - fo...

eanfrid wrote:base64 obfuscation makes bad passwords however... But why python when you can simply do:

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echo "<coded_text>" | base64 -d

Thanks for that command, I didn't know it existed. This just shows how much I have to learn about GNU/Linux terminal.

Thank you everyone, I have installed ufw from its web site. I was unable to find it on Software manager, in fact I can find nothing on there unless I laboriously scroll down all the programmes until I find what I am looking for. The search slot does not seem to react to anything, I have tried Left ...

eanfrid wrote:Not so difficult.

"Somewhere near Paris, France"
Wow, I didn't think it was base64.

eanfrid wrote:Try something here: http://www.base64decode.org/

No need for online decoders, when I have python and its documentation: https://docs.python.org/2/library/base64.html

eanfrid wrote:I tried: government cracker / old school SHA512 And I keep my secret secret

If this is your location - (U29tZXdoZXJlIG5lYXIgUGFyaXMsIEZyYW5jZQo), then I can only imagine how strong your password might be.

Lenovo said it reached an agreement with Microsoft in June of this year to ensure that Lenovo PCs sold in China would come pre-installed with a genuine Windows operating system. I guess this will happen only inside China, outside the country "naked" PCs will still be sold, right? This is just a tem...