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threethirty  
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(1 user)  More options Oct 8 2007, 5:36 pm
From: threethirty <threethi...@insightbb.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:36:35 -0700
Local: Mon, Oct 8 2007 5:36 pm
Subject: How much do you love Freedom?
donshyoku and I we discussing Software Freedom, well I was being a
zealot and he was being somewhat intelligent in his discussion.  After
this discussion I got a message on facebook telling me to install a
thing called vrms.  So I did.  For those of you who don't know,

vrms (Virtual Richard M. Stallman) is a program that will analyze the
set of currently-installed packages on a Debian-based system, and
report all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently
installed.

Note that vrms is not limited to Debian systems only (which means that
it also works with Debian-derived distributions such as Ubuntu). It is
also not limited to Linux-based systems.

Future versions of vrms will include an option to also display text
from the public writings of RMS and others that explain why use of
each of the installed non-free packages might cause moral issues for
some in the Free Software community. This functionality is not yet
included.
(via wikipedia)

so here is the output on my Gutsy Beta box:

three@CondorV2:~$ vrms
              Non-free packages installed on CondorV2

human-icon-theme          Human Icon theme
linux-generic             Complete Generic Linux kernel
linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.22 modules on x86/x86_64
linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.22 modules on x86/x86_64
linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.22 modules helper script
linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels
nvidia-glx-new            NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'new' driver
tangerine-icon-theme      Tangerine Icon theme

  8 non-free packages, 0.7% of 1170 installed packages.

so that means that I am 99.2% free, how much do you love freedom?


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