ttf-liberation over ttf-mscorefonts; was Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> Dne, 27. 04. 2011 12:36:03 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a):
>>
>> On Mi, 27 apr 11, 12:09:56, Klistvud wrote:
>> >
>> > Seems a quite reasonable policy to me. Of course, we all wish we
>> > could run free software ponly on our machines, but the time doesn't
>> > seem ripe for that.
>>
>> But we are getting closer every year:
>>
>> $ aptitude search '~s"non-free|contrib"~i!~M'
>> i firmware-iwlwifi - Binary firmware for Intel Wireless
>> 3945, 4
>> i flashplugin-nonfree - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
>> i nvidia-glx - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
>> i nvidia-settings - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA
>> graphics d
>> i opera - A fast and secure web browser and
>> Internet
>> i skype - Skype
>> i sun-java6-plugin - The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6
>> i unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free
>> versio
>>
>> of these I could get rid of Opera anytime (I don't actually use it, but
>> I test it from time to time) and probably the Java plugin (I don't even
>> recall why it's installed).
>>
>> There is work in progress for replacements for the nvidia driver and the
>> flash plugin (but still not entirely there).
>>
>> firmware-iwlwifi will be tough, because Intel claims it has to do with
>> (FCC?) compliance and unrar because it's still quite widespread (but
>> actually useless for compressed movies and mp3s, so it's more of a user
>> education thing).
>
> After the recent radeon improvements, my list is even shorter -- although by
> only one line:
>
> i broadcom-sta-modules-2.6.32-5-amd64
> - broadcom-sta modules for Linux (kernel
> 2.6.32-5-amd64)
> i broadcom-sta-source
> - Source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver
> i conky
> - highly configurable system monitor (transitional
> package)
> i firmware-linux-nonfree
> - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux
> kernel
> i flashplugin-nonfree
> - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
> i ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
> i unrar
> - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
>
> Of which I could easily get rid of ttf-mscorefonts, and potentially of unrar
> and conky too (but I'm a huge fan of conky). And this is on a laptop, which
> are notorious for requiring proprietary drivers and stuff.
>
> On my desktop, the list is even more optimistic:
>
> i flashplugin-nonfree
> - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
> i ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
> i unrar
> - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
>
> of which I could easily discard all but the flashplugin-nonfree (although
> it's a piece of software I utterly despise).
can be even shorter if u replace ttf-mscorefonts with ttf-liberation
Cheers,
Tao
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