Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
I ran this command on my laptop, and the returned list includes:
gdb-doc - The GNU Debugger Documentation
?Why the hell is gdb-doc not free?
Kjetil
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 06:36, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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