{"id":70,"date":"2009-09-10T19:38:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/how-free-is-my-laptop-according-to-rms\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T19:38:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T17:38:51","slug":"how-free-is-my-laptop-according-to-rms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/how-free-is-my-laptop-according-to-rms\/","title":{"rendered":"How free is my laptop according to RMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is this meme<\/a> going around to indicate how much Free and Non-free software one has installed on one’s workstation.  To determine it, just run vrms<\/code>. If you do not have it installed then just do sudo apt-get install vrms<\/code><\/p>\n

\nmariusb@mariusb-t60laptop:~$ vrms\n         Non-free packages installed on mariusb-t60laptop\n\n3270-common               Common files for IBM 3270 emulators and pr3287\nfglrx-modaliases          Identifiers supported by the ATI graphics driver\nibm-j2re1.5               Java(TM) JRE, Standard Edition, IBM Corporation\n  Reason: Proprietary licence, no source available\nlibmotif3                 Open Motif - shared libraries\nlinux-generic             Complete Generic Linux kernel\nlinux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script\nlinux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels\nnvidia-173-modaliases     Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver\nnvidia-180-modaliases     Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver\nnvidia-71-modaliases      Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver\nnvidia-96-modaliases      Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver\nopera                     The Opera Web Browser\nskype                     Skype - Take a deep breath\nsun-java6-bin             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture\nsun-java6-jre             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture\nt1-xfree86-nonfree        non-free Postscript Type 1 fonts from XFree86\ntangerine-icon-theme      Tangerine Icon theme\nttf-xfree86-nonfree       non-free TrueType fonts from XFree86\nunrar                     Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)\n  Reason: Modifications problematic\nx3270                     X11 program for telnet sessions to IBM mainframes\nxfonts-x3270-misc         Font files for the x3270(1) IBM 3270 emulator\nxmind                     XMind - Brainstorming and Mind Mapping\n\n          Contrib packages installed on mariusb-t60laptop\n\nflashplugin-installer     Adobe Flash Player plugin installer\nflashplugin-nonfree       Adobe Flash Player plugin installer (transitional pack\ngstreamer0.10-pitfdll     GStreamer plugin for using MS Windows binary codecs\nmsttcorefonts             transitional dummy package\nnvidia-common             Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers\nttf-mscorefonts-installer Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts\n\n  22 non-free packages, 1.3% of 1645 installed packages.\n  6 contrib packages, 0.4% of 1645 installed packages.\n<\/pre>\n
I am not sure this is 100% correct since I run a lot of proprietary IBM software due to me working for IBM.<\/p>\n
Technorati Tags: vrms<\/a>, free<\/a>, non-free<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is this meme going around to indicate how much Free and Non-free software one has installed on one’s workstation.  To determine it, just run vrms. If you do not have it installed then just do sudo apt-get install vrms mariusb@mariusb-t60laptop:~$ vrms Non-free packages installed on mariusb-t60laptop 3270-common Common files for IBM 3270 emulators and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,5,26],"tags":[71,72,70],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm","category-linux","category-open-source","tag-free","tag-non-free","tag-vrms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-18","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}