[ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

[andylockran]

Tom,

Unfortuantely it only counts packages installed with apt - (and maybe from the official repos, but I haven't looked under the hood).  

It's not amazingly accurate, but I think goes a long way to show how close we are to complete freedom :).

for most people it's the graphics & restricted modules that's holding them back.. also the generic linux kernel too for some reason..  I think you can look into the results more thoroughly.

Regards,


On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:15:23 +0100, Tom Bamford <tom at entrepreneuria.co.uk> wrote:
> andylockran wrote:
>> We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard
> Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
> installed.
>>
>> Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for
> something to waste their time.. let's all take turns in uploading our
> results.
>>
>> (If you haven't got it already, just : sudo apt-get install vrms, then
> run vrms.
>>
>> Please append your results to the list below:
>>
>> andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed packages.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
> 
> Let's see, on my desktop 55 non-free packages, 3.1% of 1801 installed.
> Laptop is better, 31 non-free packages, 1.1% of 2926.
> 
> Is this going to count packages you add from other (closed source)
> repositories as well?
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 
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