Is there any non free thing in Ubuntu Kernel

[Ric Moore]

On 02/07/2012 09:53 AM, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> On Mon, February 6, 2012 17:45, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 21:54:29 +0530
>> subhajit bandyopadhyay<subhajit.cool108 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I'm optimist. I think one day we'll get Ubuntu without any non free
>>> software.
>>
>> I believe what you want is called, "Debian."
>
> Correct.
> I ran vrms on my Debian box and all I got was this:
>
> amedee at intrepid:~$ vrms
>                Non-free packages installed on intrepid
>
> sun-java6-bin             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
> (architecture
> sun-java6-jre             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
> (architecture
>
>    2 non-free packages, 0.2% of 950 installed packages.
>
>
> It seems like I could do without Sun's Java because I have OpenJDK installed.
>
> amedee at intrepid:~$ sudo update-java-alternatives -l
> java-6-openjdk 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
> java-6-sun 63 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

You'll need OpenJDK version 7 to get closer to full java. Ric