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How free is your Debian system?

Here you can discuss every aspect of Debian. Note: not for support requests!

How free is your Debian system?

Completely free, vrms-compliant
5
16%
Non-free firmware only
11
35%
Proprietary drivers or other non-free software
15
48%
 
Total votes: 31

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RU55EL
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Re: How free is your Debian system?

#16 Post by RU55EL »

Not too bad...

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russel@NUC-BR:~$ vrms

               Contrib packages installed on NUC-BR

torbrowser-launcher                 helps download and run the Tor Browser Bundle

  1 contrib packages, 0.1% of 1591 installed packages.

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kingocounty
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Re: How free is your Debian system?

#17 Post by kingocounty »

Clean bill of health here! I just purchased a new (refurbed) desktop and did my research to make sure all the hardware was FOSS compatible.

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Re: How free is your Debian system?

#18 Post by None1975 »

My system is completely free, vrms-compliant.
OS: Debian 12.4 Bookworm / DE: Enlightenment
Debian Wiki | DontBreakDebian, My config files on github

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Re: How free is your Debian system?

#19 Post by crackerjack »

I only have the intel microcode installed. Seems to be necessary to have.

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Re: How free is your Debian system?

#20 Post by CwF »

crackerjack wrote:I only have the intel microcode installed. Seems to be necessary to have.
...perhaps on some, or with intel video. Since I don't even have vrms installed I checked, not needed my intel E5.

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dotlj
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Re: How free is your Debian system?

#21 Post by dotlj »

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Non-free packages installed on hostn

firmware-iwlwifi                    Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
intel-microcode                     Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

Contrib packages installed on hostn

iucode-tool                         Intel processor microcode tool
microcode.ctl                       Intel IA32/IA64 CPU Microcode Utility (transitional pa
virtualbox                          x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
virtualbox-dkms                     x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources fo
virtualbox-qt                       x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
Can't do much about the wireless card, it is needed for travel. VirtualBox is nice.

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herpygumbo
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Re: How free is your Debian system?

#22 Post by herpygumbo »

Non-free packages installed on debian

amd64-microcode Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
firmware-amd-graphics Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
firmware-linux Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
firmware-linux-nonfree Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
firmware-misc-nonfree Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
intel-microcode Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs
rar Archiver for .rar files
steam Valve's Steam digital software delivery system

Contrib packages installed on debian

iucode-tool Intel processor microcode tool
playonlinux front-end for Wine

hey, I'm a gamer, I needs my steam.
So can you tell me what exactly does freedom mean if I'm not free to be as twisted as I wanna be?

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