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Re: How free is your Debian system?
Posted: 2018-07-17 04:32
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.
Re: How free is your Debian system?
Posted: 2018-07-17 12:23
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.
Re: How free is your Debian system?
Posted: 2018-07-19 18:29
by None1975
My system is completely free, vrms-compliant.
Re: How free is your Debian system?
Posted: 2018-07-20 00:52
by crackerjack
I only have the intel microcode installed. Seems to be necessary to have.
Re: How free is your Debian system?
Posted: 2018-07-20 23:17
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.
Re: How free is your Debian system?
Posted: 2018-07-22 04:52
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.
Re: How free is your Debian system?
Posted: 2018-08-01 03:07
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.