I ran this command on my laptop, and the returned list includes: gdb-doc - The GNU Debugger Documentation
?Why the hell is gdb-doc not free? Kjetil On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 06:36, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mi, 27 apr 11, 12:09:56, Klistvud wrote: >> >> Seems a quite reasonable policy to me. Of course, we all wish we >> could run free software ponly on our machines, but the time doesn't >> seem ripe for that. > > But we are getting closer every year: > > $ aptitude search '~s"non-free|contrib"~i!~M' > i firmware-iwlwifi - Binary firmware for Intel Wireless > 3945, 4 > i flashplugin-nonfree - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin > i nvidia-glx - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver > i nvidia-settings - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA > graphics d > i opera - A fast and secure web browser and > Internet > i skype - Skype > i sun-java6-plugin - The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6 > i unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free > versio > > of these I could get rid of Opera anytime (I don't actually use it, but > I test it from time to time) and probably the Java plugin (I don't even > recall why it's installed). > > There is work in progress for replacements for the nvidia driver and the > flash plugin (but still not entirely there). > > firmware-iwlwifi will be tough, because Intel claims it has to do with > (FCC?) compliance and unrar because it's still quite widespread (but > actually useless for compressed movies and mp3s, so it's more of a user > education thing). > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever." George Orwell (1984) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTind_=cv447r-s3gwafbuavqps5...@mail.gmail.com
