Continuing the stats gathering, I now suggest another metric: the Virtual Richard Stallman that “analyzes the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian-based system, and reports all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed.”
Laptop (Ubuntu Hardy)
$ vrms fglrx-control Control panel for the ATI graphics accelerators human-icon-theme Human Icon theme linux-generic Complete Generic Linux kernel linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.24 modules on x86/x86_64 linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.24 modules on x86/x86_64 linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.24 modules on x86/x86_64 linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.24 modules on x86/x86_64 linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.24 modules helper script linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels skype Skype - Take a deep breath sun-java6-bin Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture sun-java6-jdk Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 sun-java6-jre Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture tangerine-icon-theme Tangerine Icon theme unrar Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) vodafone-mobile-connect-c Vodafone 3G devices Internet connection assistant xorg-driver-fglrx Video driver for ATI graphics accelerators 18 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1586 installed packages.
It’s an Ubuntu machine
Desktop (Debian Unstable)
$ vrms No non-free packages installed on nox.local! rms would be proud.
I am proud too :-)