The would Richard M Stallman hate you thread. :D

cog · 2018-01-31 20:41:16

@martix & @blizgreat!

I know! It's shameful. I do have it set to "ask to activate". There's some New Mexico Oil & Gas geological mapping sites I have to use for my title work that require flash. Unfortunately in my industry there's computers in public offices still running XP and they have some of their services built around flash based solutions. RMS would probably flat line if he went in there.

BLizgreat! · 2018-02-06 21:08:47

No worries Cog, was kidding. Most esp if something is work related and required. Really doubt there's very many open source only comp users in the entire world.

Would be interested to see meaningful stats on it. No idea where anyone would look for credible info about that. No matter what, amazed and grateful all the open source goodness of the world came to be.

Vll!

grobister · 2018-02-07 04:51:05

martix wrote:

cog wrote:
flash plugin on firefox..
Jesus Holy Christ!!

Not even he can save you from Firefox with flash!

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MAC the Bloody · 2018-02-08 06:56:20

Ok Blizzie here's mine.
RMS would not be happy but hey, at least it's better than using a whole proprietary OS right?

dragon@lair:~$ vrms
                Non-free packages installed on lair

firmware-misc-nonfree               Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
p7zip-rar                           non-free rar module for p7zip

                Contrib packages installed on lair

flashplugin-nonfree                 Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
virtualbox                          x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
virtualbox-dkms                     x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources fo
virtualbox-qt                       x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface

  2 non-free packages, 0.1% of 2094 installed packages.
  4 contrib packages, 0.2% of 2094 installed packages.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-02-08 07:57:01

Anaconda wrote:

virtualbox                          x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
virtualbox-dkms                     x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources fo
virtualbox-qt                       x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface

:cry:

Make RMS happy:

https://wiki.debian.org/KVM

VirtualBox's security record is absolutely atrocious so I would get rid of that ASAP even if their licence wasn't evil.

MAC the Bloody · 2018-02-08 08:06:19

Well HoaS is right about VirtualBox but the truth is the last time I tried KVM even with virt-manager to make it "easy" I just couldn't wrap my head around it the same way I could with VirtualBox. I had the same trouble grokking QEMU so I took the lazy way and stuck with what was familiar.

It's been a while now so maybe I'll have another go at it.

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-02-08 08:21:03

Anaconda wrote:

Weven with virt-manager to make it "easy"

virt-manager just confuses me, try using the command line instead.

I have a guide here:

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1546

MAC the Bloody · 2018-02-08 08:54:40

Thanks HoaS. The last time tried this was before you posted that guide. I honestly don't even remember now what it was that was throwing me off when I tried it. I'll read through the whole discussion tomorrow and give it another try.

devnull · 2018-02-08 14:16:43

Thanks HoaS, I'll try KVM too, I also use VirtualBox and don't feel ok with it.

Anyway, my VRMS report is mostly firmware. I think it would work without much of it, I just need the atheros for the usb wifi dongle, iwlwifi for the internal

Non-free packages installed on blu

amd64-microcode                     Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
firmware-amd-graphics               Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
firmware-atheros                    Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
firmware-iwlwifi                    Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
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
firmware-realtek                    Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
intel-microcode                     Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

                 Contrib packages installed on blu

b43-fwcutter                        utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
firmware-b43-installer              firmware installer for the b43 driver
firmware-b43legacy-installer        firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
iucode-tool                         Intel processor microcode tool
ttf-mscorefonts-installer           Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
virtualbox                          x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
virtualbox-dkms                     x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources fo
virtualbox-qt                       x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface

  9 non-free packages, 0.6% of 1634 installed packages.
  8 contrib packages, 0.5% of 1634 installed packages.

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BLizgreat! · 2018-02-08 16:41:29

Another +1 for Kvm. Had only just started dorking with it and unfortunately current lappy doesn't support Vm's. Still found it to be fairly straight forward to use and its well supported by some heavy hitters in gnu/nix.

ohnonot · 2018-02-08 18:30:52

my debian server:

vrms
             Non-free packages installed on localhost

libfaac-dev                         AAC audio encoder (development)
libfaac0                            AAC audio encoder (library)

2 non-free packages, 0.2% of 808 installed packages.

not so bad i guess.

on my archlinux desktop... holy richard, i will spare you the gory details.

BLizgreat! · 2018-02-15 04:50:12

^Pretty dang good, no worries about gory. Again think exclusively open source is an exceedingly rare thing regardless.

Cant help but be awed by RMS, right person, right place and time. Truly cant remember much of the story behind the key figures assoc w the open source movement atm. Too much ethanol, too few braincells left. Cant help but admire them and be grateful though, shrugs.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-02-15 07:39:11

https://www.fsf.org/about/

^ Educational link

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