Can you manage to use only free software on your pc ?

[Corfy]

whit out any proprietary code like... Firefox

Um, Firefox doesn't have proprietary code. Granted, they are concerned about their trademark, but that isn't quite the same thing. Anyone can use their code, the only thing is if you change the code, Firefox requires you to change the name of the product. That isn't a proprietary code restriction.

[Shady3D]

games is the only thing left for me

[Calmatory]

Skype and Flash ruin it for me, I guess.

[happysmileman]

what driver and what card


heck' maybe someone here has the answers like an nvidia tech, never know

96.43.11 for a GeForce4 440 MX. And A lot of people with older cards have the same problems, but no answers AFAIK, it works pre-intrepid, I think the new Xorg doesn't work with those drivers though, and the new drivers break it

[Jojan]

I have nVidia driver, unrar, some Java stuff and flash on my stationary. I think I could manage on only free for my laptop.

[gnusci]

Well, I did install the NVidia driver to get some compiz animation at the begining, but now I don't give a dumb.... I can use my Ubuntu box without those drivers...

[Dr. C]

If I could deal with 640x480 res. then yes, maybe...

This may have been the case in the days of Warty, but is not the case now. The free as in speech drivers for nVidia cards provide 1920 x 1200 for 2D. One needs the propriety nVidia driver only for 3D.

[cardinals_fan]

Absolutely. I don't choose to - I have Flash and FoxitReader installed. But I could survive without them.

[Tharkun]

Hm...once I can play Oblivion or similar games then yes though I use as much GNU software as I can and still have an enjoyable computer usage.

[sim-value]

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 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
sun-java6-plugin The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6
tangerine-icon-theme Tangerine Icon theme
unrar Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
Reason: Modifications problematic
warsow-data Game data for the ego-shooter Warsow
xorg-driver-fglrx Video driver for ATI graphics accelerators

17 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1599 installed packages.

Why is the Linux kernel restricted ?
And is the Human Icon theme ?!