Virtual Richard M. Stallman

Sáb, 26/01/2008 - 13:13 — bytecoders

A veces es sorprendente las cosas que te puedes encontrar en Synaptic. La verdad es que casi con el nombre lo dice todo.

El paquete vrms (Virtual Richard M. Stallman) analiza los paquetes que tenemos instalados y comprueba cuales pertenenecen a non-free, en próximas versiones se quiere introducir una opción para mostrar escritos públicos (de RMS entre otros) en que se relata porque el uso de dichos paquetes non-free pueden causar cuestiones morales para algunos en la comunidad de software libre:

The vrms program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages
on a Debian-based system, and report all of the packages from the
non-free tree which are currently installed.
 
Note that vrms is not limited to Debian systems only (which means that
it also works with Debian-derived distributions such as Ubuntu). It is
also not limited to Linux-based systems.
 
Future versions of vrms will include an option to also display text
from the public writings of RMS and others that explain why use of each
of the installed non-free packages might cause moral issues for some in
the Free Software community.  This functionality is not yet included.

Para instalarlo en Debian, tenemos Synaptic, aptitude, apt-get:

sudo apt-get install vrms

En los servidores de momento no hay nada que no sea libre, pero no puedo decir lo mismo del PC de escritorio, para ejecutarlo basta con poner vrms en un terminal:

vrms
 
           Non-free packages installed on debian-laptop
 
googleearth               Google Earth, a 3D map/planet viewer
sl-modem-daemon           SmartLink software modem daemon
sun-java5-bin             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (architectu
sun-java5-jre             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (architectu
sun-java5-plugin          The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 5.0
 
Non-free packages with status other than installed on debian-laptop
 
skype                     ( dei)  Skype - Take a deep breath
 
  6 non-free packages, 0.3% of 1991 installed packages.

Interesante aplicación.