On Wednesday 27 April 2011 09:02:38 Huang, Tao wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: > > Dne, 27. 04. 2011 12:36:03 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): > >> 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). > > > > After the recent radeon improvements, my list is even shorter -- although > > by only one line: > > > > i broadcom-sta-modules-2.6.32-5-amd64 > > - broadcom-sta modules for Linux (kernel > > 2.6.32-5-amd64) > > i broadcom-sta-source > > - Source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver > > i conky > > - highly configurable system monitor > > (transitional package) > > i firmware-linux-nonfree > > - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux > > kernel > > i flashplugin-nonfree > > - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin > > i ttf-mscorefonts-installer > > - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts > > i unrar > > - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) > > > > Of which I could easily get rid of ttf-mscorefonts, and potentially of > > unrar and conky too (but I'm a huge fan of conky). And this is on a > > laptop, which are notorious for requiring proprietary drivers and stuff. > > > > On my desktop, the list is even more optimistic: > > > > i flashplugin-nonfree > > - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin > > i ttf-mscorefonts-installer > > - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts > > i unrar > > - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) > > > > of which I could easily discard all but the flashplugin-nonfree (although > > it's a piece of software I utterly despise). > > can be even shorter if u replace ttf-mscorefonts with ttf-liberation > > > Cheers, > > Tao > -- Thank you for the hint. I tried Liberation sans instead of Arial. It is not the same. Non ASCII fonts with diacritical signs do not render correctly on- screen. That is especially nasty when trying to read Greek or Hebrew transcribed into Latin characters. For day-to-day work it might be OK however. I didn't try printing yet. Just my 2 ยข ...
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