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Resisting the binary blobResisting the binary blobPosted Nov 14, 2006 19:05 UTC (Tue) by MathFox (guest, #6104)Parent article: Resisting the binary blob
The first piece of Free Software I conciously started using was gcc as my c++ compiler. Later came other nifty tools like gawk and bash, but still on a commercial Unix platform. When Linux grew up and XFree became decently stable I bought my first AMD box for it. Over the years Linux functionality improved, while the amount of closed source software on my machine went down. (Netscape -> Mozilla, StarOffice -> Open Office, etc.) I think we may have achieved Richard Stallman's dream of a desktop system with 100% Free software (Linuxbios/GNU/Linux/Xorg/Gnome/KDE/OOo/Firefox). Enough functionality for me to do my work on.
If there are proprietary packages installed on my machines, it's most likely the "proprietary kernel driver" package, but many of my machines work nicely without. (I'll miss Wifi on my laptop, but that has wired ethernet too.) Flashless web surfing is so quiet :-).
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