vrms is an application that checks for non-free packages or components installed in your Debian-based system (including Ubuntu) and subsequently display a statistic of how many percentage of your system is non-free.

vrms can be installed using Synaptic Package Manager :

To execute it, just type “vrms” in the terminal, here’s an example of vrms output for my system :

mypapit@mypapit-desktop:~$ vrms
          Non-free packages installed on mypapit-desktop

bsdgames-nonfree          rogue, the classic dungeon exploration game
  Reason: No commercial use
fglrx-modaliases          Identifiers supported by the ATI graphics driver
latex2html                LaTeX to HTML translator
linux-generic             Complete Generic Linux kernel
linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script
linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels
nvidia-173-modaliases     Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
nvidia-180-modaliases     Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
nvidia-71-modaliases      Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
nvidia-96-modaliases      Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
rar                       Archiver for .rar files
sun-java6-bin             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture
sun-java6-demo            Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 demos and example
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

           Contrib packages installed on mypapit-desktop

jetty                     Java servlet engine and webserver
nvidia-common             Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
openttd                   reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe with enhan

  17 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1601 installed packages.
  3 contrib packages, 0.2% of 1601 installed packages.

So if you prefer a completely free (as in freedom!) operating system, you can use install gNewsense instead of Ubuntu.

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