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So, I was browsing about the net today and stumbled upon this blog post. A neat little trick I thought, I wonder how well I will score? It appears that I am 99.6% open! In my opinion, I think that makes me pretty open!

chris@queens:~$ vrms
                   Non-free packages installed on queens-server

        nvidia-71-modaliases      Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
        tangerine-icon-theme      Tangerine Icon theme
        unrar                     Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)

        Non-free packages with status other than installed on queens-server

        fglrx                     ( dei)  Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators
        sun-java6-bin             ( dei)  Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (arch
        sun-java6-fonts           ( dei)  Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
        sun-java6-jre             ( dei)  Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (arch

                    Contrib packages installed on queens-server

        gstreamer0.10-pitfdll     GStreamer plugin for using MS Windows binary codecs
        nvidia-common             Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
        ttf-mscorefonts-installer Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts

          7 non-free packages, 0.4% of 1948 installed packages.
          3 contrib packages, 0.2% of 1948 installed packages.

The test can be run on any Debian based system. If you are running Ubuntu and want to run this test for yourself all you need to do is:

Update your repository list:

sudo apt-get update

Install the vrms package:

sudo apt-get install vrms

Then you are ready to run it:

vrms

Enjoy,

Chris