Freedom in Sight?

I justed booted into Feisty Fawn today, using the live CD. Some pleasant surprises were in store.

Video worked perfectly. With the nv driver. Yes, the free nv driver. And from what I can tell by reading the X log, it seemed to have detected the external video outputs as well. If this really works, drivers from nvidia get thrown out.
Not only did the nvidia driver give me fewer resolutions, it also messed up my console. I used it only because it gave me VGA-out support, which is needed for presentations using bonszai. If nv can do that, well, nv it is then!

And bcm43xx, the free driver for Broadcom-based chipsets? It works too. Not only can the latest bcm43xx-cutter (006) use the drivers provided by Compaq, it also warns me that support is not in mainline yet for those drivers. So I must use the older drivers. Which is fine with me. So far web-browsing works. Web downloading does not, with speeds of 4--5 KByte/s (which is worse than dial-up)But to be fair, I really haven't tried wireless from my new location, so maybe I better check out my older version. Ubuntu now has network manager, which is really a painless way to configure networks, across operating systems I must add.

Given that video and wireless were the only two components of bonszai that used non-free drivers, I'm looking forward to running a fully-free bonszai!