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LXer 08-10-2010 04:11 AM
LXer: Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations
 
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Just uploaded to the Ubuntu Lucid repository for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (and we imagine it will appear shortly in Maverick too for Ubuntu 10.10) is a new package called canonical-census, which marks its initial release. Curious about what this package provides, we did some digging and found it's for tracking Ubuntu installations by sending an "I am alive" ping to Canonical on a daily basis.

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OldManHook 08-10-2010 06:05 AM
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Originally Posted by LXer (Post 4061598)
Published at LXer:

Just uploaded to the Ubuntu Lucid repository for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (and we imagine it will appear shortly in Maverick too for Ubuntu 10.10) is a new package called canonical-census, which marks its initial release. Curious about what this package provides, we did some digging and found it's for tracking Ubuntu installations by sending an "I am alive" ping to Canonical on a daily basis.

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As i have posted before Apple-Steve,Canonical- Mark, What is canonical end game for Linux?,remember when apple was not the Big-Bad Boy


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