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09-23-2012, 10:20 PM
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LXer NewsBot
Registered: Dec 2005
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LXer: Shuttleworth defends Ubuntu Linux integrating Amazon
Published at LXer:
Canonical is integrating Amazon search results into Ubuntu Linux and some users hate the idea so Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth explained why he approved it.
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09-24-2012, 01:39 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: distro hopper
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This is not cool, but it's easy to turn off. "apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping".
Seems fine by me.
Last edited by dugan; 09-24-2012 at 02:12 AM.
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09-24-2012, 07:20 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Tamil Nadu, India
Distribution: Debian
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Intriguing: "Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already".
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09-24-2012, 08:38 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: $RANDOM
Distribution: slackware64
Posts: 12,928
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dugan
This is not cool, but it's easy to turn off. "apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping".
Seems fine by me.
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It may be fine for now ... but you know where it is headed. |
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09-24-2012, 09:26 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: distro hopper
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Originally Posted by catkin
Intriguing: "Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already".
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I consider his statement to be inaccurate. Synaptic and Apt require root access to operate, but they need to be authorized by the user each time. They're not set to run as setuid root by default, are they?
Last edited by dugan; 09-24-2012 at 09:28 AM.
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