Free software leader Richard Stallman claims Ubuntu amounts to spyware with Amazon search integrated into the “dash” of its Unity interface. He is calling for developers to shun the open-source operating system.
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu. Stallman says the advertising search results amount to surveillance and argues that personal data is on Canonical’s servers.
In a recent post on the Free Software Foundation blog, Richard Stallman has called upon Linux advocates to reject Ubuntu, claiming the Amazon search integration in the Ubuntu 12.10 contains dangerous
"surveillance code."
The creator of the GNU Project accuses Canonical for including a search feature in the latest version that sends packets to Canonical's own servers without al
Jono Bacon, Ubuntu’s Community Manager, had to apologize to Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, after a rather harsh blog post.Richard Stallman is not a friend of Canonical. He criticized the company and their operating system, Ubuntu, in the past. Recently he had some pretty po... (read more)
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I have been using RHEL from quite a while now on server system, but now i also want to use Linux as my Desktop/Laptop OS on my personal computer. So i downloaded the Ubuntu 12.04 yeserday as i have read alot about it being the most popular Linux Desktop OS.
Hi people,I'm a current happy Parabola GNU/Linux (an Arch Linux %100 Libre) user.However as I never stop amazing about how incredible this Free Software/OpenSource Software universe is I try distros in my spare time just to see 'what people are doing' out there, you know =)Let me tell you guys CrunchBang is truly awesome.
i used ubuntu for a along time as the only thing i do from the computer is watching movies and browsing internet. for my exam purposes i have to use this application call "bpp ipass" which only run in windows, so i installed windows while having ubuntu and recoverd the grub using "boot-repair" by booting a usb stick.
Just when we thought it was over, the saga surrounding Canonical‘s controversial integration of Amazon.com search features into Ubuntu resurged this week as Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, denounced the feature as “spyware.” Depending on whether you think Stallman is a messianic visionary or a self-caricaturing embarrassment to the open source communi
Hey everyone, a long time ago I had a Laptop that had Ubuntu and Windows XP Professional on it. One day it just shut down so I turned it back on and it said "BOOTMGR missing or corrupt." So I got the recovery disc and tried to do a recovery. Didn't work. There's more then just the BOOTMGR problem and I can't even access the Windows Partition from GParted on Ubuntu.
On January 9, Canonical published in a security notice details about a GnuPG vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, GNU privacy guard could have been made to corrupt the keyring if it imported a specially crafted key.
It was discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled certain malformed key
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