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@isAdisplayName I was remembering something from around 2012, as it turns out:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks
The founder and CEO of Canonical (the company that develops Ubuntu), Mark Shuttleworth, apparently defended this. I haven't been able to find any financial information on Canonical more recent than 2008, and since it's privately held there's no reason we should know what kinds of deals they're making.
I don't know all the details of what the Linux Mint people are up to either, but I haven't seen anything unethical like this so far, and there is not such an obvious profit motive in that project.
I suppose it's more accurate to say I want to cut #Canonical out of the loop.
Now #uutil is going to replace #coreutils ? Not trusting that one bit.
The core utilities of any given #operatingsystem, as well as the kernel, display protocol, etc, etc, etc should NEVER be up to #liberal #licensing like #MIT or #BSD.
For total power to the user, the fundamental technological stack should be #copyleft, because we should have #legal expectations towards vendors.
This is also from the system that brought you #snaps. #canonical wants a #walledgarden and it shows.
The first time #Ubuntu really rubbed me the wrong way wasn't #snap, but #mir.
Back back in the days, when Jesus rode dinosaurs into Jerusalem, there was still a dispute about which new standard was going to be adopted.
#Wayland was in planning stage then and Canonical was fighting against it for no other reason than "not invented here".
There I was, with an union tired around my belt, seeing that the license was #GPL - with an agreement that #Canonical could "relicense" your code... wat?!
Ubuntu plant Wechsel zu Rust-basierten Coreutils https://fosstopia.de/ubuntu-rust-basierten-coreutils/ #Canonical #GNUCoreutils #Linux #Ubuntu
Le implicazioni di un cambiamento radicale
La transizione alle utility #Rust solleva interrogativi fondamentali sul futuro dell'#open_source. Da un lato, i miglioramenti in sicurezza e performance rappresentano un passo avanti indiscutibile dal punto di vista tecnico. Dall'altro, l'adozione di licenze più permissive potrebbe facilitare l'appropriazione di codice open source da parte di progetti proprietari senza reciprocità.
https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/la-rivoluzione-di-ubuntu-addio-a-gnulinux-2025-03-22
in the past few weeks i've built a new personal server, and put a headless #debian system on it (my first debian install). got apache up and running, iptables, fail2ban, ssh authentication by security key only. quite proud of figuring all that out.
yesterday, i managed to resize the filesystem on my laptop's occasionally needed windows partition, resize the whole partition, and then smash debian as the third OS on this little book. somehow managed not to destroy anything except the #ubuntu partition's ability to secure boot. turning off secure boot in the bios allows me to boot just fine.
that ubuntu partition is going away anyways. i've been sick and tired of canonical's crap but as an adult (who doesn't work in tech) i don't often have/find the time to fuck around with computers like when i was younger. for example, i still can't get the wireless printer at work to be recognized by debian. so i have to boot into ubuntu in order to do my job.
but rest assured, i will conquer this hurdle as well, and that ubuntu partition is going straight into the volcano.
i've learned more about #linux in the last couple weeks than in the last 18 years of using ubuntu. and i love it. understanding how your system really works, recognizing a cli command versus an application, being more aware of your cli options, getting comfortable reading a manual page and actually understanding it... i mean this is way we should strive to use all the tools around us. lest, we become the tools ourselves.
a lot of this was thanks to comrades who showed patience and guided me along the way. a lot of if was me cursing my computer and taking frequent smoke breaks. but mostly comrades.
so to anyone who might be interested in revamping their own digital life, feel free to hit me up with questions. i'm not an expert on shit, but i've gained a lot of experience and i feel like i gotta pass on the good karma. for all the bad actors in #foss world, there's still a lot of really good projects, and sometimes you just need someone who has their head in current events to help you sort out the grifters from the real pillars of #community .
and fuck #canonical
#Ubuntu riscrive la storia con la scelta di Rust.
Il sistema operativo non è più tecnicamente GNU/Linux, perché le componenti fondamentali di GNU non sarebbero più presenti. Di fatto è questo ciò che ha in programma di fare #Canonical a partire da Ubuntu 25.10.
Le notevoli differenze tra la licenza GPL e la MIT sollevano importanti punti interrogativi sul futuro del software libero.
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Fortunatamente non uso Ubuntu e co.
eideh nurooz mubarak // happy first day of spring to everyone.
except #canonical . fuck you guys.
Arno roule 
#uutils - #Ubuntu remplace ses commandes #Linux par du #Rust
Ces petites commandes Linux qu’on utilise tous au quotidien pourraient bientôt connaître leur plus grande évolution depuis des décennies. En effet, #Canonical (la société derrière Ubuntu) explore activement le remplacement des #GNU Core Utilities, écrites en #C, par ‘uutils’, leurs équivalents en Rust.
https://korben.info/uutils-ubuntu-remplace-ses-commandes-linux-par-du-rust.html
Video che chiarisce alla perfezione tutto quello che abbiamo detto 
Speriamo ci sia una sollevazione popolare; le minacce di togliere dai server e a casa qualsiasi *buntu che venga proprio dalla base di utenti che hanno reso forte l'azienda #Canonical, dovrebbe fargli capire che cambiare così licenza, per una cosa così delicata, NON va bene
A me MIT va pure bene per cose minori, ma NON per il sostituto di GNU, il cuore di Linux deve usare una licenza col copyleft, IMHO
Jetzt probiere ich mal die #Canonical #lxd UI aus 
Soll wohl eine Alternative zu einem Proxmox sein.
Finalmente qualcuno comincia a dire le cose come stanno, spero che scoppi un mega flame e che #canonical si ravveda
Ho letto la notizia pure io, con grande disappunto e tristezza 
#Canonical ha fatto una cosa, IMHO, MOLTO grave: cambiando le basi del sistema GNU significa di fatto dire addio alla viralità della #GPL che ha reso Linux quello che è. Molto male
Spero si ravvedano, ma se non lo faranno, devo cominciare pure io a trovarmi una derivata di #debian adeguata: la cosa mi pesa molto perché ormai mi ero abituato a certe cose di Ubuntu, ma sulle questioni di principio non transigo 
Panino, o Moço 
And the developers reaction to feedback? Almost denial that it had anything wrong and negation that they could and wanted to fix it, but them in came the #Canonical developers, fixing all the performance problems.
How lucky.
How lucky #Gnome was that #Canonical abandoned Unity and came back to it, and just at the right time when Gnome was at it's lowest bottom. Remember, how unacceptable Gnome's performance was? It was unusable to a lot of people, an annoyance and hindrance to most users. My scars still feels itchy when I remember...
@ubuntu commits to 12 years of security maintenance and support, starting with Canonical Kubernetes 1.32
https://www.admin-magazine.com/index.php/News/Canonical-to-Provide-12-Years-of-Kubernetes-Support
#Kubernetes #Canonical #FedRAMP #OpenStack #BareMetal #MicroCloud #VMware #PublicCloud
