Re: Down with Canonical - Boycott Ubuntu Spyware

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 01:07:21PM +1300, Stuart Crawford wrote:
> I just installed Debian Squeeze on a desktop I have here. It's quite
> nice, but I very quickly came across issues which would have totally
> stumped me if I was a beginner. 

Yeah, well, that could be a another long thread, e.g.
Seen on net:
"Design a system for fools and only fools will use it."
"Unix is user friendly, it is just picky about who its friends are."

Ubuntu is doing a good job of providing a Linux system that works OOTB.

> Things like:

> * The complete lack of a newbie-friendly GUI for installing more
> applications from repos

apt-cache show synaptic

Package: synaptic
Version: 0.75.12
Installed-Size: 7690
Maintainer: Michael Vogt <[email protected]>
Architecture: i386
Depends: libapt-inst1.5 (>= 0.8.16~exp12), libapt-pkg4.12 (>=
0.8.16~exp12), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libcairo2
(>= 1.2.4), libept1.4.12, libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>=
2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>=
2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0),
libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libvte9 (>= 1:0.24.0),
libx11-6, libxapian22, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), hicolor-icon-theme
Recommends: gksu | kdebase-bin | policykit-1, libgtk2-perl (>= 1:1.130),
rarian-compat, software-properties-gtk
Suggests: dwww, menu, deborphan, apt-xapian-index
Conflicts: menu (<< 2.1.11)
Description-en: Graphical package manager
 Synaptic is a graphical package management tool based on GTK+ and APT.
 Synaptic enables you to install, upgrade and remove software packages
 in a user friendly way.
[...]

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