On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:33 AM, wes <[email protected]> wrote: > hello all. > > i am currently a user of ubuntu 10.04 LTS. in a matter of months that > release will no longer be supported by canonical, and i am shopping > around for another free-software operating system to use. > > i understand that recent changes to ubuntu conflate (by default) local > and web searches performed with certain applications, and intersperse > web results from amazon in their output. > > i find this massively disturbing. in my view, it is a flagrant > violation of implict free-software principles (if not the explicit > ones as well), and under no circumstances will i be using ubuntu in > the future for that reason. > > furthermore, i am now highly suspicious of canonical's integrity as a > distributer of free software.
Ubuntu 12.04 has not this search functionality. Also, it can be disabled in Ubuntu 12.10. However Ubuntu is too heavy for my taste. > and so, regarding lubuntu, i have the following questions. > > 1. do current releases of lubuntu incorporate these changes as well? As far as I know, web search results is a functionality of Unity only. > 2. what are the lubuntu developer's attitudes on these changes? > > 3. who hosts lubuntu's repositories? Except from the local mirrors, I think Canonical. -- Ioannis Vranos http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
