Ubuntu Reveals Desktop Telemetry for the First Time

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Ubuntu Reveals Desktop Telemetry for the First Time

By Catalin Cimpanu | June 23, 2018

 
Canonical has kept a promise it made in February this year and has made public some of the telemetry it gathered from Ubuntu Desktop users in the past three months.

The data was gathered using the Ubuntu Report tool, which the company said in February it would add to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) distributions.

The Ubuntu Report tool would prompt users during the installation process and ask for permission to collect basic OS installation details.

The tool, which Canonical open-sourced on GitHub to dispel rumors of shady behavior, has allowed Ubuntu to gather telemetry about the users it serves for the first time in the company’s history.

 
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Thank you Kristy!

I missed this article and info, and when I installed the 18.04 I did not authorize the reporting, by habit.  After seeing this report, I will consider it in the future.  Transparency on Open Source deserves support at time.

I ended up not retaining the Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome install, but may check out Kubuntu.  My actual install time was about 16 minutes on a lower level AMD chip and SSD.  Fully configured with my Firefox and Thunderbird profiles it took 45 minutes.

I find I now prefer Mint-Cinnamon.  Ubuntu 16.04 is still a staple on the mini-Laptop, as I did like Unity.  ~~ sent from the Unity wilderness (I know there is still a version out there, but I was not THAT big a fan.)

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? says:

Bill C., i could not get ubuntu 18.04 lts to run on a AMD K-8. the gnome would not boot  (CRITICAL: we failed but the fail whale is dead, Sorry…) so i found this on the ubuntu community wilderness:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~twocamels/archive/

it is ubuntu-unity-desktop which does run on my “old,” laptop. it is built on ubuntu 17.10 and the onlty thing i had to add was a small synaptics touch pad package which was removed from the 18.04 lts.

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