How to get Ubuntu 12.04 X1000 remix and is it spyware free?

[vox]

I assume when AmiStore is done, and product put to AmigaKit,
but A-EON release is immanent for few days now!?
http://www.a-eon.com/18-10-2013-4.pdf
http://amistore.net/

On Unity spyware, I would love to be just the joke, please tell me
http://refugeeks.com/ubuntu-spyware-is-it-true/

Can it be replaced by MATE during install?

[PatW]

Hi Vox

I assume when AmiStore is done, and product put to AmigaKit,
but A-EON release is immanent for few days now!?
http://www.a-eon.com/18-10-2013-4.pdf
http://amistore.net/

Trevor/Matthew will most likely make an announcement soon

On Unity spyware, I would love to be just the joke, please tell me
http://refugeeks.com/ubuntu-spyware-is-it-true/

I presume you are referring to the Unity Shopping Lens for Amazon? It is not part of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as it only released in 12.10. It can be easily disabled from 12.10 onwards in privacy settings or by removing the package.

Can it be replaced by MATE during install?

Unfortunately no, as it is not part of Ubuntu. It is available for Ubuntu X86/AMD64 as a PPA from the Mate guys directly. I built Mate 1.6 from the src packages and dependencies from their repos back a few months ago for Ubuntu 13.04 on the X1000 so it definitely work well on PPC/X1000. (see attached image). I'm sure it could also be built for 12.04 LTS - something I could have a look at in the coming weeks

All the best


Pat

A1-X1000 Ubuntu Mate DE.png

Mate on Ubuntu 13.04 A1-X1000

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[vox]

Trevor/Matthew will most likely make an announcement soon

But its currently unavail?

I presume you are referring to the Unity Shopping Lens for Amazon? It is not part of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as it only released in 12.10. It can be easily disabled from 12.10 onwards in privacy settings or by removing the package.

Great, how do we stop Ubunty from upgrading this package or how to completely remove it, not just ON/OFF

[quote="vox
Unfortunately no, as it is not part of Ubuntu. It is available for Ubuntu X86/AMD64 as a PPA from the Mate guys directly. I built Mate 1.6 from the src packages and dependencies from their repos back a few months ago for Ubuntu 13.04 on the X1000 so it definitely work well on PPC/X1000. (see attached image). I'm sure it could also be built for 12.04 LTS - something I could have a look at in the coming weeks [/quote]

Please let me know when its done and implemented, I will buy Ubuntu then.
Software package is great, but I really dislike Unity and its slow on everything.

A1-X1000 Ubuntu Mate DE.png

[/quote]

Looks great!

[PatW]

I presume you are referring to the Unity Shopping Lens for Amazon? It is not part of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as it only released in 12.10. It can be easily disabled from 12.10 onwards in privacy settings or by removing the package.

Great, how do we stop Ubunty from upgrading this package or how to completely remove it, not just ON/OFF

It cannot be automatically updated in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as it was not included in this release in the first instance.

The package is part of 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10 Unity implementations only. It can be removed in those versions by

Code: Select all

 sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

Pat

[vox]

The package is part of 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10 Unity implementations only. It can be removed in those versions by

Code: Select all

 sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

Pat

Thanks Pat! Let us know when we can get MATE for the beast, its a great balance in performance / look

On side note (you can answered in PM) I see you are Linux Guru, so is Fedora 17 more modern then Mint 11 or Ubuntu 12.04?
Are RPMs more common on PPC then DEBS? And finally, I have tried COMPIZ on Mint 11 / Deb 7.2 and I have got GUI glitched
and buged on LXDE. Which GUI can use compiz with no bugs and with less performance hit with it?

[PatW]

On side note (you can answered in PM) I see you are Linux Guru

Just a Linux fan - aspiring to be a Guru maybe someday

so is Fedora 17 more modern then Mint 11 or Ubuntu 12.04?

I would say that Fedora 17 is equivalent to Ubuntu 12.04 but Ubuntu has the edge as it will be supported unti April 2017 whereas support for Fedora 17 has been discontinued. Mint 11 (x86/AMD64 versions) is based on Ubuntu 11.04 and is now unsupported. MintPPC 11 on the otherhand is based on Debian Wheezy and is still supported and could be considered equivalent to Ubuntu 12.04.

Are RPMs more common on PPC then DEBS?

Well the commercially supported POWER distros, RHEL, SLES and YDEL are RPM based while of the community based ones i.e. Debian, Ubuntu, MintPPC and other Debian derivatives are DEB based. Fedora and openSUSE are RPM based and Gentoo has it's own packaging system as has CruxPPC.

So I suppose in commercial terms RPM rules for POWER Architecture and in the PowerPC community Debian itself and DEBS rule. All IMHO of course

And finally, I have tried COMPIZ on Mint 11 / Deb 7.2 and I have got GUI glitched
and buged on LXDE. Which GUI can use compiz with no bugs and with less performance hit with it?

To honest I don't use Compiz at all or any 3D effects. My desktop is boring really I do use LXDE on Debian with the Lubuntu Box theme and on Ubuntu 12.04 I use Unity 2D which just uses a slightly tweaked metacity by default.

XFCE or LXDE are probably really the only options for using Compiz on the X1000. It might be worth trying Compiz on Lubuntu or Xubuntu instead as Ubuntu is maintaining it for Unity 3D. Debian has dropped it altogther.
see: http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/compiz.html

All the best


Pat