Some very useful tips for blocking some information gathering services on Ubuntu. This is very useful if you are worried about security with all of these services sending data to Canonical. Ubuntu-report – sends hardware information to Canonical. Turn this off easily. 4.4 Thu Nov 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ubuntu-report -f send no4.4 Thu Nov … Read more
To boot Linux with the text scrolling past, and no bootsplash, edit the /etc/default/grub file and change the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT value to “text”. # If you change this file, run ‘update-grub’ afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. # For full documentation of the options in this file, see: # info -f grub -n ‘Simple configuration’ GRUB_DEFAULT=0 … Read more
There is more news on the Ubuntu front, the distribution has been spotted on the ABC TV Extreme makeover television show. Sure this is just another mindless reality television show, but it is cool that they put Ubuntu out in the open on a popular television show like this. And there is a new LightDM … Read more