On 11/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Fox</b> <<a href="mailto:chris@robotninja.net">chris@robotninja.net</a>> wrote:<br><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
How much information about your system (apart from your IP address, the<br>fact that you run Linux and the fact that you want to use Google Earth)<br>is using their APT repository going to capture for them? What are they<br>
honestly going to do with this data that is so harmful to you?<br><br>Also, what makes you think that the likes of mirrorservices aren't<br>snuffing your data either? :P</blockquote><div><br>So glad to see nothing has changed
<br><br>I don't give a toss what Google does with my data and actually I like the way the adverts plastered all over my home page are fine tuned to what I look at, buy, and use via Google.<br><br>The 'releasing any information about on-line experiences' is a side issue that's just fuzzing things (Here we go again) I did say in the original post " I'm not saying thats good or bad just musing really"
<br><br>I'm more interested in why people should use the service over and above the tried and tested repos, and an observation that Google pretty much cater for everything now so should I be slinging my Linux boxes in the bin and doing all my work via my television and Google on-line apps?
<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Dick Turpin<br><br>Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.