Microsoft Repo Installed on [Raspbian]

Re:Microsoft Repo Installed on [Raspbian] by my123 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @07:50AM (#26024892)

Eh, it's the Visual Studio Code repository.

That's perfectly fine. (there's also Wolfram Mathematica on Raspbian images for example too, it doesn't have a goal to be explicitly made of OSS at all)

And the server images are just the client ones with less packages installed, but the same repositories.

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Re:Microsoft Repo Installed on [Raspbian] by ilovwindows on Thursday February 04, 2021 @08:03AM (#26024966)

The question is why it's installed by default?

Also why would the admin in Raspberry Pi forum remove threads related above issue.

It's suspicious.

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Re:Microsoft Repo Installed on [Raspbian] by meibo on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:31AM (#26025578)

Because Raspbian is made for mainly educational purposes, and VS Code is the most user-friendly text editor, so they are shipping it. The lite image uses the same patches/base the full educational image uses, so the repo was also installed there.

If you plan to run it as a server, you should probably pick another distro or live with that fact.

The forum threads were closed because they were duplicates.

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Re:Microsoft Repo Installed on [Raspbian] by FerretFred on Thursday February 04, 2021 @08:22AM (#26025079)

Not fine. This damn' repo just appeared on my Pi's at the end of January it seems. No warning. No knowledge of what it is.

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