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Re:Ask HN: Debian 8 or Ubuntu? by cogburnd02 on Sunday February 22, 2015 @06:29AM (#9089054)
Let's start with invasion of your privacy; from gnu.org [1]: "As of October 2012, Ubuntu sends personal data about users' searches [2] to a server belonging to Canonical, which sends back ads to buy things from Amazon."

More at [3].

I don't know if this problem persists, but it's enough for me to choose a distro that never did something like this to begin with.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html

[2] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/does-ubuntus-amazon-lens-...

[3] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html

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Re:Ask HN: Debian 8 or Ubuntu? by huydotnet on Sunday February 22, 2015 @09:49AM (#9089566)
OK. That's all about privacy, right?

The good thing of Ubuntu is it's more stable than the other ones I used (Puppy, openSUSE,...), the last time I tried, Ubuntu booted ok with my Pentium 3, 128MB RAM, Intel onboard GPU.

The Ubuntu 8.x to 9.x sucks, but for 10.x and upper, it's cool again, at least, that's a good choice for Linux beginner :D

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