Canonical reveals more details about Ubuntu Core Desktop

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Inmutable Ubuntu. I wonder if they'll use os-tree or a complete new tooling

[Article author/submitter here]

Um. I answered that question at length, complete with a brief S.W.O.T. analysis with respect to the other players. It was the central point of the article.

Did you read more than the intro?

Sorry, I only read the first third of the article actually. Now I see that around the half of it there's the explicit statement that it's not going to use ostree... I will read the rest now!

They seem to plan to use Snap all the way down. Including for the kernel, if I understood correctly.

wow, will you still be able to disable the ubuntu telemetry like motd, and the forced updates?

[Article author/submitter here]

How does a MOTD count as telemetry?

Telemetry means sending info back.

Current versions of Core require Ubuntu Pro, so if you are reluctant to use Ubuntu accounts etc. then this is 100% not for you.

Updates can be scheduled, disabled, etc.

If core requires an account, well nvm.

As to motd, it does a lot under the hood and advertises every time you log in. (lots of stuff going on in /etc/update-motd.d)

you can set /etc/default/motd-news:

ENABLED=0

but it doesn't seem to get everything.

Core requires an account. Core Desktop is unreleased and not even in beta yet AFAIK so who knows.

My impression is that the Canonical folk think it's hilarious the way Reddit gets its knickers in a twist over the MOTD thing.

Personally I DGAF but there is a lot of info, fr'ex, here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/804095/how-do-i-disable-the-...

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