Automatix 'Actively Dangerous' to Ubuntu

Posted by Zonk on Saturday August 4, 2007 @10:31AM from the don't-tread-on-me dept.

exeme writes "Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has recently analyzed famed Ubuntu illegal software installer Automatix, and found it to be actively dangerous to Ubuntu desktop systems. In a detailed report which only took Garrett a couple of hours he found many serious, show-stopper bugs and concluded that Ubuntu could not officially support Automatix in its current state. Garrett also goes on to say that simple Debian packages could provide all of the functionality of Automatix without any of the problems it exhibits."

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[OT] petty misogyny by Anonymous Coward · 2007-08-04 23:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

i would really like to induce you to change your irksome signature, and/or to see all your comments downgraded to troll or flamebait on that basis.

try substituing 'men' for 'women' in that statement and rearrange your perspective. seems like a pretty feeble mindset either way. (sure, i know, you just thought it was clever, but whatever.)