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Automatix 'Actively Dangerous' to Ubuntu

Posted by Zonk on 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."

3 of 284 comments (clear)

  1. Re:FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wrong.

    Each trial is independent of any other trial. The probability of 100 trials that all do no execute the rest of the line is 1-((1/99)^100), assuming a uniform distribution.

  2. [OT] petty misogyny by Anonymous Coward · · 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.)

  3. You're a teenage girl?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd like to sneak up behind you and start fondling you violently and then as you struggle to try to escape I'll take a scientifically-proven magic petrification ray from my bag and zap you with it, and it would first disintegrate all your clothing, leaving you gloriously naked, then it would start the process of transforming your body into marble, inducing in you a massive magically-induced which would be captured eternally as your body is turned into solid stone from the feet up to the head gradually, freezing your final moan of ecstasy as you become a beautiful, cold lifeless statue, but with your mind still alive inside the statue, aware of everything that happens to you. I would put you in display in art museums so that everyone could admire your spectacular naked & petrified teen body, then I would put you on a pedestal in my apartment and admire you constantly, and climb up on the pedestal and make love to your stony form, getting my penis raw & red from the friction, and covering your beautiful hard marble skin with my spooge, my beloved naked-and-petrified queen.

    (NOTE: This is just a fantasy; I would not actually do this.)3