Comments on: Ubuntu NL warns for Ultimatix

By: AssangeMot

AssangeMot — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:46:31 +0000

Did you know that USA and Europe blocked Wikileaks? What do you think about it?

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By: Lorencoted

Lorencoted — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:49:07 +0000

Did you downloaded Wikileaks docs? Give me link plz

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By: Sense Hofstede

Sense Hofstede — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:54:22 +0000

Linux is indeed freedom, but it is—or at least Ubuntu is—guided freedom. Ultimatix is not packaged, but it never would because there are quality standards an application needs to fulfil before we allow it into the repositories. This is done not to prevent people from freely choosing the application they want, but to protect people from hurting themselves.
We cannot provide an application that does bad things, whether users want it or not. We are obliged to present our users a good, safe experience. Apart from that I believe that we should not make life harder for the people providing support. This kind of application needs to be discouraged because it is so damaging and because it targets new users, who are often less capable of deciding whether an application is well-written and safe.

By: hackjob777

hackjob777 — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:07:08 +0000

linux is freedom , and if we start banning or limiting App's based on one thing or another , Linux will become just like Windows or Mac . Let the user decide what it should use or not use. don't leave packages out so that any given app's no longer work. Sound like what we always were ranting about Windows.

By: Usancescase

Usancescase — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:50:39 +0000

For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said, “Look mate, don’t ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!”

By: Wordpress Stats/discussion on Ultimatix | Qense’s blog

Wordpress Stats/discussion on Ultimatix | Qense’s blog — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:34:59 +0000

[...] the forum found my blog post about the tool that should make the life for linux-newcomers easier: Ubuntu NL warns for Ultimatix. He was pissed off, I could kiss his ass and should get the facts ’strait’. Weird, I [...]

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:26:59 +0000

Finally! Agreement with what I have been saying all along, Ultamatix is not at all necessary.

By: http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/

http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/ — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:43:37 +0000

I don\’t think we have an official position on Ultimatix yet, but we didn\’t support Automatix users on the forums or IRC…at least after Brunellus banned Arnieboy for being a jerk.

By: Ubuntu Look » Ubuntu NL warns for Ultimatix

Ubuntu Look » Ubuntu NL warns for Ultimatix — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:34:58 +0000

[...] As you can read in this topixc(I swear, it was by accident!), there is an official warning from Ubuntu NL against using Ultimatix, the successor to the discontinued Automatix. The program is meant to make installing often used program and codecs in Ubuntu easier. However, it does this on a dangerous way that can harm your system. The reasons, given by pjotr123, are these: Read more at Qense’s blog [...]

By: DarrenR114

DarrenR114 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:48:39 +0000

the double greater-than (‘>>’) is NOT a pipe – it is an appending redirection. How can I trust a conclusion about this by someone who obviously doesn’t understand the shell very well?

By: jose

jose — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:00:37 +0000

we don’t need ultimatix since we got ubuntu-restricted-extras.

By: Tiago Faria

Tiago Faria — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:59:25 +0000

Matthew Garrett did an analysis to Automatix (at the time) and wrote a very interesting post about it. It’s by far the best post I found with technical information of why one shouldn’t use Automatix.

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77440.html

Don’t know if some points are still a problem with this new software, though.