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Ubuntu switches search back to Google

Ubuntu switches search back to Google

Posted Apr 8, 2010 21:50 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Ubuntu switches search back to Google by wingo
Parent article: Ubuntu switches search back to Google

"La donna รจ mobile" ("Woman is fickle") is the cynical Duke of Mantua's canzone from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (1851). The inherent irony, of course, is that it is the callous playboy Duke himself who is mobile ("inconstant")...


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Ubuntu switches search back to Google

Posted Apr 9, 2010 7:20 UTC (Fri) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

In fact I use Ubuntu on a lot of my systems (since about 2007, replacing Debian as a more up-to-date and polished derivative). But I use it mostly in old-style Debian way, upgrading to the next release by aptitude or update-manager, never reinstalling from LiveCD. Also, on desktop I use Kubuntu with some unnecessary packages pruned off, so I feel myself pretty well isolated from mianline Ubuntu gimmicks that are foisted on unsuspecting novice users with every release. In fact, when you upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 in usual way, I am sure you would not even notice that your GNOME theme or browser search provider is changed.

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