Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS
Buonasera, si parla di Raspbian, la distribuzione per RPi derivata da Debian e curata dalla Raspbian Foundation, è la più usata in assoluto per quel system on chip _finto_ libero [1]. «Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS» https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/heads-up-microsoft-repo-secretly-instal... --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- In a recent update, the Raspberry Pi OS installed a Microsoft apt repository on all machines running Raspberry Pi OS without the person’s or admin’s knowledge. Every time a Raspbian device is updated by having this repo, it will ping a Microsoft server. Microsoft telemetry has a bad reputation in the Linux community. Let us see why and how this matters to Linux users. [...] It seems that it contains VS Code IDE for your Raspberry Pi. Now keep in mind this is a server with a lite image, and there is no need to install this on my old RPi 2. Naturally, it made many Linux users unhappy. To make matters worse, the official Raspberry Pi forums admins quickly locked down and deleted the topic threads, claiming it was “Microsoft bashing.” [...] It seems RPi foundation officially recommends MS IDE, and hence this was included Raspberry Pi OS. They should keep this to GUI image for kids or anyone who wish to to learn Python and other stuff using VS Code. Most Linux geeks and power users use RPi as a git server or adblocker and so on as a headless server. There is always a trust issue when unwanted software repo configured and gpg keys are installed secretly, which is the main issue. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Attraverso questa modifica Microsoft _in teoria_ potrebbe installare software binario (applicazioni o librerie) ricompilato ad-hoc, che verrebbe installato *al posto* di quello ufficialmente distribuito da Debian. Questa la issue aperta da un utente (e commentata da molti) su GitHub, il forge ufficiale di Raspbian: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/raspberrypi-sys-mods/issues/42 Ovviamente lo fanno per amore degli utenti perché è Troppo Difficile installare VSCode e quindi vanno aiutati. Saluti, Giovanni. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi#Raspberry_Pi_issues -- Giovanni Biscuolo
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