Re: ad/spyware query

2013-01-21 Thread Phill Whiteside
There are no plans to include 'lens' in lubuntu by default. For one thing, it'd not meet the requirements for not using any CPU or RAM when running :) AFAIK lens is a part of the ubuntu desktop environment, which is different to lubuntu's (and xubuntu, kubuntu). The same applies to pulseaudio, not

Re: ad/spyware query

2013-01-20 Thread wes
many thanks to jackson doak and ioannis vranos for their informative replies to my query. i will summarise my present understanding, so as to facilitate clarification or correction: 1. do current releases of lubuntu incorporate these changes as well? apparently not, as the functionality in qu

Re: ad/spyware query

2013-01-19 Thread Ioannis Vranos
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:33 AM, wes wrote: > hello all. > > i am currently a user of ubuntu 10.04 LTS. in a matter of months that > release will no longer be supported by canonical, and i am shopping > around for another free-software operating system to use. > > i understand that recent changes

Re: ad/spyware query

2013-01-19 Thread Jackson Doak
first, some answers 1.no 2.some care some don't 3.ubuntu/canonical please remember you can disable the amazon lens whenever you want, it is included by purely to make use of the os easier, i haven't heard of someone who has been massively inconvenienced by the lens, or the ubuntu one lens. both ca

ad/spyware query

2013-01-19 Thread wes
hello all. i am currently a user of ubuntu 10.04 LTS. in a matter of months that release will no longer be supported by canonical, and i am shopping around for another free-software operating system to use. i understand that recent changes to ubuntu conflate (by default) local and web searches