diabloss Wrote:Dude what kind of "stuff" are you using?
Seriously , wake up dude ... you living in an era where electronically you are unable to hide.
Your phone your tablet your home computer everything is under surveillance ....
If you don't like matrix tv you have 2 other options there Ubuntu android ... oh wait ... even 3 options with Openelec.
So having 3 other alternatives to that OS i don't see the reason why should not buy it ...
You are wrong, I do not have 3 options, my options are unlimited. If you do not know much about Linux. I suggest you do LFS and learn the basics of what Linux is.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ If you want to compile Linux with a package manager, I suggest Gentoo.
http://www.gentoo.org/If you want minimal binary to start with, I suggest Arch Linux ARM.
http://archlinuxarm.org/Here is the x86 Arch Linux website.
https://www.archlinux.org/What I would really love, is for RISC OS to be ported to ARM 7. If you do not know what risc os is I suggest you do a little research, it was around before the rest, while many features of the risc os is used in every current day desktop, they were the first for many features. RISC OS was written by the people that actually designed the arm processor.
https://www.riscosopen.org/content/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OSAs for your claims of surveillance, sure governments are watching everyone. But security and surveillance is two different things. I am not worried about the NSA spying on me. I have nothing to hide. The NSA has back doors in many applications irrespective of platform. They have access to hundreds if not thousands of commonly used applications that people install. Of course with windblows and apple, that is inherent to the system, as it has been designed into the operating system. While it is more difficult with Linux due to the open source, as people will see the code, so in some cases to hide it they actually have bits and pieces in a number of the most common applications, that will provide all the parts they need. So looking at one application you will not see all the code, just a small bit that does not really show anything, you have to put all the bits of code from the number of applications they have infiltrated. Cash strapped software developers always need more money.
Besides that scenario, they redirect your updates, and or other downloads. In other words, when you do an update, irrespective of OS platform, they redirect your request to the real package repository, to there package repository, with their version of the package you are updating.
All I am worried about are the other people out there cracking systems with malicious intent. Proper security procedures will keep those people out, most of the time, while not following proper security procedures will insure your network and devices will quickly be cracked, and used for illegal malicious intent, which then may cause the NSA and or other government entities to come knocking down your door.