{"id":1369,"date":"2018-02-20T05:40:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.virtono.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:40:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:40:35","slug":"canonical-wants-to-collect-telemetry-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/internet-and-technology-news\/canonical-wants-to-collect-telemetry-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonical wants to collect telemetry in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"cluster-header\">In order to improve its development on Ubuntu, the\u00a0Linux\u00a0distributor\u00a0Canonical\u00a0wants to\u00a0automatically collect user hardware information as well as information about installed packages and crash reports.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"formatted\">\n<p id=\"gpar1\"><em>&#8220;We want to be able to focus our development efforts on the things that matter most to our users, and to do that, we need to get some more data about the types of setup our users have and what software run it on, &#8220;<\/em>\u00a0writes Canonical for the Ubuntu desktop\u00a0Will Cooke on the developer mailing list of\u00a0the Linux distribution.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"gpar2\">Begin with the upcoming version 18.04 aka Bionic Beaver.\u00a0Ubuntu wants to inform in the installer of the system about this process with an additional field.\u00a0Users should also be given the opportunity to opt-out.\u00a0In a similar way, for example, the browsers Firefox or Chrome collect telemetry data from their users.\u00a0The analysis of the data Canonical wants to make publicly available.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gpar3\">The data should be encrypted and transferred to the servers of Ubuntu.\u00a0Users should be able to see the data collected on their computer.\u00a0The team is interested in the Ubuntu version and variant used, hardware details such as CPU family, memory and memory size, display resolution, GPU manufacturer and model, and the OEM manufacturer of the device.\u00a0Also, some more information that will help with the installation process will be collected.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gpar4\">In addition, the popularity contest (Popcon) should be automatically installed, giving the team a better overview of installed packages.\u00a0The tool for handling crash reports Apport should also be configured to automatically send its data anonymously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to improve its development on Ubuntu, the\u00a0Linux\u00a0distributor\u00a0Canonical\u00a0wants to\u00a0automatically collect user hardware information as well as information about installed packages and crash reports. &#8220;We want to be able to focus our development efforts on the things that matter most to our users, and to do that, we need 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