GovCheese - Slashdot User

Submission + - Do you allow your "smart" television connectivity to the internet? 1

Submitted by GovCheese on Saturday November 04, 2017 @01:35PM

GovCheese writes: How do you feel about "smart" televisions? Do you connect or is it prudent to keep it dumb?

I use Roku and also the client apps on my gaming consoles for Amazon and Netflix. But it seems less prudent to allow my television, a Samsung, to connect. My Phillips Blu-ray wants to connect also. But I'd rather not.

Is it illogical to allow Roku and a console to connect to streaming services but prevent a "smart" television from doing so? What do you think?

Submission + - Chinese open source community is brought into the global Ubuntu community (canonical.com)

Submitted by GovCheese on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:49PM

GovCheese writes: Canonical, the software company that manages and funds Ubuntu, announced that the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will base their national reference architecture for standard operating systems on Ubuntu, and they will call it Kylin. Arguably China is the largest desktop market and the announcement has important implications. Shuttleworth's phrasing of, “The release of Ubuntu Kylin brings the Chinese open source community into the global Ubuntu community,” will irk many who already feel Shuttleworth controversial, but the partnership further cements Ubuntu as an open-source influencer. This is a win for Ubuntu. Is it a win for the open-source community?

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