Waiting for next distro hop ... this weekend
Update 4:
I will try arch linux or kubuntu as I dont like Ubuntu with boring menus after installing lxde (see below)
Update 3:
I installed lxde from synaptic (after nautilus did not work or search did not from ubuntu after zeitgeist removal) and this is how my screen looks after logging out from unity, selecting session as lxde, looks like lubuntu,
Update 2:
Well I forcefully deleted libzeitgeist from synaptic (anyway manual deletion of zeitgeist does same as stopping good old nautilus from launching, I wanted zeitgeist formally removed from synaptic) and accepted all the s/w which needs to be removed to be removed, sorry I dont want you logging s/w
Update 1:
After removing zeitgeist manually ( explained below) from ubuntu nautilus does not work, well it is expected, I will install thunar or maybe try Xubuntu, ha ha
If you dare proceed further
Before Update (manually removing logging s/w):
Well, speed of Ubuntu 12.04 is good.
But I did not like this privacy settings in Ubuntu 12.04 which logs every user action. Much is said in net about this privacy. There is option to disable logging but do I trust it? I am doubtful
The s/w which is used for logging is zeitgeist. It is neutral like most of the s/w neither good nor bad. But it could be used to track users and log activity to server. I did not like this
Here is a weblog of what I did to stop logging completely out of ubuntu and think it may help someone using ubuntu and wants to remove shady logging
To stop this logging completely, I removed zeitgeist from synaptic/apt-get
Then tried removing libzeitgeist and it warned me of direly to remove file manager ...
So I went this approach
First searched all running processes and stopped zeitgeist daemon
sudo ps ax | grep zeit
Then killed all processes with name zeitgeist with pid using
sudo kill <pid>
Then deleted all zeitgeist files from my system as super user
To do that I did the following
updated all locate indexes
sudo updatedb
searched for zeit*
locate zeit
removed local and cache from current user
sudo rm -rf .local/share/zeitgeist/
sudo rm -rf .cache/zeitgeist/
updated db
sudo updatedb
then searched zeit and removed all files as super user, well now there is no stupid zeitgeist or its shared objects unless it is bundled statically with some s/w. Even then I could create a proxy server, firewall and filter all unwanted output. Till ubuntu tries to build statically this logging s/w I will enjoy, then I can go with firewall rules allowing only the web traffic which I make
Or I may switch to arch
Till then here are the command summary I followed to deweed logging s/w
204 locate zeit
205 cd /etc/xdg/autostart/
206 ls
207 sudo rm zeitgeist-datahub.desktop
208 cd ..
209 cd bash_completion.d/
210 ls
211 sudo rm -rf zeitgeist-daemon
212 sync
213 cd
214 locate zeit
215 sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/libzeitgeist-1.0.so.1
216 sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/libzeitgeist-1.0.so.1.1.4
217 sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/libzeitgeistplugin.so
218 sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/zeitgeist.plugin
219 sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/totem/plugins/zeitgeist-dp/
220 sudo rm -rf /usr/share/doc/libzeitgeist-1.0-1/
221 sync
After removal checked if there is any zeitgeist files left
222 sudo updatedb
223 locate zeit
224 sudo reboot
225 sudo ps ax | grep zeit
226 history
Iteration 1: pulse
Iteration 2: unity
Iteration 3: zeitgeist
Iteration 4: run ... fast = Distro Hop
Seers of wisdom if only you know what I mean!! :)
