<story><title>BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)</title><url>https://twitter.com/lelff/status/1210619413885575168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deith</author><text>Many things. Mostly PPAs. I can install Ubuntu Stable and use the most recent version of PHP, which has been built and is stored in Canonical&amp;#x27;s servers. With Debian, that&amp;#x27;s a gamble: either wait until the Debian developers stop bikeshedding and upload a new version of PHP to experimental, breaking all my system if I install it, or I have to add a repo from some guy I don&amp;#x27;t know or trust.</text></item><item><author>brimstedt</author><text>I use both, but prefer Debian. Care to elaborate on what you miss in Debian?</text></item><item><author>deith</author><text>If Debian offered the same things Ubuntu does, people wouldn&amp;#x27;t use Ubuntu. But, alas, they don&amp;#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>To disable the part of the MOTD which calls home, setting&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ENABLED=0
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
in &amp;#x2F;etc&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;motd-news should be sufficient.&lt;p&gt;To get rid of the entire &amp;quot;dynamic&amp;quot; MOTD, disable the timer unit:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  $ sudo systemctl disable motd-news.timer
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Alternatively, stop supporting companies that covertly slip spyware like this into their software. Debian is wonderful, of course.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m on an iPad and going from memory, but I &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; this is correct -- someone will correct me if it isn&amp;#x27;t!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&amp;gt; ... &lt;i&gt;or I have to add a repo from some guy I don&amp;#x27;t know or trust.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Debian PHP maintainer, Ondřej Surý, maintains his own repo:&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deb.sury.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deb.sury.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;packages.sury.org&amp;#x2F;php&amp;#x2F;README.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;packages.sury.org&amp;#x2F;php&amp;#x2F;README.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qa.debian.org&amp;#x2F;developer.php?login=ondrej%40debian.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qa.debian.org&amp;#x2F;developer.php?login=ondrej%40debian.or...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)</title><url>https://twitter.com/lelff/status/1210619413885575168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deith</author><text>Many things. Mostly PPAs. I can install Ubuntu Stable and use the most recent version of PHP, which has been built and is stored in Canonical&amp;#x27;s servers. With Debian, that&amp;#x27;s a gamble: either wait until the Debian developers stop bikeshedding and upload a new version of PHP to experimental, breaking all my system if I install it, or I have to add a repo from some guy I don&amp;#x27;t know or trust.</text></item><item><author>brimstedt</author><text>I use both, but prefer Debian. Care to elaborate on what you miss in Debian?</text></item><item><author>deith</author><text>If Debian offered the same things Ubuntu does, people wouldn&amp;#x27;t use Ubuntu. But, alas, they don&amp;#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>To disable the part of the MOTD which calls home, setting&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ENABLED=0
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
in &amp;#x2F;etc&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;motd-news should be sufficient.&lt;p&gt;To get rid of the entire &amp;quot;dynamic&amp;quot; MOTD, disable the timer unit:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  $ sudo systemctl disable motd-news.timer
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Alternatively, stop supporting companies that covertly slip spyware like this into their software. Debian is wonderful, of course.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m on an iPad and going from memory, but I &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; this is correct -- someone will correct me if it isn&amp;#x27;t!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakna</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the difference between a PPA and a repo from some guy you don&amp;#x27;t know or trust?</text></comment>