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>when a Mint user does an update he gets the binary directly from Canonical servers When I update Mint binaries, I get them from one of about 30 mirrors which
by 8bitsrule 6y ago
>when a Mint user does an update he gets the binary directly from Canonical servers
When I update Mint binaries, I get them from one of about 30 mirrors which Mint enables me to choose. (Or it will decide for me based on speed.) Do the mirrors at Clarkson, Harvard, Purdue, UW, etc belong to Canonical? I think not. Nor does most of the code the binaries are built from.
Canonical has made its choice, Clem's made his.
- simion314 6y agoMirrors are just mirrors, they are not build farms that build from source. I would convert the next sentence in math logic and prove you that it makes no sense but not sure you can understand the symbols so let me try again in English. 1 Mint does not trust Canonical 2 Mint plugs their users systems directly to Canonical untrustworthy repos to run possible "evil" binaries and scripts as root. if 1 and 2 are true then as a user you should not use Mint, as a Mint developer you should start working and finally create an independent distribution. IMO 1 is false, probably they mentioning "trust" was a mistake.