Friday, February 12, 2021

Raspberry Pi OS added a Microsoft repo. No, it’s not an evil secret #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Raspberry Pi OS added a Microsoft repo No it s not an evil secret Ars Technica

No need to sound the alarms. Via Ars Technica:

We were recently alerted to something of a tempest in a teapot: when the Raspberry Pi Foundation made it easier to install Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code development environment, some Linux users mistook it for a sort of Mark of the Beast, with concerns being raised about telemetry and “what Microsoft repo secretly installed without your knowledge.”

It’s true that an update recently pushed to Raspberry Pi OS added a Microsoft repo to Raspberry Pi OS systems—but it’s not true that it added any actual packages whatsoever.

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