Distirbuitions

[Marvin Dickens]

On Monday 23 December 2002 11:26 pm, Net Llama! wrote:

> I don't think its a bad idea at all.  However, the catch would be in
> upkeep.  We could take a survey this month, and the data would/could
> become stale next month.  And unless we get a decent number of
> responses, its not really going to be accurate anyway.

For new users it's easy.... Get the information when they register for the 
list. Now, for existing users like me......... well.... That's another 
story... All the same here are a few idea's to chew on:

1.) In the secure form on the email server that contains the password info and 
preferences for the user you could have a form that tabulates distributions 
that the user has installed. 

2.) Personally, I not so interested in knowing all of the distro's a user has 
installed, but the two (2) favorite distro's: Desktop and server.

3.) Information as to why a distro is a favorite would be nice. You know, "I 
like it because of ease of use, a specific functionality, maintainability, 
only one I have ever used and etc...

4.) Regarding maintaining the list, I suppose a monthly email could be 
generated asking the users of the list to be sure and maintain thier distro 
installation listing... If people did, we would end up with two databases: A 
historical data set and a contemporary data set.

Anybody have any thoughts..............??????????


Best

Peck