Distirbuitions

[Net Llama!]

On 12/23/02 21:18, Marvin Dickens wrote:
> 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 

WHere?  How?  Subscribing to this list is via Mailman, which doesn't 
provide a mechanism (AFAIK) for embedding non-list related queries.

> 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. 

What secure form?  When you subscribe to any mailman list it explicitly 
states "Don't use an important password, this isn't secure".  apache is 
_not_ listening on port 443 for linux-sxs.org.

> 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.

For servers, Redhat-7.3(XFS).  I have no favorite for desktops, since i 
use XFCE which is distro agnostic.

> 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...

Redhat puts out very timely security updates, their SRPMs are easy to 
rebuild.

> 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.

I still don't think that this will generate enough data to be useful. 
But, if you want to take the lead on this project, i'll certainly be 
willing to create a page on linux-sxs.org where the data is presented.

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