RAM Usage During Installation of Lubuntu (was: zRAM)

[Nio Wiklund]

Phill and Jonathan,

Excuse me for adding you to the list. But maybe you know what is counted
or tracked on our wiki pages (visits, downloads ...)

inline again ...

Best regards
Nio

On 2013-06-09 06:58, Iberê Fernandes wrote:
> 2013/6/9 Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com <mailto:nio.wiklund at gmail.com>>
> 
>     Hi Iberę,
>     See inline text
>     Best regards
>     Nio 
> 
>     It's a great idea too try to understand how a newcomer might navigate in
>     our wiki pages.
> 
> 
> Does the wiki uses any redirects to count clicks? Example: At my last
> job on web software everything was tracked, from the home page until the
> last inner page we could know what was hot and what was not.
> 
> I'm not saying redirects are the best tool to track clicks, but I was
> wondering if there's any kind of tracking on the wiki.
> 

I don't know, but I doubt there is any click counting. Maybe counting
visits and downloads ...

>  
> 
>     > Question: How do we track failed or successfull instalations? Besides
>     > the examples (Ubiquity, slides) above, do we know where else on the
>     > installation our users are giving up?
>     >
> 
>     It would be very valuable to know. But hard because it is free. If
>     people pay, that action is the first feed-back. And they will be more
>     prone to complain, if it is not working, and demand help to fix it or
>     money back.
> 
> 
> I did not mean paid software. My thoughts, not sure if it's doable:

Of course not, but I mentioned it as a contrast to free software, with
very different possibilities to track or estimate the amount of users
and result for the users and their satisfaction.

> 1) user downloads installer. how many downloads did we have? figure may
> not say much, once I can copy my iso files to my friends pendrives.

But still something (for example comparing the number of downloads of
the different iso files).
> 
> 2) user tries to install and it's a success. installer sends thru the
> web it was a sucess. now we know how many installations we have and what
> was the iso source (32 bits, 64 bits, alternate, minimal, ppc...)
> 
> I know... it's a privacy issue. But I'm just wondering what we track or
> not...
> 
> Cheers,
> Iberê
> 

I think a much higher fraction of our users are unwilling to send such
information automatically compared to Windows users.

Maybe a polite question could be accepted, for example: "Do you allow
the system to send this status report about the success of this
installation? It would help us making Lubuntu better. No personal
information and no security information is collected. [And the report is
shown in a window.]"

> 
>     *Who knows if there is any counting* of people visiting our wiki pages
>     or downloading our iso images?
> 
>     I guess we must use whatever feed-back there is in the different fora
>     for help and discussion: our mailing lists, the Ubuntu Forums, the
>     Facebook pages, AskUbuntu ... and use our imagination.
> 
>     >
>     >     In that case we should
>     >
>     >     - make an automatic option to use swap or zRAM. This would be
>     easy for
>     >     the end user but hard for us to make it.
>     >
>     >     - recommend a GUI method to prepare the system with swap. I'm
>     thinking
>     >     of running gparted before the installer. Is the easiest
>     non-text method
>     >     to activate the new swap to reboot? Newcomers are trained to
>     reboot from
>     >     Windows ;-) This is harder but still possible for those who
>     just don't
>     >     type commands in a terminal window, but easier for us (only a
>     tutorial
>     >     or wiki text about it).
>     >
>     >     Best regards
>     >     Nio
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