Ubuntu Wildfire

Thom May thom at ubuntu.com
Mon May 16 21:19:02 UTC 2005


* Michael Beattie (mtbeedee at gmail.com) wrote :
> > Counting installs might be an option, the last step in installing Ubuntu
> > cold be an opt-in to be counted. Don't really know how to do it. Maybe
> > popularity-contest does it or can be hacked to do it...
> > 
> > /M
> > 
> 
> Gentoo has a thing called gentoo-stats.  It's a package in their
> portage tree that a user can install to basically count their machine
> and add their system's hardware and stuff to a stats page somewhere so
> people can see how many of each architecture gentoo is installed on
> and what other hardware they might be using.
> 
> Maybe we could make a ubuntu-stats package?  I'd be willing to help with it.
> 
see hwdb-client; Applications/System Tools/Ubuntu Device Database
also, `sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow popularity-contest` and enable it to tell us
what packages you use.
Cheers,
-Thom




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