Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Rafa Grimán <rafagriman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)

El Friday 09 January 2009, Michael Loeffler escribió:
> On Friday 09 January 2009, Larry Stotler wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>
>
> wrote:
> > > I hope you've sent your hardware profile via smolt. I'm pretty
> > > sure the numbers there are the one people will look at when
> > > thinking about where to put the optimization efforts:
> > >
> > > http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html
> >
> > Not sure what I'm supposed to do with that site.  And, the stats
> > are way off.  19% running 11.1 and 0 running 11.0/i586????  Seems
> > like a lot of people have no idea either.  It looks like a Fedora
> > specific site anyway.
>
> With 11.0 we had smolt but very well hidden. With 11.1 everybody is
> asked to send hw info to smolt. That's why there is such a huge
> difference between 11.0 and 11.1.
>
> Smolt is at its beginning but it has the power to improve hardware
> support for Linux in general as its the first place where hw info is
> displayed publicly based on a very large user base.


Does smolt distinguish between two different computers and two installations 
(reinstallation, for example) of the same computer?

I ask this because I have different scenarios:

        1.- say you install openSUSE 11.1 and then you reinstall because
            you goofed up. Would that count as 1 installation and smolt
            would not resend the info? Or does smolt count that as 2
            different systems and resends the info as if it were a
            different computer?

        2.- Say you were a Fedora user and you added your computer to
            the smolt statistics. A couple of months later you discover
            openSUSE, get rid of Fedora never to go back and install
            openSUSE 11.1. Would that also be counted as a new computer?

        3.- What if you have a partition with openSUSE 11.0 from which
            you've already run smolt and decide to upgrade to 11.1? Is
            that a new computer added to the smolt statistics?

        4.- What if you have 1 partition with openSUSE 11.0 with which you
            sent all the info to smolt web and you install openSUSE 11.1
            on another partition and all the info gets sent back to
            smolt's web. Is that counted as a new/another different
            computer?

Been looking for the answers to these questions on smolt's web but haven't 
found it. Maybe looking in the wrong place? Any ideas?

TIA

   Rafa

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