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[Arnaud Hubaux <ahu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Aug 2011, at 09:46, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> On Friday, August 19, 2011 03:10:19 PM Arnaud Hubaux wrote:
> > On 19 Aug 2011, at 01:00, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:50:25PM -0400, Arnaud Hubaux wrote:
> > > > Dear openSUSE users,
> > > >
> > > > we are a team of researchers from the GSD Lab of the University of
> > > > Waterloo (ON, Canada). We do research on configuration methods and
> > > > algorithms and are conducting a study on the problems faced by users
> > > > during the configuration of the Linux kernel. We would greatly
> > > > appreciate it if you could answer this questionnaire:
> > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJrQ1B6OXVCRTRmbGJ
> > > > 2ZlFQTmdpQVE6MA It should not take you more than 15 minutes to complete.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much for your contribution.
> > >
> > > As someone who has been configuring kernels for many years, your
> > > questions don't seem to make much sense.  What are your goals here with
> > > your study?  Are you looking to improve the way the kernel is
> > > configured?
> >
> > Yes, our goal is to improve how the kernel is configured and, ultimately,
> > how other systems are configured. We are studying the Linux kernel because
> > it is probably the configurable system that has the largest number of
> > users across the world.
>
> I really think the kernel has a large number of users of which only very few 
> usethe configurable system since the modularization allowed distributions to 
> deliver a kernel in such a way that no configuration is needed by end users 
> anymore.
>
> Thus, the users of the system are mainly the developers of the kernel and the 
> packager of the kernel packages in the distributions,

Thank you very much for your insight, Andreas. Do you have any suggestions as
to who I should contact or where I should post this study to get the most 
feedback?

\ArHu--
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