I think that the information could most certainly be useful but there does seem to be this apprehension to any form of data collection. Ubuntu took some criticism for there data collection practice however, I can't help BUT to see the benefit of it. https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/statistics I am sure that their execution method could use a little tweaking but it is NOT a bad idea. -- Nathan On Saturday, 27 October 2018 14:25:25 EDT Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 27/10/2018 15.56, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* cagsm <> [10-27-18 09:18]:
Many years ago, the suse distro and others back then, used to have some four or five letter tool or package that did probably the very same, probably a predecessor of this project maybe recently rebooted. I liked it back then and reported machines I could, but eventually the project died and it gotton stripped from (open)suse distro. Anyone still remember that old attempt years ago? I dont recall its name any more. Also what exactly was wrong with collecting hw ids and lists back then, why has it been abandoned and why is there this project now rising from the dead again? Any background information? Thanks.
you might be thinking about http://linuxcounter.net
the name changed some time ago and I have lost track....
No, it was something else.
Initially it run automatically on the first boot, later it had to be manual.
I remember we used links to our info in the database in Bugzilla reports. Huh, maybe I can find the name there.
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SMOLT
http://www.smolts.org/ (dead link)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolt_(Linux)
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
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