On 12/23/02 21:18, Marvin Dickens wrote:
WHere? How? Subscribing to this list is via Mailman, which doesn't provide a mechanism (AFAIK) for embedding non-list related queries.On Monday 23 December 2002 11:26 pm, Net Llama! wrote:For new users it's easy.... Get the information when they register for the list. Now, for existing users like me......... well.... That's anotherI don't think its a bad idea at all. However, the catch would be in upkeep. We could take a survey this month, and the data would/could become stale next month. And unless we get a decent number of responses, its not really going to be accurate anyway.
story... All the same here are a few idea's to chew on:What secure form? When you subscribe to any mailman list it explicitly states "Don't use an important password, this isn't secure". apache is _not_ listening on port 443 for linux-sxs.org.
1.) In the secure form on the email server that contains the password info and preferences for the user you could have a form that tabulates distributions that the user has installed.
2.) Personally, I not so interested in knowing all of the distro's a user has installed, but the two (2) favorite distro's: Desktop and server.For servers, Redhat-7.3(XFS). I have no favorite for desktops, since i use XFCE which is distro agnostic.
3.) Information as to why a distro is a favorite would be nice. You know, "I like it because of ease of use, a specific functionality, maintainability, only one I have ever used and etc...Redhat puts out very timely security updates, their SRPMs are easy to rebuild.
4.) Regarding maintaining the list, I suppose a monthly email could be generated asking the users of the list to be sure and maintain thier distro installation listing... If people did, we would end up with two databases: A historical data set and a contemporary data set.I still don't think that this will generate enough data to be useful. But, if you want to take the lead on this project, i'll certainly be willing to create a page on linux-sxs.org where the data is presented.
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