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Make the Debian CDs Better by Installing popcon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the best-of-the-best dept.

JayBonci writes "Not popcorn, popcon! (Short for popularity-contest) According to a recent message posted to debian-devel-announce, popcon numbers are being used to determine how things get arranged on the 13 CDs of the upcoming Debian stable release. Participation so far has been good, but the project could use more numbers from a broader user base. Please take a moment to install the package 'popularity-contest,' and help us make the distro better by allowing it to send us anonymous package usage statistics. You can see the results at Popularity Contest page."

2 of 378 comments (clear)

  1. vi/vim vs. emacs by Peaker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When comparing the popularity of the two, do not forget that vi is fairly standard and that vim is fairly small.

    This means that whoever uses emacs should have no problem also installing vi/vim, while those who use vi/vim wouldn't typically install emacs/xemacs, which are much larger.

  2. Good idea reasons... by msimm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree with the above poster, but why this needs to catch on:

    1) We currently have a 0 feedback model for most distro (said distros forum and Slashdot aside).
    2) It WILL tell the developers of a distro a bit about how their distro is being used (lots of data, the deeper they dig the more they learn).
    3) Other distros need to see this as a *requirement*. Popularity-popusmearity, this is customer feed-back! Guess how many times I've been asked how I use my favorite flavor of Linux over the past 5 years?

    I think Debian has hit a little bit of gold here and I hope to see it expand to other distros. These guys work hard to write 100's of useful apps and compile them into a useful operating environment, more information can only help that process so I'm into it.

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