[Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

[Marc Paré]

Le 2010-10-08 15:04, Tux99 a écrit :
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> Quote: Florian Hubold wrote on Fri, 08 October 2010 15:46
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>> What would be interesting is to count the mageia installations. Create
>> a GUID for every system at install time, and then later on when
>> internet
>> is available, count the machine via this GUID.
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>> WDYT?
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> No way, that's way to Orwellian, it would give Mageia a really bad
> reputation.
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> A rough count of installs can be done by counting the number of unique IPs
> accessing the updates, of course this won't be precise (proxies, etc) but
> it should give a rough estimate, there is no need for precise numbers.
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I agree, in this case a rough count is good enough.

We all remember the Intel ID system where you could be identified at 
chip level through the BIOS. Scary business. A distro could have denied 
you installation just based on your chip ID.

Marc