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| Enrico Zini 2004-04-20, 1:34 pm |
| * Enrico's survey on Debian usage - April 2004
This is an exploratory survey on Debian usage. It is intended to gain
some insights on Debian usage experience.
The goal of this survey is to understand the purposes for which Debian
is being used and the ways in which people use Debian to achieve (or try to
achieve) these purposes.
While this survey is wholly voluntary, the data you give here can be an
essential building block for constructing useful documentation to provide
Debian Developers more insight on how the distribution is being used.
Filling this survey shall take around 30 minutes. Please try and take the time
to respond.
To fill in the survey, simply reply quoting this message and add your
answers near the "A:" marks. There's no limit to the length of answers,
so, if you are in doubt, don't hesitate to be verbose. English answers are
preferred, but you can reply in Spanish, French or Italian if you feel more
comfortable doing so.
All responses will be anonymised before publishing the data. Replies will be
published without headers and signature, while the original messages will only
be seen and kept by me (Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org> ), and of course the
administrators of some mail servers on the way to here. You can use encryption
if you prefer: my key ID is 797EBFAB.
Results will be published in my Debian pages (http://people.debian.org/~enrico/),
and announced on the same lists where I posted this survey.
Thank you for your time!
* Survey
- Q: Are you a: (note: you may choose more than one)
A:
[ ] Debian developer, or otherwise involved in contributing to Debian
[ ] Free software developer
[ ] User, using Debian for: _________________________
[ ] Other: __________________________________
- Q: Could you please provide one or two typical episodes (whatever you feel
like) of your life with Debian?
A:
- Q: Could you please provide one or two fantasy episodes of your life with
Debian, if you were to make a movie or a comic strip about yourself as a
Debian protagonist?
A:
- Q: What Debian distribution are you using?
A:
- Q: What do you think people use Debian for?
A:
- Q: What is the thing you most frequently use Debian for?
A:
- Q: What do you think is the most INTERESTING aspect or feature of Debian?
A:
- Q: Are there some aspects or features of Debian that do not satisfy you?
A:
- Q: What do you think is the most USEFUL aspect or feature of Debian?
A:
- Q: Is there something you especially like doing with Debian? What is it?
A:
- Q: Is there something you DO NOT like doing with Debian? What is it?
A:
- Q: What is the MOST SUCCESSFUL deed you have achieved with Debian?
A:
- Please take a moment to recall what is the WORST INCIDENT you had
with Debian.
Q: What was it?
A:
Q: How did you get into it, and out of it?
A:
- Imagine you have a crystal ball allowing you to see 10 years in the
future, and have a look inside.
Q: Will you still be using Debian?
A:
Q: If yes, what will you be doing with it?
A:
- Q: Finally, please feel free to leave any feedback to Debian Developers
A:
Thank you again for your time and help in making improvements to Debian!
Enrico
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GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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| David Roundy 2004-04-20, 3:34 pm |
| On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:51:24PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> * Enrico's survey on Debian usage - April 2004
* Survey
- Q: Are you a: (note: you may choose more than one)
A:
[ ] Debian developer, or otherwise involved in contributing to Debian
[X] Free software developer
[X] User, using Debian for: _work and fun and server_
[ ] Other: __________________________________
- Q: Could you please provide one or two typical episodes (whatever you feel
like) of your life with Debian?
A:
- Q: Could you please provide one or two fantasy episodes of your life with
Debian, if you were to make a movie or a comic strip about yourself asa
Debian protagonist?
A:
- Q: What Debian distribution are you using?
A:
stable, unstable and testing, but mostly testing. Stable on servers, and
for compiling packages for stable.
- Q: What do you think people use Debian for?
A:
Mostly for servers, but also for workstations.
- Q: What is the thing you most frequently use Debian for?
A:
Well, I use it for essentially all my computing (although I do have an iMac
at home, right next to my laptop running debian), so basically I use it for
whatever computing I do. Mostly this consists of code development, email
and web browsing.
- Q: What do you think is the most INTERESTING aspect or feature of Debian?
A:
The ease with which packages can be installed and upgraded.
- Q: Are there some aspects or features of Debian that do not satisfy you?
A:
Mostly the slow release cycle. At work we are running testing on almost
all our machines, since there have been major improvements since woody in
packages we use (e.g. octave), but for work computers, we'd be much better
served by stable, if only it weren't so old, since then we would only be
getting security updates and wouldn't have to deal with issues like the
recent gnuplot breakage on upgrade (fixable by installing gnuplot-x11).
- Q: What do you think is the most USEFUL aspect or feature of Debian?
A:
Same as interesting (above), since I'm interested in its usefulness...
- Q: Is there something you especially like doing with Debian? What is it?
A:
I like teaching new users to use debian (it's happened a couple of times in
the last month or so). They are always impressed by how easy it is to
install and upgrade packages.
- Q: Is there something you DO NOT like doing with Debian? What is it?
A:
I don't like upgrading kdm or gdm. They both have massive configuration
files, and graphical utilities that modify the configuration files, so when
I upgrade I get a conffile message and have to try to figure out if my old
configuration will still work, and if not, how to move my changes into the
new one. Perhaps if the conffile shipped with debian didn't have all the
useful comments?
- Q: What is the MOST SUCCESSFUL deed you have achieved with Debian?
A:
Hmmmm. Probably the composition of a duet that is written on a single
staff, played right-side-up by a violin and upside-down by a cello... Which
really has very little to do with debian, but was very fun (and typeset
with lilypond). And yes, I am being a bit silly, it's hard to come up with
something that particularly successful that is debian-specific. Perhaps
the development of a photonic crystal structure with a layered structure
having square symmetry within each layer and a full 3D photonic bandgap?
All the work for that was done on debian--even down to using mpb (MIT
photonic bands), which is included in debian, for the calculations.
- Please take a moment to recall what is the WORST INCIDENT you had
with Debian.
Q: What was it?
A:
I'd have to say it was the time I managed to create a /etc/nologin file
some time after booting up. I learned a whole lot about PAM as a result,
but had a rather nervous few days, since I couldn't log in again after
logging out, so I had a gradually diminishing number of virtual terminals
available in which to work.
Q: How did you get into it, and out of it?
A:
I'm not sure how I got into it. I originally had a LinuxPPC installation
on my Mac, and morphed it into debian in an entirely unrecommended manner
(this was back in potato)... think untarring base tarballs on a working
linux distribution. So I had a "sort of" debian distribution, and somehow
(I didn't ever figure out how) I created the nologin file. After much
reading about the internals of PAM, I read about the nologin option (or
module?) of PAM, and then looked and saw the file sitting there.
- Imagine you have a crystal ball allowing you to see 10 years in the
future, and have a look inside.
Q: Will you still be using Debian?
A:
Of course.
Q: If yes, what will you be doing with it?
A:
Managing my research group's computers. I'll be professor by then, and
probably have five to eight students and postdocs, so we'll have a few
central servers and everyone's workstation running debian. Hopefully by
then there will be a decent free queuing system available, so we'll be able
to easily run jobs on any computer which doesn't happen to be busy.
In my spare time, I'll probably still be working on darcs (my free software
project), which should be pretty mature, but I also would guess I'll have
less spare time in ten years (perhaps even kids to spend it on).
- Q: Finally, please feel free to leave any feedback to Debian Developers
A:
--
David Roundy
http://abridgegame.org/darcs
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| Arash Bijanzadeh 2004-04-21, 2:33 am |
| On Se shanbe 01 Ordibehesht 1383 18:21, Enrico Zini wrote:
> * Survey
>
> - Q: Are you a: (note: you may choose more than one)
> A:
> [ ] Debian developer, or otherwise involved in contributing to Debian
> [X ] Free software developer
> [ ] User, using Debian for: _________________________
> [ ] Other: __________________________________
>
>
> - Q: Could you please provide one or two typical episodes (whatever you
> feel like) of your life with Debian?
> A:
>
>
> - Q: Could you please provide one or two fantasy episodes of your life
> with Debian, if you were to make a movie or a comic strip about yourself as
> a Debian protagonist?
> A:
>
>
> - Q: What Debian distribution are you using?
> A: Sarge
>
>
> - Q: What do you think people use Debian for?
> A: Fun and servers!
>
>
> - Q: What is the thing you most frequently use Debian for?
> A: For life!
>
>
> - Q: What do you think is the most INTERESTING aspect or feature of
> Debian? A: its freedom
>
>
> - Q: Are there some aspects or features of Debian that do not satisfy you?
> A: Yes, it is ages I am waiting for the release of sarge but not yet.
When you don't have badwidth - like me in iran- it is really painful to dl
tons o MBs, I really like to have a set of CDs every year!
>
>
> - Q: What do you think is the most USEFUL aspect or feature of Debian?
> A: tha packaging system
>
>
> - Q: Is there something you especially like doing with Debian? What is
> it? A:
>
>
> - Q: Is there something you DO NOT like doing with Debian? What is it?
> A:
>
>
> - Q: What is the MOST SUCCESSFUL deed you have achieved with Debian?
> A: I run debian on all the machines I need to trust!
>
>
> - Please take a moment to recall what is the WORST INCIDENT you had
> with Debian.
>
> Q: What was it?
> A:
>
> Q: How did you get into it, and out of it?
> A:
>
>
> - Imagine you have a crystal ball allowing you to see 10 years in the
> future, and have a look inside.
>
> Q: Will you still be using Debian?
> A:
>
> Q: If yes, what will you be doing with it?
> A:
>
>
> - Q: Finally, please feel free to leave any feedback to Debian Developers
> A:
>
>
> Thank you again for your time and help in making improvements to Debian!
>
> Enrico
>
> --
> GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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| Sotomayor , Jose MĒ 2004-04-28, 11:34 am |
| - Q: Are you a: (note: you may choose more than one)
A:
[ ] Debian developer, or otherwise involved in contributing to Debian
[ ] Free software developer
[X] User, using Debian for: Everything from one week ago.
[X] Other: SuSE 8 user for a year and a half (but now I do not have i=
t installed).
- Q: Could you please provide one or two typical episodes (whatever you fe=
el
like) of your life with Debian?
A: I've just started my debianization proccess, so I don't have much to =
tell. But I can assure you that my computer has been full renewed, and I lo=
ve GNU/Linux even more than before.
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- Q: Could you please provide one or two fantasy episodes of your life with
Debian, if you were to make a movie or a comic strip about yourself a=
s a
Debian protagonist?
A: Cameron Diaz with a wet Debian white t-shirt while I ...=20
Well. I just would like someday to contribute Debian with something made b=
y me. My first step is completinf this survey.
- Q: What Debian distribution are you using?
A: 3.0 r1 (bf2.4 in one computer, vanilla in other)
- Q: What do you think people use Debian for?
A: In professional environment, as a server, mostly. In home, it's so fl=
exible that I suppose that there are so many Debians "uses" as "users" are.
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- Q: What is the thing you most frequently use Debian for?
A: I'm still installing my packages because I installed Debian for first=
time just four days ago. But currently I navigate Internet and use my emai=
l (Mozilla 1.6), watch movies with ogle-xmms, burn cds with cdrecord and mk=
isofs (funny), use xawtv for programming my Playstation 2 (Linux kit instal=
led), use my 6in1 card reader to share files with my iPaq and my camera, an=
d I can use my favorite window manager: fluxbox.=20
- Q: What do you think is the most INTERESTING aspect or feature of Debian?
A: You can start with a robust but minimal set of programs. And you can,=
then, install ONLY what you need with order and cleanly.=20
- Q: Are there some aspects or features of Debian that do not satisfy you?
A: The installer gave me some problems. But nothing else.
- Q: What do you think is the most USEFUL aspect or feature of Debian?
A: apt-get install solve-my-life
- Q: Is there something you especially like doing with Debian? What is it?
A: To use my computer is now a pleasure. I love to use the un*x command =
line, but I think that is not very Debian specific, isn't it?.
- Q: Is there something you DO NOT like doing with Debian? What is it?
A: Nothing special.
=20
- Q: What is the MOST SUCCESSFUL deed you have achieved with Debian?
A: Installing it!!! It was difficult because of some video problems.
- Please take a moment to recall what is the WORST INCIDENT you had
with Debian.
Q: What was it?
A: I couldn't make the installer works. It hung.=20
Q: How did you get into it, and out of it?
A: I had lot of trouble because it seems that my graphic card (ATI 128) =
doesn't support the default framebuffer (svga16) and I had to learn to disa=
ble it because I only saw a black screen. After that, I saw the installer b=
ut it hung one time and again at modconf. I had to disable some Video Cache=
options in the BIOS, as exposed in the documentation and it went OK. After=
installing, I disabled the aty128fb also because it made the whole system =
freeze when xawtv runs.=20
- Imagine you have a crystal ball allowing you to see 10 years in the
future, and have a look inside. =20
=20
Q: Will you still be using Debian?
A: Yes. Or some Debian related as progeny.
Q: If yes, what will you be doing with it?
A: Enjoying my computer.=20
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- Q: Finally, please feel free to leave any feedback to Debian Developers
A: You are making an excellent job, and I relly feel in debt with you. I=
would like to give you something in return someday.
Regards from Madrid, Spain.
Jos=E9 Mar=EDa Sotomayor
sotomayorj@intecsauhde.com
Documentum Administrator
Intecsa Uhde Industrial S.A.
+34917497126
V=EDa de los Poblados 11
Edificio Trianon
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