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fsmithred

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## Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Fri Nov 08, 2013 11:02 am

I'm getting tired of seeing my own name shown as the last one to post. This could be one of those "be careful what you wish for" moments, but here are the stats. October was a particularly busy month for downloading the isos. I know you're out there. Say something. (Granted, many of you may not speak or write well in English, but give it a shot, or make me use Google Translate.)
Isohybrid downloads in October:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc ... ds_oct.png
Isohybrid downloads, Jan-Oct:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc ... an-oct.png
Isohybrid downloads by country (some were cut off the screenshot. My aplogies to those people.)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc ... ry_oct.png
Refracta Tools downloads, Jan-Oct:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc ... an-oct.png
dzz

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## Re: Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:07 pm

Interesting to see the Windows download stats.. and the number of nationalities. Previous efforts to improve internationalisation must have been worthwhile.
thwak

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## Re: Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:54 am

um, you already know I'm out there (yeah way, waaaaay out there) so as a "say something"
I'll just mention that I wish zipfiles (vs just debs) were available for the refracta tools
https://github.com/fsmithred/refracta

> http://salinelinux.proboards.com/thread/810?page=2
> Tirekickers. That's my interpretation of the graph displayed in the sourceforge link.
> Another inference is that there are MORE tirekickers Oct2013 vs a year ago. Who?
> Nervous WinXP users looking for an egress?
> Disillusioned "newest buntuX is too slow on my PC" users?

fsmithred

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## Re: Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:29 pm

Yeah, I figure that most of those downloaded isos got booted a couple of times at most. That's ok. I've done that with other distros a bunch of times. And I'm guessing that the downloaded tools got used a little more often than that. We've been mentioned on a few other forums, mostly regarding the tools, and mostly positive responses.
Why zipfiles? You want to unpack and put the files in place manually? If so, would you put them where the deb package puts them, or arrange them differently? If you arrange them differently, you might need to edit some paths in the scripts, but I couldn't tell you where unless I read through all the code.
Richard

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## Re: Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:01 pm

Home again.
Now to learn how to use the Snapshot tool.
The joy of Debian stable is also the bane of distros based on Debian stable --it's stability.
Your being actively involved helps considerably.
You aren't just talking to yourself.
We, the lurkers, are here.
thwak

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## Re: Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:35 pm

zipfiles b/c I don't have refracta permanently installed... and b/c upgrading a deb package would overwrite modded versions of the tools
nadir

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## Re: Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:54 pm

I am all for having access somewhere to the files in plaintext too.
kelsoo

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## Re: Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:57 pm

Something please
Running on two machines should check in more but it just works so not much to say.
When I've finished tweaking I'll post some pics and details of my set up.
Thanks
ukbrian

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## Re: Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Sun Nov 10, 2013 11:20 am

@dzz
Thanks for the nudge I'd only looked at the download stats and the number of nationalities is very interesting.

> Interesting to see the Windows download stats.. and the number of nationalities. Previous efforts to improve internationalisation must have been worthwhile.

Anthony began to address internationalizing in Wheezy in I think a very versatile way, check out his "clean" script and the translations file at etc/clean/Translations/en_US, I use clean instead off Bleachbit. http://lin.me.uk/refracta/clean.tar.gz
When I look at Anthony's backup script with all the text removed to a separate file it makes the script much easier to read.
I posted earlier about using a variable for the partition label and etc/default/grub entry and this might be a way of doing that and also for the name of the snapshot.
NOTE
If I put a slash in front of etc/default/grub I get a 404 when I preview.
I think I might be able to convert snapshot to use a file for all it's text just to prove the method.
Is it possible to pass coordinates to yad so the windows don't open in the center all the time? it doesn't matter with snapshot/installer but I've been messing about with Anthony's Yad Ducky script doing a prototype menuing system but I'd like the screens to open at the bottom right corner as in this snapshot.
http://lin.me.uk/refracta/refracta-desktop-3.png
It took me a time to realise how versatile Anthony's Ducky was.
@richard
How do you fancy honing your Pascal skills trying to do these menus in Lazarus? I think it would be quite simple to use the same methods on windows but I don't know about touch screens.
In windows I used to save the window position in the registry when the window was closed so they always re-opened where you had closed them.
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@fsr
Is there a way to lock the focus into the snapshot screen when the snapshot is taking place to prevent the user doing other things.
nadir

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## Re: Statistics - Somebody say something, please.

Sun Nov 10, 2013 12:09 pm

Oh, another thing:
I run in the need to use a newer kernel more often these days (i am not sure why).
A link to dzz's sid version in the "announcement" section of the board would be nice.
Or another remix (sid based).
For me dzz's remix does the job ( but i always got hard times to find it).
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