A question about installations

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bret Busby wrote:

>I remember having seen, some years ago, in the installation process
>(of some distributions and versions) of Linux, a question, as part
>of the installation process, something like "Do you agree to have
>this installation counted as an installation of the distribution
>(and, I think, version number of the distribution), for statistical
>reporting?".

Possibly related are some packages that used to be used:

The ubuntu-report package:

https://ubuntu.com/desktop/statistics

https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-report

https://ubuntu.com/blog/a-first-look-at-desktop-metrics

The popcon package:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/ubuntu-popularity-contest-removed

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Little Girl

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