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From: likewhoa <weboperative@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:53:43
Message-Id: dad717940801141453k6a2f903aj77f810d3533e513a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey by Donnie Berkholz
1 Here are some questions I would like answered.
2
3 Do you use gentoo at home or office?
4 > Home
5 > Office
6 > Both
7 > I don't use gentoo
8
9 What percentage of your business is running gentoo?
10 > 10%
11 > 25%
12 > 50%
13 > 75%
14 > 100%
15 > none of the above or 0%
16
17 How often would you like releases?
18 > every six months
19 > every 3 months
20 > once a year
21 > whenever
22
23 Which DE/WM would you prefer for the gentoo livecd instead of the one
24 provided?
25 > Kde
26 > Xfce
27 > Fluxbox
28 > E16
29 > Fvwm
30 > Gnome
31 > Other
32
33 How often do you emerge --sync?
34 > every day
35 > once a week
36 > once a month
37 > every six months
38 > none of the above
39
40 How often do you update your system & world packages?
41 > every day
42 > once a week
43 > once a month
44 > every six months
45 > none of the above
46
47 How often do you housekeeping on your system i.e revdep-rebuild,--deepcleanetc?
48 > every day
49 > once a week
50 > once a month
51 > every six months
52 > none of the above
53
54 Who would you recommend gentoo to?
55 > Friend
56 > Colleague
57 > Business partner
58 > Clients
59 > Everybody!
60 > Nobody
61
62 Do you consider yourself to be a?
63 > Advance Gentoo user.
64 > Novice
65 > Intermediate
66 > Noob
67 > Troll
68 > None of the above
69
70 What GPU are you using with Gentoo?
71 > ATI
72 > Nvidia
73 > Other
74
75 What aspect of gentoo would you like see improved?
76 > Multimedia
77 > Graphics
78 > Video
79 > Security
80 > Network & Services
81 <http://gentoo-wiki.com/Index:HOWTO#Networks_.26_Services>> Gaming
82 > Emulators
83 > Kernel
84 > Developer Community
85 > Other
86
87 What platform do you run gentoo on?
88 > AMD64
89 > X86
90 > Sparc
91 > ARM
92 > Alpha
93 > Hppa
94 > Ia64
95 > Mips
96 > PPC
97
98 Do you dual-boot if so with what OS?
99 > Windows XP
100 > Windows 98
101 > Windows 2000
102 > Windows NT
103 > BSD
104 > Unix
105 > OSX
106 > Other
107
108 How did you come across gentoo?
109 > Friend told me
110 > Business collegue
111 > Distrowatch
112 > Forums
113 > Article
114 > Little blue bird told me
115 > Other
116
117 Do they use grp packages?
118 > Yes
119 > No
120 > What is grp?
121 > Sometimes
122 > Never
123
124 Which livecd(s) do they prefer?
125 > Gentoo livecd-2007.0
126 > Sabayon livecd
127 > Sysresccd
128 > Knoppix
129 > My own
130 > Other
131
132 Do you think commercial packages should be part of the main tree?
133 > Yes
134 > No
135 > Why not
136 > Never!
137 > in unofficial overlay
138 > Dunno
139
140 When did you start using gentoo?
141 > 2002
142 > 2003
143 > 2004
144 > 2005
145 > 2006
146 > 2007
147 > Yesterday
148 > Just Now
149
150 How often should GWN be updated?
151 > once a week
152 > everyday
153 > every month
154 > every six months
155 > what is GWN?
156
157 Should gentoo have it's own WIKI?
158 > Yes
159 > No
160 > Merge gentoo-wiki instead.
161
162 Which package manager are you currently testing?
163 > Paludis
164 > Pkgcore
165
166 Which package manager are you using instead of portage?
167 > Paludis
168 > Pkgcore
169 > I <3 Portage!!!
170
171 Do you like the Gentoo Linux Installer (GLI)?
172 > Yes
173 > No
174 > Never heard of it
175
176 How well in-touch do you think dev's are with users?
177 > Very Good
178 > Not so Good
179 > Not at all
180 > No connection
181 > None of the above
182
183 Well that's all the questions I can come up with and that others
184 recommended, they are not sorted in any particular way either. I hope this
185 helps and I would appreciate respectable feedback and criticism instead of
186 flames and bighead comments.
187
188 Thank you.
189 Fernando a.k.a likewhoa
190 9188B8D8

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey Qian Qiao <qian.qiao@×××××.com>
[gentoo-dev] Re: Seeking questions for a user survey Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>