RH recommends using Windows? plus a Question!

[Kreg Steppe]

I would definatly opt-in for something like this.
I would also suggest that if there was a problem installing something, 
and you opt-in have it check the DB for any notes to a solution and 
display them instead of just reporting it.

Julien Olivier wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 13:08, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
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>>On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Julien Olivier wrote:
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>>>Aaargh, forget my proposition... it is stupid because it needs the user
>>>to _know_ what hardware he has and fill everything himself. I understand
>>>that a GUI application would have the advantage to be able to
>>>"auto-detect" the hardware and do most of the work for the user.
>>>
>>>That said, it could still be done the following way:
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>>> - When you click on "report my hardware", a cookie is generated
>>>containing all the information required automatically.
>>> - The website is opened, reads the cookie and pre-fills the form
>>> - The user can modify the defaults choices and validates
>>>
>>>The drawback:
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>>> - if your navigator is configured to refuse cookies, you're screwed...
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>>This is a non-issue.  What about this:  App (no GUI) collects
>>needed info, POSTs that to the website, acquires a session-id,
>>launches browser with the session-id.  
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>Technically, it's a good idea but I can already hear comments about how
>Fedora spies its users by sending reports of their users' hardware
>without any human intervention... More over, it could well be that you
>don't want your hardware information (all or partially) to be sent to
>Fedora (for any reason). But maybe a solution could be to allow users to
>configure which kind of information can/cannot be sent to Fedora. For
>example, it could be configured at install time or in the firstboot
>tool.
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>>BTW, offering the service
>>at the right time is quite important.  Say, when the
>>hotplug/kudzu/... fails to configure a device, should offer the
>>user to report that.
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>Of course, that would be very smart and useful.
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>>behdad
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