Re: Requests for my bachelor thesis
Hello Igor,
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 11:21:40AM +0000, Igor Lewandowski wrote:
> Good morning,
> I am a third year undergraduate history student from Adam Mickiewicz
> University in Poznan, Poland. My bachelor thesis is related to Linux
> distributions. The full name of the bachelor thesis is "The phenomenon of
> the emergence of GNU/Linux operating system distributions as a historical
> phenomenon. Research problems, sources and specificity of the issue." I
> wanted to ask if you as a distribution developer collect data for example
> IP type, interest of people from different countries in your work for
> company, foundation data. Also, would it be possible to provide data that
> I could, with the permission of the creators of the distribution, use in a
> research paper as well as an undergraduate thesis. In compiling the
> database, I used the website "Distrowatch", but there is a problem that
> the dates of the first distributions are incorrect, I also ask if it would
> be possible to give a concrete calendar of the first and subsequent
> distributions, along with technical changes. I kindly ask that my requests
> and queries be granted.
> Yours sincerely
> Igor Lewandowski, 3rd year, History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań,
> Poland.
While this may not directly answer your question, you may find the 2022
Debian Developer survey able to help you gain context about how the
Debian Project functions. This, by extension, impacts a number of the
factors which are within your research interest.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/04/msg00001.html
Best wishes on your research efforts.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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