Re: Requests for my bachelor thesis
Hi Igor,
Late answer here, but I thought it might still be useful:
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.
Debian maintains a "history" document that you might find useful:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/
Good luck with your thesis,
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