Data collection around users tends to be a very touchy subject in the Linux/open-source world even when opt-in and Fedora Workstation 42 has just seen a proposal raised to do just that.
If approved the Fedora Workstation 42 release would roll-out an opt-in metrics system of anonymous user information from system settings to hardware information and desktop usage patterns.
The proposal aims to collect more real-world representative information about Fedora Workstation use that would help developers focus their efforts moving forward and help with data/use-case discovery and analysis.
All data points would be collected individually as well to prevent system/user finger-printing.
The proposal was just posted to the Fedora devel mailing list to which there have been no comments yet but given the topic will certainly lead to an active discussion.
This isn’t the first time such a change has been proposed for Fedora Linux but over the years have been various efforts around privacy-preserving telemetry, per-system unique identifiers for DNF, etc.
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Data collection around users tends to be a very touchy subject in the Linux/open-source world even when opt-in and Fedora Workstation 42 has just seen a proposal raised to do just that.
If approved the Fedora Workstation 42 release would roll-out an opt-in metrics system of anonymous user information from system settings to hardware information and desktop usage patterns.
The proposal aims to collect more real-world representative information about Fedora Workstation use that would help developers focus their efforts moving forward and help with data/use-case discovery and analysis.
All data points would be collected individually as well to prevent system/user finger-printing.
The proposal was just posted to the Fedora devel mailing list to which there have been no comments yet but given the topic will certainly lead to an active discussion.
This isn’t the first time such a change has been proposed for Fedora Linux but over the years have been various efforts around privacy-preserving telemetry, per-system unique identifiers for DNF, etc.
The original article contains 267 words, the summary contains 162 words. Saved 39%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!