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Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default


I worked the last few days on a new Manjaro project: Manjaro Data Donor - short MDD. It is a way for us to gather a few usage statistics about Manjaro. The motivation for that at the start was to improve our user counting. Until now what has been done, was counting systems via ping.manjaro.org. These pings are sent from Manjaro systems via the NetworkManager. There were some problems with this approach though: Individual systems were only distinguished on basis of IP address. This doesn’t a...

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