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Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users

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On 3/22/19 7:43 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:44:15AM -0400, deb wrote:
>> Are there list-suggested ways to help verify non-free / out-of-stable-distro
>> or even seldomly updated in-distro tools, PRE-INSTALL?
> If in your /etc/apt/sources.list you stick to one distribution and
> don't include "contrib" and "non-free" suites then you aren't going
> to get any non-free software and the packages you install will at
> least have been considered acceptable by Debian for release.
>
>> Are there suggested sites to look up Linux tools to verify them a bit;
>> rather than just one-off searches?
>>
>> Are there suggested sites where KNOWN BAD tools are listed?
> That all sounds highly subjective and don't see how you could have
> any such definitive thing.
>
> There is no substitute for proper research but as a blunt tool, once
> you have identified multiple different packages that do what you
> want you could look at Debian's popcon to compare how many reported
> installations there are of each of them:
>
>      https://popcon.debian.org/
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>

This popcorn page looks useful Andy!

https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=iotop


Thank you -- I did not know about that one.


This gets added to my little list of things to check with.


Thanks!

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Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-22 16:50 +0100
  Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-03-23 00:50 +0100
    Re: Ways to verify tools/applications? Fire support for new users deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-23 02:00 +0100

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