01-28-2011
They may be using basic VGA text consoles but Ubuntu probably boots into some sort of framebuffer. They couldn't bear to have anything less pretty.
A text console is preferred over a framebuffer when possible I think -- faster, easier, cooperates better with other video drivers, and less finicky in general -- but it depends on the console modes the video card gives you, which sometimes aren't what you expected them to be. Especially in things like laptops.
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popularity-contest
POPULARITY-CONTEST(8) POPULARITY-CONTEST(8)
NAME
popularity-contest - list the most popular Debian packages
SYNOPSIS
popularity-contest
DESCRIPTION
The popularity-contest command gathers information about Debian packages installed on the system, and prints the name of the most recently
used executable program in that package as well as its last-accessed time (atime) and last-attribute-changed time (ctime) to stdout.
When aggregated with the output of popularity-contest from many other systems, this information is valuable because it can be used to
determine which Debian packages are commonly installed, used, or installed and never used. This helps Debian maintainers make decisions
such as which packages should be installed by default on new systems.
The resulting statistic is available from the project home page https://popcon.debian.org/.
Normally, popularity-contest is run from a cron(8) job, /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest, which automatically submits the results to
Debian package maintainers (only once a week) according to the settings in /etc/popularity-contest.conf and /usr/share/popularity-con-
test/default.conf.
SEE ALSO
The popularity-contest FAQ at /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ popcon-largest-unused(8), cron(8)
Additional documentation is in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/.
AUTHOR
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>.
Debian/GNU Linux November 2001 POPULARITY-CONTEST(8)