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h1 About this web site
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' This is a public repository of screenshots taken from applications contained
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' in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and its derivates like Ubuntu. It was
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' created to help getting an impression of what a certain software will look
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' like on your desktop before you install it. Everybody can take screenshots and
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' upload them. Our admin team will just review your changes before they become
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' publicly visible.
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h1 Who runs this site?
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This is a public repository of screenshots taken from applications contained
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in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and its derivates like Ubuntu. It was
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created to help getting an impression of what a certain software will look
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like on your desktop before you install it. Everybody can take screenshots and
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upload them. Our admin team will just review your changes before they become
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publicly visible.
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h2 Who runs this site?
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' This site is operated by Christoph Haas.
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'
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' Want to leave
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' Feel free to leave
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a href="mailto:email@christoph-haas.de" feedback?
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/ p
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/ ' The virtual server is kindly provided by
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/ a href="http://vexxhost.com/" VEXXHOST
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a name='cookies'
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h2 Cookies and privacy
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ul
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em Cookies.
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' Only when you upload a screenshot the website will send your
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' browser a cookie. That allows you to manage your own uploads
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' while the cookie is valid. You can still upload screenshots even
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' if you reject the cookie.
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em
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'Cookies.
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Only if and when you upload a screenshot the website will send your
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browser a cookie. That allows you to manage your own uploads
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while the cookie is valid. You can still upload screenshots even
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if you reject the cookie.
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li
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em Log files.
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' This web site is served by the nginx web server software.
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' It creates one line for every request that you make which contains
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' the current date and time, your IP address, the URL you requested,
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' the user agent (browser) identification string and the referer URL
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' (if you followed a link from another web site to get here).
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' This information is only used to improve the performance of the
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' web application by optimizing the code and fine-tuning caching.
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' It is also used to count how often
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em
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'Log files.
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This web site is served by the nginx web server software.
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It creates one line for every request that you make which contains
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the current date and time, your IP address, the URL you requested,
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the user agent (browser) identification string and the referer URL
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(if you followed a link from another web site to get here).
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This information is used to resolve technical issues regarding the operation
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of this web application by optimizing the code and fine-tuning caching.
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It is also used to count how often a certain software package has
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been viewed so the website can find out which software is most relevant
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and display it first in search results.
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Detailed log files will get deleted automatically after 14 days.
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li
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em Privacy.
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' Under no circumstance will information about your person be
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' collected or processed. I am happy to have you here as my guest.
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li
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em Motivation.
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' Do you wonder why this web site has been running for so many years
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' obviously costing time and money? It's one of my pet projects and
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' it is fun to develop and operate it. It was not conceived to make
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' a profit from it. I'm just glad if you like the idea.
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em
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'Privacy.
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Under no circumstance will information about your person be
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collected or processed. I am happy to have you here as my guest.
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h2 What is your motivation of running this site?
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p
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Do you wonder why this web site has been running for so many years
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obviously costing time and money? It's one of my pet projects and
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it is fun to develop and operate it. It was not conceived to make
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a profit from it. I'm just glad if you like the idea.
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If you feel you want to give back something then help the Debian
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project.
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h2 Which software packages are listed?
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' I import the package repositories from various Linux
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' distributions once a day. However we already filter out packages that
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' we think would not be able to have a meaningful screenshot.
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' Like libraries or documentation or developer packages. So it may happen
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' that you a package is not found on this web sites although it may be
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' available in your favorite Linux distribution. Just let me know if you
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' are missing packages.
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I import the package repositories from various Linux
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distributions once a day. However we already filter out packages that
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we think would not be able to have a meaningful screenshot.
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Like libraries or documentation or developer packages. So it may happen
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that you a package is not found on this web sites although it may be
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available in your favorite Linux distribution. Just let me know if you
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are missing packages.
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' The repositories that I am scanning frequently are:
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h2 Who is using this site?
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p
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' Many users interested in Linux distributions and their applications visit
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' this site either to look for specific pieces of software for certain use
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' cases or just to see if there are any new applications they may have missed out on.
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' And then there are several applications and web sites that use the screenshots
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' from this site:
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Many users interested in Linux distributions and their applications visit
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this site either to look for specific pieces of software for certain use
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cases or just to see if there are any new applications they may have missed out on.
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And then there are several applications and web sites that use the screenshots
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from this site:
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li Ubuntu's Software Center
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li Benjamin Mesing's <em>Packagesearch</em> application
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h2 Uploading new screenshots
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' Whether you are a developer or not - we appreciate if you upload screenshots.
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' See if your favorite package does not yet have a screenshot and
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' upload one.
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Whether you are a developer or not - we appreciate if you upload screenshots.
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See if your favorite package does not yet have a screenshot and
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upload one.
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h2 Why isn't this a debian.org service?
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Often experimental services start as something.debian.net. After a while they
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are handed over to the trusted hands of the Debian sysadmin team to be operated
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on Debian servers. This works best for simple services that are easy to deploy.
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The web application behind this website has been written in Ruby-on-Rails
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and uses sophisticated database and caching configuration to make it
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fast. That has been a showstopper in the past. Although the site is running
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as a one-man show it has proven to be very stable and fast over a period of
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many years.
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h2 Is this web application available as a Debian package?
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I have been asked why the web application was not simply put into
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a Debian package so everybody can install their own copy. First of all it
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is pretty complex and creating a package from it would be time-consuming.
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And the web application was specifically created to operate this web site.
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Running a private copy of it would not really make much sense.
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h2 Can I see the source code of this web application?
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Valid question. I am not a professional Rails developer so I was
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reluctant to publish the source code. In fact I feared it would
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attract people with bad intentions rather than contributors.
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Yes, that is a weak reason. So after the next major update I will
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add the Git URL here so you can get the source code and start
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critisizing me. :)
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h2 Statistics
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h2 Who is behind this site?
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' This site has been developed and is maintained by Christoph Haas.
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' It runs on a web application called <em>debshots</em> that was written in Ruby-on-Rails.
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' debshots also uses a PostgreSQL database, the jQuery Javascript library
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' and the Zurb Foundation toolkit.
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This site has been developed and is maintained by Christoph Haas.
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It runs on a web application called <em>debshots</em> that was written in Ruby-on-Rails.
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debshots also uses a PostgreSQL database, the jQuery Javascript library
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and the Zurb Foundation toolkit.
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The person responsible for this site is:
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'Christoph Haas
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'Oldesloer Straße 14a
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'23843 Rümpel
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