Sorry if you have to explain it like I'm 5 but would this allow us to plug a raspberry pi into our home network and run a full node on it? I just listened to the Lets talk bitcoin episode #260 and Dan mentioned running a full node and pointing the light client to it. This sounds like a more secure way of running bts 2.0 for some people instead of using the web wallets?
Yes. At first just as a package, but if there is interest and funding, as a flashable disk image. I've made and tested both during the graphene testnets (links to them are in the OP).
Cube has great questions, I collected data over the past year on ppa:showard314/bitshares
https://people.debian.org/~showard/ppastats/bitshares 1.0 has about 20 consistent users
bitshares 2.0 has 1 or 2 users
additionally, bitshares 2.0 has 1 user using ppa:bitshares/bitshares
the dropoff is probably since the online web wallets are so good, and those that will use the cli tools know how to compile themselves.
I don't know if this accurately reflects the potential, since these numbers are without any advertising or anyone (besides me) telling people about the packages. Since no official site links to them, many don't know they exist or feel as if they are inferior. I agree that the biggest market is windows and apple by far (30x bigger perhaps?), but the early adopters will skew towards linux -- and although users can compile on their own many just want to fire-and-forget, just let the systems upgrade themselves with apt-get as needed.
I can compile libreoffice, but I never have.
I don't want to argue for the worker, I don't need the money -- but if this is something the community feels is worthwhile, great. If not, I can put it on ice for whenever it is needed (if ever). All I want is something we can point to for linux users as "the way" to get binaries "officially" since cryptonomex doesn't have the experience (and it is a distraction to them).
If there is no support for a worker, would the community be OK if I hacked the ppa packages to make myself the referrer on all accounts opened using the ppa packages? I could also do something with openledger where
@ccedk pays to maintain and distribute their "official openledger linux packages" which sets them as a referrer, and they promote and distribute those packages through their sites. Then people would see that there are "official" packages out there.