cuteOS Telemetry Kit

cute-telemetry is a simple telemetry and data collection library for making data collection easier, while being ethical and secure. cute-telemetry is intended to use with cuteOS for cuteOS applications, but might as well be used on any other Linux distribution.

What data is available for collection?

cute-telemetry is able to collect the following data:

• Flatpak
  • List of installed applications
  • List of remote repositories in use
  • Flatpak presence on the user's system
• System
  • Hostname info (static, default, pretty)
  • OS Name (pretty, CPE)
  • Machine chassis (type, e.g laptop, PC)
  • Kernel Info (version, release, name)
  • Machine ID
  • Boot ID
  • Display backend (x11 or wayland)
• Hardware
  • Vendor (motherboard vendor)
  • Serial (device serial number)
  • Model (device model)
• Firmware (BIOS)
  • Version
  • Vendor
  • Date (firmware time)

Usage

Zig build system builds 2 artifacts, which it later installs. One of them is libcute-telemetry, and the second one is cute-telemetry-service, this one is used in a systemd service that is located in res/cute-telemetry.service. By using zig build -p /usr -Doptimize=ReleaseFast install you can install the library, the service, and the service binary into the prefix path.