Hi Bastien, Good to hear that I am not totally alone with my point of view ;-) Ton sent in some interesting statistics of the blender.org website visitors:
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2013-May/040268.html http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2013-May/040269.html http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2013-May/040274.html And I started a poll in blenderartists : http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?291199-32-or-64bit The results speak for themselves ... /Jürgen Am 17.06.2013 um 09:43 schrieb Bastien Montagne <[email protected]>: > Please don’t be stupid! Comparing XP and Linux on a market share basis > is just pure nonsense. There’s at least two huge differences between > those OS's: > *One is 12 years old, the other one is plain modern (don’t think anyone > would care to maintain Blender for over 10 years old linux, nor even for > OSX!). > *Even though a few XP are listed in > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Supported_platforms (and I’m > not sure this list is really up-to-date), you’ll find far more Blender > devs under linux. > > And despite the fact that XP is still about 40% of PCs connecting to the > web, you’ll have a hard time finding any commercial 3D software > supporting it (most don’t even support Vista anymore). While a fare > amount of them do support Linux. > > It would interesting to know the amount of XP PCs that download Blender, > btw. My guess is that it would be far less than 40%. > > So in a word, if we drop OpenGL below 2.1 (or even 3.0), it makes sense > to me to also drop XP. You can’t waist time (and even often limit your > app possibilities) to support obsolete stuff forever! > > On 17/06/2013 06:52, Alexandr Kuznetsov wrote: >> Drop linux. It has 1% market share, less than xp. No more x11 hacks. And >> Mac OS X Tiger. Oops, too late. Somebody already did it. >> >> On 6/17/2013 12:46 AM, Harley Acheson wrote: >>> Jürgen, >>> >>> If we are considering dropping Windows XP we should probably also >>> consider dropping the other operating systems that have even less usage. >>> Which is everything else besides Windows 7. So every version of >>> Mac and all flavors of Linux combined. LOL >>> >>> Harley >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
