There was just a mail from Petter Reinholdtsen on debian-devel about the popularity of archs:
----- Forwarded message from Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- It has been a while since I reported the architecture distribution in Debian, as reported by popularity-contest. The raising star is 'arm', now used by 1.3% of the population. 'alpha' and 'sparc' continue to drop. Here are the numbers. You can find the details on <URL:http://popcon.debian.org/>. 11678 86.35% i386 1106 8.18% amd64 223 1.65% powerpc 181 1.34% arm 117 0.87% sparc 50 0.37% alpha 42 0.31% hppa 32 0.24% ia64 27 0.20% mipsel 20 0.15% armeb 12 0.09% mips 12 0.09% kfreebsd-i386 9 0.07% hurd-i386 6 0.04% s390 5 0.04% m68k 2 0.01% i486 1 0.01% ppc64 1 0.01% kfreebsd-amd64 13524 100.00% total (ignored 325 without arch info) The 325 machines without arch info are most likely running Debian/Woody or earlier versions of debian. If you want to help the Debian project to get a more accurate view on the architectures used, make sure your machines have the popularity-contest package installed and enabled. The reported data is also used to decide which packages go into which installation CD, so you will increase the chance that the packages important to you are available on the first CD as well. ----- End forwarded message ----- Of course, the numbers are highly misleading to wrong assumptions: - there are of course more i486 machines out there than m68ks - and of course more kfreebsd-amd64 and ppc64 machines as well - there are (maybe) just 5 m68k machines runnning Debian It's most likely that someone will take those number to argue that m68k should be dropped from the release. That happened before and will happen in the future again. A way to help your m68k port is, to actually run popularity-contest on your m68k machine in order to show that *there* *are* real users on m68k. (Keep in mind that 3 out of the 5 m68ks above are my personal m68ks, so just two single other m68k boxes are running popcon.) If you want to support the m68k port, one of the easiest things you can do, is to run "apt-get install popularity-contest" right now! :-) -- Ciao... // Fon: 0381-2744150 Ingo \X/ SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg pubkey: http://www.juergensmann.de/ij/public_key.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
