On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:08:11AM +0000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > reports percent > hurd-i386 1 0.0175 > kfreebsd-i386 1 0.0175 > ppc64 1 0.0175 > arm 2 0.0351 > mipsel 2 0.0351 > m68k 3 0.0526 > s390 4 0.0702 > mips 5 0.0877 > ia64 9 0.1579 > hppa 12 0.2106 > alpha 33 0.5790 > sparc 47 0.8247 > powerpc 87 1.5266 > amd64 257 4.5096 > i386 5235 91.8582 > total 5699 100.0000 > > > Now this shows that *amd64 is already the second most important arch*. We are > so busy looking after the arches used by basically nobody that we are not > getting around to releasing with what is becoming *the* main alternative to > i386.
Oops. You jumped from "second most common" to "second most important", as if they're synonymous. Maybe they are to some people, but that's not at all beyond debate: AMD64 will probably be supported by all serious distributions, while Debian is, from what I recall, the *only* way to get a sensible Unix installation on many of the less common systems. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
