On 8/27/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how much overhead do they add to the project?
Speaking of sparc64 specifically, what you see in the stats most probably doesn't reflect reality. One of the sparc64 machines in the stats is mine and is at home. Most sparc64 machines running FreeBSD will be at companies (as non sparc64) and of those you'll only get a small percentage of them reporting to bsdstats. Even if you got the sysadmins to install bsdstats you have to convince the security team on having a call home app running. Just Kris Kennaway's "playing" sparc64 machine with 14 cpus, has more than the sparc64 cpus currently reported in the sparc64 category. And after Sun handing over some new machines with the Niagara cpus to the FreeBSD folks to port to what would you say to Sun and the developers who committed to this? Again, I think we're seeing a distorted version of reality here and shouldn't be jumping to conclusions very fast. -- Joao Barros _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
