On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:59:15PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 04:55:24PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> > I would be happy to write up this Change page if we can get the WG to >> > agree. Are there good reasons to hold on to shipping i686 Workstation >> > media? >> If I remember mattdm's flock talk correctly, the statistics of downloads >> for 32-bit workstation are ~15% of all ISO downloads. > > I'm looking at the numbers I have. From the release of Fedora 21 until > F22 release, 23% of all ISO "pings" are for i686. (Less than 1% are > ARM.) From F23 release to Flock, it's 20% (and 1.5% for ARM — almost 5× > growth.) I don't remember right off where 15% came from. (Maybe I had a > different breakdown? I honestly don't remember right now.) > > (I'd bug Smooge for different slicing and updated numbers, but he's > busy doing datacenter stuff this week and I've already overbugged him.) > > And I say "pings" rather than downloads because we're counting > top-level mirror requests, not the actual downloads, so SO MANY > DINOSAURS are involved in this number. > > The 15% 32-bit comes from a different data source: package update > connections (again, pings, really). > > One explanation for the discrepancy may be that people who have less > powerful systems and therefore want i686 are less likely to be > regularly connected to the Internet for updates. But that's just > guesswork. Or have multiple systems and sync down the updates once and distribute them from a local repo (satellite style). -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
