On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:22:02AM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > > On 6/21/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 05:42:24PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > >>I'm thinking about getting a new box anyway (it's an old > >>not-quite-C3 with some odd Biblean-sounding codename, chugging > >>along at 800MHz). With less than 40 users, it's just not worth > >>it. I'm surprised though, I thought VIA was more popular than > >>that. > > >It is a good deal more popular than that (although the 686 > >compatible but not gcc 686 compatible ones are the older ones > >generally) > > >Unless Dave can publish data sets and a methodology for his count > >(and given even the big marketing companies can't do it I want to > >see this) we should assume he made up a number to justify killing it > >cos he finds it a hassle to maintain. > > Having watched from the sidelines I updated my VIA mini-ITX system > yesterday. Its an original 800 MHz model. > > Fedora installs for an i586 on it - 586 kernel etc. However, at least > post F7 upgrade (meaning I didn't check beforehand) uname -m and arch > report i686. Smolt also sees this as an i686 - in fact the complete > profile is at > However it will not boot a current i686 kernel - resets immediately. > > There are 264 (0.4%) CentaurHauls CPUs in Smolt right now (and obviously > upgraders like me would not appear there unless we make the effort). Its > not much of a proportion, but there are more users than the i586 figures > suggest. I also wonder what the 2.1% i386 are. These can't be true i386, or if they are they can't be 30x as many as i586. And even though ppc is not expected to be a frontline arch, only 378 boxes? Makes me feel like having a big share of ppc boxes. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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