Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:56:21 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com>, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats Message-ID: <20060827105436.P82634@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0608262208k7d53fb3cs3c8623dab998f782@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060826223927.I82634@hub.org> <20060827020210.GA9218@zloy.stilyagin.com> <df9ac37c0608262100w59ee80d9maa58902d5dd35c24@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0608262208k7d53fb3cs3c8623dab998f782@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/26/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 8/26/06, Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com> wrote: >> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:43:38PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> > > >> > > Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ... >> > >> > Really? Why is that neat? nVidia restricts your choices through their >> > staunch refusal to provide open specs. They are not nice players in this >> > game. At least there's some hope about ATI after the AMD deal. >> > >> >> Probably because the /good/ AMD boards use an nVidia chipsets. ( eg, the >> K8N) >> > > 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? Well, considering we are only seeing ~2 weeks of stats, I think its a bit early to 'can ports' :) But, as far as 'overhead do they add', my guess is next to zero ... those working on those ports are most likely those more familiar with PPC/Sparc then they are with Intel stuff, so, in essence, we've attract those developers to us vs converted existing developers over to those platforms for porting purposes ...
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