Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:29:27 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <op.tqdsnd1c9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0704061306k6b72f258uedd9ee7637dde10e@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <ef10de9a0704050839g7b873dabw5a5e211140781781@mail.gmail.com> <20070405180711.GA60539@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <ef10de9a0704060640h528a9d11o422bddf6d64a395f@mail.gmail.com> <20070406193125.GA27879@kobe.laptop> <ef10de9a0704061306k6b72f258uedd9ee7637dde10e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:06:20 -0500, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/6/07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >> On 2007-04-06 08:40, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I don't appreciate being called a lier. Maybe you should step up to >> > the plate if you don't believe my statistics. >> > >> > AMD Semptron 1,259 >> > AMD Athlon_64 2,796 >> > AMD Athlon_XP 2,885 >> > AMD Athlon 812 >> > AMD Duron 741 >> > AMD Opteron 625 >> > AMD Turion_64 175 >> > >> > Intel Pentium_4 8,768 >> > Intel Pentium_4M 291 >> > Intel Pentium_M 1,722 >> > Intel Pentium_3M 233 >> > Intel Pentium_3 6,362 >> > Intel Pentium_D 982 >> > Intel Pentium_2 1,872 >> > Intel Celeron_P2 888 >> > Intel Celeron_P3 529 >> > Intel Celeron_P4 4,224 >> > Intel Celeron_M 299 >> > Intel Xeon_P4 2,380 >> > Intel Core 1,246 >> > >> > Generic i786 1 >> > Generic i686_SSE 33 >> > Generic i686_MMX 114 >> > Generic i686 298 >> > Generic i586_MMX 520 >> > Generic i586 261 >> > Generic i486 30 >> > Unknown 99 >> > >> > Data source: http://www.bsdstats.org/cpus.php >> >> A lot of people are running "bsdstats" ports, and we should appreciate >> the work people have put into making http://www.bsdstats.org/ happen. >> >> I'm not sure I agree with the use you are putting these statistics into, >> whatever. >> >> The original goal of the statistics pages was to serve as a basis of >> version-related and hardware-related information, which can be used to >> convince hardware vendors to support *MORE* FreeBSD systems. >> >> Now you are arguing that because more modern CPUs and hardware are, >> well, "more modern", we should start dropping support for some of the >> systems listed there -- effectivelly reducing the number of systems >> supported by FreeBSD. >> > > I only suggested dropping PC98. Why? If you look at the PC98 page* it > hasn't been updated since FreeBSD 4.11 and bsdstats.org shows zero What make you think that bsdstats is a realistic one? All of my machines do not have bsdstats installed, so there are hundreds or thousands of machines out there that do not have it installed either. > people using it... PC98 is a dead platform like Alpha and Alpha > support is being dropped for FreeBSD 7, but if you look at > bsdstats.org the Alpha platform has more users than sparc, powerpc and > pc98 combined!! -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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