On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:22:02AM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
On 6/21/07, Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> 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.
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