On Fri, 2023-05-19 at 19:40 +0100, James Addison wrote: > Do we know how often the i386 installer is downloaded compared to > amd64, and could/should we start with updated messaging where those > are provided before removing users' ability to install on their > systems? > > (i386 remains the second-most-popular architecture behind amd64 today > going by popcon[1] stats - perhaps a lot of that is people using i386 > as a compatibility architecture only, but it'd be nice to be > reasonably confident about that)
One of the problems with popcon is that it draws too much attention to old releases which isn't really interesting when talking about future developments. If one looks at arch usage per release (as reported to popcon) one gets this table: | Architecture | jessie | stretch | buster | bullseye | bookworm/sid | |----------------+--------+---------+--------+----------+--------------| | alpha | 1 | | | | 4 | | amd64 | 9090 | 17156 | 41137 | 108145 | 14800 | | arm64 | | 1 | 93 | 937 | 203 | | armel | 21 | 47 | 67 | 68 | 10 | | armhf | 7 | 18 | 216 | 429 | 49 | | hppa | | | | | 8 | | hurd-i386 | | | | 4 | 6 | | i386 | 1318 | 1231 | 1495 | 3042 | 168 | | ia64 | | | | | 3 | | kfreebsd-amd64 | 2 | | | | | | m68k | | 1 | | | 4 | | mips | 2 | | 6 | | | | mips64el | | | 6 | 4 | | | mipsel | 2 | 1 | 7 | | | | powerpc | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | | ppc64 | | | | 1 | 28 | | ppc64el | | 5 | 16 | | 12 | | riscv64 | | | | | 15 | | s390x | | | | 8 | 3 | | sh4 | | | | | 1 | | sparc64 | | | | | 11 | | x32 | | | | | 2 | |----------------+--------+---------+--------+----------+--------------| | ∑ | 10456 | 18461 | 43044 | 112639 | 15345 | #+TBLFM: @>$2..@>$>=vsum(@I..II) where i386 has dropped from 13% to 7% to 3% to 3% and finally to 1%. Also interesting is that arm64 has taken over i386 on bookwork/sid. We don't know how many people downloaded i386 instead of amd64 as they have an Intel CPU. What is also not clear is the bias of systems having popcon enabled at all (it seems to be mostly desktop systems) and how it looks on the total population. Ansgar
