Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-08-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 31 July 2006 08:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I believe there are a large percentage of machines without popularity-contest installed for all the architectures, and that this do not skew the result significantly for any of the architecture. I'd be prepared to believe *some* bias

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Stephen Gran] While I have to agree that the presence or absence of ads in LJ may make or break some consumers decisions about what hardware to go with, I just feel I have to note that arm has been a long supported platform within Debian, and there are hundreds if not thousands of machines

Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
It has been a while since I reported the architecture distribution in Debian, as reported by popularity-contest. The raising star is 'arm', now used by 1.3% of the population. 'alpha' and 'sparc' continue to drop. Here are the numbers. You can find the details on

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Török Edvin
On 7/30/06, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to help the Debian project to get a more accurate view on the architectures used, make sure your machines have the popularity-contest package installed and enabled. The reported data is also used to decide which packages go

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Török Edvin] Afaik popularity-contest uses access-time to report statistics. That is not entirely true. The installation count is collected using dpkg -l. The votes on the other hand are collected using atime, and that is less accurate and should be taken with a grain of salt. Because of

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: It has been a while since I reported the architecture distribution in Debian, as reported by popularity-contest. The raising star is 'arm', now used by 1.3% of the population. 'alpha' and 'sparc' continue to drop. Here are the numbers. You can find the details on

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Dustin Harriman
Hello Joey and all you other Debian heroes,Joey Hess wrote:It's interesting to see arm increasing like this. I wonder which new arm systems are responsible?It's likely that the TS-7300 is an ARM embedded computer quickly growing in popularity. I suggest this because the TS-7300 (and similar, past

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Dustin Harriman said: Hello Joey and all you other Debian heroes, Joey Hess wrote: It's interesting to see arm increasing like this. I wonder which new arm systems are responsible? It's likely that the TS-7300 is an ARM embedded computer quickly growing in