From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 19:32:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6733116A402 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:32:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CAC13C448 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:32:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup137.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.137]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l36JVZ0q010056 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 22:31:44 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l36JVTjl036452; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 22:31:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l36JVP3s036451; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 22:31:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 22:31:25 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20070406193125.GA27879@kobe.laptop> References: <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070405180711.GA60539@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.685, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.51, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Peter Jeremy , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:32:23 -0000 On 2007-04-06 08:40, Nikolas Britton 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. This is a bit odd :-/