From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 27 05:08:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6934516A4DF for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:08:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D2143D45 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:08:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1304149wxd for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:08:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Roop0AGWPiSVNLvx4Tu6hNq/qP1GAaoJ36arjqA/Sz87J9CsKOUjeUwlyAryJopid6f1cbqcWTB/uop2NRAIj5BmzyEA9zAIET5BAoAD+uV9/KmNu3yZRHj91eOrS5dkZJNa6CxXw5451k68JlUYT3PY+YxjMWqKsHLyDa4bCro= Received: by 10.70.89.1 with SMTP id m1mr7198504wxb; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:08:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:08:55 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Atom Powers" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060826223927.I82634@hub.org> <20060827020210.GA9218@zloy.stilyagin.com> Cc: Darrin Chandler , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:08:57 -0000 On 8/26/06, Atom Powers wrote: > On 8/26/06, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:43:38PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > > Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ... > > > > Really? Why is that neat? nVidia restricts your choices through their > > staunch refusal to provide open specs. They are not nice players in this > > game. At least there's some hope about ATI after the AMD deal. > > > > Probably because the /good/ AMD boards use an nVidia chipsets. ( eg, the K8N) > What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how much overhead do they add to the project? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/