Re: arches and etch

2006-10-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Brian Morris] >> if there is a way to deal with all this i welcome suggestions, >> especially if it is amenable to automation. > > The default submission method for popularity-contest is now HTTP. It > might make it easier for your setup. Also,

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Brian Morris] > if there is a way to deal with all this i welcome suggestions, > especially if it is amenable to automation. The default submission method for popularity-contest is now HTTP. It might make it easier for your setup. Also, it is possible for popcon submit its report somewhere else

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-23 Thread Brian Morris
although i have installed debian on 5 machines in the last two years and multiple times for testing on a couple of them, i don't think i have been counted on popcon and most likely never will be. the reasons, multiply: 3 of the five have never gone outside of local network, and in fact only rec

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-23 Thread Riccardo
Hello, On Monday, October 23, 2006, at 06:46 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I doubt it will change noticably for the non mainstream architectures. Those that have their trusty old hardware running Debian for years and years now aren't the people that reinstall their system on every release.

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One exciting thing with the next etch release is that the default > installer will ask if the machine should submit information to > popcon.debian.org. I look forward to see how that will affect the > number of machines submitting, as well as how

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Camm Maguire] > I just wanted to make a few observations about the recent decision to > scrap m68k from etch: [several archs have problems at the moment] I guess this is as good opportunity as possible to report the current architecture distribution as collected by popularity-contest: 1 0

arches and etch

2006-10-21 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings, and thank you all so much for your usual fantastic work on Debian! I just wanted to make a few observations about the recent decision to scrap m68k from etch: 1) The 4.x C compiler and hppa and apparently arm are currently much worse. 2) kernel and/or libc bugs preventing any prof