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

2006-07-30 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 machine

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 growin

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, pas

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

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 thi

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

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 http://popcon.debian.org/>.