On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:55:53PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:50:22PM -0800, D. Starner wrote: > > [snip] > > > Before it's in Debian, AMD64 is already the fourth most commonly > > used architecture according to popularity-contest. There's only > > three architectures sold in stores to the average person--ix86, > > PowerPC and AMD64. 95% of the packages are already compiled for > > AMD64. There is no technical reason not to add it into unstable. > > Actually, I can get an ARM-based iPaq or similar in far more stores than > I can buy an Opteron or Athlon64. Of course, I'll have to purge it from > Windows first, but then again, most systems you buy in a store, except > for Mac's, suffer from that problem... Of course ARM is the most used arch overall, almost all of which is in non pc devices. You could probably install Debian on an iPAQ with a backpack and cf card, but even those are being phased out now (aiui). A regular ARM-based PDA doesn't even have enough memory to install Debian base. However, the fact is he was commenting on which archs are the most used for Debian, which according to popcon definitely is not arm. The arm arch has been around a long time and been supported by Debian for several releases and yet still shows only 4 users in popcon. Chris
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