Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
> - there must be a sufficient user base to justify inclusion on all
> mirrors, defined as 10% of downloads over a sampled set of mirrors
Only i386 currently meets this condition, with c. 97% of
downloads out of the four interesting archs, for details see
the tables below. I suspect 97% is biased *low*, because
many leaf mirrors only carry i386.
--Andre
Number of downloads (data linked by [1], which also has a nice graph):
UK Italy Sweden All three
i386 6193118 96.4% 1762483 97.1% 1204913 97.3% 9160514 96.7%
amd64 N/A N/A 1822 .1% 1822 .0%
ppc/ppc64 182025 2.8% 34420 1.9% 23226 1.9% 239671 2.5%
ia64 46284 .7% 18224 1.0% 8984 .7% 73492 .8%
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total 6421427 100% 1815127 100% 1238945 100% 9475499 100%
Number of hosts in popcon (data from [2]):
i386 5196 93.5%
amd64 263 4.7%
ppc/ppc64 90 1.6% (only 1 respondent is ppc64)
ia64 10 .2%
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total 5559 100%
The version of popularity-contest in Woody doesn't report
architecture info, so the popcon data mostly reflect
Sid/Sarge users.
[1] http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2005/03/08/#more_download_by_arch
[2] http://popcon.debian.org
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