On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 06:59:08PM -0800, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Brian Morris wrote: > > > My main gripe as I have said before here is that there are no > > G4-Altivec optimized binary packages Debian based to be found > > anywhere. This is not likely to change. Packages are generally built for the most generic type of machine (this is true even of e.g. i386) and I know there are people that are still using G3s. In fact, my main PowerPC machine is an iBook with a G3 processor. Some packages, however, will check the CPU type and enable certain optimized routines (such as those using Altivec) when possible. This strategy is especially common in multimedia software. > Does anyone know if the package popularity contest stats also track > more machine specific data behind the scenes? The reason I ask is that > despite there being a fair number of IBM users on the list I suspect > that the majority of Debian PPC users have Apple hardware. No, popcon doesn't. All popcon gets is architecture and list of packages. However, you might be able to pull out some statistics from the number of users who have a given package installed. Bootloaders are a great way to determine this. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature