Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

[Chuck Ebbert]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 at 08:03:29 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> 99.99% of users use one arch, i386.

  You oversimplify.  For example, I have:

        1 uniprocessor IOAPIC (i440FX)
        1 SMP IOAPIC (flat mode) (i440GX)
        2 XT-PIC noapic (i440BX, VIA KT133)


> 99.99% of users use one disk driver, IDE.

  And again:

        1 VIA VT82C686
        1 HPT370A
        1 PDC20267
        1 PDC20268
        1 PIIX3
        2 PIIX4

  So even in my 'simple' i386 environment there is a lot of variety in
just those two things.


> The intersection of these users is probably well over 99.999% of all
> users.

  If Linux had a billion users, how many would have something different?


--Chuck Ebbert  28-Oct-04  19:04:08
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