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SubjectRe: My thoughts on the "new development model"
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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