Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
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       Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>,
       "Marcos D. Marado Torres" <marado@student.dei.uc.pt>,
       John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 09:04 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > I'd expect vastly less than 1%, starting from the arch count, and then
> > making some conservative guesses about drivers. Drivers probably
> > actually take it down to far, far less than 1%.
> 
> 
>   Sure, but pretty much each installation uses a different 1%.

this is where the 80/20 rule holds:
80% of the people use the same 20 drivers ;)

so it's not as extreme as your words suggest (ok I cut a bunch out); but linux has so many users that even the few percent of users that has a less common setup leads to bugreport. And unlike some other OS'es, we all get to see all those reports...

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