Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:03:29 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: "michael@optusnet.com.au" <michael@optusnet.com.au>,
       "'linux-kernel'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "'Bill Davidsen'" <davidsen@tmr.com>, Massimo Cetra <mcetra@navynet.it>,
       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>
Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 at 00:13:44 -0700 William Lee Irwin III 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%.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>   Sure, but pretty much each installation uses a different 1%.
>   If there's a bug in there it's bound to hit someone; that's
> what makes OS writing so difficult.  (And that's why "It works
> for me" is not really a useful statement about the overall quality
> of an operating system.)

99.99% of users use one arch, i386.
99.99% of users use one disk driver, IDE.
The intersection of these users is probably well over 99.999% of all
users.

Then probably a small list of secondary drivers varies. Statistically,
users with anything but the crappiest x86 s**tboxen and a tiny subset
of all drivers (arjan's 20) are hopelessly outnumbered.


-- wli
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