Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263099AbUJ1XpQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:45:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263107AbUJ1Xor (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:44:47 -0400 Received: from siaag2aa.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.131]:54154 "EHLO siaag2aa.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263099AbUJ1XiL (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:38:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:33:22 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: "'linux-kernel'" Message-ID: <200410281937_MC3-1-8D69-AAD0@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 38 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/